The Elbert County tribune., 1918-01-25

Number Five had sent us. Satsu put a
little burst of speed. and the loosened
wheel came off. The car dropped to
the side of the road, and 1 leaped to
the ground as though l had FALLEN.
after 1 had fallen, Satsu leaped
from the car and stopped over me,
then he shouted for help. And pres
emily from the house there came the
man we were seeking.
He helped Satsu carry me within
and lay me on the couch, and then in
a moment l WAS conscious and our
host unconscious. A moment later we
had disposed of the maid. Then we
went into the inner room to search for
| that which we had been sent to take.
"On the table before us lay an en-
velope addressed to Brigadier General
Haynes, Washington, d. c.
"Satsu seized upon the envelope and
tore 1t open. 1t contained blue prints
| OF the Brayton rifle sight. Our Moth
| erland needed those blue prints.
| knowledge of them might save her a
fortune in lives and equipment some
| day.
smiled: 'Comrade, we have done well.
Now we must put our car in order
and return to your honorable dwell
ing. And then 1 have something to
tell you
MY heart leaped joyously. 1 might
have spared myself that.
"Again we drove desperately, for
there was indeed need of haste.
1--WE decided to lie hidden in my
apartment until dark.
| We had nothing to do during all
those hours but talk. And so it came
about that he told me of Mimosa San.
"And ut last 1, poor, tender-hearted
fool, said to him: But Satsu, you
they will take one woman on the
launch. They will not care which one
of us 1t may be. Mimosa San shall
have my place.
| "'But the Motherlandr gasped
Hako Satsu.
al shall work here for the Mother
land.
"Your government will not take me,
Senorita Fairfax. A Cortez Teixa
does not go to the cell where perhaps
the night before a common thief was
housed. I am free-I shall remain
free.
"The Motherland lies in wait and
passes sentence on those who fail her
1 am lonely. Have you any word for
me? Remember might have taken
Mimosa Sans lover, and did not
steal him. The plans 1 took-but
am no love thief.
"What have you to say to
ANNA CORTEZ Y TEIXAr
Sometimes / feel that the Mother
land exacted from her heavy penalty
for failure. But when l swung from
the fire escape outside of her apart
ment, none of the sympathy which
came to me day later had q place
in my heart.
/ caught at-the lower rung of the
ladder and pulled myself up gradually
from one cross-section of that frees
cape to another. What waited for me
at the top?
Directly my message reached Jimmy
Barton, he and Moran and Brayton EN-
barked in the reporters little car ant
started on a wild ride for One Hun
dred and Thirty-sixth street.
So 1 made my adventurous little
climb up the fire escape, peering ir
window after window on my upward
journey.
Through a window on one of the
upper floors I caught a glimpse Of my
little Mimosa San. opened the win
dow cautiously and vehtured in with {
decidedly sympathetic feeling for al
housebreakers.
1 crept across the room on tipto'
and peeked through the keyhole o.
door which had of sudden disoblig
ingly shut itself. In the lighted lfvinl
room beyond 1 could discern three fig
ures: Mimosa San and good-lookinl
young Jap in earnest conversation
while a magnificent woman of warm
oriental beauty paced the floor watch
ing them with emotions which any ed
itor of a column of advice to lover.
must have found eager to interpret.
Mimosa Sans happiness was her.
again-that was evident. Her ivor,
cheeks were rose-fushed, her eye,
sparkled-
| And the beautiful woman who wa