The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-17
THE EAGLES EYE
Continued from Page Nine.)

| the electrician. As Grant. and Marquis
and their captive disappeared around the
corner the electrician picked up IN" DIS
carded cigar
Dixie Mason had been working III the
| factory since early afternoon rs shell
! loader Tho table Al which she worked
| was near L window overlooking the fac
tory yard. The events Of the last after
| noon had not escaped her. She hAu
watched the departure of SlakbcrG with
! Harrison Grant and Il feeling ol r"lIcl
that uncouscously she was being helped
! had stolen over her. But though Grant
attached no Importance to III" cigar
! Slakherg had tossed aside. piNlc' from
! nor point of vantage soon was given the
! opportunity to.
| Scarcely had the men disappeared
| around the corner If the building when
she saw the electrician emerge from the
doorway and pick up the cigar. Inc
! act was natural and DING ordihar'IS
would have thought nothing OF II. Now
her gaze hung on him curl"uSlF ana
| then frightened into interest as she saw
! him break the cigar open. something
I white appeared as tho carefully wrappSu
weed was broken apart. she sa" the
electrician unroll tiny SIP OF paper
| read il hurriedly and then crumple II up
| sudden illness. loft the loading ro"n''
/ slipped out of the door and across 'he
ward TO the power house. The electri-
| clan was gone but where nc had S'ooo
was a tiny slip Of crumpled paper
which Dixie snatchcd al eagerly ana
read as she hurried out Of tho buildlhS'
1t contained three words.
Warn Won Papcn.'
pixie Mason Takes Up the Trail.
Dixie Mason did not return to the
loading room. Instead she took up the
trail of the disappearing electrician
She saw him enter a saloon. In Il near
nv drug store she induced the operator
70 nut her on the same line just IN Time
to hear the electrician receive orders 10
90 to the hill on the edge OF the town
when darkness fell. She did not know
that in the Criminology Club they had,
that Slakherg, surrounded with the owl
dences of his guilt and his cross exam
nation begun. All Dixie knew WAS mat
the electrician had been told 10 warn
Won Papen and had been ordered 10
await further instructions on lhe NH
at the edge of the town.
The day faded into dusk and the dusk
into darkness. The lights from the
munition factory blazcd out into the
night as the new shift took up ITS dut-
| les. At last Dixie saw the electrician
! emerge from the saloon. She took up
! the trail, a trail that seemed never
ending as he walked on and on away
from the town. Thcy came 10 n freight
ward. Out of the darkness above the
| freight yard hill doomed against the
sky. The electrician stopped and DING
| sought shelter very near him BY !um-
her pile. The night was very dark but
suddenly the sky was lighted by a ser
les Of flashes. In their brightness
Dixie could see the electrician standing
with pencil and paper in hand. INT
;! flashes stopped and the electrician NOV
: ed over to Il switch light which Eicahed
with red eye into the surrounding b'a'N-
moss He was examining The papcr
closely by the dim light. Tho rumble
! Of an approaching freight train broke
tho silcnces. The electrician tossed the
naoer aside and glanced up ia" track
| toward the slowly nearing engine ana
its s,rinr of box cars. Dixie saw nm
hurry up the track and she guessed MS
! nurpose He was about TO catch thls
| train back to town
The train passed and in the dim light
she discerncd his figure clinEinG 10 Tie
] side of car Then she hurried TO inc
! switch light and picked up the scrap OF
| paper he had thrown aside. tfE inc 'ie".
| she saw u series of Morse code dots ana
dashcs which she translated:
"Blow up the factory at once!
This was the message he had been
| told TO receive! And he had gone 10
| carry out its orders! Dixie rackcd her
mind desperately for ideas. She must
get back at once, or get message. but
| how" There was no telephone near. NO
means of getting back. The train lum-
boring off into the darkness WAS no"
| gaining speed every moment.
csi ~
vice station down the road. If she could
reach that she might still hc able TO in
,erfcre with the electricians orders.
| She would telephone back 10 the rae
,orv-,o Harrison Grant! One idea AZ
ter another flew through her mind as
she hurried over the endless labyrinth
of tracks and down the rough road oUt
| when she reached the little building. 10
her brcathless inquiries the keeper
shook his head. NO telephone here.
he said. there's one about u mile down
the road
But I've got to get word hack 10
town somehow" Dixie urged desperate
ly. He shook his head rs though dis
missing the subject.
Then Dixie brought out her Secret
Service Commission.
Let me have motorcycle. quick
she ordered. Tho man vlsihly impress
cd hurried inside.
+ A moment later he had brought cut
; a motorcycle and was holding 1t in posi-
ton.
Dixie clambcred up on il. Slipping a
bill into the mans hand. she waved
good bye and amid 4 swirl Of dust dis
appcared down the road. The thr"b-
bling OF her engine grow St"adt"r with
a set purpose She rushed "n in the
blackncss TO her crrand III salvation.
Slakberg's Confession.
| While Dixie Mason sped over the
dark and ,orturous passes Of tn" road Ia
town; while the electrician sh" was
seeking TO outwit WAS being carried 10
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