Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-25

memory than I've got. Finally h.
wrote out short message, pinned IL
| together with the bunch OF addresses.
! handed them over to the clerk and paid
| the tolls. Then he came right back to
| the hotel, while 1 was still at the bar.
| Tim told me all this very quickly.
but had hardly got back in the lobby
| phone booth on the double-quick
Peyton.' said he. I've just got word
from friend here in Hartford that one
OF my relatives is dying In New York,
| ana I've got to get out in q hurry.
| VIII you come up and help me pack i?
Notice how slick he was to the end.
Your average man would have said
lons-distance tclephone-a stall that
could have been detected easily. But
making 1t local call put detection
/ out or the running. And II was one
OF his relatives'-nothing definite. a
| brother, sister. uncle or cousin could
have been traced and the bluff detected.
of course. 1 sympathlzed. Went
up with him. Got him out in a inv.
It's only a few minutes walk to the
station. but 1 suggested a taxi. No.
he wasn't a bit clustered. He'd walk.
carried one OF his grips. and we set
out. My bold Tim trailed along. In
asmuch as Tim was on the job. 1 said
good-by in the waiting room. We
1 poi teo Nhc OF friends.
And now, old boy since Linsmore,s
! going to blame you and not me for tho
| developments that are going to cnsue
| the least the British government can do
| Is TO let me stand you the best dinner
you ever ate on my expense account
| on my next visit to Boston," said "Pcy-
| ton" rising.
the service" he concluded as wo
! parted.
| oh, say" exclaimed as he walked
a"ay. You have forgotten all about
/ the letter and kilograms They'll 20
through. And Linsmore will have
gained his point in spite OF YOU"
/ Don't worry" Rrinned "Peyton"
Tim took care OF them with the aid
| OF the local authorities. 1t may in
/ terest you to know that the kilograms
\ VIII never reach their destinations
/ Now that you're in on the game so decp
| YOU may be sure that I'll crafty your
! curiosity ~ to It's final outcome at
/ tho dinner"
/ STILL BIGGER FISH
REMAIN TO BE CAUGHT
"Peyton" never did keep his dinner
appointment. He is probably at some
/ far end Of the earth by now. But a
few months later I had the supreme
satisfaction Of learning from my Lon
| don agent the sequel to the foregoing
. sensational episode that had so dramat-
I ically awakened long dormant mem
cries OF plot and counterplot during
! my activities with the Young Turk So
ciety.
! I.insmore was actually a bigger fish
than the British secret service had sus-
pcctcd. He was ono of The principal
agents OF worldwide propaganda
! scheme that had one OF It's more i'm
/ portant ends Right here In the United
| States with the Industrial Workers OF
| the World. Incidentally. our Depart
/ ment of Justice at that time was en-
gagged in suppressing that particular
/ end.
! Just how Lnsmore became affiliated
/ with the German propagandists will
! probably never become known His
/ mother was an Austrian, and he was
| born in her country. but had lived in
/ his English father'ss home ever since
the age OF two. Before the war he had
associated with n set in London that
has its duplicate in New York City's
! Greenwich village crowd. AT the out
/ break OF the war he had concluded
with more or less success the launch
/ ing OF several unimportant publica-
/ tons that specialized on free think
/ ing" Then he made a mysterious exit
| from London to Canada.
! At the end OF the first year OF the
| war 1t had been brought to the atten-
| ton OF the British secret service that
the empire was being literally flooded
| with German propaganda literature
India. Egypt. Canada and Ireland were
I the most conspicuous countries sub
| jectcd to the propaganda.
/ "Peyton" and a squad of British
I operatives were assigned to the task OF
unearthing the plot. Examination OF
| the propaganda revealed that 1t was the
/ work OF a Enthusiastically Teutonic
| organization. 1t showed thoroughness
on every point.
| Literature for distribution in Ireland
had been prepared by Germans who
were obviously masters OF everything
| that pertained to Gaelic history and
! culture. No coarse and transparent ap-
| peal to help Germany was contained in
| II. On the contrary, the matter set
! forth the case OF Ireland for home rule
as though it had been prepared by some
Irish-born student and sympathizer.
lngeniously camouhaged was the at
| tack on England. BY subtle implica-
! ton. however. the end was attained by
arous!ng the most violent passion Of
| the reader against all things English
some OF the research work II Gaelic
history performed by the German au-
thors brought to light data heretofore
unknown to Irish historians
The same method was pursued as to
| tributed among the revolutionary So
| cleties OF those two countries In the
| United States anticapitalistic literatur.
was prepared for distribution among
the !. w. w. In Canada the literature
was prepdred for French Canadian con-
| sumption.
Linsmore's connection with the propa-
sanda came about in a very curious
way. AS the travelling agent Of
British American publishing house that
was selling war books almost exclu-
siyely. he would have ordinarily been
immune from suspicion.
But when this house turned over to
the service list ofrthe British sub
jects in it's employ, the name Of Lins-
more was noted. The service frankly
confessed itself puzzled. Linsmore was
suspected of being a pro-German, but
he was selling moro war books than
any three statesmen out on the road.
BY the merest ;chance the head Of
the publishing house learned some