The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-10
curiosity Aroused by Actions Of
Foreign Gentleman on Aber-
deem Express.
DOES SOME SWIFT THINKING
1OoK'n0 Stupid Is Her Speciality. and
""en Officers Grab the Spy He
Looks at Old Lady
and Signs.

Aonuoh.-1he best Spy story in q
iong tlme comes from q medical .ofs
cer, one OF the big guns of his corns
unu procession. It is all ahout +ho
Aberdeen Express, one of the wor,d,s
quickest long-distance runs. You 1oavo
LONDON after the theater, 90 to he'd
In the train, have a Gun of fen in hod
at Edinburgh, and breakfast in Ahor-
deem, 600 miles from town North
ward from Edinburgh there arc s+oDs
"hile on the Forth bridge, from
whence you look down onto the decks
OF nrst-class battleships, and at Dun
dee. and Montrose.
The old lady boarded the train at
Edinburgh and the porter showed her
into a non-smoking compartment of
the day coach. The other passenger
was foreign gentleman-of what ma
LlOhalty 1t would be hard to saw. but
foreign. AS to the lady, she seemed
harmless old thing some fifty-three
years OF age. The point is that one
OF the two was really a German spv.
ana anyone's first suspicion would |
point to the old lady. She owned mn |
frankly that she enjoyed a gossip, and
found the foreign gentleman quite q
good fellow. AS to his nationality
the accent gave no clue, She pnmned
him perseveringly.
A rev stops from Edinburgh the
train stopped on the Forth bridge
FROM the trains one looks down upon L
naval base of ffrst-rate consequence.
A spy, making rapid summary of the
capital ships in full view, might pick
up important information.
The foreign gentleman stood IN.
ming the window, shutting out the
view, and annoyed the old lady, who
also wanted to have look. More
over she saw him go through long
rumDilng procedure which puzzled her r
extremely. What ON earth was he I'D =
TO! The only thing she saw was the
ast swift movement which emptied
me buIgy part of his overcoat. And
she caught the glimpse Of wing. Now
ne whole thing was clear: there must
lave been message scrubbed rapidly. 4
olded and made fast and then sud-
len release of q carrier pigeon.
The Old Ladys Speciality. -
And then the foreigner flashed
ound to see if the lady had noticed
nything. No, evidently not. She
ooked vacant, nodding and half
sleep.
Il looked stupid" she said after
ward, ''but that's my speciality" III
She must have done some very swift til
linking before he had time to turn SO
ound. Her first impulse was to run gr
long the corridor and find the guard wi
r rouse the first soldier she saw. But 90
len the foreigner would see by her
rst movement he was in danger, and in,
he did not want to be strangled. dis
lrown out of the window. and ar
rowned in the Forth estuary. She be- 1,3
lme affable, wondering what had de, biz
yed the train so long. He expressed ins
bile sentiments concerning the allies lea
Id contempt for Germany. eel
But as the train pulled into Dundee on
le old lady expressed her conviction del
at the morning papers would be for as
lie by this time at the bookstalls She min
1t that little run on the platform
ould ease her limbs after the cramped {
She would buy q paper ooO
r the. foreign gentleman also. on1
Halfway to the bOokst&n she met Am
porter. 1t would be na<ural to ask ers
n how long the train stopped. foo