Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-12-02

thing has got to be done about ~.
Her eyes were shining and h wa
talking excitedly. The other mon "
the room stoppsd talking 70 ls Ctst
came over and sat down nearby.
They all looked at her keenly. AtSlast
they were Willing to listen!
How do you know this man II
working for the German Govern
ment?" asked the chief.
Because q man that came 2 an
iaeroplane al night several times
about 1t, giving him orders. He said
The Fatherland Is depending On
YOU Just in those words. And ne
told him, all about the uprising. ana
what he was to do He talked very
freely because they thought didn't
understand German
The chief suddenly touched bel
tor his secretary and drew up his
chair ready for business.
-"Will YOU please begin at the be-
ginning and tell everythfng," he said.
"'Who arc youA where do you>scome
from, and how. did you happen to be
nea.- this man Schwartz"
SO Hilda sat cp and began to tell
ther-story to an Interested audience.
Meanwhile. back at platt's Cross
ling, several things had been happen
tng.
station bearing Hilda and her
precious suitcase. Schwarz stood
helpless with rage and beloved in
vectices Of the vilest kind after her:
lie swore at the men and ordered
them to do o many unreasonable
things that they got out Of his way
entirely. lest he might in his wrath
do them some personal injury.
@ Col, ~o nAH mn IN Tho hnYy0n q ND
began roarlng at his wife for having
let the girl out Of her sight. The
poor woman protested in vain that 1t
had not been her fault, and finally
discovered and produced Hilda's note.
which did somewhat to assuage the
underlying fears In Schwarz'ss heart.
lest Hilda had seen and heard more
at the farm than would be wise to
have reported to the world at large,
He sat down weakly at last in a din
ing-rcom chair and took the note in
his two trembling hands. relieved to
be assured that tho girl had gone to
her mother.
weak, silly fool!'' he muttered,
and then began afresh with q new
set Of horrible adjectives for Hilda
and his wife and the whole Of wom-
few turns he included Uncle Otto
Leasing for having landed such a
good-for-nothing upon him.
g Suddenly the 'dining-room clock.
cleared Its throat with g. preparatory
whirr and began to strike the noon
hour, and simultaneously there ros
a distant roar Of an oncoming train.
( Schwarz started to his feet livid
with anger again and turned upon
his long-suffering wife:
Dat drain! l must It dake! Dat
sood=gase unter de ped! Ged him
quig!"
Like a mad II he stormed up the
stairs with his fat, weeping wife puff
fing behind and getting in his way.
He swept-boxes and other fimpedi-
ments, out Of his way, pulled forth tho
suitcase without a glance at it, and
stamped down the stairs again. push
been another box.
The train was roaring distinctly
now. just crossing the bridge, and
Schwarz waited not for hat or coat,
but all as he was in his shirt sleeves
with, his yellow:g-ay hair bristling in
the breeze, vent numbering over the
plowed ground to the station, carry,
ing Hilda's suitcase. A little way be-
hind him wallowed Mrs. schwars,
down her fabby cheeks. her under lip
still quivering from the fray, and in
her hand schwarz's, best coat and hat.
She took the hardest, shortest way
across the plowed ground and made
slow progress. arriving too late to be
of. service, and Schwarz took his hat
less way to "Adolph's'' in no wise i'm
proved in temper by the state of his
attire.
Three-quarters of an hour later the
exp1 ess slowed down at Platt's Cross
ing and let out two passengers, q
slender little wisp of a woman In
black and small boy. The train
took scant leave of them and hurried
on its way. The two strangers stood
bewildered and looked about them.
They cast one glance up at
schwarz's house. deserted now a. the
men were in at ydinner,l and then
turned away. That was not at all the
place OF their expectation.
II thought your uncle said It was
right by the station" said the wom-
an, 'but / don't see any place around
here that could possibly be IT. He,
said It was a very large, handsome.
he one ~ thnsa ~ "a STRANGE +hera
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