Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-27

cussed beneath her window. In the faint
h Repe; shn n h 1t may bring her help she
| g arranged. With her friend the en-
Sineer: She then sees tina the plotters
nave p 9, paper on the ground be-
q secure it. 80
Hilds MANAGES to get the paper, and
n n a. to De written In cipher. Schwartz
Per is. gone, and sHilda plans to ny from
Hilda learns that there is a plot to
man who saved gher:iife. TAKING a d tae
perate chance hse telephones a warning
an a1ld 1 ,sr mssgaEs saves the train: She
IN the hayiof the Schwartz barn. !
CHATTER VII.-Continued,a J
BY the time Hilda had put the
supper IN 1.-the Habls she was ready To;
drop. with exhaustion and excitement,
put b managed to maintain her
/. same dull look when the men. came
lin,S even allowing herself to blunder
In obeying Mrs. Schwarz's orders,
and thereby bringing down upon her
SELF a. stream Of :invectives. The men
ate their supper in silence. and with
the air OF those approaching a SUI
premeE moment They sat down att
erWard for the. evening smoke, but
Hilda saw from r1eir glances that
they were only waiting for the dark
ness, to be gone on Some important
errand. ~.
She hurried through her work and
fhastened upstairs, gathering her w.it-
ing materials inc sitting on the floor
by her window to S the last a y of
twilight. She had no time to select
hertwords nicely; the light was fad
Ing fast and sheAhad no candle. In
AaoS che SSHlaaSv~n l %k~< = -aA
desired. by the. Schwarzes that any
body 3shouldHh have a light in the house
at nisht.M They had only one down.
stairs, and that was eaFly put out. So
she wrote, more by the sense of feel
ing than sight;
"Ma'.. Stevens:
81 can't write much because it is
Getting dark, and l have no candle.
They won't let me have time to write
by day. Besides. they might find out.
This place is full of spies. They have
2 lot of guns under the hay in the
barn, and. a telephone. and a. queer
box with a lot OF wires that make a
noise and a light. i heard them say
there iss powder and dynamite here.
I think maybe in the little brick tool
house. They keep something hid in
over 1t and a big ring in the lid, Just
unde.- my window. There are cab
bages planted .on top of itltoday, but
the earth-was just petthere. A man
comes sometimes In an aeropiane at
night and they talk under my window.
They say there areNgoing to be up
risings of. Germans in this country
pretty soon. and they have a list Of
LplaceS thatSare going to be blown up.
English and German well. This is q
terrible place. 1 have to work very
ha d. bnt ! don't mind that. ] am
afraid here The men are not nice.
Will you kindly write: my uncle,
WHOSE address 7 give you, to send ME
money to come back to Chicago? 1
cannot stay here any Longer. They
won't let me telegraph and they read
! a'fSmy letters. Please send my moth
err word ] am we'll and will write her
ssoon. I am giving her address, too:
1 arm glad nothingfhappened. l hope
iyou can read this. It is dark. SO I
must STOP a
She, scrawled her. initials and folded
the paper UP In avery small square.
Them she fumbled around until she
found a. threaded needle she had used
a worn handkerchief and sewed her
letter into a compact little bundle not
much more than an inch square. fas5
tened it to a string and putt a7ound
Iher neck. dropping It: inside her dress:
At least the letter vas ready i she
ever had chance to deliver It 10 the
messenger. She had her doubts If
even that determined young man
could run the gauntlet of all those men
and get a chance TO see her. But. time
would tell. 81 ~su
She made "a carefulXtoilet and lay
down to sleep, fully dressed, determ-
ined to be ready. for whatever might
come. But sleep didSnot come to her
excited. brain. aThrobbing questions
raced through her mind, and she lay
trying to- plan for a morrow whose
nature she could not foretell.. Wild
plans 1 dGs Z getting aala = away ysag.,, eo int died
out all that these spies were plotting
against he. country.
The night wsss very still outside,
and the smell of the fresh earth un-
der her window came yup with hon1ely.
QUIET perfume to still .her. tired senses
The house very still. Mrs.
Eschwarz had gonA8to bed The men
whispering In the dtningeroom a few
minutes they went up to their rooms.
Whateve.- their errnnd had been they
had not remained away; long. A,heayy.
gloom seemed to havessettled ;oversthe
Hiidas must have fallen a.leerp, 1t
last, for she aWoke with a. start TO.
ward morning to heat Ey6ices under
CHAPTER VIM. z5
where she was. % hsavy had been her
sleep, but then saIl&thes day before
came back In Hash and she waS. on
the alert at once 9Es@gs s15
The voices we're SLOW that she.