The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-20

l saw the face, and I'm almost posi- tive I am right. Look at this. Here's his portfolio-three letters in gold H. V. B. The mans name is Her mann von Broeckel In his notebook there Is an entry which ehows he was !, in Bailleul, or the neighborhood, at | the very time when Suzette was mar l tyred. | I picked up the notebook and l glanced through it. I found nothing | Illuminating beyond the coincidence | of the dates.
 | Hawthorn went on:
 This Hermann has just been in terrogated. I was present. They | only asked him the usual questions. I'll have him brought in here. Do you mind seeing him?' "I'll ask him a few questions will ingly," I said. But this is a very serious matter. The man is as good as sentenced to death if he is con victed. But he is not the only Ger man officer who was round here at that particular date, and there will be quite a number whose initials are H. V. B. Besides, Suzette's grand father was not sure about the initials You can't expect an old peasant to understand Gothic script" Quite so. But do not think I'm
 
 By the way, don't let the wretch see we connect him with anything. Get as much out of him as possible with out putting him on his guard Now I'll send for him.
 Lieutenant Hermann von BroeckeI was brought in. To the most casii--t observer the fellow was a scoundreI but there was no reason to believe he was the scoundrel we were after.
 When I began to question him he burst, out into a flow of rude re- breaches. He had been questioned already. He had nothing to say. I waited for him to have done. then:
 Have you a brother in the Army?" said l.
 T am an only son.
 Where were you billeted when you were staying around here in the Autumn? ?'
 The man hesitated
 T don't remember" he said at last At different places, but never in this town.
 "Very close to it perhaps?"
 Seeing? Yet Unseen.
 He did not reply. The man cer- tainly looked uneasy. and the spirit of revolt had vanished. Was he the man? I asked several more questions, but got no replies.
 The only way to clear this mat ter up," I said, when the prisoner had been taken away, lis to confront him with Suzette and the cripple. If he's the man they ought to recognize him."
 obviously. But it would be hard on Suzette,' said Hawthorn, and as he left me he added mysteriously: T have an idea
 The next morning the colonel took | me to an old building, the basement l of which was used as a prison.
 "The Hermann fellow is down be- low" he explained. "Now, I am go- ing to have all the prisoners parad- | ed in this large room-the lot we met l on the road yesterday. They'll all be bareheaded, and in their shirt-sleeves, | so that no one can tell their rank at any rate. by the braid and trim mings. Hermann will be one of the | party to march round these rooms.
 See these three holes in the wood en partition over there? I drove them myself with a bayonet. One of the holes for you-there's a sort of lum- Der room next to this-the second | hole is for me, and the third, lower down, for Suzette. Suzette can be carried in on a stretcher, and can watch without effort. If Hermann is the man, Suzette vii recognize him she has every reason to know him."
 Through the Bayonet Hole.
 will Suzette come?''
 "She can't object. I saw the doc tor. He says she can stand the or- deal Besides she'll see him without being seen. Explain that to the poor girl I realize what her feelings must | be-"
 Suzette was carried into the lumber room with the greatest care. I ex- plained to her vaguely that prisoners | had just been caught, and that | amongst them were men and officers | whom she might have seen in or about Bailleu1 when the Germans were there, and that we wished to | have a good luck at them-a matter l of identification.
 Suzette had consented to come re- luctantly We took up our positions | at the ho1es-
 The ordeal began The prisoners were ordered to march slowly round | the room some little distance apart: | and. puzzled and stupid. they did as | they were told.
 .Reoosnize anyone. suzette?" Il whianArAd-