Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-22
SYHoPn1s.

sbad los. h hSss Iatner ~ g he
sewned By 9 German family named
iis remIy ezean On b her way home she mar a
Ing train, and is saved By q young en-.
al ais train runs by the farm At which
i.snsgests that she hang = signal out her
window for him.. white ii. she is we'll
and. f finds danger me- nss She st1 teaches the farm
tally ally n re son Of the h%ousehold At.
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mldnikhtsshs ia.awsxesnsdi ~ SHs so aeest ua 4.
FIiida hears a : conyer.ation which
convincss here. that the place is = dan
gerous nest OF spies. A disguised Ger
man CAPTAIN arrives who shows marked
Theroughly frightened Hilda writes
1roan the place, but Schwartz takes tho
Again at night she overhears plots for
destruction OF railway bridges, etc, dis.
cussed beneath her window. In the faint
hangs ina IN her It % Minde og'nf sas her FED help a,n she
gineer; She then sees that tResp iptters
nave dropped q paper on the ground be
may secure it. .dst 80
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She got VI and went softly about
her room in the dim light. feeling of
article after article on the Small box
that constituted her dressing table
n her hand came upon her tube of
tooth paste. She drew in her breath
e~xultantly. The very thing! Would
the paper stick to ite She would try.
She would have to put it on some
thing heavy enough to press the
sickness into the paper and make3it
adhere. Her hair brush? No, the
nat side would not drop down easily.
She must have something with. a.. fiat
bottom. Her ink bottle! That would
do. 4 - Il .
It was SOME minutes before she
from her window to the ground. but
by means of. tape and bits Of ribbon
h at last had her strange fish line
ready, firmly fastened around the
neck Of the bottle, the other end tied
to a chair lest hasty move
should cause her to drop it and she
have n more article to fish up.
Then she sweared the bottom of the
ink bottle generously with toothpaste.
It was growing light now. She
knelt b~reathlessly by the window and
slowly played out her Tine, xsteadying
the ink bottle as it went down TO keep
1t from whirling wide and knocking
against the house. She was. trem-
bling from head to foot when the
bottle with g. Anal whirl settled down
firmly on the paper. For full. min
Ute she Jet it rest there TO make the
paste stick and then, with heart beat
ing SO loud she felt as ~: the people
Slowly to pull the line up. hand owe.
hand. There was a tense moment
when the bottle lifted from the
ErCun4 and the papersw4veFed Glight-
ly rs Il debating whether It would 90
or stay. Then 1t rose steadily with
the bottle, inch-9by inch: until Ii was
within her reaehsand she put her
hand oHt and grasped ! ssa
spasteand eagerly scanned the writ
ing II was-in German, i~ttsfatersed
with hiefoElyphtcs. It. meant moth
Ing whatever to herr:
Termination Du Font, Eddystone,
Carnegie. Chester Ship Buiiding-t
Some of the names were INDICATED
by strange marks. There were dates
4 and words that she could nok under
stand. Her face fell In disappoint.
Inent. There was no help here for
the tasksbefore her. Almost shASnuns
the hard-won paper back TO tho
ground, Is Then she remembered II
was stained y with t6othpaste and
/ might betrayshers Afgeecnd th6nght
talsD reminded her that some wiser
bead than her own might make sbme-
thing important out OF Il.
Hastily wrApptpE II . clean
handkerchief, she fastened It hrmly
inside her blouse md prepared Us res
spohA IL MtS. echwarz's cailSts work.
AS Hil44 threw openas the Kitchen
window by-the sink she cau9ht 4
sNrip0S Z man sdisapp6afine Into
this de4g. Ut the little brick hut ddStn
the kafden pAths and q m0menta l6xsr
yhile she stood @infthe same place MI
haA ah0t3lsf AeetirE glftIps4 ~ Z m,
nrs brown 3eAnsa crouched ahd
isfeslthffy stealing outs Of the door
again and down atnphE the sbu19fsb
teaf atyank soHHsf44tnk under hisa LETT
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