The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-07

two detectives came up the stairs 1 with Della Connolly.
 These men were very nearly as nervous as Fanny. They had tracked down this notorious and dangerous spy, to be sure, but there was some evidence that bold attempt would be made to. rescue her. The men were fully armed. and outside in the roadway waited big motor-car. with three other armed men in at tendance. It took five of them to cap ture Litzt Werthein, or rather. 1t might take five. By this time the Home Office was in no mood to run risks.
 Are you Miss Kaye?' ono of the men asked.
 Fanny admitted her Identity.
 "Is Mrs. Wertheim herer
 "Yes," Fanny replied. and pointed to the drawing-room.
 They all entered tho room where Litzi stood, straight and tall, magni- ficently beautiful and cruelty pale.
 Mrs. Werthein, it is our duty to arrest you on charge of espionage" said one of the men.
 The woman found her voice.
 "Oh! Well, I can explain every thing"
 You will have an opportunity to do that in the morning.
 And then resulted g scene of con- fusion. Quick as a cat the woman picked up her magazine. laying hands on 1t as though to tear it to pieces, but one of the men caught her and wrenched 1t away from her.
 We want those two bags" one of them said. There was an order to search the flat and Fanny was ques- toned.
 In & few moments the detectives had made g. cursory examination of the premises, and telling Fanny to be prepared to receive some one in the morning to take 8 statement from her they were about to leave with their prisoner, when Fanny re- membered the document which had been destroyed and thrown out of the back window. She mentioned this to the men.
 A Difficult Task.
 Miss Kaye, there is nothing against you. We know that you are an innocent party in this affair." one of them said to her. Because of that. we trust you to recover the b1ts Of that document. We cannot wait now-so we must trust you.''
 They had set Fanny Kaye a diff cult task, but honor insisted that she should fulfil 1t to the utter most So off went the five detectives with Litzi Wertheim and her bags in the big n1otor-car
 It may be imagined that Della and Fanny did not get much sleep that night The poor girls were so ner- vous that they could not bear the thought of being separated and Fanny dragged the mattress off her bed and into Deha's room, where she compos- ed herself as best as she could on the floor.
 There she lay shivertng until dawn, and an extra shiver went down her spine when at intervals the lions in the adjacent Geological Gardens let out their roars Never, thought Fan | ny, had the lions roared like that before.
 Just at dawn a light snore from | the bed told her that Della had al at last managed to fall off in slum- i Der, but by that time they had tc get up and begin the task which the I detectives had set Fanny. It was i'm. possible to risk the bits of paper l being scattered or swept up. Fortune i ately the night had been absolutely | windless.
 1 So the girls rose in the chill gray l dawn utterly worn out, and not a l little fearful whether or not they 1 too, might find themselves accused l because they had sheltered Litzt l Werthein. They dressed and made 1 themselves some tea, which they | drank in the kitchen. By the time they had finished their tea it was i light enough to see outside | There was no entrance into the 1 Tagged area except through the pre-. mises below, and the detectives had
 as regarded the family on the ground floor. Consequently there seemed no way at first by which
 the scattered bits of paper could be 1 retrieved. There they lay all over i the stones, and some on the lower window-sill.
 | Leaning out of their window in the 1 dusk of the early morning, Fanny and Della considered how 1t could be l done. It was Fanny who hit upon i the plan, which was quite ingeni. 1 ous.
 l They made some paste with flour
 and water and smeared 1t liberauy l over the brush end of long broom 1 Then they fastened a stout cord tc 1 the end of the broom handle. Leanine | far out, they swept the flags witt | this implement, swinging 1t about by | means of the cord until all the lit 1 tie bits of paper were retrieved. I is a matter of record that not one
 was missing.
 The Trial.
 All this took time, and after tha
 there was moro tea, and then Fanny
 sat down to the job of ptecing the | puzzle together.
 It took her exactly five hours, bu
 finally she had the document com. | pletet, all neatly pasted down on
 single sheet of paper. It was of grea | value to the police, and when she took it to Scotland Yard she was
 com plimented so warmly that she fell l amply repaid for her efforts. LitZi Wertheim and her confeder-
 ates endured the ordeal of two trials
 before final sentence was pronounc.