Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-02-25

to his Office that afternoon with Dean
to discuss some matters Of import
ance. They found Carter already with
the chief when they arrived. T
and to Deans telegraph" said the
chief. I'VE have made considerable
progress. We have learned q lot more
about h cipher messages"
You have learned 1t through me"
cried Jane in amazement.
Yes" said the chief, smiling.
from that list Of names you report.
what were they. a cipher. a code"
questioned the girl breathIessly.
"No. nothing like that. They are
merely the names Of various innocent
and unsuspecting booksellers tn@vari-
GUS parts Of the city,"
How did you discover that?"
I'm the simplest and easiest way
possible. / listed all the James you
reported and studied them carefully,
trying to find their m denom-
inator. They were not in the same
netghborhood. SO it was not locality.
They were not all German. 50 it was
not racial. l looked them up in the
teleQhone directory, checking up the
numbers Of the telephones Of the
Jones. the Simpsons. but that gave no
, clue. Then, as I looked through the
telephone lists. I discovered that there
was a bookstore kept by a man Of
a simple plan for throwing on
shadowers."
you mea that Mr.. Hof goes to q
different bookstore each day to leave
a code message?"
That's it. The spy who gets the
messages each morning calls him up
by phone, mentioning just the one
rxv~-l Er~~, %y.o% AZ TY@A 49,
where to &C. %concealing the message
in a book before agreed upon"
The fifth book" interrupted Dean.
Not always" explained Fleck. 1T
depends on whether there are ave
letters in the name telephoned.
have located and copied several more
of the messages"
But who .c:ets the messages he
LEAVES? Who takes them away from,
of her failure in that respect.
TITS a girl, or rather two girls to.
gether. though possibly only one OF
them is in the plot. Very likely the
other may not know what her com.
panion is doing"
ITO whom does this girl take
them?"
'"That is still a mystery" said the
chief, I'VE have ascertained Nho the
girl is. where she lives. Her action:
have been watched and recorded fol
every hour in the twenty-four for the
last three days. and yet we dom
know what she does with these mes
sages. Carter has q theory-tell u,
about it. Carter" y
I'm accordance with Instructions
began Carter. as II he was making on,
a report. Il had operatives K-2i AM
Kill shadow the party suspected. Or
two different occasions they followed
her to q bookstore and back home
again. She was accompanied on on
occasion by her younger sister. Eact
time she went directly home ant
stopped there. neither she nor her sis
ter coming out again. and no person
visiting the apartment, but"
Here's the interesting part" inter
rupted F1eck.
"On both occasions within q couple
OF blocks OF the bookstore she passet
4 man with = dachshund. She did no
speak to tho = but each time Oh,
stopped to pet the dog"
Wa 1t, the same man both times?'
asked Dean.
Apparently not" replied Carter
Dachshunds all look alike"
go on" said the chief.
Now my theory Is that that cir
was instructed to walk north until Oh,
met the man with the dog. I'll be
anything that code message went un
der the dogs collar. The next tim,
she gets . message I'm going to re
that dog"
ut seems preposterous." scof1et
Dean.
ather it shows" said Fleck 'tha
these spies all suspect they are beins
watched. and that they resort to III,
most extraordinary methods OF com
Enumeration to throw OF shadoweTs
They hive used dachshunds before
There's = New England munisio,
plant to which they used to sead /
messenger each week 70 learn hov
their plans for strikes and destruction
were progressing. They put = differ,
ent man On the job each time to ayoit
stirring NJ suspicion. At the station
There would always be twp children
playing with q dachshund.. The sp!
would simply follow them - Il casn'
Tally. and they would led him 10 1
'trendesvous with the local piotters