Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-03-01
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q nat on Riverside Drive, sitting at her
9 late one night. looking into the
anchored, sees a man in evening clothes
pursuing a second man. After a short
time n sees the mar in evening clothes
enter ehs the apartment next door" and on
account Of the suicide" Of a man, found
dead a short distance from the apart-
ment. The next day Miss Strong is ac-
a certain office down town.. to see a Mr..
f1eck,. claiming she can be of invaluable
use to the government, which is at war.
Miss Strong keeps the appointment
young man next door, whose name is
Fred Hoh, is under suspicion. as a Ger
maj spy. She Is asked to do some secret
M Mo1 Tor the government in keeping
Jane is given the badge of K-1s. which
belonged to the man reported. to have
committed suicide, near the apartment.
her conference with Fleck, lane over
takes Otto Hot, uncle of Fred Hoff, and
she follows him to a bookstore. There
leave one. After he leaves she gets the
slip Of paper, which contains only a
jumbled mass of figures.
deciphers it, and finds that it gives in
about the sailing of a trans
port.
|, Upon her return to the apartment,
nouncing at the Office that ne is calling
to see young. Mr.. Hoff. She pretends to
have met him on board a warship, at a
tea, and invites him and Mr.. Hot to
lunch in her apartment. "
While they are at lunch, Carter. a de-
tective employed by Fleck, calls on the
telephone. saying that he cannot locate
the message, left in the book by HofY, in
nl9cn nf tho ono which lana cnnjod Il,
her agitation she betrays which book it
is. and Lieutenant Kramer and young
Hon. who a the conversation. leave
Immediately.
Through Carter, Jane learns of Thorn
as Dean, also in the service of F1eck,
whom she induces her father to engage
as a chauffeur. .t
Young Hofr sends Jane a box, contain
ing five orchids-with the message that
he had spent a profitable afternoon at
her home. She takes tea with him. and
a further engagements. While he
and his uncle are on a motoring trip the
following day, Jane and the chauffeur
expect to plant a photograph in their
apartment.
The chauffeur succeeded in locating
the dictographs and when Jane goes to
the roof. to detain the Hoff husekeeper.
who is hanging washing out. she finds
her hanging red and white handkerchief
on the line, and scanning the warships in
the harbor. She changes the arrange
ments Of the handkerchiefs. Inc Jane
realizes that she is giving signals.
through Information gained over the
dictograph, at which Jane listens almost
constantly, Flick has been able to dis.
cover that the elder Hoff goes to a differ.
ent bookstore each day for a code mes
sage. Preparations are made to search
the Hon apartment while the VI are alb.
sent On their regular Wednesday trip.
Jane DISCUSSES herself as aIboy, and
with Dean starts out to follow the HofEs,
They see young Hoff on the street in the
coming very much interested lin Jane
and James affections seem to be centered
on young HoH.. ft
The Hons in their car elude Dean and
and Dean suspects that they are headed
for West Point. During their absence
Carter searches the Hon apartment, and
discovers the uniform of q British sol
der. Carter also believes that some one
else in the apartment building is in
league with the Hofrs.
CHAPTER x-Continued.
He looked at his watch. Tae old
servant had been out now nearly half
an hour. She was likely to return at
any moment. He must work quickly.
Swiftly he went through the dresse,
drawers but without satisfactory re.
suit. There was no time for him to
do MORE. He hastened into the living
room and summoned his aides.
Find anything; Bob?" he asked.
"Not a thing
Beat 1t up to the roof" he direct
ed: Have you those field 81 SIS
Sure" replied the operative. d
the handkerchiefs. too"
IAN right. Get up. there before she
starts down. Begin putting up hand
kerchiefs and appear to be watching
the river. That will mix her up 60
she will not know what to do. She
will not dare to leave the roof while
you are there. When we're through
I'll send the elevator man up for you
with the message that we have found
the short circuit e
He turned to the other operative. 4
Find anything. Williams" !
only thiS."
Carriers face frightened - his as
Esistant held out to him two copies OF
afternoon newspaper. In each, of
fthem q square was missing where
something had been cut ont.
- found them IN the swaste-paper
basket by the old mans desk" the
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