The Washington times., 1938-03-23

but the other, the very large
known to me.
Ganeval, my agent was most
discreet, and his scrutiny did not
trouble me; we had met in the
privacy of my room the night be-
fore and 1 had handed to him for
safe-keeping the voluminous ma
terial 1 had succeeded in bringing
back.
But that pink-faced young man
was getting on my nerves. He was
ogling me in the most shameless
manner and had the unpleasant
feeling that this was not due to
my charms, but that there was a
sinister ulterior motive to his OBJ
Vious interest me.
AS arranged beforehand, had
telephoned the German Embassy
in Berne on the very evening Of
my return, and I had been asked
to wait where I was until com
municated with"
That Ganeval had known the
exact date of my arrival some days
previous and had been on the spot
to welcome me was part OF an
other arrangement. Officially, We
did not know each other.
JOSTLES ME
The flabby young man rose hur-
Tiedly when I left my table and
passed me as I went outside the
hotel. He jostled me in passing
and muttered something, where
upon I gave him one of my most
crushing glances.
Irritated and somewhat dis
turbed I marched back to the
hotel and upstairs to my room.
ConspicuouSly pinned to my pill
low there was Z slip of paper, on
which one sentence had been re-
peated in three different languages
French, German and English:
1t ran: II must see you at once, "
and the signature won S." gave
me my clue. The pink-faced young
man was obviously an emissary of
Vie German EMBASSY.
I leaned out of my window.
Sure enough, my young man was
standing on the other side of the
street, looking up hopefully. I
gave the merest sign and he
rushed across.
A moment later there was a
knock on my door and my ICON.
tact" crept in, his face set in
grim lines, like a conspirator out
Of a musical comedy.
He made a sign for silence,
locked the door carefully, gave a
suspicious, circular glance around
the room, then clicked his "Zu
Befehl, gnadige Frau, Gotliek
Holzmeiner." I motioned him
graciously to a chair and forth
with, to my dismay, he began un
lacing one of his boots.
] stared, wondering if there
was not a mistake after all
Off came the boot; then a thicE
woolen sock; this, Herr Holz
meiner shook delicately, fatuou.
smile spreading over his flabby
features, whereupon a thick en-
velope emerged, which he picked
up reverently. He stood up, q
ludicrouS figure. minus one boot
and sock: Fur Kaiser :" he
'1ntoned solemnly.
HANDS ME LETTER
"Und Vaterland,"
completed the sentence no less
Solemnly. Now knew where we
stood-this was indeed the ennis
sary from Berne. He handed me
the bulky letter: THE gnadige
Frau will observe" he said com
placently, that I have taken al
possible precautions :"
nodded and began reading the
letter.
"As you are supposed to be holi
daying in the region of Lugano,
it said" there would be danger
IN coming back direct from Shaft
hauSen to Berne :"
Followed complicated and min
ute instructions how to reacl
Lugano, then, in a roundabout
way, return to Berne, where
would arrive almost three day
later and then, at night, woult
visit the Embassy. Gotlieb stool
Stolidly over me while I read ant
stretched out his hand when
had finished.
MY instructions" he said, "ar
to see the letter destroyed as sool
as the gnadige Frau has mem
orized the instructions"
Solemnly he tore the sheets o