Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-06-07

electric chair, Il could"
Work that in, in your own suave
and diplomatic language. You win
bring out that he was received at
all the best houses IN Washington,
and il you meet a man at the home
Of the President or a cabinet men,
Der, you cannot very well ask Il he
is spy. You'll use your record
which is okay, for I've been comb
ing it myself. OF course, you can
prove that Helen didn't show him
any papers because you never took
any home with you and they were
locked up. This really should make
a sort of martyr out Of you and win
you any number of votes. You know
voters"
"But how about me?" asked Hell
en- family. what does it do to me,
Len?"
Len looked at her. Helen looked
more anguished, Aunt Olympia
thought, than she had at the funeral
SO long ago.
"It's a tough break, Helen" he
said. you've just got to keep your
head up and take it on the chin.
He's using you as a cover-up and
everybody will know it. You didn't
tell him anything, and stick to it.
You merely met him."
"She couldn't tell him anything
confidential" said the Senator stout
ly. "For I never told her any
thing. Most Of it was so technical
! didn't really understand it myself.
I just believe we ought to have
strong defense; and anything they
said was for better defense, I was
in favor Of"
Helen" said Len, diffidently, do
you mind-telling us about-the map
you gave him?"
MAP! l never gave him map!"
'She couldn't! haven't got map
myself"
HE says you gave him a map
of our national defenses."
'She never had map!"
"He couldn't possibly mean that
relief map of the United States,
could he?-Don't you remember,
Uncle Lancy? I asked you about
it. He brought the map to show
how vulnerable we are and ! asked
you"
WAS it your map, Helen?"
mo, he brought it. He marked
all our vulnerable points with a red
pencil. And I asked you, Uncle
Lancy, and you said the Mexican
border was defended, and the Allan
tic seaboard had strings Of defenses
all across the country and that all
the shipbuilding places were forti-
fed, and Boston and Manhattan and
Washington. Don't you remember?
I marked them with a blue pencil"
''And you gave him the map?"
'iNo. After we had it marked, he
rolled it up to take along and
said I wanted it to send-as a sort
of souvenir. I kept it."
Have you got It'll"
eyes. It's up in my desk"
Twill you get it?"
Eyes, of course"
Aunt Olympia turned to Limpy.
"Do you feel better, darling? Do
you want an Aspirin"
mo. l just want good sharp
stiletto with a poisoned point. Helen
is so-good-"
Sow the wind and reap the whirl-
wind" said Len modify. "That's
what l did,
well, experience is good
thing" said the Senator sympathet-
ically. II know I've learned lot
that way"
Here is the map" said Helen.
"See, Uncle Lancy? Gabriel drew
the blue lines to show where we are
vulnerable. l didn't know anything
about it myself and you told me
about defending the shipyards and
the cities and the harbors-"
The Senator examined the map
with two pairs Of glasses. Dear
me, Helen, you did very bad job
of it," he said reprovingly. "You
must have those forts 200 miles off.
And those submarine bases-tch,
tch, tch. tch!"
st didn't try to be accurate" said
Helen. 81 didn't know enough, in
the first place. We weren't being
technical about it. But when he was
criticizing our unpreparedness,
just boastfully drew red lines around
every city could think Of"
SIS anything of secret nature in
dictated on this map?" asked Len.
Lord, no." said the Senator with
unwonted profanity. There's not
only nothing secret; there's moth
ing right. I'm afraid I didn't make
myself very clear, Helen"
Eyes, you did, Uncle Lancy; but
you weren't trying to be explicit and
! didn't think it made any difference
whether I put the red marks north
or south, or ever if I missed the
town entirely; we were laughing;
it was just joke-then!" she add
ed pathetically.
"You can give photostatic copies
Of this map to the press" suggested