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Show vTHP PAni P5 PYP True Story of the Imperial German Government's Spies and Washington Aware of Huns9 Activity in India Note. On the wall of the library in the Criminology club hangs a portion of a newspaper in a frame, u Is an Account of t he killing of Ram Chandra in a crowded courtroom in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, April. 1918, when he with other conspirators was on trial for sedition. His murderer. Ram Singh, who was on trial for the same otfense, way killed a' few seconds later by a United States marshal. Written acroas the clipping are ilie words: "Kvidently a jdriking demonstration of the truth of Ratu Chibra's statement tn phonograph phono-graph library in re the made in Germany Ger-many Hindu society. Harrison Grant.'' An "inquiry concerning the clipping leads to the story of the connection the club had with the breaking: up of tjje great Hindu conspiracy, which is yere related. The inevitable inquire as to whether Ram Chandra intended jf to turn informer has never been an-r an-r s-aered. Episode No. 18 The Great Hindu Conspiracy. THERE is the latest thing- in German Ger-man code, if it happens to.be code at all,' said Harrison Grant, president presi-dent of the Criminology club, to Dixie Mason, of the secret service, one evening early in 11)1 7. in the president's presi-dent's room of the club. He tossed her a piece of paper "Why, it's nothing but a continuous line of jumbleS letters." exclaimed the little secret service operative, looking at it critically, "ft appears as though some one had been trying out a typewriter to tee if the letters needed cleaning. Where on earth did you get this?" "Picked up from the SayviHe wireless." answered Grant. "The SayviHe wireless?" questioned Dixie intensely interested at the mention of the station so widely used by German agents until the United States put it under un-der control. "Yes," answered Grant. "You know a. number of German operators are located there none of them really under suspicion, sus-picion, hut worthy of constant watching inertly because they are German. For that reason Hennessv liar, carefully recorded re-corded everything that has been sent out." . ' "You mean that the censors let a jumbled mass of letters like this pass?" demanded Dixie. "N"o. not in that' form. A few nights. ao Hennessy began to realize that between be-tween words there would he a- quick- jar and then a legible word. . He got Charles E. Apgar, the wireless expert, to come here and listen in. Apgar 'suggested recording re-cording the Fcndlngs of the phonograph for study. The result is that by running run-ning the machine slowly distinct "letters between words can be distinguished. They are snapped through, but easily caught by anyone -expecting them. These letters ?Lrhe sending of the lat two nights." ' There is no code or cipher that I know of that could be applied to them," said Dixie, studying the jumbled letters care-' care-' fully. "They are not German, English, I F'rench, Spanish, Russian or any other language with which1 I am aby all fa-miliar." fa-miliar." f "That Is just the question," answered 1 .Grant.. "Apgar. who ts quite a linguist. ji'l that the letter combinations reminded very strongly of Hlnduese. 1 don't know Hindu at all, and Apgar declares that If it is Hindu it is a dialect different from any with which he is familiar. I telephoned to Columbia university today you know there is a small colony of Hindu students there for an expert in the dialects, so we may know the answer an-swer to this any time." Their talk drifted to other mattersun-til mattersun-til It was announced that Ratu Chi bra of Columbia was awaiting Harrison Grant. Hennessy and Cavanaugh were waiting with , a dark-skinned. Intelligent-looking Kaat Indian. He spoke perfect Knglisli as greetings were exchanged. Grant then turned to the business of the evening, and, as he handed the same lines of letters to Chlhru that he had shown to Dixie earlier in the evening, Hennesy started the re-fording re-fording phonograph as a means of preserving pre-serving any aid the Hindu might be able to give in deciphering the strange jumble. jum-ble. Chi bra 'joked long and earnestly at the naper which had been placed before him. N'ot on of the four watching him detected ' motion of his features or the muscles f his lithe body. but. yet each one of the four had the impression that his spine hardened and stiffened, that his eyes became be-came wider and his jaw set firmly. Af-tr Af-tr some moments of Filence. so complete that the din of the streets nineteen stories below could be clearh- discerned. Grant broke the trance by asking: "Can you make anything of it?" Cliibra Refuses to Translate Ihe Code. Without turning' his head the Hindu answered. Although he spoke in English his voice had assumed the chanting tone of the East Indian mystic. "It is my life you ask lor, sahib. It is written that the chosen shall know that they have beh selected. I have already had my call --and know those who have been chosen with me. But it Is also written writ-ten that those who are selected shall have ft judge among them, and shall also art is Judge of one of the chosen. And it is further written that when one speaks of those things which concern only the selected se-lected ones to those who are not of the W ennsen.. his judge shall kill him. That is a'l 1 can say." "You mean that, to speak of what you Te there would indicate your life would "hi dancer from some source?" demanded de-manded Grant. "My life i would be forfeit." answered the Indian, still with his eves on the paper. "For it is written that if a judge tail In his duty of killing his charge, then! the name of both the iudge anu the charge 1 shall be given to all of the chosen and they shall both be killed. No one can know all of the chosen, therefore he knows not who to guard himself agalnst-It agalnst-It Is unalterable and unpreventabie that whosoever of the chosen shall speak of matters concerning the chosen shall die ' "Nonsense, man," said Grant, taking Chibra by the arm and shaking him "Wake up; you are in America in the twentieth century, not in India in the fourteenth." "You do not know, sahib," answered the Hindu, drawing himself to a dignitv which made Grant look rather awkward. "On those papers are sacred plans of the cnosen. p'ans with which I am not in sympathy, but plans of which T may not speak. As I love mv life. I must hope you fail in discovering them, for my judpe. although he is unknown to me knows of my presence here tonight as surely as I know every move of my charge. If you are successful in discovering discov-ering these plans my life ceases." In vain Grant offered him all the protection pro-tection the Criminology club could offer, and Dixie assured him that any means which she could be instrumental in getting get-ting would be forthcoming. Chibra remained re-mained obdurate; in fact, could not even be induced to look at the message a second sec-ond time. Finally he was permitted to depart. . "It looks as if we had come a cropper." crop-per." remarked Hennessy. "Far from it." responded Gran1:. "At least it has been established that thev are messages and that they are Hindu. That torms a working basis and copies have been sent to the bureau in Washington, so it is only a matter of time before we have the translations at our disposal." "Provided the code can be deciphered, commented Hennessy. "There is no cipher that cannot' be unraveled by the Washington bureau.' said Grant. "But from the ease with which Chibra recognized their import I don't think that the messages can be in code. Probably written outright in some of the rarer Hindu dialects." A short time later, back in his own room with only Dixie within hearing distance. dis-tance. Grant sa id : "The fact that those messages are Hfndu means a great deal more than 1 just told Hennessy-and Cavanaugh. It is pretty conclusive evidence that German Ger-man agents are again active in some plot against America and using the same tools from Von Bernstorff right on down through the whole choice crew of spies and murderers." "Isn't there a chance that it may be but an outbreak of the East Indian conspiracy con-spiracy which has been going on at intervals inter-vals for the past twenty years?" Interposed Inter-posed Dixie. 'Tt might be, except for some information informa-tion which Mrs. Blank has given me," responded Grant. "And, by the way, since you mentioned it. it is becoming more apparent every day that Germany has been responsible for most of the internal disturbances In English colonies since late in the nineties, when the plans for the present war were first embarked upon seriously. But this information from Mrs. Blank! Tt is to the effect that Von Bernstorff. Bern-storff. Dr. Albert and Baroness Verbeeht are almost daily attendants at the service in a temple organized for the study of occultism, by three Hindus in a farmhouse farm-house on Tong Island." "It would look as if that ought to be investigated the temple, I mean," said Dixie. "Anything that trio touches is bound to show signs of slimy treachery." "T agree with you that It is worthy of investigation now," answered Grant. "When Mrs. Blank first told me of the new diversion of the German ambassador, ambassa-dor, I thought perhaps that it was merely a pastime. Von Bernstorff always has been more or less of a mystic. But 1 sent to Washington for a full report of any activities In regard to India, and here is the result." He produced a sheaf of documents and handed them to Dixie. Washington Aware of German Activity in -India. "You will notice that most of it is old. but there is one dispatch there which was only suppressed by the censors last week. It was offered by a thoroughly reliable news agency for transmission to England." Dixie took the suppressed dispatch and read it with interest: "The situation in India is growing gra e. Since October. 1914. there have been numerous local mutinies of Mohammedan Moham-medan native troops, one practically succeeding suc-ceeding the other. From recent reports it appears that the Hindu troops are preparing pre-paring to join the mutineers." "The Afghan army is reported to bp ready to attack India. The army holds n position on one side of the Utak river. British troops are entrenched on the other side. The three bridges crossing -the stream have been blown up and grave I fears are held as to the outcome of the expected battle because of the smallness of the forc&s of the empire when contrasted con-trasted to the number of the Aghan troops. "Mutineers have stormed and taken the n rsenal of the garrison located onJ.be Kathiawar peninsula. Railroad and wireless wire-less stations have been destroyed. . The Sikh troops have been removed from Be-luchlstan. Be-luchlstan. It Is now garrisoned by English. Eng-lish. MoIih mmedan and Hindu troops. The Twentv-thlrd cavalry regiment at Lahore has revolted; tiie police station and town house were stormed. The Indian troops in SOinaliland in labakonin are trying to effect a Junction with Ihe Senussi, All Burmah is reported to be ready for a revolt. re-volt. ""There Is grest unrest accompanied by street fighting in Galcuttn. In 1-ohore a bank has been broken into and robbed. Reports of many Englishmen killed have come from the northwestern district, with many stores and munitions captured by the mutineers. A relief train is reported to have been repulsed. "livery where there is great unrest. In Benares a bank ha been stormed. Chi-trKk Chi-trKk reports serious revolts with barracks and government buildings destroyed. The Hurti Martin brigade, under General Sir I-;. Wood, has been ordered there. The deputv commissioner of l.a hore was wounded by a bomb thrown when he was attending a bazaar. Soldiers threw bombs at the carriage of the Maharn j:ih of Mysore, My-sore, killing a child, two servants and severely wounding his wife. Communion Communi-on t ions with Gey Ion are interrupted but reports received indicate that a state of war has been declared there." "English papers would make a prettv stringent Inquirv as to the source of such stuff before- printing it." said Pixie as she finished reading it. "N"atur;iilv." said Grant. "but they would have been satisfy 1. The news agenev which filed it believed it was from 'their own cm-respondent in India. Tt came into the San France. -o wire oxer their leased line. Censors recognize it as being based upon a report which was .started for the WHheinstrasse from agents in tills countrv. They started an inquiry and apparentlv the agency wires bad been tapped because the message never originated or-iginated in India." ' "But there is just enough truth in it to cause unr&st in England." commented pixie. "And also to cause distrust of the native Indian troops which are doing much in France." "Further than that. Dixie. aid r.mt. "It would give every weak-kneed coward -Iv traitor in India nerve to join tn if Germany succeeded in starting a mutiny of any size." "U seems to me as if the coincidence of this sort of stuff being sent through the wirelcts and Von Bernstorff s sudden Applying the lemon bath for, the discovery of invisible messages onj the skin of a German woman spy. ' j 'S: V :i .: '::'v 'SVS' 7' ::::V . .:77 ?' ' v' . . . . : ' . . . ,y :. :::i:7i:7:: : .. 7 yyyyyyyyiyy " -:-:V --y 7.v. :::7 :7:7;S:$r77:7:7: iO;-'. ,yy?'Zf?:&,.. ? : l"'':': : Si : ! :o: y ;'-;;' 7: TJ- "t f yyyyyy. yfmiyyy yyyyy im 4 SSiSi; ; mtivyiyyyVyyyy W i ! ;si-. j : : ; ' .::.!!: ii;,-45rSv iii mwi iAWSUsSfii-.! i :Hgy yX-fXy. jSj-i5.f: fJf-S : .ftiiit-s v Si :i: X -4 . -: '::;3si I5 fiifff iii V v -v. , lX' f ' 1 V- ' r, T-: J - j S'A 'f. -ytl x, .v:u;;-J interest in Hindu occultism wilEbfaT" rooking rook-ing into." . "Just what"! was going to ask you to help on." said Grant. "Mrs. Blank can look after everything that is obvious and it is up to us to find out what is under the surface." . A discussion as to the ways and means followed, with the result that Dixie and Grant both started for Long Island that night. Grant went as president of the Criminology club to check up at express and freight offices upon shipments to or Tom the Temple of Occultism. Dixie carried with her a box of grease paints, a grey wig and some cheap- clothing. The purpose of the.se became apparent the next morning- when a. decrepit old woman, driving a horse which seemed as old as herself drove up to, the rear of the door of the converted farmhouse which bouses the temple. The old woman alighted, and taking a basket of eggs from under the. seat, started for the door In a quavering walk. From the feeble, cautious cau-tious steps she took, the woman might be nearly blind, but under the shaggv grey eyebrows and the red granulated lids, the keen eyes of Dixie Mason were darting about taking in even- detail of the premises. Dixie and Grant Start Investigations in Long Island. Before the Hindu servants started expostulating ex-postulating with her that thev required no eggs. Dixie had seen that the windows of more than half the house had been shaded with black screens. The servants, after trying to make an apparentlv deaf old woman understand that thev wanted nothing, turned back into the house and left Dixie to her own devices. No sooner were the servants out of sight inside than Dixie darted into a. passageway leading to the portion of the house where the windows had been covered. The passage was not a long one. but it was intensely dark. Dixie, although moving cautiously, was start'ed at the noise she made in coming up short against a closed door. After a wait, to satisfy herself that the nois had not caused an alarm, she tried the door and found it unlocked. She opened It cautiously, iust enough to permit her to peer through. Under her eyes was a phippine and packing room of a $dz capable nf handling han-dling the output of a large mercantile concern. A score or more of Hindus were busy unpa ckine era tes and repacking repack-ing Ihe contents into others, under the direction of a man well known to Dixie, Heinrich von Eertz. And the goods which were being so busily unpacked and repacked re-packed were ri fles. munitions, explosives and bombs. An elevator In the middle of the floor which seemed to sink into the bowels of the earth, from the length of cable which was unwound when it was lowered, seemed to be the only entrance or exit, to the room, with the exception of the one in which Dixie stood. Resolved to learn more of this elevator, Dixie decided upon a daring move. Waiting Wait-ing until the attention of everyone in the room was occupied with some task, she darted into the shipping room, leaving the door open behind her. Before she was observed she had assumed the feeble, half-blinded walk with which she bad approached ap-proached the house. She had nearly gotten got-ten to the elevator when1 she was observed. ob-served. Heinrich von Eerlz leaned toward her and seized her arm roughly. "Here, you old hag. what are you toing here'1" he demanded in a frightened voice. Dixie turned her red-rimmed, watery eyes tip toward his face. Then, in a thin, quavery voice, she said: "It is a young gentleman. T know from the voice. Maybe you will help me to tind my horse and wngon. Tt seems as though I have walked miles a nd I can't Pud the outside door." Von 1 .ertz scrutinized her carefully, and then, apparentlv satisfied with her story, took her by the. arm and guided her carefully hack through Ihe passage to the door In the yad. There he left her. and Pi vie could hear him soundly be-ratlng be-ratlng the servants as she he'd herself to a slow, tottering walk to her vehicle, despite her e-i gerness to reach 1 la rrison Grant with her news. "I am not urnr!Fcd to he:-i r that you found no evid-ice of any unusual ;hir-mont." ;hir-mont." :-he said to t 're ir-ar nf the Priminoligv club a'ter she had told him if her discovorv in the farmhouse, "for I c-nt nea r enough to the elevator sha ft to smell salt w'tnr, Their contraband roods are cirried by boat to some shipping ship-ping uoint." G'ant knew t ha t Pixie could not be mistaken, desrite the iacr that the farmhouse farm-house was nearly a mil from the nearest salt water T.ong Ts'and sound. Without delaying for d:S'-nsh;on, a motorboat was procured, and w:th':i an hour thev wer touring the shore line Thev beean at a nlace about five nr!c$ away from the nearest po'nt to the farmhouse, and. nm-m'ng nm-m'ng at slew speed, pea nned the shore line for a cliff or shrubberv which might mask the mouth of a tunnel. Searching for the Tunnel. The nbysa-al a sre of te shore pr.e were disarpo::it:r.g in producing possible n'li.'os for ihe i rl!',oc,i;n'',;i; of a tunne.. tt was a ;cng. low sundv beach. jpe first in o: ' fe u hicli Utm- noted "-a ? a lone fisherman on a s:na:! promon- to'-v, who seemed to be se;-;nc lobster pels. About a half nii!e frtV-r on there w.is a launch drawn up cloe to the hor, with two men tinkering on the engine. s Next Sunday's epi-:sode, epi-:sode, No. 19, 'THE MENACE OF THE j I. W. W." j A hall from Grant as to whether he could render any assistance was answered by the.-statement that It was merelv a wet wire that had interfered with the spark which caused them to stop, and that no help was needed. Farther on another promontory disclosed a second lobster fisherman. "I didn't know this was such good lobster grounds as to warrant setting pots within a mile of each other," commented Dixie. "Neither did I," answered Grant, "and as soon as we get out of his sight I am going to land and find out if he roallv is a fisherman. Did you notice that each of those fishermen, were in an ideal position posi-tion to warn the boat we saw, if they were placed 'there for that purpose?" "Now that you mention it, yes," answered an-swered Dixie. ".Each of them was on a promontory which shielded the boat from view until after you had passed the fisherman." fish-erman." "And further than that,", added Grant, "'as near as I can judge that boat was nearly on a line -with the shortest route to the temple from the water. '- Grant drove the boat along for a considerable con-siderable distance before he -was satisfied that the lone fisherman could not longer distinguish it. Then he headed it into the bank, and after pulling it well up on shore, Dixie and he started retracing their route on foot. Grant chose a. path which took them almost a quarter of mile from the water where the wooded section of the shore commenced. Once in the shelter of the trees their progress was rapid. W hen they reached a position directly in hack of the fishermen who had aroused Grant's suspicions they found their further' fur-ther' progress blocked by a newly built barb "wire fence. Grant held Dixie back-while back-while he examined the strands, "XV'e have found something." he announced. an-nounced. "This wire is strung for the purpose of warning people some place or other when anyone climbs through it or over it.. It is a veritable burglar alarm similar to those employed in large business houses. The fence ends almost by the fisherman. T sjn going to take a chance on assaulting an innocent" party by attempting at-tempting to put him out of commission before he can give a warning. I hate to do this but there isn't a chance of creeping creep-ing up on him." As he spoke he drew an automatic revolver from his pocket. From the same pocket rhe drew two extra sections of barrelling for it ana rapidly screwed them onto the end of the regular barrel. Then he attached a silencer. When assembled the a utomatic had a longer barrel than the regular Colt 45. whose accuracy at long ranee has become a proverb. Quickly adjusting a wind sight with which the extra barrel was equipped. Grant knelt, and, aiming for a second, pulled the trigger. trig-ger. There Was the suppressed "zing" of a bullet starting on its course, but no other sound. The fisherman suddenly crumpled and then fell face forward into the sand. "Creased him. T think.- said Grant as he and Dixie ran toward the fallen man. "The heat of a bullet just gra zing the top of the skull will pa ralyze the bra in for a short period, causing no bad after effects except a headache for a few hours, a system frequently used for capturing wild horses." Grant's aim had been perfect. As they knelt to examine the man they found an angry red welt along the top of his scalp, a wound which was scarcely bleeding, so (Vifiite had been the touch of the bullet. "I could have forgiven myself if it had killed him." said Grant, pol ntlng to an obiect in the sand, and he knelt to hind and gag the man. who was already commencing com-mencing lo show signs of returning ron-I ron-I sciocsness. The ohjeet he pointed to was I an ordinarv electric push button. I "Evidently the f?r?t fisherman signalled our approach, giving the boat amnle time to assume nn innocent aspect." commented com-mented Dixie, "and then this man signalled sig-nalled that we, had pa.-sed and that they were safe from observation." "The scheme exactly. T think." said Gra nt. a nd then as he finished binding his prisoner. "Come on. he will be all right here." They once more sought the woods pp a -lace of 'onreRlry.c.r't fnd then made their way raoidlv toward the point where the bon t had iv'cn lying. In a few moments it was in view, and a!?o a strance sight. Two FQ-,!re ;-. -tionp of tb.e beach seamed to be tibv-d "rm-ar'"j and frim the ho'e thus made boves. many of them, were bci"r t.is-cn and carried to the bost. "Clever." commented Grant, "although simple. The mouth of t he tunnel was closed with two doors flush with the '-aoh. and ther thev we-j covered o,r woh sand, making them invisible except when one wn vev close to them. A good evimple of ramoiiflagf." Thev watched The loading of :he bot for- sftn time. Thrtn GMpt beckoned )n r.-xic and led the way farther ba k into the wooos. "The boat tj- higher in the water ;lnn when we pas?ed," he .aid. "Evidently we interrupted the unloading of a crgo. and the reloading has just been started. The Sound Boat club, where it will be easy to procure a speedy launch. Is only about ten miles from here. While I go there and get a craft which can keep up with anvthing tn those waters, will you go to the other boat and watch from the promontory to guard against the launch leaving before 1 return? A nod from Dixie and they separated. Grant to walk only half a mile when he came to a motor road upon which automobiles auto-mobiles were passing frequently. He had no trouble in getting speedily to his destination. des-tination. He knew several of the boat club members and every craft in commission com-mission was offered to him. Choosing a speed boat which had registered forty -two miles an hour on her trials, he started start-ed back at the best speed the motors could produce. Dixie reported that everything had been quiet during his absence. The spy had recovered consciousness, and Dixie, with woman I - compassion for suffering, had eased his aching head somewhat with a cool bandage. The shadows of approaching night soon began to darken the shores. Grant picked up the German' spy and carried him to the speed boat. Then, in order not to leave any explanation to anyone who might come to relieve the captive, the launch was hitched to the back of the speed boat and towed into the sound, there to be turned adrift. Grant then turned the speed boat back in the direction direc-tion of the tunnel's end. Trailing the German Agents. As thev arrived they saw the lights of the German craft just moving away from shore. Grant fell in close behind, and, adapting his speed to that of the strange craft, settled down for a stern chase. The launch, which both Grant and Dixie felt sure was loaded with crates and boxes similar to those which Dixie had seen in the farmhouse" in the morning, headed straight for New York and held to the course. Morning had nearly arrived w-hen the launch headed into a dock on the Brook-Ivn Brook-Ivn waterfront. There three trucks were awaiting, and the cargo was quickly transferred. Crant and Dixie landed at a wharf several yards distant and then crept hack to where the launch was unloading. un-loading. As the first rays of morning, light made objects distinct, the trucks were disclosed as bearing the name of one of the larcest shippers in Brooklyn. "No numbers, however." said Grant. "Evidentlv some more camouflage." The little secret service operative and the president of the Criminology club bad no dlfdcultv In following the trucks after thev had left (he dock. They went directly di-rectly aeross the lower part of Brooklvn to Brooklvn bridge, across to New York and then to the ferries to Jersey City. Mere the crates were all unloaded Into an express receiving station. Waiting until the trucks had unloaded and had departed under the surveillance of members mem-bers of the Criminology club, whom Grant bad summoned by telephone, he and Dixie entered the express office. Their credentials gained them readily the information infor-mation they wanted, the addresses to which the packages were consigned. fter he had made a careful note of them, and had also taken other addresses from the express book of destinations of packages pack-ages which had been brought by the same trucks on previous days, Gra.nt ordered all the boxes confiscated. Then he broke one open and found what be expected rifles and cartridges. Another showed bombs fashioned after the latest mode of manufacture used in the trenches in Europe. Eu-rope. Aftep leaving the express office Grant and Dixie each filed a long message to Washington. Then they ordered a hearty breakfast, the first cooked meal thev had had since the previous morning. After eating eat-ing thev went direct to the Criminology club, where messages .were awaiting them from Washington granting the co-operation which bad been requested. From then until enrlv in the evening thev were busy sending instructions for raids to point in eve.rv part nf the United States which had been indicated by the addresses gained from the express packages. Shortlv after the clock bad struck eight, the hour pet for the raids, the first report reached Grant at the Criminolouy club. It was from the Temple of Occultism on Eong Island. The net there had captured the first of manv who were later to be convicted of sedition in the- courts hi San Francisco. The names riven on the list of prisoners contained thos-e of Dr. C. cha kribert v. Dr. K. urma a nd H. E. Gupta, but" Heinrich von Eurtz had not been found on the orem!?1?. Frnm New Jersey came a report that the raid It ad disclosed that a. srhool teaching methods of bomb manufacture nd the latet ufos to which heavy explosives could be used bad been conducted by Phrerda Kumar Sarkar. Ram Chandra and a number of cSpr lights were caught in fan Kram'Ssco. A ychool of instruction for officers under th tutelage of Vs.da S'prif near Seattle was raided. Frederick Jebson. a former -.fficer in the German naw. wa? caught on he P?oif;c oca. st d'so. He bad two ships ail outfitted for transporting th arm--htch was being raifd and trained In tb.e I I'niied State? for a rebellion acalust Eng-"-md in India. Many other pia.' . m va-noL.H va-noL.H sections, yielded their ouota of rri-oof-rs and evidence of the evtnt to which "lie, imperial German piot against England 'omented on tbe nc-jtral fW of the 7"ni!d ?t?.if? hsd prorc yr.f d, l.at but not least. IV I of tn German opera ' o-; wr'i rmov-. t Novelized by Courtney Ryley Cooper FROM FACTS FUR-VISHKD By WILLIAM J. FLYNN , Recently Retired Chief U. S. Secret Service. . i ! lotrlgiues In America j (Secret Service Operatives - Trail . Ageots of Kaiser peremptorily from the wireless station at Savville. As the total of the number of prisoners mounted, and the mass of evidence increased. Grant remarked to Dixie, who had been seated near him: "Here endeth the great Hindu conspiracy." con-spiracy." But there was another prisoner yet to be taken. . "A lady to see you, sir." Tt was a club attendant at the door to Grant's office and close behind him was a woman whom the president of the Criminology club recognized rec-ognized as maid to Mrs. Blank. "My mistress wants you to come to her apartment at once," said the maid. "Make an excuse for coming and bring a bottle of acetic acid, she said, sir." Grant asked no questions despite the unusual character of the request. A few minutes later be was in his motor, and making onlv the stop necessary to procure pro-cure the acid, he drove directly to the apartment which Von Bernstorff had fit- , ted up for Mrs. Blank when she left her husband. I "T am sure vou don't mind if I wait here 1 until another car comes," he said as he was admitted to the apartment, bowing : to Mrs. Blank. From another room came j the banging of a door. Mrs. Blank winked i significantly. Harrison Grant continued, 1 talking now in a much lounder tone. My , car broke down just outside your door. I saw the light in your window, then caught sight of you reading. So I felt 1 would not be de trop." Discovery of Message. "Not at all. And by the way." Mrs. 'Blank was using her most courteous tones "Baroness Verbeeht and myself were just talking of you . tonight. Vou know the baroness is staying with me?" "Oh, ves. indeed. Oh. baroness, Mrs. Blank went to a door and called. "I m sure vou will be interested in seeing Harrison Har-rison 'Grant. He has just dropped in for a moment " . "But, I'm not dressed to receive callers," call-ers," expostulated the voice of the I baroness. "But you must come out. You know you 1 may not have another opportunity of seeing see-ing him." . . "I don't " But Baroness erbeent thought better of the caustic remark and stopped it halfway. A moment later sne came from her room smiling a greeting to Grant. Mrs. Blank turned to him. "I was sure vou would be glad to see. each other." she said in her sweetest tones "You know. Baroness Verbeeht is starting on a quiet but hurried journey." jour-ney." . . . The baroness whirled in surprise. A half denial aro.se to her lips only to be stifled. Harrison Grant begged permission permis-sion to smoke, then laughed. tt "It was fortunate I dropped in then, he suggested. Mrs. Blank nodded. "Oh? indeed, it is. The baroness has a most important mission. Something has happened 'to the German operators at SayviHe. so the baroness has been Intrusted In-trusted with most important messages for San Francisco bv very high officials. An explanation of rage burst from the lips of Baroness Verbeeht as she came forward. . "It would be well for you to mind your cwn business." she exclaimed to Mrs. Blank. "What I may or may not be doing do-ing can he of no interest to Mr. Giant. "On the contrary." interposed Grant. "I am greatlv interested. 'I would gladly hear more of this honor whfv'n has been given you." "There ia nothing more to be said. The baroness started suddenly for her room. Mrs. Blank went to her side soothingly. sooth-ingly. "Don't be angry," she cooed. "Harrison Grant is always so interested in such things that T thought ." "You never had a thought in your life, snapped the spy. "Please let go my arm. I must ." "You must stav right here until you have told Harrison Grant of the message which was intrusted to you by the gen-Oemen gen-Oemen who just left your room." Mrs. Blank had suddenly changed her expression expres-sion and tone. The imperial German spy gasped. "There are no messages. she began haltingly. "No? And I suppose no combination of acids to make writing invisible?" "I refuse to be questioned." "You are making things very hard for vonrself. Baroness." said Mrs. Blank sweetlv and while she was speaking she had placed both her hands on the shoulders of the woman spy. She pulled them back suddenlv. There was a ripcing and faring far-ing of cloth. Most of the upper part of the blouse worn by the, baroness was in the hands of Mrs. Blank, and the muscular mus-cular shoulders of the Gerrna n woman were bared. A scream from the lips of Baroness Verbeeht. Scratching, tearing. raging, she leaped at Mrs. Blank, "but before she could reach her. she found her wrists caught in the firm grasp of Harrison Grant. "Where is the acid?" asked Mrs. Blank. "In my side pocket." The bottle came forth. A sweetiyh. sticky odor permeated the room as Mrs. Blank opened the bottle and saturated a handkerchief with the liquid. Then, as Grant held the struggling form of the, woman spy, Mrs. Blank carefully patted the smooth muscles of Baroness Verbeeht Ver-beeht 's shoulders with the handkerchief. For a moment nothing appeared. Then dimly, the letters of written words began to show on the skin. They became clearer as Mrs. Blank continued the applications of the acid, and finally they stood forth brilliantly revealing the desperate order? issued by Dr. Albert and Von BernstoKf when they learned that the wireless could txf of no further use to them: "Communications ia SayviHe have been stopped. Start mutiny at once. Delay dangerous. A." Harrison Grant smiled. "I might as well tell you." he said. "Your little trip would have been in vain. The mutineers have already been arrested." arrest-ed." A vile Teutonic oath broke from the lips of the supposedly -refined woman. She snarled at Grant and tried to bite his hand. Grant laughed quietly. "So the serpent can bite, also." Then, changing his tone : "Baroness Verbeeht. your little game is over. You are under arrest. Tf you care to go quietly, T will drive you to the Tombs. Tf not. T can summon an ordinary patrol wagon and have you taken there. T would prefer the former way, but it is for you to choose." There was a moment of silence. Th features of Germany's . chief of women spies worked convulsively. Then the tears came and Harrison Grant released his grip on her wrists. "My work is over." said Baroness Verbeeht Ver-beeht slowly. "T will not resist you." As the clanging steel gates of the Tombs closed behind Harrison Grant, after he had left Baroness Verbeeht in charge of the matron inside, he suddenly thought of Ratu Chibra. As much for the sake of the refreshing air as anything else, he drove to tlie boarding house which he had learned housed the young Hindu student. "He isn't in." said the-landlady in response re-sponse to Grant's request to see Chibr. "and T am a little worried about him. He is freouentlv out late, but this afternoon when he went to his classes he told me that he would be back at 6 o'clock because be-cause he was expecting an important "let -te1".- The letter has come and he isn't here." - Grant showed bis badge, and. accompanied accom-panied by the 'landladv. went to the room occupied'by Chibra. The landlady gasped when she saw the interior It was topsy-t topsy-t u rvy . as t h on srh every receptacle in it had been carefullv ransacked. The letter was gone. and. in fact, everything else which concerned the young Hindu personally. per-sonally. On the dresser wag a note: "T shall no longer require this room. R. Chibra." But the landladv declared that the nets was not in '.be handwriting of her lodger, an opinion which Grant lal er ve rifled by an examination of papers written by the Hindu at the college. Grant- resolved to find out if Patu's judge had escaped the i net thrown out for the "Hindu consplra- tors and had wreaked the vengeance of j which the Hindu student bad spoken, but it was a task which bad to be postponed, j for German agentp were again active on ( a desperate plan to injure America. j (Copyright. I91. bv The Wheeler Syn ; dicate. Inc |
