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Show - ZVv (( f H Wjr By WILLIAM X FLYNN 1 Jl H H 11 1 A JA.JJ- I 11 ' - -f 1l ! I Recently Retired Chief U. S. Secret Service. f I . True Story of the Imperial German Government's Spies and letrlgees in America Germmae Submarine US3 , Arrives lira American Waters ! Grant and Dixie Mason Campaign Against Spies j U-BOAT 53 IN NEWPORT HARBOR -JSrVr - ', n K..f,,,; J. , taxicab with Boy-Ed and "Rose drew up uear the dock. Dixie saw Boy-Ed alisM and mingle with the crowd winch wasi gazins at the submarine. Then Rose "honked" three times on the horn ot the taxicab, and, as if in answer, beils clanged on the submarine, a gang plank was thrown to the dock and it was announced an-nounced that the boat was open lor a i short time to visitors. Dixie appreciated 1 that it was strategy to permit Boy-Ed i to get on board unobserved, which had ! prompted the admission of visitors, and she pressed doselv into the throng which flocked up the gang plank. Boy-Jd was but a few feet ahead of her. She saw the former naval attache whisked through the door of a compartment compart-ment which had not been opened to the sightseers. A moment later she had darted dart-ed through the same door and found herself her-self at the head of a steel ladder leading lead-ing Into the bowels of the submarine. She slipped down noiselessly and found herself alone in the torpedo room of tne cnft. From an adjoining compartment, evidently the navigating room, she could hear the voices of Boy-Ed and Rose. "It is no use delaying longer, Boy-r.a was saving. "It will take us some time to reach the northern steamship route. I have here a list of vessels clearing from New york today, and there is plenty or work for us in the morning." Dixie on a Submarine Voyage. Dixie secreted herself in one of the lookers with which the torpedo room was lined, as Captain Rose entered the room and ascended the ladder. A short time I later she could hear the visitors being ordered ashore. Then came the throb of I engines, the quivering of the boat as it was put in motion, and Dixie Mason was started on a voyage, an uninvited passenger pas-senger on an imperial German war vessel ves-sel ' For more than an hour the throbbing of the engine continued. Then there was a change. The floor seemed to be sinking sink-ing under her, and from the change in the air she knew the boat was submerging. She surmised correctly that the three-mile three-mile limit of safety from British war vessels ves-sels had been reached, and that the German Ger-man submarjne was going under the waves for safety. For hours the boat churned along, completely hidden from observation ob-servation on the surface. Then it emerged and trom a glance at her watch, aided by a crack of light through the door of the locker. Dixie saw it was nearly JO o'clock and knew that the ocean would be covered with the darkness of night, through which only a lucky flashlight would disclose the presence of the low- , lying submarine. ' I All night long the U-53 journeyed northward on the surface of the ocean. The torpedo room was deserted and Dixie rested her cramped muscles by walking up and down, seeking the refuge of the locker again at the least sound. Thus the night passed and when the morning was announced, bv the submerging again of the boat, the engines were stilled and Dixie could tell by the roll of the boat that it was lolling stationary with only the periscope showing. The room was filled with sailors. "Steamer to the south, southwest, came the voice of one of the sailors on watch through the periscope. "Run closer," came the voice of Boy-Ed, Boy-Ed, who had evidently taken a station at the ground glass of the submarine's, eye, and with his words came the throb of the engine. Several minutes passed and again came the voice of Boy -Ed. "It's the Strathdene, a British freighter. freight-er. To the surface, and give them fifteen fif-teen minutes to take to the boats and then give her a torpedo." First Victim of the U-53. The orders were followed. Dixie heard the hail to the hapless freighter. Evidently Evi-dently no resistance was thought of, for the U-boat remained almost stationary. Twelve minutes had passed when Captain Cap-tain Rose re-entered the torpedo room. One of the six torpedoes in racks around the compartment was swung into the tube. Promptly at the end of the quarter quar-ter hour, the hand of the commander, who had been Jockeying his boat into position, dropped and the deadly weapon sprang on its course. Dixie learned later that it struck the Strathdene amidships and tore such a hole that the freighter disappeared beneath the waves within another quarter of an hour. The U-boat cruised about and from her place of concealment Dixie heard the orders or-ders which sped four more of the torpedoes torpe-does in their ways of destruction against unprotected steamers. Dixie heard the identity of three of the victims announced an-nounced before the deadly weapon whs discharged the Bloomersdyk, a Dutch freighter, the Christian Knudson, of Norwegian ownership, and the Stephano, another British boat. During the lull which followed the sinking of the latter boat. Dixie heard the voice of Boy-Ed: "If something doesn't show up for this last torpedo I am afraid we will have to start. What position do you make us now, captain ?" Dixie could not distinguish the reply of Rose, which came from the navigating navigat-ing room. "And the base is at longitude 6?. latitude lati-tude 44." came the voice of Boy -Ed "We ought to be on our way tins very minute. Most of the run will have to be submerged, for we cannot afford to be observed, and we must have supplies tonight." to-night." Dixie thrilled. A submarine base for imperial German boats within a few hours' run off Nantucket ! That could have but one meaning, that spies had established a base on American soil. Hastily she tried to devise some means of escape from the U-boat. She came 1 near to hoping that another victim for the U-boat would appear, and resolved upon a desperate dash up the ladder and overboard when the boat came to the surface to give the customary fifteen , minutes' respite for the crw of the j selected victim to take to the boats. As the thought came to her a cry came from the periscope watch announcing another an-other boat in sight. "The West Point, a British freishter." announced Boy-Ed. "We haven't tinift to give her warning:, and it is a senseless sense-less thing anyway. Gt your position and then full speed to the base." Dixie was horrified. Not so much at. the cruelty expressed by Boy-Ed in destroying de-stroying a defenseless boat without giv ing those on board a chance to escape, for the mercilessness of the German in this regard had been known since the sinking of the Uusitania, but because she saw her one chance of escaping from the U-boat disappearing. It would not .be necessary for the submarine to emerge if no warning was given. . She made a sudden resolv$. Abandoning Abandon-ing hope that she could carry her knowledge knowl-edge to the secret service, she resolved at least to tave the lives of those on the West Point. She opened the door of the lockor slightly to give her an opportunity oppor-tunity to carry out her design. A large wrench lay on the floor almost at her feet. With a quick dart it was in her hand. Almost before her presence in the room was realized, she had reached th one torpedo remaining on the U-boat. One swift swing of the heavy wrench and the delicate media nism of the propeller pro-peller was smashed beyond hope of repair. re-pair. She was suddenly slung nearly the full length of the compartment. Boy-Ed had seized her and thrown her roughly with all his strength. Then he glared at her ' j where she lay huddled on the floor where j 1 she had fallen: j ! "Heinrich von Lertz's little friend." he I raved. "We will attend to you later." j( Then, turning to Captain Rose, "To the ;i ! surface quickly. We will dispose of ihe West Point with our deck guns. Strom- !. berg, keep your eye on this little fiend." Dixie Escapes From U-53. Dixie thrilled with hope. The chance : for escape which she had wanted had come unexpectedly. The fall had not hurt i her. She was left alone in the compart- j ment with Stromberg., as the others i rushed to the deck. She dragged herself to her feet as If badly dazed by her rough treatment. Her eyes were busy searching j for a means of eluding the watchful Stromberg. The quick crash of the dei-k guns as they were fired caused the sailor j . ; to turn his head for but a second, but it-was it-was long enough for Dixie. seizing 3. ' coil of rope from the floor she threw it 1 j. over his head and ioulders. and while. : ; the surprised sailor struggled to release himself from the enl angling coils she leaned up the bidder. Shouts of warning greeted her appearance appear-ance on deck, but before she could he " stopped she had jumped into the water. She struck into a strong swimmhujyirMi,;"-"N-' ; with all her speed as a loud command i came from Boy-Ed: j "Let her gg. The West Point is dore ! for. There is a United States destroyer ', coming to pick up survivors. Submerge ; quickly, for it will never do to have that j boat trailing us." ! A boat from the destroyer which had put out for the purpose of picking up ihc ?j luckless crew and passenger of the Wo.-i i Point also picked up Dixie. On board the j destrover she quickly made hersplf Known. 1 She told the commander her news. "A few minutes ago T picked up a wire- : less message to the navy department stnt- i ing that there was a submarine base somewhere in Maine, without location." commented the commander. "It was . signed Harison Grant. :,ct's see where 1 longitude G9. latitude 44 is " As the commander sought his char Is ; Dixie visualized the means by whi.-h shr. . knew Grant had gotten the informarlon he had given the navy department. 1 n her thoughts she, saw him standing out- ; side, the' Rilz-Carlton while Count vn Bernsforff was visiting Mrs. Plank. Th-n the signaling device, v hirlt Grunt, had told her of. carrvinc to him the information informa-tion which the imperial German ambassador ambas-sador betrayed in his elation over the success of the on its day of raiding on the American side of the Atlantic. "The base must he near East Marina. Maine." said the commander of ihe de stroyer. "So that is the reason for von Papon s being In Maine." murmured Dixie to herself. her-self. Then aloud. "Captain, how lone: will it take us to reach the nearest port?" (Copyright, in IS, by the Wheeler Syndicate. Syndi-cate. Inc.) Episode No. 16. The Raid of the U-53. HARRISON GRANT, president of the Criminology club, and Dixie Mason of the secret service did not wait for her suspicions in re-f re-f - gard to the identify of the plot-r" plot-r" rs who guided the campaign against ton from the security of Mexico, to proved or disproved. If Franz von on and Karl Boy-Ed, the former at-m at-m s of the German embassy in Wash-jl.n, Wash-jl.n, were again in America, both ted to know it, for nothing but evil ' and crime against the United States Y could be expected from either of them. The American consular and diplomatic services were still available in both Ger-rrnny Ger-rrnny and Mexico, and it was these branches of the government to which Grant appealed for the information desired. de-sired. "It will be a comparatively simple thing to learn if Von Papen and Boy-Ed are still in' Germany." he said to Dixie hi one of the numerous conferences held in regard to possibilities of the next outbreak out-break on the part of imperial Germany aqair.st America. "If they are there, then ve must abandon the idea that they were ever in Mexico. If they are not in Germany, Ger-many, then we may assume that they were in Mexico directing the boll weevil, arid and fire attacks upon the cotton crop." "Yes," proceeded Dixie, "and if the t.vo captains who were guests at the Zu-etacas consulate have already departed, de-parted, then it will be up to us to learn where they are." "At least, we can easily learn where the v did not go," commented Grant. "Passports and travelers' permits, which ; lin'kilv are required for even a rail jour-nty jour-nty in Mexico, will show whether two tren of the descriptions given you by your Mexican spy prisoner have used any of the regular routes in going to their new destination. If they haven't, we can rnake a guess that they have attempted a'pas-Fape a'pas-Fape of the boundary into the United States." Campaign Against Spies. While waiting for the consular reports, each pursued a line of investigation which had been previously mappeu out. Dixie watched carefully for any signs of renewed activities in any of the German fry centers of the country by means of reports from secret service agents assigned as-signed to these districts. Grant devoted himself to a plan he bad arranged with Mrs. Blank shortly after she had given er promise to her husband to receive at-entions at-entions from Count von Bernstorff, the 'inperial German ambassador, who was nfatuated with her, for the purpose of t getting any advance tips upon crimes j against America contemplated by the ; Huns which might be of use in the manip- of the stock market. Mrs. Blank wrffT a motive far higher than the sordid jidea of making money by entering into I l lie liaison. She had arranged to transmit 1 any knowledge she might gain of German I activities to Grant for the use of the AKnited States government in combating j?. secret foes. I n keeping with the plan or communl-cation communl-cation which they had devised, Grant was waiting outside the Ritz Carlton hotel. ' after being advised that Von Bernstorff - had just arrived on one of his frequent k visits to New York, watching a certain 1 . window of the ambassador's suite in-L in-L tentlv. The signal which he expected came shortlv. The curtain of the window was lowered, then raised to the top of the window, and then lowered again to its original position, covering half the 1 window. A few seconds and then the 1 shade was put through the same opera-i opera-i tion. In back of it Grant could recognize the form ot" Mrs. Blank. L The president of the Criminology club ' smiled to himself amusedly. This system of Kisnaling had been devised by on ' Bernstorff as a means of learning whether or not Mr. Blank was at home before Hallving forth, to meet the lady who had attracted him. He did not of course know that Blank was encouraging, in fact insisting in-sisting upon his wife entering into the entanglement and during his previous adventures ad-ventures had learned that an American : husband was usually a man to be feared, if .So Grant's amusement increased when ' he saw the German ambassador leave the side door of the hotel and slink across the .street to enter the servants' door or '. the building in which Mrs. Blank 'was hujised. i, As the leader of all the Hun spies and rlotters in America disappeared into the doorwav, Grant transferred his attention ' lo the window of Mrs. Blank's room. I Night was falling and already the lower streets were dusky. The shade, which . had lately been used to signal Von Bernstorff Bern-storff that Blank was absent, was lowered low-ered and from within a light flashed on. A curious person looking at the window would have thought that the hanger had been careless in adjusting the shade, for thero was a narrow strip of light showing :it the Lop, between the roller and the window frame. . To Grant the appearance had been sent several times just before the spies had cut off their aerials. This signal can was "R-s." and tnere was no such call in the register. The call had been followed by a position about four days' run out in the Atlantic for a boat of average speed. "So it is an unregistered boat of some description which engages the interest of Boy-Ed," commented Dixie. ''Possibly a raider which has so far escaped the British Brit-ish cruisers, or an undersea boat of the Deutschland type." The following night the report from the unregistered craft, which was received about midnight, showed that it was not coming as rapidly as Di$ie had estimated, esti-mated, so she revised her schedule and set down the arrival of the craft, if it headed straight into Newport, as five aays away. Reports on succeeding nights showed that her corrected surmise as to the speed was nearly right. Finally came the dawn of the day which Dixie had marked for the arrival of the craft, and she was not surprised to see BoV-Ed in front of the store once more garbed in the slouchy business suit he had worn on : his journey across the country. Arrival of U-53 in Newport. The morning wore away without incident, inci-dent, but about 3 o'clock in the afternoon after-noon the Newport harbor was suddenly ; turned into a bedlam by the noisy shriek-, shriek-, ing of the whistle or siren of every boat ! at the docks. Dixie did not have to wait long for an explanation of the reason. ; A small boy, proudly taking the position ! of a news carrier, ran down the street, shouting at the top of his voice: 'A German submarine, the U-53, has just come' in." Boy-Ed stopped the boy, and after questioning him gave him a piece of morfty. He was evidently well pleased with the information he had received, and Immediately began peering expectantly expec-tantly up the street toward the docks. Fifteen minutes passed, and then a taxi-cab taxi-cab came rapidly down the street and stopped in front of the grocery, and from it alighted a man in the uniform of a commander in the undersea division of the German navy. He saluted Boy-Ed and then shook hands with him heartily. A moment later both men had re-entered the machine, which turned and retraced its route. Dixie's touring car was waiting for her when she got to the street, and taking the chance that Boy. Ed and Captain Rose, for it was the commander of the U-53 who had met Boy-Ed, were bound for the submarine, she chose a side street, and drove with all speed to the dock at which the German craft was moored. It was closed to visitors, and Dixie learned that no one had been permitted on board except a correspondent of the Associated Prens, who had been told that boat had made the trip clear across the Atlantic to carry dispatches to Von Bernstorff. The hint had been made that it was a peace proposal. As she was getting this information the of that little strip of light meant that the method he had devised for a communication communi-cation from Mrs. Blank had not been discovered. It had been Installed but a few davs previous at a time when Mrs. Blank had the assurance that her husband would be absent for some time. Small push buttons but-tons had been inserted under the arm of every chair in the room, under each table, and in places where thev could be reached conveniently on every article of furniture. Wires had been laid from each under the rugs and the flooring, then inside the window win-dow sash to the top of the window where they all terminated in a small electrical device which bobbed up and down when any of the buttons were pushed. The Morse code used in telegraphing could be adapted to the bobbing of the device, and no matter where she happened to be in the room Mrs. Blank would have a button but-ton near by which she could use whenever when-ever she had anything to communicate to Grant. This evening was the first od-portunity od-portunity there had been to test the efficacy of the system, for it was the first visit Von Bernstorff had made to New York since it had been installed. Mrs. Blank Signals Grant. Grant had scarcely settled himself into position for a long vigil when 'the device began to bob up and down. Hastily taking his notebook from his pocket he jotted down the letters as they were signaled. The device flashed up and down rapidly and then, when it settled into inaction, Grant commented to himself: "She picked up the Morse quickly. She sent that as rapidly as a veteran." He walked to the light of a street lamp to read the words formed by the letters he had jotted in his notebook in the darkness: dark-ness: "Beau Brummel is here. I am so nervous." nerv-ous." Grant laughed, and then murmured sympathetically, "Game little woman," for he had recognized in the jocularity of the message the effort of a pure and noble woman to keep from breaking down in the playing of a part which was abhorrent to her. He returned to his place of .vantage .van-tage in the shadow of the wall of the Ritz-Carlton, Ritz-Carlton, and settled himself for a long wait, but the device again began to bob almost immediately. i "B. greatly pleased over safe arrival 1 of some one Frisco, through stupidity of j patrol, also arrival of another in Maine. I Help for Bobb (?) and then K. C." The message was stopped in its sending three times by the agreed signal for a-n interruption and ended with a flash which meant thai Mrs. Blardc was leaving the apartment and would not return until very late. Grant lost no time in calling a taocicab and speeding to the ' Criminology club with the intention of analyzing the import of the message he had received. But he found Diyie Mason there, just finishing the reading of confidential consular con-sular reports containing the information they had asked' from Germany and Mexico. Mex-ico. Grant's interest in these made him forget, for the time being, the message he had received from Mrs. Blank. "There is no doubt about Von Papen and Boy-Ed having engineered the campaign cam-paign against cotton from Mexico," said Dixie. "There is sufficient proof of that here, but they have already left Mexico and their , trail was lost almost as soon as they left Zacatecasl" "Then here is a great deal of help for us," responded Grant, as he laid Mrs. Blank's message on the table. "That 'patrol' evidently is the guard maintained on the Mexican border, and both of them ihave gotten through safely and are in the United States, one in Sap Francisco and the other in Maine." "This is news," broke In Dixie. "That 'Bobb' that Mr. Blank was not sure of means Von Bopp, and whichever one of the two is In San Francisco fa there for the purpose of aiding the former consul con-sul general in preparing for his trial on the charges growing out of the reign of terror. After that matter is concluded he will go to Kansas City." "Kansas City!" commented Grant. "And that is where I will meet whichever which-ever one it is," said Dixie. "He . will be easy to find, for only the Dinglerman case could take him there." "A good plan. I think." commented Grant. "When will you start?" "Some time tomorrow," responded Dixie. "There is no hurry. Kansas City is as far, from San Francisco as it is from here, and whichever one of the rascals ras-cals it is, he is evidently still in California." Cali-fornia." " The papers of the following day car j ried news which corroborated the mean- 1 ing of Mrs. Blank's message, as inter- 1 prcted bv Grant and Dixie An unexpected unexpect-ed friend had appeared to aid Franz von Bopp to escape from the clutches of the American law. and the opening guns in a legal battle, in which he was represented by ""expensive counsel, had been fired, Dixie took the first fast train for Kansas Kan-sas City after she had rea4 the story. Dixie Recognizes Karl Boy-Ed. As she was walking through the train in the western city, in the trail of her porter, she passed within a few feet of a passenger who had just alighted from an eastbound train. The man started at the sight of her, but regained him- , self quickly when Dixie walked on, apparently ap-parently without noticing him. But the little secret service operative had observed ob-served the start and also had recognized' the man. It was Captain Karl Boy-Ed of the German navy, formerly naval attache of the German embassy at Washington, hut dismissed from the United States be- I cause of his violations of the espionage j act His hair was cut differently rrom I the mode he had affected in his official . capacity. A blonde mustache aided in changing his appearance, and slouchy. hagsrv clothes had taken the place of the immaculate s-arb which had distinguished his appearance when he was an embassy attache But the change was not enough to deceive the secret service operative as to his identity. Bov-Ed had been walking more siowb than' Dixie, and as she passed he de-crwed de-crwed his pace until he was just slouch-,,g slouch-,,g along. Then, with his face expressing n bidden resolution, he turned around and walked rapidly back toward the train which he had just quitted. He glanced back nervously, but saw no sisms of the secret service operative. "i et for the sake of precaution, he stood on the platform plat-form watching the- length of the train until it started in motion, and then hung on the step, looking backward until the train had eained such momentum that he was satisfied thpt no human being could board it successfully. Had he been a Pttle less cautious he might have been on the car niatform in ttm to witness a strange sicrht a sicht which would have caused htm a severe shock Dixie hid determined not to lose sieht of Bov-Ed mid, after ha vine encountered en-countered him. she stepped behind the firt pillar she came to and from this observation ob-servation point had witnessed the sudden sud-den resolve not to stop in Kansas City. Then he showed his determination to watch the open side of the train until un-til it started. he moved rapidly around to the blind side. She hnd just succeeded suc-ceeded in reaching the opposite platform when the (rain started in motion. Quiek-,v Quiek-,v ",hP looked down the long train and that her onlv chance to board it from that side was offered by the open door of a batrage car way down the nl'a t form near the engine. 1 'tAn vou make it?" she demanded of tho driver of an electric bngsrnge truck, pointing to the(open door of the car. "Secret service." ,, . "I can. or burn out the motors, said the baggage handler, recognizing the shield. "Hop on." Dixie in Thrilling Race. Then ensued as strange and as thrilling thrill-ing a race as had ever been witnessed by the few persons who were in position to see it. Under the guidance of the expert ex-pert handler the truck leaped into speed far faster than it had ever been intended to go. It jounced and bounced over the board platform, threatening to overturn at any moment, but always gaining upon the train which was so heavy that it was slow in picking up momentum. As the truck finally drew up to the door of the baggage car the speed of the train about equalled the best that the truck could do and the train was gaining every minute. "Secret service. Bill," yelled Dixie's driver to a man inside the car. The name of America's most celebrated investigating bureau again brought action. ac-tion. Dixie's upraised hands were grasped by a pair of brawny ones and the little Secret service operative was lifted upward up-ward and into the car. She turned to wave appreciation to her late driver just in time to see him make a wild jump, as the truck, reaching the end of the platform, careened off the end, plunged wildly and then was smashed to bits under un-der the wheels of the train. The driver rolled over and over as he struck the platform and finally came to a halt, huddled up in the middle of the roadbed of an adjoining track. Dixie watched anxiously from out the door of the baggage car. She sighed with relief when she saw her late driver rise to his feet, draw himself erect and then wave to her that he was unhurt. A wild flutter flut-ter of her handkerchief carried back ta him her expression of thankfulness and gratitude. Then she turned to the affair at-hand. She decided to wait in the baggage car : until the conductor had completed his trip through the train in order to learn the car which held Boy-Ed so that she could avoid him. When the conductor appeared he told her of a precaution Boy-Ed Boy-Ed had taken which made her glad she i had remained in the baggage car. "I know the fellow you mean," said the knight of the' punch, "he just went through the whole train with me. Said he had learned that the friend he -was going to visit in Kansas City had started east and thought he might be on board. Guess it must have been you he was looking look-ing for." , He then questioned Dixie as to how she got on board. "Well, well," he commented at the conclusion con-clusion of the recital. 1 "I guess you are pretty safe in resting for a while. The German paid his way clear through to Chicago in cash." A few minutes later Dixie was comfortable com-fortable in a drawing room section which the conductor had procured for her. She rested, too, for the conductor had promised prom-ised to notify her if Boy-Ed left the train at any of the stops before Chicago was reached. It was in this manner that Dixie started on nearly three weeks of close trailing of t)ie former naval attache. Boy-Ed stayed in Chicago for three days, apparently just killing time, for he went only to places ot amusement and 'met no one. From Chicago Chi-cago he went to Cleveland, there to idle away more days, then to Pjttsburg, Scran-ton Scran-ton and finally Baltimore, each journey taking him closer to the Atlantic seaboard. In Baltimore he received a telegram, the first message of any kind he had received since Dixie had been watching him. It seemed to contain news he had been waiting wait-ing for. as he went directly to his room, checked out. and made-a -train for Newport. New-port. Dixie had no time to get a copy of the telegram, for she was on the same train which carried the spy. In Newport the former naval attache walked from the train to a small grocery store located near the docks. He seemed to be known to the proprietor and within a short time after his arrival, Dixie saw him reappear in front of the store wearing overalls and a blue shirt, a garb similar to that worn by all the store keepers in the section. Surmising that this meant a prolonsed stav. Dixie succeeded in rem ins a furnished fur-nished room in a. house directly across the street from the grocery store, where she had amph: opportunity for watching Boy-Ed. To prt-ppre for any contingency she n rraned for a hish -powered touring car and two chauffeurs from the secret service and housed them in n ramshackle barn in the rear of her lodgings. Dixie Makes Discovery. Then, through the -u-in.iow of her room, she becan studying t he building opposite. It was a wooden structure with signs of .i'-e and neglect on every pai t of it except the roof. This had evidently been neiy tinned ever within a very recent time, and Dixie studied it curiously to lern why so much attention had hern civen th roof when the remainder of the F'ru'ture was permit (?d to dteriora te. The rcf was flat and the tin, pfter heir.- laid, had been coated with a dull black paint. Then she noticed that down the entire center the tin plates hd been laid in alignment rather than in the crisscross murmur which is the approved manner of artisans to rn the length or" direct sea ins. he studied it carefully, and then, as if she had mane an interesting discovery, she cxcla imed ; "So that is why Boy-Ed is there. We!!. ' t may he turned to our advantage also." j: Next Sunday's epi-jisode, epi-jisode, No. 17 Ger-j: Ger-j: many's U-Boat Base ;:in America. She hurried to the improvised garage in the rear and gave one of the chauffeurs some hurried instructions. She then returned re-turned to the street and, after looking up and down, walked rapidly to a little store which made a specialty of objects attractive attrac-tive to children. There she selected an ordinary tin pea -shooter, a long hollow-tube hollow-tube of tin. With this purchase "over sher went to a drug store across the street and bought a" box of gelatine capsules, selecting a sizo which slipped easily through the. pea. shooter. She also bought-a bought-a quantity of phosphorus and returned to her room. There she hastily mixed the phosphorus with water, making a thin paste, then taking tak-ing one of the capsules she filled it and after reclosing it she fitted it into the pea shooter. Through her open window she pointed the pea shooter at the roof opposite and then, with a quick blow through her lips, sent the capsule speeding on its way. She watched carefully to see where it struck, and gave a little cry of gratification when she saw it resting on the aligned tin near the back end of the roof. She prepared several other capsules and shoL them onto the tin roof of the grocery store, and was still engaged in the task when her two chauffeurs entered carrying a heavy trunk. "I have an idea that the center of that roof has been arranged so that it can be raised upright to support wireless aerials." j she explained to the men who had gazed , wonderingly at the spectacle of a young : woman using a pea shooter. "With that paint it would be invisible after dark when it was raised. The water mixed with this , phosphorus will dissolve the gelatine caps. leaving splotches of phosphorus wherever" they strike which will be luminous enough to let me know when it is raised, to receive re-ceive a message, if my idea is correct." Then she turned to the trunk ana, with one of the keys on the ring she carried in her handbag, she unlocked tt. Raising Rais-ing the lid, she exposed that the entire receptacle was filled with a cylindrical object made of aluminum, ft was about as large in diameter as an ordinary galvanized gal-vanized ash can, but a trifle shorter. Also there was a mass of brackets and wires and a headpiece for a wireless out- , fit; ' Surmise Proves Correct. Working under the directions of Dixie, ! the chauffeurs fixed the brackets to the! Moor, attached other parts to them, and within a short time the tank was suspended sus-pended on an arm of rigid steel directly ; back of the window overlooking the , street, with the bottom of the tank on a : level with the sill. After inspecting the apparatus Dixie dismissed the two men j and then settled herself for a long wait ; with her gaze directly at the roof oppo- , site. As darkness fell, the results of Dixie's marksmanship with the pea-shoot er of the afternoon became apparent. From the front to the rear the middle portion of the roof of the grocery was splashed with t he dull luminous glow of phosphorus which became more and more visible against the black roof as the darkness of the night became deeper. Tt was nearly midnight before Dixie received the, proof that her theory in regard to the roof's concealing a wireless was correct. Shortly before the hour which separates t he past from future days, the luminous spots on the roof began sdowlv to raise forward and upward. There was not a sound that Dixie could distinguish, yet within n few seconds the position of the phosnhoru? glows indicated that, the whole center section sec-tion of the roof was Mn nriing upright, and the little s'jm rc-rvine operr-.-.ive knew that there could be but one rurpope for it the support of wireless aerials tc receive messages from the ?ea. Dixie turned quickiv to the aluminum tank. A turn of a wheel and The arm carried the tank out throush the open window. The turn of another wheel nd the top of the tank opener! and a shrn rollapslble sTeel ro,i rope quiekiv irto the air. Upward it went a? f'ion after section sec-tion slid in'.o plare until the 'op w-! . above the raise 1 rof sr--t ion acf .ss t he Mreet. Another l'er was p"ph-?1 2nd from the top of the mnst came a. lir lit elkk ss aerial aims swTuig into r!,-;e. The turn of a key on the arm prart'-d the ear receivers of the head j.'ie. to clicking with the reception of wireless inr'd-es. Dixie clampe" t'-e riivers over her ears, ar.d immerj:aTe'y he 2 an to j i; numero-'s reports or. positions of sripp at pea. The ca lis of sori":e of them were familiar to her. wh:V th pin.il co-'es of ot hers she j,-,T 1 r d down "or future rcf cr-rnee. cr-rnee. After half an hour c slmos; ;in-j ;in-j ceasing rails t':e ari il support or' Mip I roof arO:--.: tue street he-.in tO lOTe- ' it self an,-i pii.- knew t ' ia t : tie rnrrc whh-a was aw,-i;'.-d '.Ml Vn re -. 1 a. j Quickly Inwerins tie;- ov,:i apparatus, si-e fell to studying the various cills w hi oh she had recm-.led. By nip.ms of a maritime r--zu--y ci-r- checked off all the ca'lp e::-ep; on whi' h |