Show THE LEAK AT TME NAVY YARD By ROBERT (Copyright 1911 NAUGHTON by F L Nelson) AWRENC1 RAND and I have a multitude of enemies and (or years we have walked dally In the shadow of danger As a result of which aroused I bent a closer attention on it It was quite dry except where It had lain on the moist ground Everything else was damp with the night mist from the river I mentioned thla fact The pole had been put there within the last ten or fifteen minutes It was still quite gloomy as day was JuBt breaking when we reached the door of the barracks and I took a careful look around before we entered Not a soul was In sight but It seemed to me that the shadow in a little niche of a building forty paces away was a little blacker than It should have been and I walked toward it When within twenty-fivfeet of It a little figure dashed out ran at right angles to my track and shot around the cor- on rapping by someone my door I Swung out of bed and caught up my revolver before I flung wide the door and saw In the hall Anton Werencki one of the oldest and cleverest operatives in the service “Mr Rand 1b in Maryland I know but the chief wants to see you’ he announced briefly I dressed sent a telegram to Rand and accompanied 'Werencki to Chief ner Stirling's room in the Hotel Bavaria “The matter is Just this" explained I was In hot pursuit instantly and that official motioning us to chairs Dunton and Stirling were coming "The navy department fs making along behind me Around the buildsome experiments in steel v hich prom- ing we went I gaining rapidly on the ise to be the greatest fling ever runner lie dashed across the open brought to light for ubb ti building space going toward the spot where big guns For weeks it hag appeared the pole still lay and caught it up as as If the American navy vas about he ran Planting it deftly and seto gain gun supremacy over the world curely In the pavement he rose and The work is proceeding In the cleared the high wall here where a close guard can be “Don’t shoot don’t shoot” I heard Now Duncan our puzzle Is Dunton gasp to the chief “It’s a womkept this: Though the twelve men who are an” Outlined for an Instant against the engaged In the work are shut u as if In were lighter east was a figure In man’s prison and communicate they with the outside world only through clothes but long balr loosened by her the commanding officer nevertheless efforts flowed from her bead It was a bulky letter that had burst its en a woman She would be Pursuit was useless velope and lost its address fell by mere chance into the Lands of the lost before we could get to the gate “There Is but one thing that I can postofflee department and proved to be to an anonymous communication suggest” I said as we walked toward the gate "that either Mr Rand or I Freres the big Belgian shipbuilding firm containing a complete perhaps both of ua be allowed to take of the up work with you in the laboratory experimentreport everything or In the guise either of workmen ing party had done up to last Sunday four days ago chemists” This suggestion pleased "Of course Berkelen the chief Freres are merely the receivers for one or more It shifted the burden of responsibility We have failed from his shoulders foreign governments I arrived and accredited so far to determine which one it Is properly that Is trying to steal such Important equipped at eight o’clock that morninformation nor have we the slightest ing as a specially detailed chemical Indication of where the avenue of com- expert who had come on from Washmunication lies Before I came to the yard ington “Lieutenaut Richard Dunton is in however I found time to write a decommand of the experimenting party tailed report for Rand with Lieutenant John Ormsby as secI soon found that it was almost Iml possible ond The chefnists are Eldrldge S to see from the laboratory John R Hart and Alfred Clnamet-t- i windows to any point of vantage where The others a receiver the latter Italian-bormight stand concealed to are enlisted machinists take signals and certainly none was “The party does all its work in a sent Apparently not a man in the tow brick building fifty yards from the place paid the slightest heed to the time came outer world Luncheon gun shop and with nothing near it exIt Is and we repaired to the barracks On cept the blank wall of the yard In plain view from the offices as is the way I watched the men to note if also the section of new barracks in any of them seemed to be looking which the party eats and sleeps for anybody or anything but the only When finished with their work in this incident of any sort was when one temporary foundry and laboratory of them a stocky little follow named All McCready the men retire to the barracks stooped and picked up a are volunteers and ure under watch short piece of fine copper wire which he saw on the yard pavement He put day and night “Now despite all this one of our it carefully in his pocket men In Paris cabled three days ago Nothing happened during luncheon of rest thereafter that the coterie of international spies and In the there knew that the agent of some the men all smoked or chatted except government had cabled home the news Sloane a machtpest who sat down to of his success in getting the results write a letter to his wife He took of the new experiments up to date his place at one of the windows and There is a clean leak In the navy yard used a large portfolio with a high If we do not stop that leak there is roll and so on at the end of going to be trouble” It He seemed very Intent but wrote On my suggestion we went immedivery little for the length of time he ately to the navy yard It was nearly took but there was absolutely nothfour o’clock and everything was dark ing about him to Indicate that be was and deserted yet waking Lieutenant signalling In any way also the only of persons who could have seen him were Dunton we made a quiet inspection both the living quarters and the lab- the civilian clerks In the headquarters oratory I first satisfied myself that building about two hundred feet across when the laboratory was locked at the yard and none of them looked in night no one could obtain entry ex- bis direction at any time At one wincept by such burglarious methods as dow were two laughing men at anand that other a girl stenographer and a young to leave abundant trace were clerk obviously engaged In small talk when the sleeping quarters while at a third window another womlocked the men were as If In prison I an clerk with hat and veil on was Ounton had possession of all keys went carefully over both buildings apparently whiting lunch time to be sure there were no telegraph It was late In the afterhoon when Dunton stopped work telephone or electric wire connections Lieutenant As we were crossing the yard I saw There was but one possible solution’ Some member of the party has a two familiar figures approaching— means of sending notes or signals to Rand and the Secret Service Chief This Is a pretty job” “Hello Dunk! the outside world in daylight hours was Rand’s greeting “Vastly Inter( said as much to IJeutenant Dunton and he replied: esting isn't It? What has turned up That Is the result of any process today?” I detailed the day’s events for him of elimination based on these facts "And you are sure no messages have but eight men stationed in and about this yard day and night and Ormsby been sent out?” been has closely “Everybody and myself Inside the laboratory have watched every man for one auspicious watched” "Look at this” He tendered me a move and every outside person for any Indicative act and I tell you positively freEh report from a Secret Service opthere are no written or signaled mes- erative In the employ of the New York sages going or coming out of this office of the Belgian cables giving the place Everything passes through me” cipher transcript of an anonymous for 'A sudden suspicion flashed over me messag? which had I whirled on him and looked at him Freres at three that very aftHe understood Instantly ernoon giving the full details of our searchlngly and said with deep feeling: “Yes I morning work! The thing was a physical ImpossibilThat I am the know It Is up to me one avenue of outlet would be any ity and yet before me was proof of Its occurrence man's logical conclusion That is why I alone of ( am bo deeply concerned "Perfect! An absolutely perfect reall of you know there is another and port" Dunton repeated “There you have given ua the key most dangerous one for I have told Rand to the premises" exclaimed nothing” of Dunton’s I liked the note of honesty in his studying the development head voice and was pondering over the mat"This transmission can be preter as we walked back toward the bar- pared and executed only by a man of Brains alracks Suddenly Dunton stopped and high order of intelligence ways show in the head and face of picked up a long pole round in their possessor Now granted you and fifteen feet and fully Lieutenant Ormsby are In that class length Relet us see who else could qualify "What la that?” asked Stirling The chief and “Some material” said Dunton “that turn to the barracks I will this have I visit to yard party In half an hour” your (s entirely foreign surRand I ao and noticed did They served here four years and this is the first time have ever seen anything veying each of the men with close attention When he went out he merely uke it within the walls” said to me: "Work straight ahead on the lines you have laid out tor yourself until tomorrow evening and if you have detected nothing then leave the yard and Join me at the club” All night I lay awake struggling with the mystery and listening for any movement among the men or any exterior sound that was suspicious but there was nothing Prom lack of sleep much worry and the effect of the fumes I was scarcely able to drag myself about at the hour for beginning work in the laboratory “We are likely to hit the big truth In today Dunton had said early In the morning “I dare not retard the work and I dare not puz zle the men- on details One man can not know what all the others do not and ao I hope to high heaven we tap this underground line very soon" But when we quit work neither goal A few minutes’ converwas reached sation with Rand made me ashamed of ' my weariness “I have just received notice that another message containing the last filed lioprs’ work has been for Berkelen Freres” was his opening remark T’H stake my life that it did not come from the experimenting party” I answered with some heat “Go slow Dunk slow" said go Rand with that easy provoking smile I knew so well “They alone know the details of the work I have more news for you Pertpit me to felicitate you on the skill with which you took hold of this case and on the progress By you have made from the outset the way you remember the lady who I measured the wall vaulted the wall and found it to be a good eight feet So I went to O’Rourke of the high and Association Athletic Committee asked him where I could find a woman who could do that in passable street attire There are only two’ he declared That I kaow of on either Side of the Atlantic The one is Miss Sadie Nutter of Chicago and the other is Anita Yvonne Desarte a professional who was in this country with Barnum & Bailey this summer' “Miss Nutter has been in Chicago for months Paul Desarte brother of Anita Yvonne Desarte says she goes down to Coney Island daily but always Miss Desarte returns In the evening brains to compile and transmit these all that had happened and I kjiew reports and one workman Is certainly would have a struggle to keep from a fellow of such ability that he la out choking him when be laughed at me of his place In life Htf Is the man And well he might be amused Doubtwhom you noted the first less I bad bad the whole secret In McCready my hands at least I could have made day An hour later as I stood at the sure of whether or not the fair Anita head of the center aisle and looked at was our prey the little woman seated In the stage Absently I stood In the library pon box watching the performance dering the matter when one of the already begun it flashed over me that I had attendants came to me with a note on a tray Under It lay the thin walseen her in broad daylight some I could not say when or let empty time recently The note read: where but every line of her figure Dear Dunk: and something Go to Yorkvllle Court about her bat with its filmy drapery about the brim was in the morning at nine and appear against the Baron von Oldenhaus faml)lar with “Good evening Mr Duncan” she charged larceny of your wallet said with a gracious smile as I en on the street Get a postponement tered the box It was necessary for He Is In the custody of Sergeant In the Hotel St Auburn and If me to put forth an effort to repress surprise that she knew my name remanded to Creagan’s custody may “You are' Mr Duncan are you not? be kept out of the game tomorrow Join me at tlie at noon Of course you wonder how I guessed are near the finish RAND it I know Mr Rand by sight and as WeI was too tired to puzzle over the he did not cotUe Whe is so likely to ’ast strange turn of events and In take his place as yourself?” half an hour waq at home and asleep “I am extremely glad to meet you At Yorkvllle Court I found that the Miss Desarte” I began boldly leading “Baron von Oldenhaus” of Rand's “I must confess profound a trump admiration for the manner in which note was my tall dark frttnd of the I got him remanded night previous you cleared that wall the other even lng One of the officers with me In Creagan’s custody as suggested wanted to try a wing shot at yon but It was nearing eleven when I left the court and I hurried to the I am very glad he was restrained” my way a note which was some one about to reading on “Really Creagan had passed me In answrer to shoot at me?" she responded gleefully what whispered request as and without the slightest constraint my to him I had not stirred her in the least by statement the Baron had made Creagan said that the Baron’s vermy tactics “That was most excit- sion was that he bad been instructed ing You know I do a very great deal by his government ' to come to the of work for the foreign governments United StateB get in touch with An especially the French and I had made ita Desarte and while maintaining a up my mind that there were a number them friendly relationship between of things In the shops which are going make sure that she was properly serv Into th new battleships that the Intelliof military Bureau Maritime would be glad to lng theat bureau Berlin in securing some inhear of so I went over with my pole gence on battleship construction formation I was very sorry to be compelled to He had followed her to the New Am leave It behind" sterdam theater had seen her encounI could scarcely keep from smiling ter me and had trailed us to her home She thought she had hoodwinked ’me Just after I left she had come run by her apparent candor completely nlng out lu great excitement to look at least she had established a friend- for her lost wallet Hearing her us story the tall dark man had followed ly though false basis between which would be agreeable to both and me stepping from his taxi and had would allow us to play each his or her snatched the wallet out of my hands own game in the background himself the moment I had picked She was very pretty and most in it up Just as the tall man thought terestlng especially in her stories of himself safely away a gentleman who German had drawn up beside spoke and his taxi in an electric hansom calling a police officer had the tall man arrested and the police had taken the wallet from him So Rand in person had been followWell that ing Anita Desarte and me was one of his ways and he took a certain pleasure in his cleverness That pleasure was plainly written in his smile as he said “good morning” to me in the commandant’s office at the Creagan has already telephoned me the result In court" he began “Now let us see if we can do as well on this side of the river We want the and person taking the information the sender in the party and his meth Never od That is where we balk I been In all my experience have without a vestige of a theory as to can be transmitted how messages from one confederate to another under such a guard and such conditions even sure that as the we are Why reports cover the afternoon of one of the next day and the morning are filed In the afternoon before three o’clock that the Information goes out noon But how' how after shortly how?” WOMAN is a remarkable She speaks person: experiences as a spy in fact we ena number of languages has written joyed the evening greatly and If there has was any constraint between us neithwork on electricity technical er showed It I was amazed at her traveled two seasons with a circus and has a way of leaving home and Information about the great secret Infor months ternational cases of late years and disappearing "After securing this Information I realized for the first time that we then sent for the pole found In the were arrayed against a coterie well she Perhaps yard and the marine who brought It worth the struggle over happened to get on the car with meant for me to see this Perhaps a conductor who said that he had seen she was so audacious as to be willing a young man two nights before taking to let me think that in her I bad such a pole with him along the street my hand on the medium of the transof the information The conductor’s and to of that mission description young man fits In exactly with that defy me to find out who the sender Fur- was and who the ultimate receiver of the woman at the navy yard As we were about to alight from a ther Miss Desarte In height weight Is a duplicate of the taxicab at her door she said: and complexion woman at the yard” “Mr Duncan It is a fad with me At this Juncture a page brought in this going to the beaches but wi'i two notes One was from a ycu meet me at Heller’s on the walk at Far Rockaway at eleven tomorrow sporting goods house "Ah by the way" said Rand “I morning I may have some very insaw this firm’s brand on the pole and teresting things to tell you” aent the pole around by Tom Rahway The latter hint was bait pure and Here Is a note from the manager to simple Of course I agreed to go and saytht It li? one whlfh he presented it was not uptll I got to the club that to Miss Desarte and gives her a char- I made up’ my blind that she' had no acter such as described intention whatsoever of going but By Jove! here is a note from the young lady was bent only on removing me from the scene of action herself!” The chauffeur called me back as ho amuseHe read It with evident ment and then passed It over to me turned away from the club doorway "You have left something sir” he It read: said My Dear Mr Rand: Another taxi was passing at a slow Hearing that you have been making about me and wishing to speed and a tall dark man lolled inInquiries In It watching me by the be of all the assistance to you that I dolently can be will you please meet me this bright light as I stepped forward and the- picked from the bottom of my taxi a evening at the New Amsterdam ater? I have the lower atage box on thin blaok leather wallet closely filled with papers Just then there was a the left and shall be alone ANITA YVONNE DESARTE The wallet rush from behind me ‘I must ask you to go Dunk” said was snatched from my band and I Rand "It will do you good and I turned in time to see the tall dark must finish looking up the records of man spring back Into hts csb with the the men of the experimenting party agility of a tiger Before my chaufI might remark that both offices all feur could get under way the other the chemists and two of ths work- taxicab was lost in the throng men are men of probably Of course I must tell Rand at once sufficient He walked up and down a moment thinking then he turned to the commandant and Bald: "Is it possible for you to have a detail of eight men to carry Mr Duncan and myself under sheets in stretchers across the yard back and forth once or twice during the noon hour Have the men go slowly and by the time we are through with that I will have found some other device for loitering before that barrack secmust tion from which the information without appearing to be on proceed the watch" In ten minutes a stretcher --detail took me as a sick man across the In fifteen minutes another took yard I saw nothing though my eyes Rand traveled over everything in view 'As soon as he- was around the corner of the building where we awaited him he leaped out of the stretcher and calling to me to follow ran to the bark door of the barracks He whistled In at Lieutenant Dunton's window and got us admitted and In another minute we stepped into the room where the men were resting All was quite as it had been the two days I was there The men did not hear us enter They were smoking and chatting' and by the window Sloane was laboriously writing to his wife a brief message that must pass under Lieutenant Dunton’s eye A silence fell over the other men in the They saw that something was place about to happen "Place all these men under arrest and guard Sloane and McCready careNow to Lieutenant Dunton fully find the receiver Come Dunk I think I know where to look” ' We shot out the taq)i way- popped Into the stretchers and In a few minutes had entered the headquarters building ‘Leaving the tao details we hurried straight through to the front Rand leading the way Then he stopped puzzled "By George! that fellow was sending straight at these windows” About the windows were some clerks and stenographers lounging most lunocently Just as I had seen them the first dayj All were talking save at one window where a woman stenographer with her hat and veil on ready for the street stood staring Intently toward the gate of the yard Just as I saw her the first day Rand looked at her keenly then strode up at the behind her peered searchlngly back of her head and said: "Very sorry to interrupt you Miss Desarte but the man who 'was sending to you is under arrest and bo are Too bad you spend so you now much time at the beaches” She shrugged her shoulders and she as at his suggestion laughed took off her hat and- Its net drapery “Will you look at these Duncan?” said Rand examining them curiously “This veil Is traversed with a fine film of tiny receiving- wires and on this broad hat It must act beautifully In the crown Is the remainder of the mechanism and' here in Miss Desarte’s rehand is a military tolegrapher’s ceiving roll on which she pricks the notes she dots and dashes of the Permit me makes of the messages to say Miss Desarte this is the most I have ever contrivance Ingenious Who Is the inventor seen may I ask?” "I am” she said proudly "Is it all clear now?” said Rand as we left the place after turning the three prisoners trver totba cotafpahd-an" “All L “Oh but MIsb Desarte’a said night visit” she brought that piece of wire to lay It where McCready had told her He wanted it to repair hia sender I found it in the crown of hia hat” Wo were ready to prove our cases in their entirety againBt the fair Anita the expert Sloane and the very with able and Intellectual McCready the Baron thrown in for good measure but having preserved its secret the value of which will be apparent in the next war the government impressed upon Rand that nothing ba said of the matter or nothing made public until after the new guns were finished and the ‘fleet started tor the Pacific POSTCARD NO Never NONSENSE Again Will Fair Tourist This Means 8eek to Find Favor With Friends by "I have decided” says the girl who to travel and who is sailing for the other side "not to send back a single postcard” "Why?” demanded her nearest and "You must send some to dearest me” “Oh yes to you of course” and she bestowed a hearty kiss "But not to Tom Dick and Harry nor to Lot Kit and Harriet Yes I’ve had my feelings hurt You know when 1 went that long trip (the dearest well Aunt fixed me friend nodded) out with a list of all the people she thought it would be nice to send from the less frequented to cards places I thought Cadiz a nice city to begin at and you can’t Imagine all the good time I spent choosing and writing those postcards— hnd when I wanted to be doing anything else! I cards 25 at a dime mailed 50 each and 100 at one cent each and the postage was supposed to be about 2 cents each but the porter Is not Inclined to be held down exactly At any rate it cost me over $10- to get those cards off And what do you — said in Janet’s think Cousin You can’t Imagine Of hearing? She said I "was fond of Course not loves soon showing body to off and death swlth Henceforth I save had bored everymy foreign cards time and money” Training a Wife published reminiscences Elizabeth of Roumania is an old story of her grandfather the Duke of Nassau — a prince in whom was firmly established medieval the women German theories respecting He had just married his second wife and says the queen "that there might be no mistake at all as to the position he intended to assume the wedding ceremony was no sooner over and the couple alone In their traveling carriage than he proceeded to light his pipe and closing the windows smoked hard In her face for a few hours Just to see If she would venture to remonstrate or complain!” In the of Queen first Rand stepped up behind quietly Sleane and watched him closely for a minute By Jove! I now' saw that at Intervals Sloane was touching with his pen two tiny spots of bright copUnder Suspicion per on the end of the big roll of bis and it was plain from the “I’m so sorry to hear that ' your portfolio manner of his touch he was sending Does your husband daughter eloped His movement was take it very hard?” telegraphically so slight that only eyes as keen as “Not half as hard as he would bo It Rand’s would have discerned had been asked for if be it taking Rand stepped back from the window money to buy a wedding outfit Someout of sight in the depths of the times I’m half inclined to believe that room he helped the young man put the ex"Sloane come here to me” he said tension ladder up to Laura's window” —Judge sternly The man sprang to his feet pale and Foret of Habit tottering He hurriedly laid down hi® T suppose those fishermen "Will have portfolio and pen a reasonable celebration of the na"Bring that thing with you" Sloane did as bid then and Rand' tional holiday” “What makes yon believe that?” tore the portfolio apart and disclosed “Don't fishermen naturally go In for the mechanism of a miniature wirestone proceedings?” less sender |