Show PERPLEXING RIDDLE I CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson JEFF BOYNTON of the Union army's Company second Massachusetts wore a look of utter dejection as he entered headquarters nodded wearily to Finn Lacey and slumped onto a The captain stopped leaned back in his wouldn't she wouldn't Boyn-ton He stretched his long legs out in front of him and Minute studied the worn Fiction toe of his boot- I i I she's not a spy after Lacey Boynton's blue eyes flashed as he jerked up his she I'm sure of Lacey shrugged and gestured with his you're so we'll hold a court-martial Boynton waa on his do We haven't evidence to It will mean she'll go free and we'll lose oar one chance of stopping the Information Is getting through Alice Struthers Is We must learn her That was the question that had driven Boynton nearly to had caused him the loss of sleep and wearied his brain from A week basing the act on the slimmest of he had had Alice Struthers ar- One day while going through the relics of long-ago he came upon a to be held for questioning regarding the leakage of information to Confederate can't hold her forever without a the older man pointed out after another week had passed in which the lieutenant had failed completely In his efforts to unearth some grain of Struthers is popular among the Some swear they have known her for and will vouch for her loyalty to the makes It all the more likely she would succeed s a I happen to know that all of Miss Struthers' maternal ancestors came from She herself spent a good part of her girlhood in Idly he fingered a package of letters that he brought In with convinced that In these letters the girl is sending out the I don't Certainly she is using no I have checked every letter a dozen Purposely I permitted each to be Events Immediately following convince me that some how those letters are the means of conveying the LACEY picked up the letters and read them They contained nothing to excite suspicion mere messages of love and devotion to friends In the Lacey suddenly pounded the I believe I have Obviously something has to be and I'm more than half convinced though heaven knows why that your suspicions are well we'll deport Tarn her over to the Confederate If that stops the leakage we'll know she was the guilty and there will no longer be danger of Its it will mean Alice Struthers' complete Two days later prisoner Alice Struthers was turned over to Confederate Johnson under a flag of But it wasn't until after the war had ended that he found the answer to the One day while going through bis relics of long ago battles he came upon a It was one that Alice Struthers had written to her friends in the and which he had kept for a The paper was the ink The postage stamp had dried and was hanging by a mere As he looked at Boynton's eyes grew For beneath the stamp were some closely finely penned obviously the cipher employed by Alice Struthers which he had tried so hard to |