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Show HAD LAUGH ON GERMAN SPY How Charles M. Schwab Made a Monkey Out of Emissary of the Kaiser. "Charles M. Schwab had an adventure adven-ture with a German spy," said a Philadelphia Phil-adelphia editor, "a short time before we entered the war. "Mr. Schwab went out to Chicago on some munitions business, and the spy dogged him like a shadow all the way dogged him all over the Windy city, too. "One evening, to fool the fellow, Mr. Schwab wrote some fake telegrams in the hotel library, and then he tore a couple of the telegrams up, scattered them on the floor and hurried from the room. "The spy, who was, of course, right on the job, didn't follow him out right away. That was what he had expected, expect-ed, and so after a bit he stole back on tiptoe to take Mr. Spy by surprise. "What he saw made him smile. The spy was down on his hands and knees gathering up nnd putting together the torn bits of fake telegram. "Mr. Schwab, standing in the doorway, door-way, gave a loud laugh. Then he said : "'Boy ErV, or Von Tapon, or whatever what-ever your name Is. I'm pleased to see that you Germans care more about scraps of paper now than you used to.' " |