Now Captain Shirley wires me that some one must have
tampered with his model. It doesn't work right. He even believes
that his own life may be threatened. And there is scarcely a real
clue," he added dejectedly. "Of course we are watching all the
employes who had access to the draughting-room and tracing
everybody who was in the building that night. I have a complete
list of them. There are three or four who will bear watching. For
instance, there is a young attache of one of the embassies, named
Nordheim."
"Nordheim!" I echoed, involuntarily. I had expected an Oriental
name.
"Yes, a German. I have been looking up his record, and I find that
once he was connected in some way with the famous Titan Iron
Works, at Kiel, Germany. We began watching him day before
yesterday, but suddenly he disappeared. Then, there is a society
woman in Washington, a Mrs. Bayard Brainard, who was at the
Department that night. We have been trying to find her. To-day I
got word that she was summering in the cottage colony across the
bay from Lookout Hill.
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