"Hari-kiri!" he ejaculated. "They must have got my message to
Burke and have seen that the house was surrounded."
The two Japanese servants had committed suicide.
"Wh-what does it all mean?" gasped Mrs. Brainard, who had followed
us upstairs with Gladys.
Burke's lip curled slightly and he was about to speak.
"It means," hastened Kennedy, "that you have been double crossed,
Mrs. Brainard. Nordheim stole those plans of Captain Shirley's
submarine for his Titan Iron Works. Then the Japs stole them from
his baggage at the hotel. He thought the secret service had them.
The Japs waited here just long enough to try the plans against the
Z99 herself--to destroy Captain Shirley's work by his own method
of destruction. It was clever, clever. It would make his labours
seem like a failure and would discourage others from keeping up
the experiments. They had planned to steal a march on the world.
Every time the Z99 was out they worked up here with their
improvised wireless until they found the wave-length Shirley was
using.
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