"She feels
your silence more than I do. I know how such things are."
"Well, I'll be able to tell her, too," decided Tom. "That
is, if Schwen hasn't spoiled everything. Look here, Ned,
these papers show he's been in correspondence with Blakeson
and Grinder."
"What about, Tom?"
"I can't tell. The letters are evidently written in code,
and I can't translate it offhand. But I'll make another
attempt at it. And here's one from a person who signs
himself Walter Simpson, but the writing is in German."
"Walter Simpson!" cried Ned. "That's my friend of the
tree!"
"It is?" cried Tom. "Then things begin to fit themselves
together. Simpson is a spy, and he was probably trying to
communicate with Schwen. But the latter didn't get the
information he wanted, or, if he did get it, he wasn't able
to pass it on to the man in the tree. Eradicate nipped him
just in time."
And, so it seemed, the colored man had done. By accident
he had discovered that Schwen had prevailed on one of the
workmen in Shop 13 to change passes with him. This enabled
the German spy to gain admittance to the secret place, which
Tom thought was so well guarded.
Pages:
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87