This plot was to use Detroit as headquarters for operations in Canada and there to blow up the stockyards at St. Thomas, Ontario, and trains carrying horses for shipment to Europe. Crowley and Smith got together in Chicago and visited the stockyards to spot the shipments of horses toward the Atlantic seaboard. They learned that a good many of these shipments were being routed through Canada by way of Detroit. In the meantime, however, the Germans in San Francisco were getting restless. They had expected almost every day that the ships for Vladivostok would be reported blown up or missing. They had heard neither, and they were beginning to suspect that they had been deceived. They had been deceived, but so had Crowley--and this explains the tenor of his replies in the Second Tale Told in Telegrams. The first intimation of trouble he received was a telegram from Mrs. Cornell on June 21st, to which she signed her middle initial: Saw him noon gave message. He was astonished. Said we’ll suspend judgment for a few days. Queer news this morning. He suspects you were interested in the failure. W. Meantime, Crowley had gone on to Detroit and this message was wired to him at the Hotel Statler there. His reply is missing, but he evidently expressed astonishment at the message, giving some instructions for his office and asking for more particulars. To this message Mrs. Cornell replied: Your instructions will be acted upon. Wired you first arrived. W. The second sentence of the message meant that the first boat, the _Shinsei Maru_, had arrived safely at Vladivostok, despite Crowley’s previous assurances that it had been “fixed.” This was what the Germans could not understand, and what had aroused their suspicions that Crowley had been deceiving them, and that he had possibly even been in somebody else’s pay to “double cross” them. Their suspicions were redoubled, as seems natural enough in the light of Mrs. Cornell’s message of June 29th to Crowley: All three arrived. I am waiting your advice. Something queer. W. In other words, the other two boats, the _Hazel Dollar_ and the _Talthybius_, had safely made Vladivostok. Meanwhile, Crowley had been having other troubles with Smith. One day he called for him at the Briggs Hotel in Chicago and found that he had disappeared. He learned that he had gone on to New York, leaving as his forwarding address simply “Station L, General Delivery, New York.” Smith had two causes for anxiety. In the first place, he had not heard from his wife and did not know whether she had arrived safely. Consequently, on June 18th he had telegraphed to a friend in New York: Can you give my wife’s address. Important. Answer paid, and received a reply the same day giving the address. He left Chicago at once and telegraphed her from Buffalo the following evening: On train 36 Grand Central Depot 703 Sunday morning. LEWIS. On Sunday afternoon Crowley telegraphed him from Chicago: