Espionage, German -- United States -- Fiction; Germans -- United States -- Fiction; Spy stories
"Oh, Harrison Grant!" He turned and looked up into the glad eyes of
Dixie Mason. "See what I've brought you," she said, pointing at the
cringing figure of the now completely cowed Dollings. She was standing
on the running board of the car.
Grant walked up to the car with a smile at Dixie. Dollings drew back
with a snarl of hatred as Grant touched him on the shoulder.
"Seems to me you and I have met before," said the president of the
Criminology Club, "But I can't just place you."
"Don't you remember?" Dixie laughed, leaning toward him. "It's
Dollings, our good-natured undertaker from Exeter. He dealt in caskets
up there you know, but the boxes they came in held guns instead of
coffins. A very nice man if he had stuck to his trade, but changing it
got him into trouble. You'd better search him."
Dollings helpless, cowed, beaten, was beyond resistance. Their careful
search revealed that, after all, the destruction of Hopewell was but
an item compared with the general plan of which Dollings was an agent.
With an exclamation, Grant turned over a paper to Dixie Mason, to read.
"Here Dixie, this is your case, and here's a little lexicon of
destruction that may be helpful to you."
Dixie took the paper and studied it, horror whitening her face. On it
was written:
"Blow up plants at
Hopewell
Wilmington
Chester
West Philadelphia
Acton
Detroit
Windsor."
As she looked into Grant's face, he smiled down at her.
"After all, Hopewell has had its advantages," he said.
"How?" she questioned.
Grant pointed to Dollings. "It has caused the arrest of this man, and
will either cause Imperial Germany to change all its plans or give the
Secret Service a chance to guard against the attempts on the places
named on this list. It may do even more----"
Dixie looked at him thoughtfully.
"If it could only awaken America to the danger that is growing here in
her very heart," she said earnestly, "then indeed the destruction here
would not have been in vain."
And though Harrison Grant and Dixie Mason, and all the members of the
great organization they represented knew that the danger of Germany's
intrigues was a vast, far-reaching, fast growing one, even they did not
know the immensity of it. While they exulted over the partial failure
of one of those schemes of destruction, Von Papen, Boy-Ed, and Dr.
Heinrich Albert were at work on still another--and greater one.
In the rooms of the Hohenzollern Club they set in conversation one
afternoon.
"Von Papen, Count Von Bernstorff complains constantly about the regular
shipment of troops and supplies from Canada," said Albert turning to
the military attache. "What are we to do about it? He has asked me
several times for a plan."
Von Papen blew a line of smoke rings into the air thoughtfully, and
broke the ashes from his cigar. Then he spoke.
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