Daily British Whig (1850), 4 Jul 1914, p. 11

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She confronted Arrelaford with a bitterly reproachful glance, etor orderly who had just entered the room. "Have you kept track of Mm™ he asked in a low voice. "He's coming down the street to the department now, sir." "Where has he been since he left Mrs, Varney"s house?" "He went to his quarters on Carey street. We got in the next room and watched him through a transom." "What was he doing?" "Working on some papers or docu- ments." "Could you see them? Dia you see what they were? "They looked like orders from the war department, sir." "He is coming here with forged or ders, 1 suppose." "I don't doubt it, sir." "I surmise that his game is to get control of these wires and then send out dispatches to the front that will take away a battery or a brigade from some vital point, the vital point indi cated by 'Plan 3." That's where they mean: to attack tonight." "Looks like it, sir," agreed the or derly respectfully. "'Plan 3,' that's where they will hit us," mused the secret service agent, "is there a guard in the build- ing?" "Not inside, sir," answered ths or derly, "there's a guard in front and sentries around the barracks over in the square." . "It 1 shouted they could hear from this window, couldn't they?" asked Arrelsford. 'The guard In front could hear you, sir. But the time is getting short, He must be nearly here; you'd better look out, sir." Edith Varney had heard enough of the conversation to understand that Thorne was coming. would hever do for him to see her there. "Where am I to go?" she asked. "Outside here on the balcony," sald Arrelford. "There is no closet in the room and it is the only place. I will be with you in a moment." "But if he should come to the win- daw?" "We will step In at the ether win- dow. Stay, orderly, see if the win- "I've Accepted Your Invitation, You See." dow of the commissary general's of fice, the next room to the left, is open." They waited while the orderly went speetion. "The window of the next room is open, sir," he reported. "That's all I want of you. Report back to Corporal Matson. 'Tell him to get the body of the prisoner out of the Varney house. He knows where it's to go." "Very well, sir" "Mr. Foray," continued Arrelsford, "whoever comes here you are to keep on with your work and don't give the slightest sign of my presence -to any one' on any account. You under stand?" _ "Yes, wir," sgraph table room, He had caught something of the conversation, but he was too good a soldier to ask any questions, besides his business wae with the telegraph, not with Mr. Arrelsford. "Now, Miss Varney," said the se cret service agent, "this way, please." He opened the middle window. The girl stepped through, and he was about to follow when he caught sight of a messenger entering the room. said Foray from the tel in the center of the '| Leaving the window, he retraced his steps, "Where did you come from?" he R | said abruptly to the young man. id Atraistord. "War department, sir." "Carrying dispatches? "Yes, sir" "You know me, don't you? _Tve seen you at the office, air, and---" "I'm here on department business," "All you have to do 'keep quiet sbont it. Weren't insthe hally 5 7 a FT Giz BRADY . ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDGAR BERT SMITH Cop vyRIONY 19!2 By Doo, Meas ano Company which his eyes for a moment fell, and |. He was glad indeed to turn to another| Of course it} out on the balcony and made his in. | "Yes, sir, but T had a dispatch fro: the president that had to be deliv | ered to Lieutenant Foray." "Well, relsford. "Don't mention having see me to anybody under any pretext an: stay here. You might be needed. O1 second thoughts, Foray, let any mes senger come in" @ With that Mr. Arrelsford stepped out onto the balcony through the win. dow, which he closed after him, and he and Edith disappeared from view "Messenger," said Foray, down: the hall and tell the private there that by Mr. Arrelsford's orders messengers are allowed to come up as they report. The room which had been the scene of these ous colloquies became silent save for the. continuous click- ing of the telegraph keys. Presently two messengers came back and took their positions us before, Hard on their:heels entered Captain Thorne. He wis in uniform, of course, and a paper was tucked in his belt. He walked rapidly down the room, acknowledged the salutes of the messengers, and stopped before the table. His quick scrutiny of the room as he advanced had shown him that there was no one present except the messengers and Lieutenant Foray. Foray glanced up, nodded, finished taking the dispatch which was on' the wires at the time, wrote it ont, put it in: his envelope, and then rose to his feet and saluted. *"Captain Thorne," he said. "Lieutenant Foray," replied Thorne, taking the order from his belt and handing it to the operator, "Order from the department?" asked Foray. "lI believe 0," briefly. Lieutenant Foray opened read fit. "They want me®to take a cipher dispatch over to the . president's house," he said as he finished. "Yes," said Thorne, moving to the vacant place at the table. He pulled the chair back a little, tossed his hat on the other table, and otherwise made himself at home. "l am ordered to stay here until you get back," he began casually, shoving the paper aside and stretch- ing his hand toward the key. "That's an odd thing, captain," be gan Lieutenant Foray dublously. "I understood that the president was meeting with the cabinet. In fact, Lieutenant Allison went over there to take some code work a moment ago. He must have gone home, I reckon." "Looks 'Tike it," said Thorne quiet ly. "If he is not at home you had better wait, "Yes," sald Foray, moving away, "I suppose I had better:wait for him. You will have to look out for Allison's wire, though, on_the other table. He was called over to the department." "Oh, Allison!" said Thorne -care- lessly. "Be gone long, do vou think?" he continued as he seated himself at the table and began to arfange the papers. "Well, you know how it ia. They generally whip around quite a while before they make up their minds what they want to do. I don't suppose they will trouble you much. It's as quiet as a churchrdown the river. Good night." "See here, Mr. Foray, wait a mo- ment. You had better not walk out and leave--no matter," continued Thorne, as the operator stopped and turned back. "It's none of my busi- ness, still if you want some good ad- vice, that {8 a dangerous thing te do." "What is it, captain?' asked Foray, somewhat surprised "Leave & cigar lying around an of- fice like that. Somebody might walk in any minute and take it'away. I can't watch your cigars all day." He picked up the cigar, and before Foray could prevent it; lighted it and. began to smoke. Foray laughed. "Help yourself, captain, and if there 18 any trokble you will find a revolver on the table." "I. see," said Thorne, "but what makes you think there is going to be grouble?" |, "Oh, well, there might be." "Been having a bad dream?" asked © captain nonchalantly. "No, but you never can teil. All forts of things are liable to happen in an office like this, and" . "That's right," said "Thorne, pulling away at his cigar, "you never can tell. But see here. If you never can tell when you are going to have trouble you had Potter take that gun along with you. I have one of my own." "Well," said the operator, "if you have 'onq of your own, I might as well." He took the revolver up and tucked it in his belt. "Look out for yourself. captain. Goodby. I will ve pack as soon as the president gives me that dispatch. That dispatch 1 have just finished is for the commissary gener- al's office, but.it can walt until the morning." "All right," sald Thorne, and the next! moment the operator turned away avhile the clicking of the key called Thorne to the table. Jt took him but a.few minutes to write the answered Thorne it and ago, sir," said the Mmessenge: , "Very well, find Him. He | Tas prob ably gone home and he has to have this message." . "Very good, sir" .» - The key kept up its clicking. In a short time another message was writ | ten off. "Réudy here," cried Thorne, looking at the other messenger. "This is for the secretary of the treasury, marked private. Take it to his home." "He was down at the cabinet.meet ing the real signature. He emrefulily wipad this pasted dispatch with his ha~dkerchief, making an exceedingly heat job of it. As he did so he smiled slightly. Fortune, which had dealt him so many rebuffs had evened up matters a little by giving him this opportanity. He had now in his possession a dispatch hearing the genuine signature of the secretary of war. Even if he were in- terrupted the chances were he would still be able to. send it. So soon as ¢ At te hour do You rise ® Do you say to yourself in the morning "I've got to get up!" it is just as well" said Air' "step | brief message which he addressed and | 0! "Look Out for, Yourself, Captain." "No difference, take it to his house and 'wait until he comes." The instant the departing messen- ger left him alone in the room Thorne leaped to his feet and ran with cat- Hke swiftness to the door, opened it, and quickly but carefully examined the corridor to make sure that no one was thereon duty. Then he closed the door and turned to the nearest window, which he opened also, and looked out on the balcony, which he saw was empty. He closed the win- dow and came back to the table, un- buckling his belt and coat as he came. These he threw on the table. The coat fell back, and he glanced in the breast pocket to see that a certain document was in sight and at band, where he could get it quickly. Then he took his revolver, which he had previously slipped from his. belt to his hip pocket, and laid it down beside the instrument. After a final glance around him to see thit he was still alone and unob- rerved, he seized the key, on which he sounded a certain call. An expert telegraphér would have recognized it, a dash, four dots in rapid succession, then two dots together, and, then two more (-- .... .. ..), He waited a few moments, and when no answer came he signaled the call a second time, and after another longer wait he sent it a third time. After this effort he made a longer pause, and just as he had :about reached the end of his patience--he was In a fever of anxiety, for upen what happened in the next moment the failure or the success of the whole plan absolutely turned---the silent key clicked out an answer, repeating the same signal which he himself had made. The next moment he made a leap upon the key, but before he could send a single letter steps--were heard outside in the corridor. Thorne * released the key, leaned back in his chair, seized a match from the littie holder on the table and struck it, and when another messen- ger entered he seemed to be lazily lighting his cigar. He cursed in his heart at the inopportune arrival. An- other uninterrupted moment and he would have sent the order, but as table and handed Captain Thorne a message. "From the secretary of war, Cap- tain Thorne," he said saluting, "and he wants it to go out right away." "Here, here," said Thorne, as the messenger turned away, this?" He ran his fingers through the envelope, tore: it open; and spread out the dispatch. "Is that the secretary's signature? he asked. The messenger came back. "Yea, sir; 1 saw him sign it my- self. Iim his personal messenger." "Oh!" said Thorne, spreading the dispatch out on the table and 0 K.-ing it, "you saw him wign it Jourselt, did you™ "Yes, sir." "Very well. careful tonight," he explained, "there iis something on. You are sure of this, are you?" "1 could swear to that signature 'anywhere, sir," said the messenger. "Very well," said Thorne, "you may » ~ Ars' turned. As goon as the door was closed be- hind he messenger Thorne laid his cigar w 'table. Then he picked up o tied Leh from the sec _in and folded it very dex with a pair of scis- sors wh He found in a drawer he cut off -the lower of the secre tary's dispateh containing his signa- ture. He put between his teeth had just reflection he stuffed them into was in his hand he sprang to his feet, whirled about, 4 bracket and turned off the light. The ing a littla while ago, sir," said the £60, gh second messenger, th light through the windows. hall old-fashioned bolts which he shot swiftly, Then with to the. first window. He waited with dow, and with his right advanced his out on the balcony. thought, since no one was there, and he blamed the whole incident to his over-agitated nerves, 'him in the left wrist. Thorne made usual he gave no outward evidence of his extreme annoyance. 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Just as Thorne began .to send the Mesdage Arrelsford accidentally strick the window with his elbow, making a slight sound. The instant he did so, he and the girl vanished from sight. Once again Thorne re- leased the key, and his hand moved quietly but rapidly from the instru. ment to the revolver. The instant it leaped to the gas was left in darkness, save for faint {llumination of the moon: Immediately he turned off the light he ran to the doors leading Into the They were provided with heavy, locking them on the inside. the utmost caution he edged around the wall until he came Or do you just "get up" spring out of bed like a giant refreshed and tackle your day's work and worries joyfully 2 3 AM 'Hercules' Bed | HERCULES Spring will make you REGISTERED BED SPRINGS VERMIN PROOF the "Hercules" is a better Spring---more buoyant, more restful. 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He was annoyed at having wasted precious time, and turned to the tablé again, stopping on his way to relight the light, Once more he seized the key. He could telegraph equally - well with either hand. He did not lay down his revolver on the table this time, but kept it in his right hand while the fingers of his left hand touched the button. He had scarcely made a dot or a dash when there was a sudden flash of light and the sound of an ex- plosion, that of a heavy revolver, mingled with the crash of shattered glass. Captain Thorne's fingers fell from the key and a jet of blood spurt- ed out upon the table and the papers. He rose to his feet with incredible swiftness, his revolver in his right hand, only to be confronted by Arrels- ford at the front window. The latter held in hig hand, pointed fairly and squarely at Thorne, the heavy service revolver with which he had just shot a swift motion with his right hand, but Arrelsford was too quick for him. "Prop that gun!" he shouted. 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