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Almost every one not actually at the difficulty. I tiptoed to her door and The lady who asked this question front had a pet spy—a German or Aus- pulled a letter out from under it, which was the victim of a nervous disease trian or just plain foreigner, who served the postman had just left. It was ad- which disturbed intelligence officers the potatoes in a suspicious manner if dressed to Mrs. John Schwartz. And more than it did neurologists in those he happened to be a waiter, or who to show you how cute she was, how days when the A. E. F. was getting shot coughed with a mysterious wheeze if he clever, she was behind the door and up and the transport service was carry- chanced to have tuberculosis. Add to opened it. I dropped the letter, as it ing replacements over and bringing the the alarm occasioned by such subtle had accomplished my purpose, but do wounded back. manifestations, a good literary back- you know she had the nerve, the nerve, This disease prevailed in almost ground of ripper murders, Nick Car- I say, to glare at me. Fancy anybody every vale and hamlet in the United ter's and Sherlock Holmes' yarns and named Schwartz glaring at me, a de- States, and while, undoubtedly, it was sprinkle in a dash of international po- scendant of a family connection of a good thing for the country, it drove litical intrigue as it is described in President James Monroe. intelligence officers dippier than their stories of those tiny, mythical king- shell-shocked brothers and caused the doms, usually called Moonshinevania, 1 ' 13 UT I follow her just the same and establishment in most of their offices of and the result is a fairly active spy she trades with a German grocer, the "Nut Reception Room," a place hunter. too. I think that's significant, don't where these visitors waited pending the To revert to the lady who opened you? Yesterday she bought three relation of their stories. Their trouble this story. On her forty-seventh trip cans of peas—French peas at that. was diagnosed as spy mania and it to one of the numerous intelligence French peas. Huh. She knows I'm furnished the psychological motif for offices in New York, she said: watching her and she bought the such questions as the foregoing. "This German-looking woman lives French kind just to throw me off the 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY scent. Probably she dashed them into made which Franz Rintelen and his man was spoken for the most part and the sink the minute she got home and gang attempted to place on Allied there was mysterious talks of "recipes." sang the Deutschland iiber Alles while ships, and even after Rintelen's im- Quite naturally they would not talk doing it. She also bought four carrots, prisonment stories of bands of marine of acids, the agents thought. The sec- and I think she looked shyly at the dynamiters were commonplace. ond day of listening in brought the grocer as she paid him. Yesterday "I must see the head man at once. climax. A large number of persons was Thursday. Isn't it possible that It is most important. Lives are hang- came into the suspect apartment. canned peas stand for transports and ing in the balance." That's the way Mostly they were women and they that the carrots indicate the number of in which a nervous fidgety little man talked a lot about cooking and other men they carry, or some thing like that? entered an intelligence office late one subjects supposed to be of particu- If you could tell me just how many afternoon. Nobody but the "head larly feminine interest. sailed oh, either transports on Thursday — man" would do and in the "head The chief operative on the case tele- I'd keep it strictly confidential—it man's" office he had the confidential phoned madly for help. What could stenographer would give me something definite to shooed out. Then in a be cleverer than to have a lot of work on." tense whisper he confided: "silly women," as he called them, in the One thing about these spy hunters "Germans are making bombs in the front room talking nonsense, while the was their persistence! They were apartment under mine." Then he sat bombs were being made. Then, too, and watched the never discouraged. Soon after war back effect. The in- the smells were coming up the air- had been declared, an elderly woman shaft for the first time since the wanted to see the commanding officer shadowing began. Reinforcements and the commanding officer only of were sent in charge of an officer. There one of the agencies. She was admitted was a hurried consultation and it was to him. thought best to apprehend every one "I want to relate a strange story," in the apartment for questioning. she began. "The janitress of my house First, the house was surrounded and is a German woman and she has a then the officer and two men banged trilling husband. He had not worked on the hall door. As it was being for many months previous to our en- opened by a young girl the officials try into the war. But the very night heard a voice saying with a rich Ger- of the day war was declared he began man accent: going out. I watched him leave his "First, two koops of flour; den fife surprised, " flat in the basement and was teaspoonsful of sugar for usually he went to bed early. He returned about seven o'clock the next A COOKING school had been cap- morning. He has been doing this con- tured and the odors that went up stantly. My nephew and I followed the airshaft to the chemist's apartment him one night and he went to Ho- were— ? Well, student cooks are cap- boken where all those Germans live. able of anything! After that the chem- I have been to the police and they will ist frequented another intelligence do nothing. I demand protection. office. knows but what those very bombs Who Spy hunters didn't always come that they are placing on ships may be croppers. Their stories didn't always made in the basement of my apart- flivver. They were responsible for the ment." internment of some of the notorious telligence officer didn't seem to be suf- propagandists who worked in behalf HP HIS story sounded suspicious then. ficiently astonished because he was A of the Imperial German government. Remember General Pershing's first coming to recognize the "S. M." when They furnished thousands of keen eyes transports were about to start to he saw one, and this one had all the to our intelligence agencies and gave France.

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