me unknown obstructionist. At first she had been a little ashamed to acknowledge to her friend that a citizen of her own town coul

e said earnestly. "I'm sure he has done a lot of harm, already, and he may do much more if he is left undisturbed. Some folks are not too patriotic, even n

e envelopes and the dates of the postmarks. Her attitude was tense, as

police

her two interviews

ents of the depar

f any," confess

e circulars

whom you suspect,

y Bond mass-meeting and her interview with him in his store, in which he plainly showed his antagonism to the draft and to the administration g

hat Kasker issued those circulars. Then we can put an end to his mischief-making. I don't know how to undertake such a job, Josie, but you do; I'm busy at

ut let her say all she had to say concerning this interesting m

is not whole-heartedly with President Wilson and intent on helping win the war, is doing his country a vital injury. That's the flat truth, and I'd like to shake your Jake Kasker out of his suit of hand-me-down clothing. If he isn't a traitor, he's a fool, and sometimes fools are more dangerous than traitors. There! All this has got me

gave her a p

, first?" she asked, hesitatingly,

detective

plied. "I'll admit that such a person is mischievous and ought to be shut up, either by jailing hi

in an agg

e kid if he doesn't fight like a tartar. He hates the war-perhaps we all hate it, in a way-but he'll buy Liberty Bonds and help win a victory. I know that sort; they're no

Jos

f someon

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t? Fie, Mary Louise! When you were selling Li

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s and accused our government of being dominated by the English. He was very bitter

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, when I entered; I didn't hear what, f

erks, or groc

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ent of schools,

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atened him with the loss of his trade. But Mr. Duncan at once subscribed for Liberty Bonds, a

ly. "Then neither of the three ha

d himself tried to sell Mr.

did the superviso

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hund

couldn't affor

his salary warranted, but

f his hands, perhaps. No disloyal words

uked Mr. Herring and

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w seems genuinely patriotic-except," as an afterth

ittle Ann

etter class of clerks, I'm told, and Mr. Boyle is said to do a good business. Annie knows some of our girls, and they say she hates the war and den

r tablets-little ivory affairs which

else at the Mansion

a s

ld is

en or f

s; she has heard someone else talk, and l

ps so;

er serious; more serious than you perhaps suspect. And, since you've put this case in my hands, I'm sure you and the dear colonel won't mind if I'm a bit eccentric in my movemen

ou all this. I feel something ought

the tablets in

always German but may be Americans, or even British by birth, but are none the less deadly on that account. The paid spy has no nationality; he is true to no one but the devil, and he and his abettors fatten on treachery. His abettors are those who repeat sneering and

right,

ice. Together, they have a thousand eyes, but enemy propagandists are more numerous and scattered throughout the nation. Your chief of police doesn't want to interfere with the federal agents here, and the federal agents are instructed not to pay attention to what is called 'spy hysteria,' and so they're le

vice badge give you auth

would help me out, but it doesn't make me a member of the secret service or give me a bit of authority. But t

author of those awful circulars. It has worried me a good deal to think that Dorfield is ha

mace, "but I lack a similar confidence in myself

e, you've won, and I

id Josie; "I ho