ou ought to get out of the country immediately, and that Mexico is as good a place to

mie. "Me for Mexico.

disappointment in the boy's face. "After we leave the building you must call a surgeon and se

l geezle me,"

been here only a minute when you came in, and that he had just entered the building. You may say, too, that we have gone o

"I'll call a surgeon an' duck. You se

have the price?

hing reply, "but that don't count with me. I gues

out of the Great White Way, still blazing with lights, directing their steps toward the East River, Fremont turned about and glanced with varying emotions at the brilliant scene he was leaving. He was parting, under a cloud, from

he Cameron building would hang upon him like the Old-man-of-the-Sea until he was back in the big city again with

orry to go not entirely because you love the city, but because you feel as if you

mont. "I had planned something very different. The Black Bears were to g

along after a time, too. Anyway, you'll find plenty of Boy Scouts on the border. I

over the Rio Grande," replied Fremont. "It is hard to keep a bo

Still walking east, an hour before daylight they came to a cottage in the vicinity of Newtown Creek, and here Nestor paused and knock

teous manner. She held a night-lamp high above her night-capped head while she

asked. Then he added, "Burglars don't knock a

ady, in a tone which well matched her engaging fac

Aunty, don't stand there with the lamp so high. You look like the S

ane when you are hungry, or when you've got some one you are

had been presented to Aunty Jane, they were shown to the sitting-room-an apartment warme

creep up the sky. "She really is my aunt, you know, mother's sister. She knows all about my lov

emont observed. "Why are you thinking of doing that?

do to-day that is so important, so vital, that I dare not mention it even to you. It does

fide in me," said Frem

had taken a packet of letters from his pocket, and was running them thoughtful

seeing a tall shadow in front of the door to

was the astonished reply. "How cou

stood between the light in the corridor and the glass panel," was the r

u opened the door

ircase, but they died out while I stood there. The man was hiding in the building, for the street door

emont. "I don't like him. What am I to do if you l

s the reply. "I'll return early in the evenin

nicate with the Black

hat was a long day for Fremont, although Aunty Jane endeavored to help him pass the time ple

in the lower section of the city and asked for the manager, who had not yet arrived, the hour being early. The clerk was inquisitive an

the boy had written and sent off a message to a man the manager knew to be high in the secret service department of the gove

lerks familiar with code work were sent for. When a waiter, in answer to a call, looked

and from various forts scattered about the country. The manager confided to his wife when he went home to luncheon that i

tary operations?" asked the wife, wondering at a la

g and sent for me, as you know. When I met him he asked for a code expert and

ced himself ready for the southern trip. Fremont, who had been impatientl

eply. "The police ordered him taken to a hospital and his people

y," Fremont said, gravely

e left with a Mexican called Felix who occupied a

re looking for me-egg

party," was the unsatisfactory reply, "and the police officers are

Fremont, hoping that the bright littl

Wolf Patrol meet occasionally, but he was not there. The boys who were there, night messengers and the like, who had dropped in before going home, said that

ank!" exclai

, "and so are the Wolves. We may hear from

ere going with us," sa

have plenty of company on the way down. We may not see o

olice will trail us to

hers beside the police to reckon with. Well, we'll see wha