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Rh Allies for handing it over to them. I guess they don't know the patriotism of your father, Tom."

"I should say not!" and Tom's face took on a tender expression.

"It was terrible to see that poor girl crying as she tried to tell me how she hated to do as her guardian forced her," Jack continued, with a look of concern on his young face that spoke well for his sympathetic heart.

"Then that was why she wanted to see you, was it?" asked Tom, "and why she slipped you that note at dinner-time?"

"Just what it is was. She said Mr. Potzfeldt had ordered her to keep trying to find out all about our mission to France. More than that, she was to manage in some way to turn the conversation when with you around to your father, whose name as an inventor is widely known. She was to ask questions about his work, and in every way possible try to discover whether it was in his interests you were not really heading for France."

Tom was startled.

"Well, one thing good about it," he hastened to say. "From now on we know where this Carl Potzfeldt stands. He may pose as a loyal American citizen, but deep down in his heart he is for the Kaiser. Whether he is a