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 means to a foreign power has been very well instanced by the fact that the specifications for this device are among those stolen by our same Oriental friend who got the new submarine and the new coast-gun plans!"

It was Sadie Wimpel who looked up sharply at Kestner's last words. Through his welter of wireless technicalities her untutored mind had caught no feeblest ray of light. She was not ignorant, however, of who had got both the submarine and the coast-gun plans. And she knew it was not an Oriental.

It dawned on her, suddenly, that Kestner was not telling the truth, that he was deliberately and studiously lying to the thoughtful- faced envoy from Washington. But his reason for doing so was something more than she could fathom.

"Then this Oriental is the man we must round up?" Andelman was asking.

"Wouldn't that be your suggestion?" parried Kestner, with his gaze fixed on the other man.

The other man shrugged a non-committal shoulder. He seemed undecided as to his stand. And from his very indecisiveness Kestner appeared to derive a discreet yet definite satisfaction.