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 "Comes back? He won't be back here any more than Andelman will! Hurry, man, hurry, or they'll be away before we can get to the doors!"

Kestner, who had pushed the annunciator into his pocket, was already half-way across the room.

"And what 'm I to do?" demanded the indignant-eyed Sadie. She had small relish for being thus elbowed out of a movement in which she should have been the chief factor.

"Anything you like," was Kestner's abstracted message as he disappeared from sight. Wilsnach was rounding the table to follow him. But Sadie, knowing what she knew, caught him firmly by the sleeve of his coat.

"Yuh just wait a minute!" she commanded. "Who's that Oriental guy the chief's been talkin' about?"

Wilsnach tried to shake her off.

"I don't know!"

"Did he ever tell yuh he knew a Jap had got those plans?"

"No," said the tugging Wilsnach. "Three hours ago he said everything pointed to one man and only one man!"

"Wait! What man?"