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 soaked it again in water until that danger was past; then she dried it and took it with her to present at the port.

"I've told Agnes Ertyle all about your passport," Gerry Hull said to her when she came on deck again, "so she'll help you out if they put the women through first. They have to be awfully careful in France these days about spies, you see—especially now—spies from America."