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It had helped us out of several very tight situations and seemed now to have been used to get the organization into a very tight political place. "Well, the vocaphone," went on Kennedy, "does even more than the detectaphone. You see, it talks right out. Those little apertures in the face act like megaphone horns increasing the volume of sound."
Much good that does us." "Yes," I agreed, "you can always depend on a man like Herman to come along with something like that " Just then the "master station" detectaphone connected with the telephone in the garage began to talk and I cut myself short. We seemed now at last about to learn something really important. It was a new voice that said, "Hello!"
Piece after piece was wedged in between our door and the opposite wall. We could hear them taunt us as they worked, and I thought I recognised at once the voice of the stocky keeper of the garage, the Boss, whom I had heard so often before over our detectaphone. The other voice, which seemed to me to be disguised, I found somewhat familiar, yet I could not place it.
Just about the same time a young man, who posed as a student in electrical engineering at some school uptown, left. It must have been he who installed the detectaphone perhaps with the aid of a waiter in Gastron's. At any rate, she seems to have been alone in the boarding-house that is, I mean, not acquainted with any of the other guests during the time when she was taking down the record.
As he replaced the black camera-like box of the detectaphone with this oak box he remarked: "This is an intercommunicating telephone arrangement of the detectaphone. You see, it is more sensitive than anything of the sort ever made before. The arrangement of these little square holes is such as to make them act as horns or magnifiers of a double receiver.
There are, in both, innumerable of the minutest globules of carbon which are floating around, as it were, making it alive at all times to every sound vibration and extremely sensitive even to the slightest sound waves. In the case of the detectaphone transmitter, it only replaces the regular telephone transmitter and its presence will never be suspected.
Then he closed the window softly and pulled down the switch on the other detectaphone connected with the fake telephone receiver. He smiled quietly at me. The thing worked still. We had one connection left with the garage, anyway. There was a noise of something being shattered to bits. It was the black disc back of the pile of tires. We could hear the Boss muttering to himself.
"Hello, Boss," we heard come out of the detectaphone box. "Hello, Chief. You surely got us nearly pinched last night. What was the trouble?" "Oh, nothing much. Somehow or other they must have got on to us. I guess it was when I called up the joint on Forty-eighth Street. Three men surprised me, but fortunately I was ready.
Good heavens it is bad enough as it is to think that my name may be dragged into politics and all sorts of false stories set in motion about me. You must protect me, Mr. Carton, you must." "How did you find out about the detectaphone being there?" asked Kennedy. "Why," she replied evasively, "I thought it was just an ordinary little social dinner. That's what Mr. Murtha told me it was.
Nevertheless there was no sound from the detectaphone which would indicate that he had overheard and was spreading the alarm. He was there yet, for we could hear him clear his throat once or twice. "No," replied Kennedy calmly, "he knows nothing about it. I didn't use any ordinary means to prepare against the experts who have brought this situation about.
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