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He shoved down the little sliding catch, but there was no glow in the tiny tungsten bulb. "You have me at your mercy if you wish to sell me a lamp," he went on, with a smile and a shrug of his shoulders, not unlike that of Lieutenant Secor. "Hasn't your friend a spare light?" asked Joe quickly. "My friend?" repeated the German, as though surprised. "You mean ?" "I mean Lieutenant Secor."
Much good may it do him!" As Labenstein passed the stateroom where Lieutenant Secor was quartered, that door opened softly, but not until the German was beyond it. And then Blake saw the Frenchman peer out as though to make sure his fellow-conspirator was fairly on his way. After that the lieutenant himself emerged and softly followed the German. "Both of 'em at it," mused Blake.
"But we'd better go slow, for it may be there, and there may be some one in it." "Secor and Labenstein, perhaps," murmured Charlie. "Perhaps," agreed Blake. "If they are " He did not finish, but his chums knew he meant there might be a desperate fight.
For one of the men was Lieutenant Secor, the Frenchman, and the other was a passenger who, though claiming to be a wealthy Hebrew with American citizenship, was, so the boys believed, thoroughly German. He was down on the passenger list as Levi Labenstein, and he did bear some resemblance to a Jew, but his talk had the unmistakable German accent.
As Blake and Joe had remarked, they had neither heard nor seen anything of Secor or Labenstein since they came from England. The men might have been arrested, but this was hardly likely. "Even if they were we wouldn't hear of it," said Blake. "But I hope, if they are under arrest, they'll hold them until we can tell what we know of them." "Same here," agreed Joe.
"Those fellows will do you if they can, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that this frog-eating chap was in with them, and maybe he spoiled your films on purpose, by running into me." "Nonsense!" cried Blake, speaking confidently, though at heart a little doubtful. "In the first place. Monsieur Secor wouldn't do anything to aid a German firm. That's positive!
"I mean, our films are not likely to give away any vital secrets," he went on. "Well, I don't know," answered the lanky helper, "but I have a sort of hunch that they'll do all they can and everything they can to spoil our work for Uncle Sam on this side of the water, as they did before." "Secor spoiled the films before," urged Blake. "He didn't know Labenstein then, as far as we know."
"I guess we'll have to make a re-take in getting back our films," he added, with grim humor. "How do you figure it out, Blake?" The talk of the boys was not rebuked by their German captors, and indeed the captain seemed to be deep in some conversation with Secor and Labenstein. "I don't know how it happened," Blake answered, "unless they saw us go into that hut and crept up on us."
Secor reaches from reading these articles is hardly warranted by the articles themselves. I fear he read too much between the lines. Let us see: Professor Thomas wrote of the Columbia system more than three years ago, and only a couple of months after its adoption; nor does he say anything as to its success, in fact, he could not, for there was nothing to say.
Soon after Captain Merceau had sent his report of the occurrence to London to the officials of the English war office, the boys were summoned before one of the officers directing the Secret Service and were closely questioned. They were asked to tell all they knew of the man calling himself Lieutenant Secor and the one who was on the passenger list as Levi Labenstein.
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