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"Well, I suppose that's true," admitted Blake. "And we haven't any reason to like Sim and Schloss either. But I don't believe they could plot so far as to get a French officer to help them as against us. "No, Charlie," he went on, having half convinced himself by his reasoning, "I can't quite agree with you. I think it was an accident on the part of Monsieur Secor.
Secor says, that "the present system of giving credit towards graduation used in our secondary schools takes account mainly of the amount of work done." It passes upon quality, as he says, only "when it fixes a passing mark."
"I did see Lieutenant Secor looking at us as we worked the camera, but I didn't pay much attention to him." "It wasn't him so much as it was the German," went on Blake. "In what way?" "Did you see where he was standing when the submarine came out of the water?" Neither Joe nor Charlie had done so, or, if they had, they did not recall the matter when Blake questioned them.
For while the system did not originate here, it was here first put into operation, and for years an earnest, honest, heroic effort has been put forth in its behalf. I might say, parenthetically, that the details of the system Mr. Secor suggests are almost identically the ones that have been in use in this institution. They were found to be faulty, however, and have been materially changed.
"You're right," agreed Joe. "Lieutenant Secor will bear watching. Did he have any idea we were observing him?" "I think not. If he did, he didn't let on. But I thought sure, when he came across the corridor and knocked, that he'd discovered us." "So did I, and I was all ready to bluff him out. But we'll have to be on the watch, and especially on the other side." "What do you mean?" asked Blake.
After these references have been cited, the system is discust from various points of view and its extension into the secondary field favored, tho, in his closing paragraph, Mr. Secor says, "Now the plan here proposed does not claim perfection. It may not even be a workable scheme when put to the test." Mr.
Secor, a friend who operates a coal mine, and farms for recreation, if he thought alfalfa could be raised on this type of soil. He replied: "That depends on what kind of a gimlet it has on its tap root." Some of the farmers down here tell me confidentially that "hardpan" has been found on their neighbors' farms, but I have not talked with any one who has any on his own farm.
"Yes," agreed Blake, "I think it is." "And we have the films back!" exulted Charlie. "But, best of all, we know Lieutenant Secor is straight!" cried Joe. "I'd hate to think anything else of him, after he saved our lives." "Yes," agreed Blake softly. "And now to get back on the job!" cried Joe, after a moment of silence. And so the moving picture boys again took up their perilous calling.
"I guess you're right," admitted Joe. "But what does it all mean, anyhow?" "Well, as nearly as I can figure it out," responded Blake, as he and his chums marched onward in the darkness, "Secor and Labenstein must have hidden the films in the hut after they stole them from the place where we went down under the gas attack. For some reason they did not at once turn them over to the German command."
An open enemy Blake could understand, but not a spy or a traitor. "I thought perhaps you might like to get some of the views from on deck," went on Lieutenant Secor, smiling his white-toothed smile. "They are even lowering boats into the water a realistic drill!" Blake looked at Joe as much as to ask if it would be advisable to get some views.
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