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The moment the water had covered the zinc Alex opened his key. It worked strongly and sharply. "Thank God! Thank God!" said the superintendent, fervently. "Now, hurry, boy!" Already Alex was whirring off a string of letters. "Z, Z, Z, WS!" he called. "Qk! Qk! The line opened, and at the quick sharp dots that came Alex could not restrain a cry of triumph. "It works! I've got him," he exclaimed.

The court calendars were now crowded with "espionage" cases; pacifist clergymen who had tried to preach sermons, and labor leaders who bad tried to call strikes; members of the Anti-conscription League and their pupils, the draft-dodgers and slackers; Anarchists and Communists and Quakers, I. W. Ws., and Socialists and "Russellites."

M t ws and Mr. S r n, as to the time and event of their meeting, Mr. With the odor of this transaction fresh about him, Mr. Mathews retired to his estate in Wales, and, as he might have expected, found himself universally shunned.

We have no English equivalent for the phrase "agent provocateur," but in the last four years we have put thousands of them at work in America. In the case against Flowers three witnesses were produced who had been active among the I. W. Ws., trying to incite crime, and were being paid to give testimony for the state.

Then there is the Dundreary Englishman, first-cousin or lineal descendant of the Englishman so dear to the French imagination. Dundreary really represents, as we know very well, when we think about it, a past type of swell as extinct as the dodo. It is not common any longer for English swells to change all their rs to ws, and to spice their sentences with "aw-aws."

It clamored for democracy for Ireland and Egypt and India, and shamelessly defended the Bolsheviki, those pro-German conspirators and nationalizers of women. So Peter proceeded to collect more evidence against the "Clarion" staff, and against the I. W. Ws.

Therewith he began slowly calling, that Jones might read off each letter as he sent it, "WS, WS, WS, BX." "I, I," answered WS. "WS answers," interpreted Jones. Steadying himself with a deep breath, Alex proceeded to carry out his plan. Carefully reaching forth with his foot beneath the table, he pressed the two wires together, then loudly clicked his key.

McGivney took him to Guffey's office, and Guffey wasted no time upon preliminaries, but turned to his desk, and took out a long typewritten document, a complete account of what the prosecution meant to prove against the seventeen I. W. Ws. First, Peter told what he himself had seen and heard not very much, but a beginning, a hook to hang his story upon.

The I. W. Ws. had been put out of business in American City, but the Socialists were still active, in spite of prosecutions and convictions.

The pupils Wagner educated for his own purpose, the individual musicians and actors whom he advised and whose ear he corrected and improved, the small and large orchestras he led, the towns which witnessed him earnestly fulfilling the duties of ws calling, the princes and ladies who half boastfully and half lovingly participated in the framing of his plans, the various European countries to which he temporarily belonged as the judge and evil conscience of their arts, everything gradually became the echo of his thought and of his indefatigable efforts to attain to fruitfulness in the future.