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Peter was shy, truly a little frightened, this kind of detective business being new to him. "Comrade Jennie," he said, "I I don't know just how to say it, but I'm afraid I'm falling a little in love." Jennie drew back her hands, and Peter heard her breath come quickly. "Oh, Mr. Gudge!" she exclaimed. "I I don't know " stammered Peter. "I hope you won't mind." "Oh, don't let's do that!" she cried.
Godd's costly garments had ever been worn before, that the costly rugs on the floor had never been stepped on before, the very chair on which he sat had never been sat on before! Little Ada Ruth had called Mrs. Godd "the mother of all the world;" and now suddenly she became the mother of Peter Gudge.
Practically all the characters in "100%" are real persons. Peter Gudge is a real person, and has several times been to call upon the writer in the course of his professional activities; Guffey and McGivney are real persons, and so is Billy Nash, and so is Gladys Frisbie. To begin at the beginning: the "Goober case" parallels in its main outlines the case of Tom Mooney.
He had been a fool, of course, every kind of fool there was, and he hadn't a word to say for himself; but he had learned his lesson and learned it thoroughly. No more women for him, and no more high life, and if Mr. Guffey would give him another chance Guffey, of course, snorted at him. He wouldn't have a pudding-head like Peter Gudge within ten miles of his office!
And Peter knew that he, Peter Gudge, had done all this! The forces of law and order owed it all to one obscure little secret service agent! Peter would get no credit, of course; the Chief of Police and the district attorney were issuing solemn statements, taking the honors to themselves, and with never one hint that they owed anything to the secret service department of the Traction Trust.
"Oh, Comrade Gudge," she answered, and Peter said, "Call me `Peter. Please, please do." "Comrade Peter," she said, and there was a little catch in her throat, and Peter, looking at her, saw that her eyes were cast down. "I know I'm not very much to love," he pleaded. "I'm poor and obscure I'm not good looking " "Oh, it isn't that!" she cried, "Oh, no, no! Why should I think about such things?
They made heart-breaking speeches, and finally little Ada Ruth, the poetess, got up and wanted to know, was it all to end in talk, or would they organize and prepare to take some action against the draft? Would they not at least go out on the street, get up a parade with banners of protest, and go to jail as Comrade Peter Gudge had so nobly done? Comrade Peter was called on for "a few words."
Under these circumstances, naturally it was hard for Peter not to give some hint of his true feeling. After he had spent all of his money on Rosie and a lot of his time and hadn't got anywhere, he decided to make some concession to her he told her he would give up trying to make a Red out of her. Whereupon Rosie made a face at him. "Very kind indeed of you, Mr. Gudge!
"Well, Gudge," said Andrews, at last, "so you're the spy we've been looking for all this time!" Peter remembered Nell's injunction, "Stick it out, Peter! Stick it out!" "Wh-wh-what do you mean, Mr. Andrews?" "Forget it, Gudge," said Andrews. "We've just been talking with Rosie, and Rosie was our spy." "She's been lying to you!" Peter cried. But Andrews said: "Oh rubbish! We're not that easy!
Have you found anything any apparatus or pictures, or writing anything?" Evidently the answer was in the negative, for Guffey said: "Go ahead, look farther; if you get anything, call me at the chief's office quick. It may give us a lead." Then Guffey hung up the receiver and turned to Peter. "Now Gudge," he said, "that's all your story, is it; that's all you got to tell us?" "Yes, sir."
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