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Lieutenant Jeff Boynton of the Un- is using, no code. I have checked ion Army's Company E., second regi-every letter a dozen times Purposely ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, wore I have permitted each to be mailed. a look of utter defection as he en Events immediately following con- tered headquarters tent, nodded vince me that somehow those letters wearily to Captain Finn Lacey and are the means of conveying the in- slumped onto a stool. The captain_formation." stopped writing, leaned back in chair, produced a black cigar lighted it.
"She wouldn't talk, eh?"
his Boynton got up and began pacing and the narrow confines of the tent. Cap- tain Lacey picked up the letters and read them. They contained nothing to excite suspicion-mere messages of
"No, she wouldn't talk," Boynton
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answered. He stretched his long legs love and devotion to friends in the cut in front of him and studied the south. worn toe of his boot..
Lacey suddenly pounded the table.. "Maybe she's not a spy after all." it! Obviously something has to be "By George, Boynton, I believe I have Lacey hazarded.
done, and I'm more than half con- Boynton's blue eyes flashed as he vinced though Heaven knows why- jeiked up his head. "Yes, she is! I'm that your suspicions are well founded." Lure of it. There's no other answer.".
Lacey shrugged and gestured with
"So?"
the
his cigar. "If you're so sure, we'll to the Conferate army. If that stops "So we'll deport her. Turn her over. hold a court martial and-"
"No!" Boynton, was on
the leakage we'll know she was his feet, guilty party, and there will no longer "Don't do that, sir. We haven't be danger of its continuance." enough evidence to convict. It will "And it will mean Alice Struthers' mean she'll go free and we'll lose our complete freedom." one chance of stopping the leak. In- formation.is getting through somehow, no alternative. It looks as though she Captain Lacepi stood up. "There's Alice Struthers is responsible. We had outsmarted us. must learn her methods,”
Her deportation will solve the entire problem. "Consider. "How?"
that an order, Lieutenant Boynton." How? That was the question
Two days later Prisoner Alice had driven Lieutenant Boynton near- Struthers was turned
over to Con-
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ly to distraction, had caused him federate General Johnson, under the loss of sleep and wearied his brain flag of truce. Her identity was kept |from-thinking. A week ago, basing secret until the final formality, and
the act on the slimmest of reasons, it seemed to Lieutenant Boynton, he had had Alice Struthers arrested, whom the duty was assigned, that to be held for questioning regarding the enemy seemed reluctant to accept · the leakage of information to Con- the prisoner:
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federate1 General-Johnson. Boynton During the week that followed knew that few of his fellow officers was conclusively proved that the in- were in sympathy with his suspicions. formation leakage had been stopped, Alice Struthers was attractive and-which confirmed. Boynton's suspicion popular and had made it quite clear and reestablished him in good stand- that her interests wore with the ing with his fellow officers: But it northern" "army,
did not solve the mystery, nor did
It was this that aroused Boynton's it yet allay the feeling of frustration suspicion. To his youthful and im- in the young lieutenant's mind. He aginative mind Miss Struthers was dwelt on the matter considerably dur a bit too eager and emphatic in her iug the ensuing weeks, for to him declarations of devotion for the Un- this was a puzzle that, once solved, ion. He had believed, and hoped, would prevent the possibility of its that her imprisonment would put an recurrence at a later date. end to the leakage. But it didn't, But it wasn't until after the war which strengthened the antagonistic had ended that he found the answer feeling of Boynton's fellow officers to the riddle. One day while going toward him. Captain Finn Lacey through his relics of long ago battles alone supported the young lieutenant's he came upon a latter. It was one hunch, but even he was beginning to that Alele Struthers had written to show signs of leaning the other way. her friends in the south, and which "You can't hold her forever with he had kept for souvenir. The out a trial, Boynton," the older-man Paper was yellow, the ink faded. The pointed out after another week had stage stamp:was hanging by a mere passed in which the lieutenant had thread. As he tooked at it, Lieuten- failed completely in his efforts to ant Boynton's eyes grew wide. For unearth some grain of evidences
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