Some day--some day soon when we
have won--I am coming to find you and tell you that I love you."
"When we have won!" Jane shuddered and drew back in the car, aflame with
sudden wrath.
She had read and had heard often of the unspeakable conceit of the
Prussians. She knew that they regarded themselves as supermen who could
not be defeated. Her challenged American pride rose to battle. As she
rode home she was sure now that more than she hated anything else in the
world she hated Frederic Hoff, the spy, the German, who had dared to
boast to her that they expected to win.
CHAPTER XII
PUZZLES AND PLANS
Chief Fleck had spent a sleepless night trying to put two and two
together. Instead of the answer being "four" as it should have been each
time he completed his figuring the result was "zero." Time and again he
mustered the facts into columns, only to succeed in puzzling himself
the more.
Two German spies, the Hoffs, had set out together in their motor on
their usual mysterious Wednesday mission. Two other persons, two of his
most intelligent operatives, Thomas Dean and Jane Strong, had set out on
a motorcycle to shadow them.
What had happened?
Otto Hoff had returned to his apartment on foot, hours before his usual
time, seemingly much perturbed about something.
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