m German newspapers published in Chicago, Milwaukee, and
New York.

"That animal, Lehr," he said with a wry face, "has certainly played us
a filthy turn. These clippings amount to nothing----" His eyes fell on
the packet of papers which Barres was now opening, and he leaned over
his shoulder to look.

"Thank God!" he said, "here they are! Where on earth did you find
these papers, Barres? They're the documents we were after! They ought
to have been in Lehr's pockets!"

"He must have passed them to the fellow who bumped into me near the
wash-room," said Barres, enchanted at his luck. "What a fortunate
chance that you sent me around there!"

Renoux, delighted, stood under the electric light unfolding document
after document, and nodding his handsome, mischievous head with
satisfaction.

"What luck, Barres! What did you do to the fellow?"

"Thumped him to sleep and turned out his pockets. Are these really
what you want?"

"I should say so! This is precisely what we are looking for!"

"Do you mind if I read them, too?"

"No, I don't. Why should I? You're my loyal comrade and you understand
discretion.... _What_ do you think of _this_!" displaying a
typewritten document marked "Copy," enclosing a sheaf of maps.

It contained plans of all the East River and Harlem bridges, a tracing
showing the course of the new aqueduct and the Ashokan Dam, drawings
of the Navy Yard, a map of Iona Island, and a plan of the Welland
Canal.

The document was brief:

"Included in report by _K17_ to Diplomatic Agent controlling
Section 7-4-11-B. Recommended that detail plan of DuPont works be
made without delay.

"SKEEL."

Followed several sheets in cipher, evidently some intricate variation
of those which are always ultimately solved by experts.

But the documents that were now unfolded by Captain Renoux proved
readable and intensely interesting.

These were the papers which Renoux read and which Barres read over his
shoulder:

"(Copy)

Berlin Military Telegraph Office Telegram

Berlin. Political Division of the General Staff
Nr. Pol. 6431.

(SECRET)

8, Moltkestrasse,
Berlin, NW, 40.
March 20, 1916.

"FEREZ BEY, N. Y.

"Referring to your correspondence and conversations with Colonel
Skeel, I most urgently request that the necessary funds be raised
through the New York banker, Adolf Gerhardt; also that Bernstorff
be immediately informed through Boy-Ed, so that plans of He