hree times, and then said, "Boys,
this looks like a very serious matter. You said the old gentleman spoke
broken English, Walter?"

That's the name he always called Pee-wee.

"Cracky," I said, "Pee-wee's kindly old gentleman is a German spy."

"Sure he is," said Westy Martin, "and he's only flying the American
flag for a bluff, he's a deep dyed villain."

"He can't be dyed very deep," said Doc Carson, in that sober way of
his; "because we haven't any German dyes to dye him with."

I was just going to say something to kid Pee-wee along, when I noticed
that Mr. Ellsworth was very serious, and Pee-wee was staring like a
ghost.

"Boys," Mr. Ellsworth said, "I have no idea of the full meaning of
this paper." Then he said how maybe in collecting books we had caught a
spy in our net. He said that he was going to take the paper anyway and
show it to the Federal Commissioner, down in the Post Office Building.

"If he's a spy, we'll swat him all right," I said.

"We'll more than swat him," Mr. Ellsworth said, and I could see by the
look in his eye that he meant business.

CHAPTER III

SWATTING THE SPY--CONTINUED

We didn't swat him in that chapter because I had to go to supper, but
we'll surely swat him in this one. Positively guaranteed.

Pee-wee was proud that he made such a hit with the old gentleman and
especially because he got so many books from him. But when he realized
that the paper I found in one of the books had something to do with
spying, it was all Mr. Ellsworth could do to keep him quiet. He told us
all not to say anything, because maybe, the old man might find out that
he was going to be nabbed and go away. I guess Pee-wee felt pretty
important. Anyway I know he was frightened, because all the next
morning he kept asking me if he'd have to go to court and things like
that.

"The only court you'll go to, is the tennis court," I told him; so we
made up a set with my two sisters, Ruth and Marjorie, and the girls beat
us three games. While we were playing, along came Mr Ellsworth and
Commissioner Terry with two strange men, and I could see Pee-wee was
very nervous. They sent the girls away and then began to ask Pee-wee
questions. I could see that they thought the discovery we made was
pretty serious.

"Are you the boy that found the paper in the book?" they asked me. Then
they wanted to know what kind of a book it was, and I told them it was a
book about German history and they screwed up their