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And in fifteen reat railroad warehouses near the

city wharf had burst into flames Herman had watched without co of his share in the

enterprise

"About a million dollars' worth of fireworks there," he said, as the

glare dyed their faces red "All stuff for the Allies" And he boasted,

"When the cat sits on the pickhandle, brass buttons o"

By that tie He had nodded

slowly

"But it is dangerous," was his later comment "Sometimes they will

learn, and then?"

His caution had exasperated Rudolph almost to frenzy And as tianization was ferreted out at

the new plant and disanization

was Herain, but to

every suggestion so far he had been deaf He would listen approvingly,

but at the end, when he found the talk veering his way, and a circle of

intent faces watching hi "

Then he would pay his score, but never by any chance Rudolph's or the