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"
She whirled on him.
"Now see here, Joey," she said. "You run out and play. I'll not
have any little boys meddling in my affairs."
Joey slid off the desk and surveyed her with an impish smile. "Your
affairs!" he repeated. "What the hell do I care about your affairs?
I'm thinking of the boss. It's up to him if he wants to keep German
spies on the place. But it's up to some of us here to keep our eyes
open, so that they don't do any harm."
Sheer outrage made Anna's face pale. She had known for some time
that the other girls kept away from her, and she had accepted it
with the stolidity of her blood. She had no German sympathies; her
sympathies in the war lay nowhere.
But - she a spy!
"You get out of here," she said furiously, "or I'll go to Mr. Spencer
and complain about you. I'm no more a spy than you are. Not as
much! - the way you come sneaking around listening and watching!
Now you get out."
And Joey had gone, slowly to show that the going was of his own free
will, and whistling.


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