Clayton was going through some papers he had brought, and Dunbar
had time to consider what to him was an interesting problem. Mrs.
Spencer had kept the boy from immediate enlistment. He had wanted
to go; Dunbar knew that. If she had allowed him to go the affair
with Anna Klein would have been ended. He knew all that story now.
Then, if there had been no affair, Herman would not have blown up
the munition works and a good many lives, valuable to themselves at
least, might have been saved.
"Curious!" he reflected. "One woman! And she probably sleeps well
at nights and goes to church on Sundays!"
Clayton passed back his papers, and ran a hand over his heavy hair.
"They seem to be all right," he said.
Dunbar rose.
"Hope the next news will be better, Mr. Spencer."
"I hope so."
"I haven't told you, I think, that we have traced Rudolph Klein."
Clayton's face set.
"He's got away, unfortunately. Over the border into Mexico. They
have a regular system there, the Germans - an underground railway
to Mexico City.
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