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A STATE SECRET " Story of a Raca to Recover It From an Entarprlslnj Journalist By ARTHUR PEARSON Copyright by American Press Aaa cUUoa. UU. It ru my good fortune t bile a ne w paper eorrmpoodfnt at Berliu t come luto the posnesston of a state 'secret. I shall not make trouble aa I would Tea at thU lata date, by glrlng it ti the world or tellinic bow I came by tt, excel to say that I pot It frvui an American lady who waa at that time promloeut In Berlin court eociety and who afterward married a general la tba German army. Nevertheless the Imperial govern ment knew that tba aecret bad been divulged and that It waa In my poe aeealon. How they made tba discov ery I hare never learned. There waa a network of diplomats, newspaper men, aplea Indeed, all manner of per sons, every on watching the other and all wort In f aecretly. Tba mo ment I became possessed of tbe Infor mation 1 refer to without waiting for baggage I went to a railway station and started for Parts. I reached the French capital without Interruption. On tba way I thought out a plan to nae my secret In a way that would neither compromise ma or tbe lady from whom I baa received it. I re aolTed to turn it In to a London Jour nal to which I bad at times sent items of news. Bnt I remained In Paris twelve hours. This was ratal to my getting clear of those' whom tbe chaa- cvuor ox uenuany seal oui to urau mo off. f wb sit fin In mw H.tlttl An tha Bevoll waiting for a train to carry me to Calais when I saw a man enter whom I had one seen In the ante room of aa Important official of tbe German government while we were both waiting for an audience. ' Fortu nately I saw him before ha saw me, or, rather, be did not see me at all. It flashed through my mind that he wss after me. that his purpoea was to I unr ac mad toad" to oraaavoa. arrest ma on a trumped up charge and take ma back to Berlin for trial. Ha went np to tba hotel office, doubtleaa to Inquire for me, and X slipped out through n corridor leading to a back door. - It waa now evident that I waa fol lowed. But by how many persons 1 I knew the German chancellor's de tective were numbertesa and that ha would guard every avenue by which I might escape him. He knew that I waa a journalist and that the most likely mart for the news I possessed waa London. Therefore I waa aura to be tracked to the British capital I must change my plan. I must go to tba place I would be least likely to go. Though I am an American, I would not be expected to go to Anwrl ca, because at least a week would be required for me to get there, and food for newspapers grows cold quickly Nevertheless I believed that my ae cret would keep all that time nnleaa some uew development In tbe situatloa should occur. At any rate, I felt sura that 1 wuld not be permitted to carry or eeud my news to England, and tt I were to im It at all 1 muat take time to "shake" my follower. Penartlnir from my hotel ou Rue nivolt, I turned Into the Rue d'AIger, thence Into Rue St Honore, from which I pursued. my way to a boule vard. Within another hour I waa on a train steaming for Ohertount and. baring purchased a newiax r, looked through the advertisements till I saw that a ship would aall front there to Sew York within a few hours after my arriral. I waa standing on deck Just as the ship was about to cast off when a cab ram lie el j spilt toward in aoca. man got out. threw a coin at tbe cab man and Just enccerded In getting aboard a the vessel left the dock. Something told me that he waa from Berlin and that he was after me Whether he bad been seut to watch that particular steamer or had got on my track I dont know. At that time tbe wireless telegraph had Just begun to be put on ocean liners, and I was delighted to see that there was an apparatus on the atramt on which I sailed. As soon as 1 had secured, a stateroom there are always staterooms left over on steamers that can be bad for an extra consideration I lounged up to tbe wireless office and, the door being open, stood looking In at the operator, who waa sending a message. I had not been th-re lire minute before the man who had bceu the last passenger to get aboard came along. Our eyes met. and 1 knev.-, as he knew, that be had sjottcd bis man. Even If bis manner bud Uut betrayed him I should bare known that he waa after me from his coming as soou ss possible to the wireless office to bead me off from sending my message. . I was greatly disappointed. On land I should bare expecud to be defused at any telegraph office; at sea I be lieved I would hare no trouble In send ing n wireless. There was nothing to prevent my sending my message from the steamer except this man who wss following me.. I knew he would more heaven and earth to preveut me. It would be a war of wits between him and tae. t There were many waya In which he could stop me. He might charge me' with being a fugitive from Justice; be might make It appear that I bad atolen money or some article from him; be might even murder me. What was my life worth compared with tbe in terests of an empire? And would not his sovereign be sufficiently "powerful to protect blm If be were implicated In my taking off? Suppose I failed to send my meoaage at sea. Would be not wire confederates in New York to arrest me on arrival on any charge be chose to hi vent? He went Into the wireless office and. telling tbe operator that be wished to send a private message, shut the door. When he came out I knew by the look on his face that be bad "flied" tbe operator. Having done so, be went away and left uie free to send all tbe message the young man would transmit for me. To teat tbe latter I entered his of fice and asked blm to send a message for me. He made no objection, and 1 dictated a message to an imaginary person. In my profession I bad found occasion to send telegraphic messages myself and had learned tbe Morse al phabet. I knew at once that the oper ator waa simply clicking his key with out sending my message, Nevert ne ts I pretended not to suspect him and paid his charge. I hung around that office, studying the working of the Instrument and es pecially tbe lock ou tbe door. I watched for three days for an opportunity to get a wax impression that would en able me to make a key, but tbe opera tor never left his office without locking the door and waa never away very long at a time. I often stood on deck at night watching the spark over tbe office when be wss sending a dispatch. 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I lav awnke one night listening to Its lack ing, and It brought me a possible- so lntlon. I must steal that clock. This was not difficult, for the old1 lady's stateroom door wss seldom locked and every day was hooked open. The evening before we renched port I purloined the timepiece. Then I went about looking for a box. Having found one, I put the clock In it, nailed on tba lid and put a fictitious address on it Finding the captain alone In his room, I took the box to him and told him that It had been given to me by a m'an whose sanity I suspected, to be de livered to the address on It In New York. He had told me that It contain ed family Jewels of great value, but I had recently beard a ticking la It and feared It contained a bomb to blow np the ship. Tbe csptsln, a ghaut, proposed at The very thing!" be exclaimed. It was midnight, and we were off Montauk Point. Tbe captuln ordered a boat lowered with tbe box In It and the rope payed out. He then went to hh en bin and to sleep, while I bid myself on deck and wben dnwn came pulled to tbe boat It required all my strength and Just before passing steamer east loose. I caught the at tention of tbe ateamer and whs taken aboard. She was bound for Ronton, and the name evening from there. I cabled my message to a London news paper. The next morning the world was startled at the news that Germany and RnsHia were making a deal to appro priate a large slice of African ter ritory and divide It. The publication of the news defeated the project, which would surely hare canted a Eorotenn war. That I had furnished the news was known to only a few prominent Jour nalists, but It made my fortune. 0 I sent back the clock I had borrow, ad, with a handsome present beld. SOW A SEED. The best and higheft thins, s man can do in a day it to sow a aerd. whether it be in the ihape of .a word, an act or an acorn. Allowed by Law. 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