"Blow up plants at
Hopewell
Wilmington
Chester
West Philadelphia
Acton
Detroit
Windsor."
As she looked into Grant's face, he smiled down at her.
"After all, Hopewell has had its advantages," he said.
"How?" she questioned.
Grant pointed to Dollings. "It has caused the arrest of this man, and will either cause Imperial Germany to change all its plans or give the Secret Service a chance to guard against the attempts on the places named on this list. It may do even more——"
Dixie looked at him thoughtfully.
"If it could only awaken America to the danger that is growing here in her very heart," she said earnestly, "then indeed the destruction here would not have been in vain."
And though Harrison Grant and Dixie Mason, and all the members of the great organization they represented knew that the danger of Germany's intrigues was a vast, far-reaching, fast growing one, even they did not know the immensity of it. While they exulted over the partial failure of one of those schemes of destruction, Von Papen, Boy-Ed, and Dr. Heinrich Albert were at work on still another—and greater one.
In the rooms of the Hohenzollern Club they set in conversation one afternoon.
"Von Papen, Count Von Bernstorff complains constantly about the regular shipment of troops and supplies from Canada," said Albert turning to the military attache. "What are we to do about it? He has asked me several times for a plan."