"A good deal. Wasn't there something in the paper tonight about trouble with the 'longshoremen?"
"Yes—but it's all settled up. That is, the indications are that it will be settled. Why?"
"Because it's far from settled. Look here!"
A finger pointed to a scrawled line in the old memorandum book. Slowly the words were translated:
"Special notation—germs for 'longshoremen if agitation fails."
"And agitation has failed!" Harrison Grant said quickly. "Agitation has failed—and that means some other attempt against the 'longshoremen. It means——"
"But the bacteriologist is dead. He won't carry out his orders."
"Imperial Germany only begins its real deviltry after it's been blocked!" said Harrison Grant. "It's first and second line of offences have already failed in this campaign against the 'longshoremen. But you can count on it, Billy, that there's a reserve somewhere—and that the blow is going to fall and fall quick! Get to a telephone as quickly as you can! Notify every member of the Criminology Club to seek work at the docks as 'longshoremen. Tell them to keep their eyes and ears open for everything that sounds like German propaganda!"
"Nothing there that will tell what they're planning?"
"No—only the indication that they are planning something and that they'll keep on working in spite of the death of this man. What they intend to do is for us to find out—and we've got to find out quick! So hurry to the telephone. The docks are open day and night now, you know. Every member who can spare the sleep must find employment tonight. The rest of them will get jobs in the morning—we'll work in day and night shifts!"