"That's good German," he said.
"Go on," said the captain. "This is very interesting."
Kenneth wrote down the letters as he read them.
"By George!" he cried. "In English it reads: 'Tell our friend it is now due east.'"
"What's due east?" Captain Adams exclaimed. "Try the other paper."
"The first word is bedeutend, 'considerable,'" said Kenneth, writing. "The English of it all is, 'Considerable movement in the rear.'"
The officers glanced at one another.
"We've had a spy among us, then," said the captain quietly. "Where did you get this, Randall?"
Harry explained, without however naming the man whom, in common with Kenneth, he now suspected. But his reticence was unnecessary.
"It's that fellow Stoneway, without a doubt," said one of the lieutenants. "He makes the most weird sounds on his flute. You'll arrest him, Adams?"