"Where was it left?" the captain demanded sharply.
"On that table there," Lieutenant Mackinson answered. "I placed it there myself, as you probably will remember, just before we went out together."
"I remember," the captain admitted.
"That spy has been back," the junior officer continued. "Back in this very room after his instrument, and he intends to use it yet if he can!"
CHAPTER VII
The Timely Rescue
It was no pleasant thought to contemplate the presence of a bold, even desperate, agent of an enemy government, on board an American transport carrying approximately two thousand souls.
That he was capable of going any lengths, if necessary, already had been proved; and the evidence of his evil genius might come in horrible form at any instant.