Armitage took up the receiver.
"Is this you, Jack?" came the voice. "This is Thornton. Say, they 've got Yeasky."
"Where?" Jack's voice was husky.
"In Boston."
"Did they find anything?"
"No; they went through everything. He had n't a thing except a note signed 'Vassili' something, and some Austrian army data."
"The family name of the man we 're gunning for," said Armitage. "Has he said anything?"
"Nothing. They have not told him what he was captured for either, although I guess he knows. They want your orders."
"All right," said Armitage. "Tell them to let him go, provided he leaves Boston by the first boat."
"What!"