Suddenly apprehension pierced her heart. It was one thing to work for the sheer thrill of trapping spies, but quite another to find her father was really involved.
“Dad, what is it?” she asked. “Does all this in any way affect you? A while back I thought it might and then—”
“I’m afraid it does, Kitty. But go on, I want to hear your reasons for believing Beeson is involved.”
“For one thing he leased that island after we went into the war. That certainly could have been done with an ulterior motive. Second, he moved Uncle Mose out of his cabin up to the other end of the island. Uncle Mose used to live in sight of the hospital dump pile. Also he has a look-out in the pine thicket.”
“A look-out?”
“Brad climbed the pine after we got Billy down Sunday. It’s wired to make climbing easy. There’s a seat at the top with a marvelous view of the entire marshes and out to sea.”
“But you didn’t mention all this Sunday.”
“We thought right away it was connected with the whole dirty business. Hazel was along, so we decided to say nothing until we could figure things out better.”
“Is that all?”
“We figured that a small radio could be carried up on Beeson’s back, so he could direct action from his look-out. He could watch people coming from any direction, and warn small boats coming in from the subs. Seemed like a perfect set-up.”