Chapter XIII

When Hilda had finished telling her story the men plied her with questions. Did she see a wireless anywhere about? What did the inside of that barn look like? What sort of wires had she spoken of as being stretched on the barn walls and how were they arranged? Just how did the man look who came in an aeroplane and how many times did he come? When she described him the men nodded to one another. “I guess it’s the same chap. He must be in charge of the whole ring in this part of the country.” In the midst of it all t…