"Can't stop to talk about it now, old fellow. Tell you later what
I think I've stumbled on. I think I know now what my hunch meant.
I'm streaking it straight for headquarters as fast as my legs will
carry me."
Bart saw how wrought up he was, and followed him without further
questioning.
Straight to his captain Frank hastened and told his story. He had
not finished before the captain sent out hastily for others higher
in authority. Then Frank, often interrupted by excited
questioning, narrated every detail of the night's discovery. The
phial was handed over to the chief medical officer, and Frank,
after hearty commendation, was bidden to hold himself ready for
call at a moment's notice.
He hurried off to the barracks, where his comrades were eagerly
awaiting him. To them he poured out all he knew and suspected.
That night and the next day witnessed busy scenes at the
headquarters of the medical staff. The contents of the phial were
analysed and justified Frank's suspicions. A force was organized
in which the Army Boys were included to seize the arch-plotter. It
would have been possible to have entered his house from the front,
but the broad street on which it stood was a thoroughfare thronged
with people at night, and in order to avoid possible riot and
attempt at rescue it was deemed best to enter from the trap door
in the alley.
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