He stopped at length, and others in the party had their turn. Here
was something beyond what the raiding party had looked for. They
had stumbled upon a nest of conspirators who, in their way, as the
doctor in his, were deadly enemies of society in general and the
Americans in particular.
Through this secret passage into the alley, for how long none of
them knew, these desperate men had been going to and fro, avoiding
attention and hatching in the doctor's office a plot that had kept
the entire zone of the American Army of Occupation in a state of
unrest. The proof was all-sufficient, and the conspirators were
weaving the noose for their own necks.
The lieutenant lifted his hand, swung the door wide open, and,
followed by his men, rushed into the room.
CHAPTER XXV
THE TREATY SIGNED
It was a scene of wild confusion. Men jumped from their seats with
shouts and execrations. One man leaped for the electric switch to
turn out the light, but Frank reached him at a bound and felled
him to the floor. Pistols were drawn, but the doughboys knocked
them out of the conspirators' hands, and in a twinkling had the
men gripped and powerless.
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