"When do you want them to get on the job?"
"As soon as they can do so, after you get back to your office."
"Are they to follow the whole gang clear out to the Selim house?"
"Most decidedly! After the unwilling guests are safely within the house,
your boys must guard the premises so that _no one_ leaves without
permission."
"That's all as good as done," Strawn assured him. "Now--about them
inquiries you asked me to make yesterday of the secretary of the
American Legion." He drew a scrap of paper from his breast pocket. "I
find that John Drake, Peter Dunlap and Clive Hammond were all in
service, in the ----th Division, which was held up late in January,
1918, for nearly two weeks, in Hoboken, before the War Department could
get transports to send 'em to France. Miles, who enlisted the day war
was declared, was wounded and shipped home late in 1917. He was
discharged as unfit for further service--spinal operation--from a New
Jersey base hospital on January 12, 1918. Furthermore, Judge Marshall
was in New York the whole winter of 1917-'18, attached to the Red Cross
in some legal capacity. He donated his services and--"
"All that doesn't matter now, Captain, but thanks just the same," Dundee
interrupted. "Now if you will both excuse me, I've got a lot of work to
do before five o'clock today!"
Dundee had not exaggerated.
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