"
The boy brought the wire up and also the news that the couple in
whose room we were had very nearly finished luncheon and might be
expected back in a few minutes.
Kennedy took the tiny wires, and after connecting them hung up the
picture again and ran them up alongside the picture wires leading
from the huge transmitter up to the picture moulding. Along the
top of the moulding and out through the transom it was easy enough
to run the wires and so down the hall to a vacant room, where Craig
attached them quickly to one of the old telephone receivers.
Then we sat down in this room to await developments from our hastily
improvised picture frame microphone detective.
At last we could hear the elevator door close on our floor. A
moment later it was evident from the expression of Kennedy's face
that some one had entered the room which we had just left. He had
finished not a moment too soon.
"It's a good thing that I didn't wait to put a dictograph there,"
he remarked to us. "I thought I wasn't reckoning without reason.
The couple, whoever they are, are talking in undertones and
looking about the room to see if anything has been disturbed in
their absence."
Kennedy alone, of course, could follow over his end of the telephone
what they said.
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