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SECRET ARMIES
you a bank
"Have
account?"
He
hesitated again and then said,
money for a bank account."
do you keep your money
"Where
In
"No,
do not make enough
I
for
trips
to
Germany?
cash?"
in
"Yes,
cash."
Here? In this
in this room.
"Where?
room?"
Not
"No.
I
have
it
locked
up."
"Where?"
different
"Oh,
"Where
"I
have
he said vaguely.
places,"
are those
places?"
my money
with a
friend."
"Who?"
"Nordenholz,
"You
dollars
Albert
Nordenholz."
work in Brooklyn, live in Sheepshead Bay and save ten
a week in Port Richmond with a friend? Isn t that a long
distance to go to save money?"
He shrugged his shoulders without answering.
"What s
"I
Nordenholz
think he
don
"You
t
travel all this
s
s business?"
retired.
I
think he used to be a
there are banks all around?
"Oh,
I
don
ever
t
know.
It
I
Why
seems to
do you do
me
that
that?"
it is
better that
way."
asked Nordenholz, he denied that Dieckhoff had
when
given him any money
Later
butcher."
very much about a man s business and you
distance to give him money to save for you when
know
to hold.
Dieckhoff had worked on turbines, gear reductions and other
complicated mechanical parts on the cruiser "Brooklyn." The
moment
I
asked
the affirmative,
him
he handled blueprints he answered in
but quickly added that the blueprints were
if
returned every night and locked up by the officers. A capable
machinist could, he admitted, after careful study remember the
blueprints well enough to
make
a duplicate copy.