Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Blum Howard

Author:Blum, Howard [Blum, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

IN NEW YORK, THE OTHER team was on the move.

When the clock maker left his office just before noon, he had headed out on a meandering route across lower Manhattan. Kienzle went into one downtown building after another, and two detectives, keeping a careful distance, went in after him each time. But it was all business; in one office, the clocks were running too fast, in another too slow. The old man made the necessary mechanical corrections and then continued on.

As Tom received this discouraging report, he began to wish that he could adjust time too. Instead, he continued to hear it ticking ominously away. How soon, he wondered, before the next fire broke out on a transport ship?

It was after five when the exhausted surveillance team trailed Kienzle into the lobby of the Equitable Building on lower Broadway. Bored after the long, uneventful day, they watched him head toward the elevators. No doubt he’d be going to another office to repair another clock, the team predicted as they waited by the front doors and made a big show of focusing their attention on the building directory.

Kienzle let one elevator pass without boarding. Then another. And in the next wonderful moment the watchers were all at once on full alert: Fay and Scholz, beaming smiles on their faces, had just bounded across the lobby to greet the clock maker.

There was a brief conversation that the detectives could only wish they could hear; and then Fay, after excusing himself, walked to the row of telephone booths on the other side of the lobby. When he closed the door to make a call, Detective Sterett hurried into the next booth.

The partition was thin, and the attentive detective could hear every word. Fay was talking to someone in the garage in Weehawken, asking if a package had been delivered. “It hasn’t, eh?” he heard Fay say before hanging up the receiver.

The next moment Fay was back with his two friends, and the trio went off to a noisy restaurant on Fulton Street for dinner. The detectives took a table far across the room. They watched enviously as plates heaped with steaks and chops were consumed all around them, but they knew Captain Tunney would have their heads if they dared to bill the department for a full dinner. Instead, they spent well over an hour nursing a single mug of beer apiece, at the same time dodging the withering glances the waiter was shooting at them.

After dinner, the clock maker said his good-byes, and the two young men went off for a night on the town. They wound up at the Grand Central Palace, a block-long fortress of a building on Lexington Avenue between Forty-Sixth and Forty-Seventh Streets that had been erected over the New York Central tracks leading into Grand Central Terminal.

The cavernous ground floor of the Palace was jumping; a bar stretched across one wall, and up front on the stage a band was playing. The handsome Fay quickly found a slinky blonde to dance with, and she waved to a friend who seemed happy to be with Scholz.

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