Arthur B. Reeve

“ At once a score of men sprang from the hold of the ship, as if by magic. One by one the cases were loaded. The men were working feverishly by the light of battle-lanterns—big lamps with reflectors so placed as to throw the light exactly where it was needed and nowhere else. ”

“ We met Burke at the subway-entrance, in a state of great excitement.
“What’s the news?” asked Kennedy eagerly.
“I’ve been following up Morelos,” replied Burke as he hurried us along down the street. “I’ve just learned that the Revolutionists are preparing to ship a large amount of arms and ammunition down to Mexico as well as a lot of machinery for the making of money for the rebels. According to the information I have, it is to go on a tramp ship, the Arroyo, tonight. The papers are all made out and she is supposed to sail with the tide tonight, carrying a cargo of corn and oats.” ”

“ CHAPTER IX THE GUN-RUNNERS TO ONE who knows South Street as merely a river-front street, whose glory of other days has long since departed, where an antiquated horse-car now ambles slowly uptown and trucks and carts are all day long in a perpetual jam, it is peculiarly uninteresting by day and deserted and even vicious-looking by night. ”