One of Guffey's "under cover operatives"--that was the technical
term for the Peter Gudges and Joe Angells--was a man by the name of
Jonas. This Jonas called himself a "philosophic anarchist," and
posed as the reddest Red in American City; it was his habit to rise
up in radical meetings and question the speaker, and try to tempt
him to justify violence and insurrection and "mass-action." If he
repudiated these ideas, then Jonas would denounce him as a
"mollycoddle," a "pink tea Socialist," a "labor faker." Other people
in the audience would applaud, and so Guffey's men would find out
who were the real Red sympathizers.
Peter had long suspected Jonas, and now he was sent to meet him in
Room 427 of the American House, and together they framed up a job on
Sydney. Jonas wrote a letter, supposed to come from a German
"comrade," giving the names of some papers in Europe to which the
editor should send sample copies of his magazine. This letter was
mailed to Sydney, and next morning Jonas wandered into the office,
and Sydney showed him the letter, and Jonas told him that these were
labor papers, and the editors would no doubt be interested to know
of the feelings of American soldiers since the war.
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