He took that for a satisfactory finish, if you please, and went down the gangplank with her, we reached Havre, and the captain came along the deck, I thanked him for a good crossing.
"Ah—and did you have interesting companions "Very. One in particular Major Cameron, a medical officer. He sat at my table. He and a Spanish lady. They are lovers, The captain raised his eyebrows. "He is very interesting, and he has considered my feelings. I appreciate his delicacy."
He started to leave me, then turned "So he told me.
For a moment he paused, then filed, raised his hand to his cap, was moving off again.
MI followed him, "Isn't he a me-officer?"
ie captain red his voices "It The G-men are on the job. They always are when there is a kidnapping inquiry, writes the New York correspondent of the "Sunday Express."
That is why the Lindbergh Law was passed by Congress six years ago. It made kidnapping a Federal offence, and G-men are the Federal Government's agents. They are expert shots, highly educated young men, made famous by their achievements and by the spontaneous publicity machine of films, magazine articles, and 10,000 published photographs.
But since the hectic days of 1933, when six adults were kidnapped in four months and all returned through the G-men's efforts, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover and his Federal Bureau of Investigation have slipped in public esteem:
The American Press has been critical recently. It has asked: What are the causes of the sudden crop of kidnappings? Why does America have the monopoly of them, and why don't G-men do something about them?
These questions are not easy to answer. Hoover himself, shrugged his shoulders and said in a halfhearted reply that he could not account for the kidnapping revival. He mentioned that he needed more men and more money.
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