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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May 1918
1918-05-02 Conger Reynolds to Daphe Reynolds Page 2
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to know something about the Boche spy system and were to hear it from someone else I should find it hard to believe. You were a nervy, daring - I might almost say reckless - girl to do the trick. At the same time you were exceedingly clever at it, and you must have been cooler than I can imagine one's being under such circumstances or you would never have succeeded as you did. What you tell me of the papers you nabbed sounds very much as if they might have contained cipher messages. No doubt that point has been settled by now. I'm inordinately proud of you. You've landed a Boche as surely and as heroically as the airman I talked to today just after he had shot down his first German. I don't hesitate to tell you that I'm all admiration of your achievement. At the same time I am dreadfully worried. I foresee a great deal of annoyance for you in the court proceedings that must follow. And there are several features of the case that are a bit shaky. It is unfortunate that the facts got into the newspaper; publicity concerning spy-catching is not advisable to say the least. Again I say that it was a brave and patriotic thing for you to do. But I hope - I even urge upon you - that you will not do anything like it again, Honey, I know
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to know something about the Boche spy system and were to hear it from someone else I should find it hard to believe. You were a nervy, daring - I might almost say reckless - girl to do the trick. At the same time you were exceedingly clever at it, and you must have been cooler than I can imagine one's being under such circumstances or you would never have succeeded as you did. What you tell me of the papers you nabbed sounds very much as if they might have contained cipher messages. No doubt that point has been settled by now. I'm inordinately proud of you. You've landed a Boche as surely and as heroically as the airman I talked to today just after he had shot down his first German. I don't hesitate to tell you that I'm all admiration of your achievement. At the same time I am dreadfully worried. I foresee a great deal of annoyance for you in the court proceedings that must follow. And there are several features of the case that are a bit shaky. It is unfortunate that the facts got into the newspaper; publicity concerning spy-catching is not advisable to say the least. Again I say that it was a brave and patriotic thing for you to do. But I hope - I even urge upon you - that you will not do anything like it again, Honey, I know
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