After arriving at the Leeds City Police Station, John suddenly discovered that the nonsensical "espionage case" that happened to him had begun to develop in a more nonsensical direction. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, he didn't think he would stay in it for long. After all, it's not too difficult to prove his identity. Just give the U.S. Embassy a call and ask them to send someone to verify.

However, he clearly overestimated the level of dedication of the British police. They didn't even give him a chance to speak, so they sent him to a prison cell.

John found out when he inquired with his "cellmates". At this time, the so-called "find out the fifth column around you" activity in Britain was in full swing. Spurred on by patriotic fervor and the £150 bounty, a large number of "German spies" like him were caught.

Now, no less than 100 so-called "German spies" are being held in the detention center of the Leeds police station alone. The local police didn't have the energy to interrogate them one by one, and they didn't dare to release them easily, so they had to take care of them all. When you have enough of them, you will notify the National Security Service (MI5) to come and receive them.

How can this be! This is dereliction of duty! It's just so irresponsible! John was almost jumping to his feet and scolding the street. When he goes out, he must speak to Sir Anderson, Secretary of State for the Home Affairs. But now, John can only hope that the driver assigned to him by Donovan will come to him.

Who let him do things inconsiderately, consider himself unlucky. And just like that, for the first time in his life, John spent the night in his cell.

That night, John was in the same cell as two other people, and they were arrested for a strange reason.

One of them is a railroad worker. When he was buying bread at the ration store, he used a counterfeit currency suspected to have been forged by the Germans, and was reported by the store owner. This unlucky guy couldn't remember where the counterfeit money came from, so he was arrested as a "German spy".

John knew that German intelligence had historically done the unethical act of buying intelligence from informants with fake pounds. It seems that the servant of the British ambassador to Turkey has fallen for this. The Germans exchanged 300,000 pounds of counterfeit money from him for a large amount of valuable information. After the war, this guy also filed a lawsuit with the Federal Government of the Federal Republic of Germany for compensation for his losses, which staged a farce. However, John did not think that a railroad wrench could have any valuable information in his hands.

The other one is even more bizarre. He was a pastor of a village church who was arrested for ringing the bell without permission and accused of cooperating with the Germans in causing social chaos. (At this time, only the big cities in Britain had air raid sirens.) In the countryside, it is usually replaced by a church bell. At the height of the air war in Britain, Britain also issued a special law prohibiting the ringing of bells unless there was an air invasion. ）

It's a big world, and there are no wonders. John felt that he had seen so much, that £150 was so powerful.

If the first night was a little new, by noon the next day, John was starting to get a little anxious. He and Donovan agreed to return to London tomorrow. If it continues like this, I won't be able to catch up with the passenger ship of the delegation returning home.

Later, John learned that the guy from the inn didn't make it clear when he got back, causing the driver to go to the wrong place. He inquired at the police station in York for a day without hearing anything from John, and then turned around and ran back to London to report to Donovan.

Donovan hurried to contact MI5, which was in charge of counterintelligence. But John was locked up at the Leeds City Police Station, and MI5 never received any news of his arrest. After several twists and turns, by the time Donovan and others found John, it was already the fourth day of his "imprisonment".

"John, is that you? You okay? When Donovan saw John in the detention center, he was unkempt, unkempt, sour and stinking, almost unrecognizable.

"You're finally here, I thought I'd be in there for Michael Day." John replied listlessly. On such a hot day, the cell is like a steamer, and who can still be refreshed without changing clothes or bathing for four consecutive days.

"I'm sorry, Lt. Colonel Vanderbilt. We made a mistake in our work, and you were wronged. Beside Donovan, a tall, middle-aged British officer apologized to John.

"This is Brigade Commander Halq of MI5 (the second head of MI5)." Donovan obviously didn't want to stay in this kind of ghost place for long, so after a brief introduction, he said, "This is not the place to talk. You'd better find a place to wash and change your clothes, and talk about it later at dinner. ”

By the time John cleaned up and came out of the hotel bathroom, Donovan was the only one in the room. "They're all downstairs in the restaurant, and there's something I need to tell you first." Donovan's expression was very serious: "The delegation returned to China this morning, and you made us very passive this time." William and Stimson were angry. ”

John smiled wryly, knowing he had messed up this time. In the past two days in prison, he has already figured it out. He was a lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army, who acted alone when he went abroad for an investigation, and was arrested as a German spy and locked up for so many days. This is not only a matter of personal disgrace, but also likely to damage major domestic affairs.

The presidential election is just over two months away, and William is the No. 3 man on the Republican side. If the news of his arrest is reported back to China, the Democratic Party will definitely catch it. The important figure of the Vanderbilt family is the "German spy", whether it is true or not, as long as the controlled media over there brings the rhythm up, the white can be said to you to be black.

Moreover, although Wilkie has little chance of winning Roosevelt, once the election is really lost, someone in the party will always come out and take responsibility. If his incident this time really affects the election, it is difficult for the Vanderbilt family to guarantee that they will not be pushed out by other "colleagues" in the party to carry this black pot. By that time, John would be the sinner of the family.

"Are there many people who know about this now?" John carefully asked what he was most worried about these days.

"Thankfully, the driver I left behind that day was from the Special Operations Committee, not from the embassy. Otherwise, now the whole of America knows about it! Donovan himself felt lucky. Thanks to that day, he had a little more heart, worried that John would not be safe alone in the country, so he left the car and driver arranged for him by the British Special Operations Committee to John, and left by himself in the embassy car.

"Don't worry about the British, they are more reluctant to let this matter come to light than you, and will take the initiative to help cover it up. The delegation was originally doing its own thing, and I said that you still have a special investigation mission, and if you leave a few days later, ordinary people will not think much about it. The point is that on the embassy side, Kennedy has asked me about your movements, intentionally or unintentionally, and I am afraid that after a long time, he will find out something sooner or later. At the mention of Kennedy, Roosevelt's pug, Donovan also frowned a little.

John had thought about it a long time ago. Although Kennedy no longer invited Roosevelt, he was still very loyal to Roosevelt. Perhaps, he was thinking about how to seize John's handle so that he could regain the favor of his master.

But it doesn't matter, he still has a way to deal with Kennedy. In the past two days, he has already planned his future. As long as Donovan and British intelligence were willing to cooperate with him, he could get Kennedy out of the way in minutes.