Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1925, Page 91

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 25, 1925—PART 7. 15 and looked into your eyes! Il will'{1 thought of having some gun play A Story of Mystery and Adventure ' BY VICTOR MacCLURE. Coprrigit, 1924, by Harper & Brothers. tinued from Yesterd: Star.) The Mlttle Chief looked very stern ®nd grave as he gazed on the scene, and it was he whe put the cushion under the President’s head and cover- @8 him. He left the note in answer on the table. “Find something to cover the girl, Beton.” he sald. “She is thinly clad, “Boon's flylng coat will do for Miss Merlin_come winging up in a wide circle from the southeast, a fact that made us realize again her magnificent turn of speed, since she had been able to follow the false trall and make loops in search. I had taken a party of men armed with Winchesters to the top of the plateau to watch, for with the basin and the amount of water und us there was distinct temptation for a POPULAR FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION uring Car. Hell!” “1 see,” Seton sald quletly. “Well perhaps you're right. Milliken!” e turned on his heel and left us with the guards. Milliken faced Dan and myself then “I did my best,” he said n “I'm certain of that, old M sald I “If you'd only fired & shot or s thing to give me warning— 1 thought with shame that I might have risked a wound to draw the firs of our ambushers, and I feit pretty sick, T can tell you But I only nodded to him to go on “I was cleaning up, before tv her to be ready for making o liken sald, “when I heurd somebody call, ‘Oh, you, Milliken! ke you, Mr. Boon, bt was mighty queer that 3 at all. Opening the front acreer answered the hail. ‘Oh, vou, XM {ken,’ the volce sings out again, anute!” with my automatic, but theyr'd got | me corralled for kure, i no chance of rellef coming. £0 when the blasted pirates wiggled a white flug und I saw who It was I was up against chucked in my hand——"* “It was the only thing to do, Milli- I eald. “They'd have s you out or r 1 the boat you think so. Dan?" “Sure,” sald Dan. “We'll work bet- ter three together, anyhow, now we're here.” At this momen n came into the cave agaln with two or e men— )0t the least bit pratical, any of Sorry to disturd 3 that I muet blir You are wunted el The bandages we and we fc ®orrance sir,” I said, and with a very | Seaplane to alight Y to: myselt that's mighty |ths stsansoct queer feeling, although I knew she | Like some graceful great bird the GussE ol Bhan Towion wight ntine L eval oo ‘waa unharmed, I put the coat about |Plane swooped down on the platea body dodglng umong the trees, and he |~ hen, I turned fo find the master look- |8nd, hidden among the trees, we saw e B U S Conti ing at me strangely. her zoom over the edge of the bluff X " i . ghade to yours or Mr. Lamoni's 3 . - E d you say vag?" | east of the red scar. & . 4 ; o X dot kniii] ; e J1 yettany: the EIsT e I stationed ms men among the et o 2t - s el Gl g How History Should Be Taught. “Miss Torrance, sir. The Presi- |Shrubs west of the scar, in case Boon oo S SRR I ; . g - Sra dile—4her eithia: noks. Beltig ! dent's niece.” would take it into his head to come N o § 4 i : D SERITRE the, tresss-T start Jowering “Then she must be related to that |down on the upper lake and begin to R . . 7 i the aerial of the radio to send off 3 David Torrance who was something | InVvestigate. And so It fell out. We 7 i 3 Quick message. There wasn't much |Countrs, but also from that of fc of a physicist twenty-0dd years ago? | Walted a considerable time, then we ehance of It belng picked up, what |er% If history wers taught by French- Es: btk tor mict saw Lamont and Hoon descend the ; ) : 3 Lo betng on the water and with |Men In Ingland and inglishinen in “I knew David Torrance well—and [bluff. R L 2 the irees and stuff around, but I|FTance thers would be no disagreements his wife,” the chief said slowly. “I “"'*;‘ S he T astia g . ¢ thought it was the first move in the | I® lf‘\hlxz’:;n;ox(x;\.tr(nwhhemun‘ s did not know they had a er—" mched the red =caTywiiloh Seanis 3 4 3 s 3 , il would un nd the others point of iR e Gl e lntexset: themt Srbatiy, -espectitly . L ) 3 S B . . Go0d for you, Milliken," said Dan, | view girl, and sain, “with ‘% 1ittle pieying |Lamont. They then worked round : Mt T is eonar N et the mica i gesture of his one hand: o thie marth FLA A bt than from the bushes near two shots i “Poor child! She ¢an never have|the shrubs and trees in the directic : St L el gttty What a Difference known her father—" of the cliffs over the basin. I sent and a halt of suspense. Had Milliken | when 00 minutes had passed we found | for the aerfal snapped and the loose | From the New Tork Times He turned his mild gaze on me,|B8éveral men to cut off their retreat to managed to get away? I saw. diffi- [our hope was vain. end came colling up into the cabin.| A Worthy misclonars and it held nothing of the slight | the Merlin. But the visitors did not culty in this, even supposing he had| The curtain over the cave entrance | That finlshed the first trick. I made |hsina, “Rock of Ages,” emotion or pity that had seemed to|immediately go back to their plane %0 cffectually disposed of his attack- | was tHrown aside and Seton entered, |a jump for one of the machine guns | Hindustani. On lie in his voice They bore down the west side of ,”" ers as to let him get out of the Mer- | leading our mechanic blindfolded. It wasn't much use. From the posi-|lish by a student 1 “Come, Seton,” he sald quietly.|OUtcrop toward the sinter cones and tin's cabin. Before he could make off | “Here's your man, Boon,” said|tion of the boat I couldn't bore this inspiring and “*Tiflg night you and T have Ht such|!t Was behind these that I had miy he would have to turn her nose away | Seton. “He put up a jolly good fight, [arc of fire I wanted. So I tr he | anpec @ candle- Pray that Benjamin Mmen disposed, close to the descending from land, and then there would be|but the dice were against him. Cheer | forra’d gun. That wasn't any use | “Very old stone Whitcomb has courage worthy his|Passage to the caves. the difficulty of starting without some | up, Milliken; no man could have done | I couldn’t get the depressiorn “Let me abs great responsibility When they had fully sasured thame one to flip over the propeller. There | better.” loosed off at a big tree trun nents. was just a chance that he had man-' “I don’t want any certificates from | the shell fragments co ack aged this, though the operation was|you,” Milliken sald grimly, the ban-| might do a bit of damage 3 = = difficult and dangerous, but I cursed | dages off his eyes. “That's just about | the tree down. A Whisper in Print from plateau, except twice by |8round passage, while I took my men myself that I had not thought of|the last thing I'll stand for.” “All this time the others hadn’t night k up wireless messages.|UP to the lake to see what could be arranging a self-starter for the plane.| “Come, come, Milliken,” sald Seton |answered. But another two shots zo The f our answer to the Presi- |done for the remalning visitor. 5 Dan and 1 discussed the probabili- [gently. “You can't bear all that illlbang, and from the noise I judge de ult to gauge from what — e 3 ties in low tones. We knew the de- | will." they've punctured the floats. That is we picked up. but certainly our | BOOK THREE—Continuation of the - mination and resource of our com-| “You sink the Merlin and capture|right. The old lady begins to settle, method of making the reply was Narrative of James V. Boon. e hundred experiences. We | ~well, I can face that!” said Mil- by a me swinging sideways, then I have a go bandied about In wonderment from ety pinned our hope to those stout quali- |liken thickly. “But you dope|with the other mitrailleuse. But coast oast That there was no i - ties of Millikne and be n to think | women—a girl like Miss Torrence— | she's settling by the head and by and . likelihood of an armistice being de- Tanithe CreatiCavera. % that we had a chance of rescue. But | who' vou her hand to shake|by her propeller is buried in the mua. | Just Drive It—That's All clared we knew from the speed pur- suit of us by Boou and company, who I were pat within—fc e Mer«| Dan Lamont and myself were | Hn—tw ' flight from our lair. pped. We found ourselves looking | rushing sound of falling water was [ selves much Whether t me upon such a | down the rifies and | louder now and the hum of machinery | “lee, too hot sc us b nt or not wela pistol, the 1d by Sholto |in good bearings more insistent “As 'you sec t for certainly we had|Seton We reached level ground and| Questions seemingly were barred. done ever & that varying speed of |~ It would have been useless to give | threaded our way among machines— | 1" silence, then Dan and I seated Might, and varving direction, could | way to my first Impulse, which was | we could smell the lubricant—then | gurselves in two carmp chairs and ol compass to confus s Thelto pull my zun. 1 calculated the |our feet rattled hollow on a wooden |t our drinks. As may be judged potnt ¢ 1 th a ch of shooting, but it was cer- | bridge. Solid ground ag we were both a bit dazed and feeling the cres lin was the pres-| tajn that the men fac us W other flight of wooden ste KY | dead foolish at having walked so ence amor . he declared on | putting up no bluff. Surprise -and |path and then we were halted with a [ peot, F7F 0 8 trap that was close the evide f several of nt's | anger robbed us of speech, and for a | touch and the bandages were whibbed | on' ugs so firmly. I had a faint hope pape ) v had one of the|moment or two Dan and 1 faced the | from our eves. tHat Milika ad) searcous odbteoe keenest brains America | threatening muzzles without a word,| Dan and I were blinking at each | from the bluff and that he had had I should like to meet Mr. Lamont.” | our hands in the alr. Seton stepped |other In a biggish cave whose Tock | fho sense to pet oft mith b Meriie the master said to me fn his gentle | aside and quickly deprived us of our | walls were cream color. Well | {ni Sqine [ BEL O WOMR, the Btertin way. I almost wish we' had kid- I found my tongue then. | scrubbed tables stood in regular pat- | o qucation of time unti atimed novdey naped him at Washington, my des < said hotly, “vou are the|tern on the roughly leveled floor, |\vere swooping down on the plestes Mr. Boon shows signs r of the damned pirates, after | with crudely made benches about | 1nir® Tut hs T considered the iden I floser to our hiding | 3} them. In one corner of the chamber | yecan to see that it was next to fm- egin to resret “Tf you like to put it that way,”|shelves of lumber held a number of | JA8GH, 0 ¢ 40t 0 VER BEE 00, 00 capture also. Lamc Seton replied quietly s. You may | books, cheap editions of movels| DM (A GG TEIe Of KRE B0C-UD one of his made »ut your hands down now.” mostly, and on the walls were targets | 1. trees round the sinter cones to be sing mist I thoughit of the kindness that|for dart games and boards for wall| g reened effectually from view from ; ! had received from Kirsteen | quoits. Here and thers on the cave | ine nioit. rance and Lord Almerlc, of the | walls were pasted colored and half- 3 ) riendly reception of him at the|tone fllustrations from American and| WIth that hope in the discard, I We max : Nt down | \White House by the President and I| English magazines, reprints of draw- | De8an to formulate another, which on us at any r.” 1 laughed. | choked with rage. I took a look at|ingg by Kirchner and Fontain that|W28 that my mechanic would have e . | Dan, and from the whiteness of his | made one think of dugouts on the |the time to get off a broadcast mes- sug I could see that he was sharing | western front years ago. s&ge Ut qur swhereahontm it the mla- ling. But we said nothing | opening in one of the cave walls gave | t4U Party tried to hold him up. But broke over us on the : light and ventilation and through it |€¥en as I was turning over in my d it lasted off and | ) s if our capture had|was a view of what I took to be the |Mind that and other schemes: for M th DEAIDaryby coo 1ot lexseatodi nr haoth cup-shaped basin to the north of the |liken, my calculations were pulled i #t- | fhe movement on the part of § s | plateau. I would have crossed to the | 4P DY a distant noise was just about automatic % | bpanive toluoE Out oniths =oen Two rifle shots in the-distance, a ertrand Rassell, in the Contary Magazine from the point of Hew of one's o Caafllac V-63 Custom-Bujlt Sedan. - 3 selves that their suspicions were well We went out by the window, clos- e b i b founded, we held them up. They were InE ety blindfolded and led down the under- For the next week we did not move | bltndfolded anc B owen ths Maxwell Roadster Offered for 19: %m%?menfing the WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE until on n the third week aturday closed in on us, and our eyes were | one of our guards pointed his r pause—and then the unmistakable — ds on | quickly bandaged. We were ordered | “No, don't do that, Mr. Boon,’ | “rat-tat-tat! rat-tat-tat!” of a ma- - ( Panama. | ¢, march, said, and he added whims chine On the > knew th ‘I For a yard or two we were directed | a pause “Sit down and make yours Milliken was fighting for it! Boon was hot after us—he was al-| (hrough scrub, then we found our- | miserable for a bit.” My heart loapéa atthe sound, and ways terribly frank with his wireless | (ojves gescending some rough steps. He was an American, a lean and |J felt myself quiver with excitement. messages—but we went out again on the day ing and stopped a ship between the Galapagos and the mainl We e returning over uil and flying low when we saw the Merl the roadstead of From the alr and from the sound of | lanky individual with a twinkle In|\we jumped to our feet, Danny and I, our feet as they crunched on the rock | bis eves. The other, for now there |and my friend's eves were ablaze, under us, it was evident that we wi were only two, was a stout man with | “Oh, you, Milliken!" yelled Danny. some sort of tunnel. The crude|that irradicable ai. of the sea about |«Attaboy!” steps gave place to a rambling down- | him which always tells the British ward incline, and the air blew cool | seaman about us with a smell of ozone. 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