Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 66

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 7, 1927—PART 5. “Circle Wide—We’ll Meet Above the Clouds” By Stephen Avery Tom Boone Was in He Looked Upon Marion as His Best Friend as Well as His Sweetheart. | it's true. jdon't protect him, Tom. Promise me | ~ i vou will Do you still love me, | nst them a con She hid her face against "his tunie. 3 1 to do that?’ famous ener I can’'t say it. Tom. 1 can't tell} stood up abruptly. “Come on. 1 ws o owith the b | suppose you're on duty early. It's| wings. You “Lets not be sentimental,” said | ridiculous to talk about one pursuit | them and you know won't pretend this doesn't | pilot protecting another, but, if it | 9 for a loop. But 1 can un-|means as much as that to you, I'll— | nd it. Since 1 fir | do what I can.” | Phil has probably <! They walked down the empty street | here every night, ev the hospital. At the nurse's en- didn't come myself He is a dashing | trance N n “You haven't heard the stories of bis | said w night vou were coming up | our ealling him ‘St i When he made no reply her him as St. Georse |eves began to glisten in the dark. ' sword. He is the [ “Well, then, will you tell him to come drome at iy, 15 deal pursuit pilot, the hero who [ tomorrow? I shall not breathe until Yar>le 0 L < o fe 1 don’'t blame vou a |l know he's safe.” din. DHAL. 15 0t a1l there [ Dit: SNTabion: | He started to go. but she held his Souilly. He thousht of taking | “I can’t help it, Tom. It's true, but!arm Walt, Oh, what have I done anchard with him again and [ can't—can't help it You're worth to you, Tom u're the best man I road for him to come (2 thousand of him. You're dearer,|”Ver hope to know. 1Would you care to kiss me—just once in vather liked St George (braver, finer. You're a better pilot. | to have company Oh. I've heard about vou, too, Tom.| He pushed her roughly toward the [ door and stalked away into the dark- ness. wity down ahead. Ile wis There was rva with-scythe hat identified the Equad il B : e way up i back. Bu You have braine and imagination not find him rhaps tonight. | enough to be atraid, but you go in | his night he would r be > anyway. You've saved his life—| anyway everyvhbody told me- o THE headquarters he asked wip back was difficult and sun and ervhody, perhaps” he mur- o 2 : e DA i the sergeant P 2 . slow. Behind them a red sunset BALE Wop 0L e 1ig e oftice machine had already Lo“but T myself—and Phil. Helyz0q in the northern sky and the neck before you ki | were fight : does know it. Well—let's talk | .oqqned beneath seemed to tremble Well, it was n as fligh ne out?™ he said. “Who took (P0Ut something else. Stop your Silly | ynder the thunderous blast of the commander to see that it didn’'t hap- .. Marien.” He called for algins, The bombardment was in full pen. It was hi o bring his 8 St Ent ke oL machine | Waiter, “Rring us a bottle of St {ging down on the Tukkers Jetwoen Belrain and Souilly. had made | Estephe. Let's talk about Paris | enhe Reremnit reportan (i Ttent § sector iy 1 as though it were his private Althoush he failed to understand | glanchard had returned only a few why, that did not cheer her. Paris | minutes dlier, and Tom Boone was one of their gay memories, but|found him in the barracks. He sat the mention of it turned her quiet|gown on “St. George's” bunk. “You're weeping into sobs. He thousht again | going to have position in my of the time she had been granted a|{flight in the morning, Phil,” he said weel's leave for Paris and had no|“I wish, just for the one day, you'd b sirl friend, no one to go with. Tom [a little careful. Attack when the e had been due for a leave of | flight attacks, pull out when the rest t ihsence. too. So he took her to Paris, | of us do, stick close on my tail. detached from tne entive plan .U He waited impatiently until the m ;‘) h"] |'h§ h"‘(‘hl"k"" a sister.| A smile touched Phil fll:uh'hfll’d‘; gazing down at its bulging blue and ame sputtering across the field. | Thev had “done” the town. | regular features. He had the face of e . a . " s S " . ‘,m.)_,i bulk, he fancied he could see 8 l,\‘“ of two searchlights | They tried to talk about other|an artist and the soul, perhaps, of a HE CAUGHT ONE FLEET GLIMPSE OF PHIL BLANCHARD'S WHITE FA( THE R |’r WAS LIKE AN AGONIZING DREAM. ONE i things, her routine at the hospital, | jockey—which may be—who knows?— OF THOSE DREAMS IN WHICH ONE IS HELPLESS, AWAITING THE STROK So he was a god, and it wis ng each other in the 2d he could hear the familiar | the Squadron, but it was useless.|the best kind of soul for a pursuit| _ iles beyond t s v X he sergeant wasn't sure who had *he 25 m { the Argonue the officers. Te Vorest to th rmed | g t lip cither. Rut 1 ¢ 10 1 t f t you motor cyele from the e, said anywhi car and w good drive had become altos ke rvunning the thing absurd to imagine that a Fok- | rn sky t t i ; Yer could shoot down a £od. A burst | oom-oom-com of the Mercedes and |That uneven. reverberating roll of pilot to have. “So we're going toplay [\ 0o No. 14, and soon Phil Blanchard’s No.| A flizht of 11 of them crossad be . Ly the way—and your friend, f black puffballss reminded m that ‘i\“ 1‘"»““ motors of the German night Km;‘v!.m \(G(.?‘:‘. ‘.‘::n“:(x:nt‘l|\;h.||1‘: ;‘;{:x:({:‘o nlz ) M;:.vl\”:\(;lv‘nl::]V.Y‘.l'ughed, Is this Paris revue. “Yes,” murmured Torm, |10 dropped Into position. All seven | hind him and he could wait no longer. | Boone. They—' ; S S N | "B v Beck ue conlinidiiy aa | st a higher, more constant | Tom Boone flushed. “The sq I think you will-—quit fiying.” A |planes were formed in a tight V when | He would make a feint attack, pull| Her voice hardened. = “Tom Boore Pelieve in mods, and he changed aiti-| He rested back as comfortably as!stopped up to a higher, more constant | Tom Boone flushed. e squ ink 3 t 4 N e 4 O et v ] wah: WIS Hve: was ha Gl o 2 [ he could I the side.car while, without | note. . Marion stiffened. © “What is | ron's record answers that. In the past |Step farther on he sald: “But won't|he took up the trail of Capt. Bald-|up again, and in the confusion WwinE| Wil Ko SR S At wiel N pinie ey i RObOb R Ghe ekl LAt e ea St “down 33 Germans | we all? What difference does the day | win's flight, formed 500 meters below | back toward the line to meet the | \Where were sous, B An - divection. ) R Y 3 51 0f the month make?" On the way to |and already climbing toward the Jines. | Spads that must _be coming.e But| “That's just it.” said Phil, The ch: rought a stranze his own quarters he was thinking of | Down below, the clouds were burn: | would his men pull up when he did?|was trying a little of my stuff. I I Mot Shini e 2 Marion, her had lick in picking pilots | ing away under the sun, and the dark | That was the whole point. That way [ lowed me vight into a mob of (I adnion; and : § to fall in love with, “|green of the Argonne and \hc\m -l the fear in his mind as he rocked his | Poor “mrl:'mm“&w -\)J:Ill‘"{sl” - man observation plane, lor L i L L2 \D OF % ok illed valleys of air and the Meuse|plane to signal, turned in a reverse. | trixger for that sort of Job Peading home with information i } \ HELP IT. YOU'RE WORTH A THOUSAND OF HIM ; - | Stferenai sway tol thak north: | o o hia flight back on its | look funny. Marlon. Are you would been an_easy ‘| - e \ YOU'RE DEARER. BRAVER, FINER. YOU'VE AT 5 oclock, as they made their | SIS G500 meters before they | cource - and down on top of the e aid. | Her voice becan he had not noticed a dozen tiny black | ; \ N SAVED HIS LIFE—-EVERBODY TOLD ME.” ay 10 the mess shack for black | hare halfavay ' The captain was fore. | pehiers Aithough some one clse might specks. and he knew how vl 1t \ coffee, they could see the moon still [{yi® i ping fast. Then he zoomed and looked bact vo detected an underlying note of fblaci: spocks turned Into Fokies: RO DRAL up and shining dimly and coldly | "jcqently red gashes began to tear | jjis planes were still with him, ong Listen, Phil. We ane He wanted that Rumpler. If Cagey i 1 ; py ; : ihrough a mist. The day would be |, thoca vales of mist down there, and : L N e oS | nge. aren't we? But I think you must Tted Stiler, or Stivers, or some of the } . ! e cloudy. That was bad. Tramping|jyuge smoke rings floated aloft, the ng. No. 10 was missing. His | have been raised in an incubator. st. o012 ones had been with him, he would | J b | : across “the fleld to the hangars they |jing of the heavy guns. They passed| fhet thought was mot of danger, or | George! They ought to call you have risked knocking it and getting G / g A swore at the i1l luck of it. ‘The moon- | qo % Lo ™06 8 Bive batloons that Y oy, Cbut ot o iri| Trojan Horse. That was made of out from under before the Fokkers | S i 4 4 light was giving way to a less silvery | gaemed from their own steadily | i a cafe at Souilly, waiting for some | Wood, too. -1 don't care it you shoot arrived. Maybe he ought to risk it | " b A7y ¢ ay, the gray of dawn, and already | mounting helght to be no more than 4 | ana’ Who would never come. Al this | down the whole German army. Yol anyway. That's what they were here | > / 4 It could make out the shapes of |few vards off the ground. They passed [ ¢ PTGV Th P elow. in a | be dead, but for Tem. He saved your tor, after all, these fellows. He couldn't : g it 77 % 4y | thelr Spads. another row of balloons, German bal- | oot (™6 ey o Phil Blanchard | life twice before and aga £0 on breaking his heart every ti f & L) LA ¢ gathered, and Capt. Baldwin |loons. Tom Boone's altimeter regis-|giciod in the face of death. bhecause 1 asked him to. And you— the squadron lost a man. They teas I - y 8 nstruction: e First Pursuit | tered 00 meters as they sailed into| ™ ", e chowed him turning first [ don't—even know it him, as it was, about trying to pro- ¢ 5 - VA R\ & | Rics 1ow,” he said. “The third at 2,500 | the. enemy's air over the north end of | ;i & A B0 e R anothor, | She slipped from the bench aud tact’ the rest of them. What if he |meters. " We have the ceiling. We |the Argomne. T o e heere Soming | ATound the table, fastening her cloal Fot killed himself? How would it feel / - | want to get as high over the lines It ‘was a nice plan. If the Fokkers | olot Ga¢ more FOTirs Bo “Tieut, | while he watched her, in amaz to b2 sent hurtling down—but if you ] 1/ / 7 Vi 5 | wa can and as quickly as we can. I'm |came into action from the-east, where | it €U B8 0L NG ke the | “As for my loving you, Phi spend your time thinking about that - o = 1 i 4 % / ( { | taking a flight of seven, and Lieut. |their dromes were located, Capt. Bald- flight. He motioned them on. He fool, that's all, a foel for a da sort of thing, you go off your nut i = ¥ it/ . " N - Boone will lead a protecting flight |win's wide, deep semi-cirele would | ' Shie kil six more men in defense | & fatal day. I let Tom Boone Time enough fo find out how that : (Y ) @ ! q \bove us. You will not get into action | catch them from behind in the line of | GUNWL I =% MEe I I SRIEONE | hig death, unaware that all Tam and felt i (g 7 T unless we need you, Lieut. Boone. sun. And as the two flights of | O7 one-uithoush he colld K SO have, or fiope to have, is his. It will The gentle pressure of fingers sind | ! ) - Good luck, everybody, Cirele wide— | Spads curved over the Bqis de Banthedtote. Woitl Hootie 8 FIER S0 SO atways be his.” foot on controlstick and rudder-bar - we'll meet above the clouds. ville, a_formation of nine Fokkerswy o= © (O 5 F b " dive. into the| Outside. she started running blindls rocked his plane to signal the attack / /- - / Three dark silhouettes, tails up and | flew in from the east. They were sur. | like a huwl un the fve. W@ 01 oward the hospital, murmuring and and he turned upon the fleeing 7 4 motors roaring, ha acry prised, outwitted and disorganized | thick of It. strafght 4t o eS| opbing. Rumpler. He glanced at the dash- Y vision into the brightening alr when | when the 13th lower patrol fell upon | Fokkers thut weve pouring o hall 881" spe ried to slip by the ordssir at clock to make sure they had enough 7 Tom Boone taxied his Spad out of the | their backs. B e (b ot T | thanuraen entednce; buttlie of their two hours’ worth of gasoline | . line and wheeled into the wind. He * ok % ok L aie. The aseont ‘Re a0y a5 cloe NeF arme “OlizMasiaw, you'd be left. He glanced over his shoulder | : opened the throttle slowly and the AL HOONES floated G007 HiSters] inas o cottt o lhe Agiice: of itha up to the warc here's to see the flight, alert, keen for it. ; - . : ’ plano Junied. Ho allowed the stick to| L% 1ove that fight. He saw the | German piloc shump loosely in the |aviater there that the dought close upon his tzil. He saw a white, | & i y SR . move gently forward until (s :'1"" faint network of -tracer-bullets and | seat, heid in only by the belt as his | Picked up in No Man's Land—or eager face above the cockpit of No. A e camo up. ‘Then he wgave her the | Thiack columns of smoke left by ylune fupped out of control. The | Was left of him. Thes shipped him 0. Then he smiled grimly, slipped - y Z, %y / sun” heard the motor roar and felt| ¢y purning Fokkers in the wake of | Second Fokker pulled off to avoid col. | here from the dressing station and his fingers through the trigger-guards ) # 457 ; tho plane tremble, ruddered @ stralihi} ie fall Four of them were sent | lision. He caught one fleet glimpse [ YU O : ¥ babble about his on the controlstick, and began a z 77 /% 247 4 s e Younded from | Spinning in the first attack. But he|of Phil Blanchard's white face. L e's Marion. s dive through the fire that the | : S 7, / O g e L. waoin|| 8w, as Walll ai SPANIECE dldewise Rumpler gunner had already started. | / B K caced, the Stick—smooth,|and turn over on its back, and an- 3 < . 3 s Al s | other disappear in a burst of flame. |one is helpless awaiting the st * k% % the terriflc, smooth forvard driv it ot e mneipie 63 a ol FTHAT was the 25th of September. \ > = Sy Pennants of mist streamed by dead.” £l ¥ _|of his face, taking a strip of linen Soon after dark the moon came voof in the village of Belrain caught| Phil Blanchard drove down beside | from his wing. Every turn brought up out of a nest of clouds and made his eve. The air became thicker and | him, gesticulating, frantic to charse | him into a line of fire and under the | shadows along the roadway as he Qarke. before He was 200imiete down into the tangle of circling. div- | dive of a Fokker. His left shoulder walked from the improvised barracks T Climbed. . A bank of low clouds | Ing bullet-streaming planes that were | jolted forwa He knew he wus hit, fast spreading out into individual | although he felt no puin. A thin spray to the 13th officers’ mess-shack. At swept about him. He could sec noth- ! his left was a dark wood and on ave whirls and eddies in an en-| combats all over the sky. of gaseline spurted into his face from the other side was the sweeping,|roadway from cal through the vil-] “Nothing much,” he said. ““Tomor-|and we've lost 14 of our 21 pilots. I'm | veloping & Balance was a matter| Tom waved him back to his place. | the punctured auxiliary tank in the + plain of the Belrain Airdrome. | jage of 1{::’;3 le Petite, and struck |row is the day. that’s all. The big[not urging caution. Just strategy, |of feel. He climbed. Get buck there,” he suid, as if the|top wing. A streak of white fhre nd there he could make out|the highway. A parade was zoing on, | b Youll be pretty busy in the |common sense, what they tried to| Presently a bright spot appeared in | roar of motors and the rip of air were | burned close to his face—und every | g hapes, like tabernacles, the|moving slowly but without halt, | hospital. We take off *at dawn teach you in training, the same kind |the gray bank, and he climbed toward | silence, and Marfon's “'St. George™ | time he could bring a pline and pilot 2d Pursuit Group hangars. Here|northward, a parade as long as the| She clutched his arm. “And Phil, |of sense that makes an infantryman | that, The gray walls began to recede. |could hear. “Haven't you any eves?lin front of his ringsights his own was the 49th Squadron. Down at the va itself, great dark shapes,|too? Tell me! But I know it any-|keep his head down in a trench ' t bright spot was a shaft of light, | Do you think those are the only Fok-| guns spat back their streqming de- 4 Bighway (St g1 pal i sddenly e was free, free in a | kers In the sky?* Well, then, look | flunce. Two Fokkers collided, crum- end were the 139th and the 22d. The|trucks by the score, by the hundred,|way. He's going to be killed. What| “St. George” shook his head. “Well, jand s e e A 13th flew from a line across the fleld. [ by the thousand, no lights, artillery |are you going to do, Tom? You know |1 . I Foing. to make | lofty world of beauty, where the spot- | there—and ~ there—and there.” At | pling. as he turned to escape them. He couldn’t make out those hangars | caissons, staff cars fighting to get|the way he goes. He's sure to be, if [ myself an ace tomorrow or I miss . s heaven was four shades bluer and | least three large flizhts of enemy| One of Tom Boone's last thoughts at all. ahead, motor cycles weaving in and |you don't—" gue By the w Boone, I'm fed |the sunlight was filtered gold. planes paralleled his course hflf‘k was that some of those pMnes wers The mess hall was no more than |>ut, no lights; a machine gun company He looked at her steadily, strangely. fup with this talk about your saving At 0 meters Tom Boone leveled oft along the sector, walting only (hg fix§t Spads. A line of tracers bent ines- & shack, with barely enough room |plodding in silence, endless. “If 1 don't what? e dife. When 1 need an serial nurse |and cireled yide to the right. Another | loss of altitude, the first unwary turn | capably upon him. and two spangled | JURt daesit e : for the long table, but it full| Tom Boone's driver better than | "Her panlc was stabbing him move |I'll quit fiying.” . Spad appeared behind him, another, a | away from the blind spot of the sun.| Fokkers appeared unnaturally large | X6 me, Tom. [ want of warmth, fiickering light 4nd the|good. They darted ahead into every |deeply than any confession. “If you! Licut Boone left him whistling a|third, He recognized Licut. Blecker inlto close in upon them. before his eves. He tried to turn | YO Lo i unending wit of 20 young pilots. They | opening. They passed throush dark- away, o avold those converging| He tried hard to wmile. He didnt buntered across the table. ened viilages and wound across open p & white lines of death. But he seemed | Fa¥e G S . His entry started more ing. | spaces where only the white road was paralyzed. He made a desperate ef-|Mednt. “All wght. the e i e comes the guardian a visible, Up ahead tliere was a mo- r a Or e alll O O IC fort, zoomed and fired blindly. shout. | L1l try. Anvthing you say. Mavion ‘om! Let me be in your flight ' | mentary halt and an altercation. Some | ing ‘some mad berserk challenge that hey a iittle stingy with the 1 i o | motor cycle had crashed into a truck brought blood into his mouth. Then | Water in this y came another jolting shock that made ‘Caov him_ feel—well, too tired. He leaned vant to have my life se | m 5 e : The motor cycle’s frent wheel was . £ ¢ T 'flrgullrllerg‘xn;.url\: \[\l oo Mhenshianaty Tom® Boone_ saw two en e Jznu! closed his eves. Let them . xov One-Man Power. e e euvored . arswar | men beside the ruined machine, one | e £ TS oo LG i £l T8 BY means of a device invented 1y a ; NYWAY- | of them berating the other for care- BY STEPHEN LEACOCK. i . e hich bore tho title Sl e | 't how could a fellow get any res N e s ; e, N ice was ANBry 1 | § 0t fro e pro rown around like that, bu Swedis! ariner, Cap awin Tose 1o introduce o | e TN VRS “BE oone | ¢ SUPPOSIS that there s nothing s truded a newspaper or journal with| our head against the cowl and | Schmidr, the largest - lifehont, fiied the British commander of | ateng signal to pull aside and stop. | fascinating to the human intellect the heading in capitals, “Canada Le- | with the belt jerking your s ey & | " and he carried with him | o2 A screaming blast of u night bombing squadron. “And, |7y . 4 the following out of a close . gal Time: » | It was not important. he 0 g : major, we have some justly famous It was m,,‘ important that Phil chain of reasoning—the kind of @ bag of the kind commonly Known|njs face, pulled his soft leather hel- | one man in less than two minutes Tellows in this outfit whom vou ought : ard’s driver had wrecked his thing that is called in detective as a brief case. met half off, and for one instant Tom Working automatically from the i RKnpw there's Lieut. Bleeker. | motc . The important thing, the | stori an inexorable concatenation - So far, then, my conclusions were | Boone e e ok et kR s o o G i e s e 1le’s the only pilot in any army with rious thing., was that St. George |of logic.” Perhaps it is the detective that the party consisted of a well-to- | that he was falling. He must have % 2 bl &n official flatboat to his credit.” was on the hishway at all. Of course, | story that has made this kind of thing ; | 4 do lawyer and his wife (well to do!filicn nearly e must _have | clamps by the pull of a lever, the Lieut. Bleeker grinned and bowed. |they had gone up to Souilly together, ashionable in our generation. - |because they rode on the train ;'-"S.w‘"x I won't then,” he said. He set his| davit allows even the -one who his « Raldwin went on: “And therc’s | once or twice. those times Tom Boone | Personally T must say that 1 W . of walking) goin on or proceeding on | coth, | “T Wow'c fall. They N | wtaricd the operation to g0 down n . major. Lieut. Philip Blan- | had taken him_along_ for company. | now and then to try my Sn &/ Ny v a vacation to or in“the water. burn me and I'm not going to fall.” |the lifehoat and at the same time ard is the American St. George. |Now Phil was going alone. Perhaps lan exercise, and 1o see what conciu X 2 The next step was to try to work| e pulled the plane very slowly out | controi its speed He craves to 1 1 his life it was important after all. | sions I can draw in regard to lvl\e A : out theik names. This T admit 13 8 | ita fise and ko a Sa% Sjide. head: | Comie, b STt eros blockand e annoyed heca our guardian | Rk le whom I meet or sec— . far more diflcult process. Whether a | fng southward, concentraling evers tackle Arramgement. where. twisthis 1 won't let hin P cbserved on o train or 55 . namo can actually be transterred {rom | remaining résource of will to carry'| Kinks, wet, frozen o Swellel rpe: r laughed, everybody but | QOUILLY was like other villuges, |\ ] el S he I ime :llllnd ;o”mlm}t\?g 1;1;11‘\’!;"(?"";:!&;: him through the next 60 seconds. | have so often been responsible for s and passed away. | oone lett his motor eycle and driver |ine that the aitesipe fo SFEUT i J |6 D e oy | ol THoS wheel touched. the | descends ‘on even heel ali the. tine P SumEn dnpe e st neliiiaticife Mehey cama oD T tory i a favorite pastime with 2 ; ey ;};xl\gd bounded again into the alr | elimi ating thereny e danger ot deut. Boone. walked on until he reached another | ] g : tirely, in g 1| pa o . ravine, % | Gttty riy flight commander, Lient. Tom|one. It was the main cross-road and "“{"l»‘w"fm"f]'“m to any particular skill It?‘l“er:‘s“);l;\m(““:g;‘fnlmmd (till aroused by mre ;mh }?nlr;u.uf‘:msx apeed at the| The davit consists chiefly of the i« A e ate S en e e D et tvot In ¥OBesivatlon e Frenboning JpOWS But where internal reasoning fails, | Sofinering erash, the limp, hurthing | wpsn ames: bolted to the deck, : s B o |1 glowedunder s wellowibeamieom | o, by funt Heilst IsEyAUC dn(Srest otBu where internal reqsoning fally, | splintering crash, the limp, BUItIng | which two quadrant arms move. " A1 slong, don't we, His specialty | inside. ™ industry have brought to me = gbservation may succeed And %o it |fure of the pilot was thrown 30 |the upper end of thes arms are stor 13 shootir Jkkers off other fellows'| In the main rootn were lhm]\s.'w might seem a rather surprising Stead of my miad, T wes scon:able'to feet (\hun 7 ‘ml‘ T nrm e ‘ush of a | PTONSs in which the boat hangs. The tails and, ince they have a habit of | warmth, crude tables and chairs, a | What WIERE SO0 G A0 o Ty that E : e conatiaia el rcaringi boat is hoisted and lowered by steel getting in that position. he's shot | broad firepluce, several American ol | measure of SRCERE T S0l oue \ : i i o et tmag | SAmleHAmEE L L A cables, running through pulleys at the more of them thar f us. Tdon't | diers drinking vellow cognac and red |t tines & A0 BV SR e quits Wi s Wihom aro we sspgeesd 1o [ end'of the osts dowe 5 deck whete nic he could hit a Fokker unless it | cherry brandy, & few French lingering | {ha, PUREL FICE ch separate et I, Henry " and a ittle later, ~You | THE parade of trucks still hammer- | the cable is wound around a revolving ed the highway to Verdun twt|steel drum. s on one of our tai d up. |as long as possible over their white : o Z 'ty i e | tage of my reasoning. . 8 = sent a telegram, didn’t you, Henr: I {wine. He walked straight on through | 8tage of my E Phe man's answer, “Yes,” could be | night. The towering searchlight still | ~AS soon as the bodt has been hoisted trsing 1o hide and into a small alcove with a single | e i e construed as an admission that his|swept the sky in search of the Ger- |t is securely fastened to its support r worn | table, At the was a younz| I had, no I an 1 . name was Hent man bomber's deep-toned hum. The |in an instant, by pulling a lever. Ry she said, leaning against hin, “I'm_not going to faint. Just help me—help me a little up the stai She stopped in the ward office for breath and to read the report. she found it. “Lieut. Boone, Thomas Air Service. Bullet wounds thr shoulder and lower abdomen tured collar bone. Three f rib: Bullet graze on throat. recover. It was semi-dark in the waid knelt beside his cot and k forehead and his dry lips and wh pered to him He held her hand tightly. “They thought I ravin, Marion. I only said tha I conlin't stay here. because I'd promised 1o come to Souilly and te o Phile gone, on. T did—all I conld " “Phil's safe, Tow she said, that doesn’t matt, You've zot with passens can be lowered by alihen) ergesius anguiders;| worndn | murme ) el landian | cunous MU TRNERELTE i S S e et O G [ O e e e A P L L T hair made him seem som tfasay, and she did )]xf-l sfifi“l\n‘v;.u_n!llid aiv e, g4\|||:;mx'1lml:xh‘Il‘x“m‘l‘\u:::l\fl_ o\}\llv 1T WAS AT ONCE [‘TIL\S l‘i":,\ ALL KNEW 0! st u%e c"m'? “(:Mreswd her as|nurse’s cloak and cap was waiting, |end of the quadrant arms, the others. Or el the |he spoke. “Sorry I'm Inte, Marlon. |city for d va In the woods. AL| ___ - — Bentte, the ey Mo “Tater on it | her thoughts far away. N the same time automati Dioe g0 nEen | erific lamienl Qe Ko e it hevessary, | his wife, and the two little boys, iden- | "tee How could T know that they |oceurred to me that the word Mum | Through the main room, jostling the | fall outward, swinging the boat down d decreased his interest in the cut} She w e e | LD oD vrisn it anon re-|tical in q ‘trongly alike in fea-|were children? I answer very simply|was a short, or abbreviated, form of [ tables in his excitement, a _young | OVer the side of the ship. it o, the’ bight: embrolli]in 4 Ot ard | houEh, L ered. into the train n|turds, were/brthe that T could not and did not know it. | Mother. Very shortly afterward, also, | American aviator hurried. In the| This boat has been installed on a pilot's wings. the smooth &t g | auest=—thers entered into the trag S (IEE O conclusion followed almost | T argued it only as a fair inference|I was able to reason that the man's |doorway he paused. “Mar Look | number of steamship ines, particular- of bis putiess. Wohen be docked SRR SS FER BRI e O e Iy from behindimy i ;. starting on |from their appearance. name was Henry Willlams. Stamped [me over, Marion—I am ace ly those owned by German a ailling, hisideen gray eves gave | “But you've bers, Merionz—-t Aen. folmerve LHEMEQHIELY " o Summe man, for in-| On the basis thus laid down, I was|in black letters on the end of one of | Her eves brightened and a faint |Swedish interests. Ice that has forme: o B o st sieaprg) v e ke Tient. Phil Blanchard | "It was at once evident that they all | stance, was carrying able next to name to myself the exact|the valises was the legend H. Wil-| flow of color came around the table, [on the steel cables will chip off very of imagination that is it nenl I S L A L he fact that th d to bo a fishing rod; the gir destination of my unknown acquaint-|liame. Could anything be more con-|put her hands in his. “I'm so feasily when the lifeboat is lowered. Kiim: eyes. "« B0t Jal gn e doRd DIRC LY R oe e Wous oY her, that th " Leens, had under her arm a tennis [ances. At the end of the line is a|vincing? proud—-"" B Rumipler “And | Boone miniled to cover & pain. “Phil'a|got on the train together, (oM TN | 00 60" s case, and the porte well_known Summer resort, situated TR He interrupted. “Oh, what a da - . none of us g led. Yrolkry | nolor Svele ey s o ki o ‘,\,,’,',.'{‘ A ot | easrio Ih for them o long leather bag | heside a luke. The train was to g0 to L | What we did to the Fokkers today | An Odd Sloping Wall. il fhmre {ho sald. “Your message didn't reach one. the senior of the narty, [O U S € aoden, sticks protruding over [ this point as lts terminus, and it was| = Tndeed, fust as I concluded this|wns something to write home about. S e in_time to sh Apour (e "'"h“"“ e o e g & the top, which a little close reasonin stop nowhere in between. | chain of reasoning, I realized that I!We were the first squadron on the N owner who wanted a wall on ieorze.” said the captain. ) fukes with me, WoR, Yol mwered 1 T0F the party themselves, the oldest | showed to he golf cluba Therefore, the passengers wero going | knew them.”. . ."'In fact, the man|front and it was pretty ‘tough for |4 X sioping hillside adopted a no Boone shook his head. “Phil] “No. Xot with vou.| theanswered Of the purty themaciyel, (8 S e, | This neat plece of deduction carried [to this statlon. ‘This was but logic. |came cross the car and eat down fawhile. method of securing the structure. 1o o m i him on Ot v Tom. AN | ha et gy pernaps little young: | with it quite naturally & fucther con-| I now set myself to see what fur.jbeside me. ' . He did not notice that she had|cause of the position of the wall be- ming that one. T think one of | I was golng to fell you flom. And|the next a lndy perhaps b WS STERE S ion, “'Tiia was to the effect that | ther information I could plece together| = <How ate vou?” he sald. “Off on|drawn away from him and that anftween the curbing of a hillside road, Susrielions dmackel b A Eothar have you think well |iwa littie Doys dressed aimost alike. [ their vacation was to be spent on or szard o the personality, etc., of |4 vacation to the lake, T suppose? I'm | oxpression of puzzlement was in her | way and a cement gutter some The end of dinner wan eaten in near | cause Td rather have sou thnk welitwo little boys dressed MRS f'% | Loar (or under) the water. The two|the group under observation. Here I|just taking Bessle and dhie kids up|dark, shadowed eyes. feet above, to have built it of solid Flecer L) T ot hete by me. Yowll have to help | what was the connection or relation- |little bovs each had with him a large admit that my conclusions were |there for a fortnight. Weren't—weren't any of your men | concrete or other material would have been sensed by them all, und there | over heie by me. Youll have fo Melp Jwhat was the connectjof o KEZOTC] (0 ikt “*These, 1 argued, would |halting and more slowly formed, Yet| Then I realized that of course he|shot down? j entailed an expense too great for the was' mo_great surprise when, after | o out. &5 e s | thinking 1t out. - Under what circum- |enly float on water, and hence in the it by bit I made progress. I observed | was Henry Williams. I've known him | ~ “What? ' Of course. We lost four. |owner, so he proceeded as follows e, Baldwin rapped for at-|S6 L e hench, | stanen dhes a” man. earry with him | mountains or on afarm would be of | that the lady presently took out ojand Bessle Williams~ for about 18| That wasn't many. considering what | At points about every 12 feet alons ve something to say to| I8 FAL wall, and put his arm | two little boys In similar 8 | IOUILL O O ition (o this, cach | nowspaper, and, holding it Tisht side|vears. In fact, T think that one of |we did and what we were up against. |tif stretch between the curb and the L i g i two little bovs In siinfiar sults? LY | fhad on its head a sallor hat with the | up, remained for some time with her|ihe little boys, T forget which, is my | What's the mattef with you? gutter, cement plers, 18 inches in At dawn the Amevican Around Bew o aid, | You Kot the ahildrens Wold-all?* Hold. | legend, H. M. S. Resolute. If not|eves fixed upon it. I inferred from|godson. S Marjon was white again. “Nothing | width,’ were built and laid into the moyes forward to drive the| SR CEEE ROYC O failen in love [what? And why were they holding it? | water,” the boys would hardly have |this that she copld read and write. * is the matter. I was thinking of the | earth. Next, between these posts ordi s from the Avgonne and, 10 EOES g Tianchard, Tsn't that 1t?| The explanation came upon me. as|been named for a ship. Meantime, a similar observation of | Tpa trouble is that I am often so|four men You lost. Who—were |nary chicken wire of small mesh was o ki [t g e ach other |such Uyings often 4o, with & sudden | The reader might axk at this polnt,| her husband convinced me that el (ied up in these chains of logic that I|the i laid, and upon this wire, between the Our observation and day | And whal e e he —just doesn't | flash. Tha five persons were a family!| How can I speak with such confidence | was a lawyer. He sat for some time|gqt tangled, h, we lost Ned Shepherd, Paul |plers, 2 by 4 inch timbers were laid, ing squndrons will need the Suit | imake-any difteence. You can't help | The inan was the father, the lndy was | of child, and childsen, of a girl in ier [veading, or at lesat observing, & voi iCouyrisht. 10270 Jamleson, young Gardiner and—oh, | finishing the wall at & very small cost. irst, second and ird puls ake @ ice: B » A A .4