Show BULLDOG B BULL ULL DOG the mobilized demobilized De adventures officer of a who found peace dull DRUMMOND DR 0 ND by CYRIL SAPPER mcneile sat lar y gla 0 ill dot dor OK oe YOU 11 in december four our wen men gathered to in IL a hotel in boras bern and heard one on of the quartet tot crl carl t outi loil a plan to pa flys great britain and at the lh ume same urn tim moie 1 world power Po asar th 70 other three american and Stal neman and nl von gratia germans all mu Iosa alrea agree to the lh chro providing another mn man hiram poff P its an n american Is taken in capt hugh bull doc bcd drummond a re tired osam cow advertises for work that will give him blin excitement sign ln ang sic As ae a result he h meets meet phyllls phyllis benton a young woman who answered anwer ed his ad she tells him of 0 strange murders and robberies by a band traded beaded by carl and henry LA lackington kington she tear fears tier her father is involved goes goe to the marches larches Lar ches miss alis B home next door to the elms keter petersons sons place during the night drummond leaves leave the I laches rahea and explores the elms he dis discovers ditc coers LAi lackington kington and peter ton t ing a thumbscrew on potts pott ho has malta a paper drummond Dru rescues potts and takes lakee him to hr his own olin home he aleo gets halt half ot of th the paper torn in the fight peterson vi altif 8 1 to drummond departing R alth I 1 t lit a ah threat reat to return and recover potts and the torn paper hugh Mull ng for or potts potta the band carry oil off and hugh to te elms when peterson Pett dl dis conets the hoax drummond Is 1 mode ads to stay all night irma re pe lesson handsome hande orne dauCh ter warns hugh he will be killed he goes exploring during the night runs run into a cobra escapes mysterious death and retrains refrain from rooi breaking petersons Pet trona neck enllie the th aid or of algy longworth Tong worth toby sinclair ted jerningham and jerry seymour the latter an aviator drummond discovers discover a man impersonating sona ting potts and beats him up the b band rad gas sa hugh and his bis friends friend and carry carry oft off potts ruth hugh plant plans tos ton invade vade the elms elm CHAPTER VI continued 10 THREE hugh stopped stoil ped his car at guildford station elation and lighting a cigarette strolled restlessly up and down lie he looked at ills his watch a dozen timas alm in two rn minutes he threw away his smoke brooke before it was half finished in hort lie manifested every symptom usually displayed by the trials male of we lie species when avi awaiting alting the arrival ot of tile the opposite sex over the telephone tie he bild arranged that she should come by train from Go Codal dalming to confer with him on a matter of great import once ace she he had bed said she would but chant was wag it he be having no do suitable answer ready had fiade a atud buzzing dolse indicative of a telephone et change in pain and then th rung off hoffr arid now lie he was waiting io in that peculiar condition of mind which reveals itself outwardly io in handi that are rather too warm and dd feet that hat we ae rather too lo 10 cold when Is tills this belly bally train likely to arrive ur rhe lie he accosted a phlegmatic ofil eal who villa regarded him coldly and doubled the likelihood of its being more that than a quarter of an hour early at length it was signaled and hugh got ant back into ills car feverishly lie planned the faces of the he passengers as they hey came out nut into tile the street until with a sudden quick jump of if his bis henrt he MW w her cool and fresh coming toward him film with a taint faint smile on her lips what Is this very important matter you yon want to talk to roe me about she blie demanded as lie he assisted her into his car IT ill tell you when we get out on the hoag back he said slipping in bia hl clutch its vital ile he stole a glance at her but arhe ans looking straight i in front of her ona her face seemed expressionless leis you too must stand baand a tone long way off when you do dl site flie said mid demurely at least if its tile lie same saine thing as you told me over the pla phone itne hueh bugh tinned chinned sheepishly the went wrong he re Inja irked at length astonishing how rotten the telephones are in town these days day quite site she returned 1 I thought you feeling very well veli or something of course if it ns the exchange they part fort of buzz ind and blow dont you yon know he explained helpfully that must tie be most fearfully jolly fur for them ahe agreed and add there kis act for the next neit two miles once anre or twice he be looked at her out of tile tie corner of ills eye taking in fiery cipry detail of the sweet profile so sivar tu to him except for their first nn flang at lite IK carlton carlion it was the tee only time lie land had ever tied her com plemely to 10 himself aud and hugh was determined ter mined to ninke make tile lie moist of it he fell as it if lie could go on oil driving for eier COT just lie and she alone it was tien ti dpn en that the girl turned and looked raf nr him tile the car swerved danger oila ipton Ip Ie tn tF stop rile rhe said with fill the suspicion or of a smile then you can tell use tin alingh hilt li drew into the side of the rnino anti switched gwit off the engine youre riot nol cuir he remarked and if illo ali gill staw liln file hand band trembling bling a litria 1 hr he arned rn ed the door she gave w en ii nine and stood beside lier ber and arm na lay jay lone along till the seat eat jut just behind her shoulders boulders tell me die about this Import ml thing the she old mid a little nervously Derro hill H rin strolled trolled troll fled ed and nd oo no woman yet born could see ee much hugh drummond smile atle without ar molln rilling too roo ion darling he whispered under his breath you vou adorable darling hla his arm aria closed around her and nd at 1 I most inott before she be realized it she be ml felt his lips lip on berg bars for a moment she che sat at motionless while the wonder ot of it urged surged over her and the sky seemed seamed more mor gloriously blue and dd the woods wood a richer green then with a little rasp gasp she pushed him away you lou ahil you hugh she he whispered and why not little girl he be said bald biru exultantly dont you know I 1 love you ills his face was still very close to bem her delit well what she ehe murmured its your turn tie lie whispered 1 I love you phyllis just love you but its only two or three days since we met she said feebly and chwat the divit has that got to do with it at all I 1 he demanded would I 1 be waiting longer to de 10 J A Z 4 taa she ah found herself lying in his HI arms arm with hughs hugh eyes eye looking very tenderly into her own and a whimsical grin around his hi mouth clde cide sueh an obvious fact tell in me e 1 he be went on and she felt ills arm round her again forcing her to look at him tell roe me dont you care a 8 little the use she still struggled but even to her it very convincing weve were got other things todo to do we cant think of and then this very determined young man settled matters to in ills usual straightforward fashion she felt herself lifted bodily out of the he car as it if she had been a child slie site found herself lying in his arms with hughs eyes looking very tenderly into her own and a whimsical grin around his hin mouth cars pass here lie remarked with irrean regularity I 1 know ante to be discovered in this position would I 1 she whispered 1 I wonder she felt his big heart pound mildly madly against her and with a sudden quick movement she put fort forth her arms round his neck beck and kissed him on tile the mouth Is that good enough she asked very low and just tor for a few moments time stood still then very gently he put her back in the car 1 I suppose tup pose lie remarked resignedly that we had better descend to trivialities weve had lots of fun and games since I 1 last saw you a year or two ago idiot boy she sold said happily it was w yesterday morning the interruption Is in considered trivial mere facts fact dont count when vitae lt its you and oie ate there was a further interlude of uncertain duration followed rapidly by another because the first was so nice to resume berume continued hugh 1 I regret to state that got potts the girl sat up quickly and surel stared at him got him oh hugh how did they manage it im d d if I 1 know lie he answered trimly grimly they found out that he was in my bungalow at goring during the afternoon by ending round a mun man to tee see about the water somehow or other he must have doped the drink or the food because after dinner we all fell asleep I 1 dont remember anything more till I 1 woke this morning with the roost appalling hend head of course potts had gone 1 I heard tle lite car drive delre up in the middle of the night said the girl though thoughtfully trully OD do bes t the bams nowr that net to IB what I 1 propose propone to find and out tonight answered hugh we have staged a little comedy for petersons especial benefit rod and we are ar hoping for the beet beat oh boy do be careful I 1 she sh looked at him biro id never forgive myself if anything happened to you id feel it won wo all due to me and I 1 lust just beer bear it dear little girl he whispered tenderly youre simply adorable when you look like that but not even for you would I 1 back out of this show now ills his mouth set et in a trim line its gone altogether too for far and shown themselves to be so completely belond the pale that its got ot to be fought out and when it has been be caught both tier her handak lianas to lo his and weve w won on why then girl 0 mine well get peter darrell to be best roan man which was the cue for or the he commencement mencer men cement neut of the last anti and Iong lonest estat interlude terminated only by the sudden and unwelcome appearance arance of a motorbus covered within and without by unromantic sightseers and paper begs bags containing bananas they drove slowly back to guildford and on the way lie told her briefly of the murder of the americans secretary ecret ary in belfast anti and his interview the preceding afternoon afler with the impostor at the carlton its a tough imposition he remarked quietly absolutely without scruple and their power seems unlimited I 1 know they are after the duchess of pearls I 1 found the beautiful irma consuming tea with young laidley yesterday you know the dukes eldest son but theres something more in the wind than that phyllls phyllis something which unless im a mug of the first water Is an infinitely larger proposition than that the car drew up at the station and he strolled with her to the platform then tile the train came in and he put her into a carriage and two minutes later bilth the touch of her lips warm on his and her anxious little cry take care ray my darling take caret still ringing in his ears he got into his car and drove off to an hotel to get an early dinner FOUR at a quarter to ten be backed hl his car into the shadow of some trees tree not far from the gate of the elmo elm save for a light in tilt the room and one io ID a bedroom upstairs the front of the house bouse was in ID darkness and treading noiselessly on the turf be explored all round it there wa was one eie bedroom light at the hack back of the house and thrown on the blind lie could see ape the shadow of it a man m As he be watched tile the man got up and moved away only to return in a moment or two and take up his old position its one of those two bedro bedrooms tims he muttered to bim himself self if hes here at all then he crouched in ID the shadow of some shrubs and waited through the he trees to his right he could see the barchesi Lar ches chesi and once with a sudden quickening of ilia his heart he thought he saw the outline of the girl show up in the light from the drawing room but it was only for a second and then it was gone ile he peered at his watch it was just ten Oc loek the trees were gently in the faint wind all around him tile the strange night noises noi res noises which play pranks with a anns nerves were whispering bi sperIng and muttering Bu bodies seemed suddenly to come to life anti and move eerie shapes crawled over the ground toward him figures which existed only in his imagination and once again the thrill of tile the night stalker gripped him he be remembered the th german who bad lain motionless for art hour in a little gully by while he from behind a stunted bush bed bad tried to locate him and then that one creak as tile the boche had moved bis leg and theu the end on that night too ton the little hummocks had moved iov cl slid and taken to themselves strange shapes affy times he had imagined ile be saw bam fifty times he knew lie be was wrong in time tie he was used to it the he night held no terrors for him only a fierce excitement and thus it was that as he be touched crouched in III the bushes waiting for the he game to start his pulse vins nas alor av lor slid and film nerves as steady mendy as it f tie he tied had been sitting fitting down to supper the only df difference ference wat wai that ihal in ills his band ile he held something tight gripped at int in t faintly in the hie distance lie leard heard the ohp hum bum ft ef a i car it new grew n ew louder anil and lie be smiled grimly to him as a ilia th sound of five anine tedious voices singing lustily struck ils his ear they passed alfing the lie road in n front of the lie hoyc there haqq ia a sudden hidden crash then silence price but only for or a moment peters voice came first you PrIce lelis old nit ass US youve rammed the blinking gute 11 it was WB jerry seymour who the then took ook up tile the howl uis ills olce was in tensely seeran also extremely loud perfectly prep b we W mut so go and apologize to the th owner I 1 I 1 apologize apol oglie quite unpardonable you rou cant go bout about country knocking down gates ates b out of hf half consciously hugh listened but now that tb moment for action bad couie come every faculty was wae concentrated on his own job he saw hilt half a dozen men go rushing out into the garden giddeo through a side door and then two more ran out and came straight toward him they crashed past him biro and went on into tile the darkness and for an instant he wondered what they were doing A little later he be was destined to find out then came a peal at the front door bell and he determined to wait no longer tie he darted through the garden deorto door to find a right flight of stairs to in front of him and in another moment he was on the first floor ile he walked rapidly along alf lending landing trying to find his big bearings and turning a corner he found himself at the he top lot of the main staircase the spot where he belied had fought peterson two nights previously he walked quickly on to the room which he calculated w was as the one va where be re he had find seen the shadow on the blind without a seconds hesitation he be flung the door open and walked in there lying in the bed was the american while crouched beside him with a revolver in blot bin hand was a man for a few seconds they watched one st another iother ln in silence and then the man straightened up the sold lerl he snarled gnarled you young pup deliberately casualty casually he be raised his hl revolver and then the unexpected happened A jet of liquid arn ammonia struck him full in the face and with a short laugh hugh dropper dropped his water pistol in his pocket and turned ills his attention to the bed wrapping the millionaire in a blanket he be picked him up and paying no do more attention to the man gasping and choking in a corner he raced for the back stairs below he could hoar hear jerry hiccough ing gently and explaining to the pro pro critor that lie he per gho sho nally would repair Ins histed on repairing any and every gate kosht 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