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Show "Mr. Arnold" Is a Pleasing Tale of Other Days Frands Lynde Writes Fascinating Fascinat-ing Romance of the Revolution By JACK V1VARTTA3 TJnder the simple title af "Mr. Arnold, a Romance of the Revolution," Revolu-tion," KYancia, Lynda haa given to! th reading public a wonderfully j embroidered fa brio of fascinating' fiction. That not a dull moment need bo anticipated la best proved i when It la stated that tho whole too odd pages of tha book contain tha happenhige of leaa than a week. Captain Richard Page of tha "Buyltss Mora Troop," a Vlrainlan. tellg tha atory In tha flret person. He opena tha narrative In an obscure ob-scure taproom In a little wayside Inn on the hanks of the Hudson, not far from New York, which city Was then held by British forcea Under Hlr Henry Clinton. Pave haa re-1 paired to the taproom to meet his cousin, and the pair ahara sundry ! bottles of Indifferent wins In honor of rajre's 22nd birthday. Before they depart a gmup of soldiers. Including; Captain fteytoun. a most hated-rival for tha hand of Beatrlca Ielgh. enters and deliberately delib-erately slights Captain who forthwith s'.aps bla fscs. A duel le chatlensred and accepted. Psgs's cousin agrees to arrange all thi details. de-tails. The two latter then set out for Nyack. where an orderly for "Mr." Hamilton requests tha presence of Captain Page at the former's quarters. quar-ters. There ha Informs tha trooper that ha (Parr, has bean selected 'by General Washington, to go to New York and abduct Benedict Arnold, Ar-nold, a task which had been riven to a Hergeant Champa, who thus fsr had failed. To preserve secrecy ft la necessary to appear to desert the army. As duelling Is forbidden In tha colonial army. Pace eannot make that an excuse for delay, so he sets out that night. Almost before he la oat of gunshot gun-shot distance of tha camp ha has let;t as a deeerter. Captain Page be-lnis be-lnis a series, almost continuous, of hslrbreadth escapee aa tha guard boats of the colonial forcea command com-mand him to halt.- Instead, he rows as hard as he can. and oollldea with the flagship of a British flotilla, flo-tilla, which routa tha smaller force of Tebela" and takes Psgs prisoner. pris-oner. Nsxt morning 'our hero la a-lven an audience wlia Sir Henry Clinton, Clin-ton, to whom ha Ilea to such good efc- that h Is-given A ots to, "Mr. Arnold," then engaged In ra-crultlng ra-crultlng tha "Loyal American Legion." Le-gion." Page managea to pass the searching scrutiny and Is given a1 raptalncy In tha legion aa aids to: General Arnold. Tha next few days ara ao filled with blood chilling adventure as to defy contraction In synopsis form. Let It suffice to state that Tags meets Champa, and tha two make a series of desperate yet futile attempts at-tempts to carry out. their mission. Captain Page also meets Beatrix Leigh at a dance whir, he ts forced to attend aa Arnold's aide. The vouna lady explains her prssence In "New York In a satisfactory msn-ner. msn-ner. and thera la Injected Into the atory an element of romance which lasts to the end of tha tale. (Mr. Arnold Bobba,. Merrill A Co, In-dlAjiapoHs.) |