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He led Allen 'across the din- er the existence of a Mrs. Heard would At last he fixed his on the phoeyes obbe obstacle. another If Calypso next and luncheon day ing room at to a man who was engaged to tograph. As a rule, passport photoLEADS IN MAKING brought hlin to the table where the jected be married, she might very well ob- graphs are totally useless for the purprincess and Janet sat. Just and Identification might of poses more a man even GOOD AMERICANS who strongly to Allen to ject "Allow me to introduce-Mr- . as well represent any one else. But seven had been for least married at to said. he Allen, Then, turning fou," Colonel Heard liad a heavy mustache. Although Frank Clay Cross, new dibe murmured: "My wife, and my years. Tommy was clean shaved. The ofrector of the national Americanism secretary, Miss Glsborne." looked ficer looked at the photograph, commission of the American Legion, That left Allen to decide for himCHAPTER XV . at Tommy, looked at the photograph has spent much of his life, as he says, self which was the wife and which and became suspicious. "above the clouds," far up the sides of He was puzzled. He The princess, Janet Church and the secretary. Mrs. Heard was a plump, Colorado mountains just at the timber looked at Janet and then at Tommy. Tommy sat at lunch on the third day with forty-fivof about line, he measures up to a family traHe looked at Calypso, and thought of after their arrival In Breslau. Thanks round lady cheeks, a double chin and fuzzy dition of grasping the facts of Mfe as his sister and the other unruly maid to the king's influence with the manhair. The officer looked at her photo they are and fighting to moid them ens in the canteen. At last he de- ager of the hotel, they had a and compared It with Janet's lean face Into cided in favor of Janet. win In something better. bow a table, placed to he Then neck. and trjed It is the pioneer Spirit, a spirit that "I want to thank you," he said to dow from which they had a view of see ifsinewy It in any way resembles Calypgoes out Into the wilderness and hews her, "for all your kindness to my sis- the town's market place. so. It did not. from dense forests homes and cities A large motor car drove slowly ter." "These are not your passports," he and states, a spirit that conquers Janet took that very well. She had across the square and pulled up at said. plains and mountains and, the physical been kind, after her own fashion, to the door of the hotel. The driver was uncomfortwas Tommy actually side subdued, moves on to wrestle so many different peopl that she remarkable. He wore a high cap of not yet desperate. able; but he with the finer, the spiritual mightily could not possibly recollect them all. black fur with two long black ribbons The Colofficer was not searching for things. She inquired graciously for Miss Al- hanging from the back of It, a brown onel Heard's passports. He was mere Frank Cross's family has been a and adorned ly looking out for suspicious travel len, and received an account of her overcoat, of fighting pioneers for generafamily officer a she had with great silver buttons. The collar ers. It was young marriage to possible that a bold at on the frontier of civilitions, always met at the canteen. and "cuffs of the coat were of curly man.. cow the at bluff might zation. His. forebears came to Amerblack fur. Even while he sat at the tempt' The Introduction passed off surpris1 "Here," he said, "I've had about ica before the Revolution. His greatingly well ; but Tommy was by no steering wheel It could be seen that enough of this tomfoolery. Hand over was a pioneer settler In II8 grandfather means done with Allen. That eve- he was a very big man. probably tall, those passports at once and let us get 1.1 Marion county, Iixliana, where naning they met again. certainly broad and strongly built. A away out of this." of the Legion is 14 tional headquarters "Ever see any of the fellows from thick black mustache covered his word a The man did not understand located. The family trekked across 15 He had heavy eyebrows that was said to him, but he was Im17 the old regiment nowadays?" said mouth. country with the covered wagon. From 20 Allen. which met across his forehead. His when Iowa by the confidence with which into moved pressed 23 Indiana they Tommy would have been glad to face was almost mahogany-coloreTommy spoke. He might possibly state was opening up. Then to know what the old regiment was. He 2(1 Tommy stared at him with interest have given back the passports, if the that bufColorado, while the wished very much that he had thought and pointed him out to the princess. princess had not tried a plan of her Kansas and to on and Indian 27 the were still plains falo 28 of asking Casimir and the king for a own for getting away. She leaned SO the country. "In comroamed bands unbefore he Information more little forward and whispered to the driver ing to Indianapolis," he says, "I am the 84 87 dertook to be Colonel Heard. of her car. first of the tribe to back track and hit SU "I ran into Simpson the other day," The man stepped out of the car and the trail for the East." said Allen, "You remember Soapy stood, a huge and threatening figure, ne had laid a precedent In some sort 41 44 Simpson ana the old Frenchwoman in in front of the officer. He deliberately for that, when he hit the trnil for' 4. the rest billets behind Givenchy." unbuttoned his long overcoat, flung It overseas and the battlefields of France-whe- 46 heartily, "Rather," said Tommy open and displayed a whole row of there was work that needed 40 "that's how he got the name Soapy, weapons tucked Into his belt. There much to be done over there. Ances- no 61 wasn't It?" were two large pistols, silver mounttors of his had fought In every one of 62 "Was It?" he said. "But there with very long barrels. They nation's wars. His entire family-- Ms (14 ed, the wasn't any soap In that business, was 6B looked as If they might be of some father, two brothers and himself there?" value as antiques. There was also a volunteered in '17. A younger brother, 67 61 "It may have been cheese," said heavy modern revolver which was cer Charles, lost his life in France. 62 Tommy. "One gets confused about Frank Cross put in 13 months In 66 tainly valuable as a weapon of of these things." fense. There were five large knives. France. He was on detached service 87 "Oh," said Allen, "you're thinking of two of them straight and pointed like with the British north of Calais, look- 6S Collins. They always said It was on daggers, the other three curved in a ing after American troops who came 70 account of that cheese that you rec71 manner that struck Tommy as horri 72 ommended Collins for the D. S. O." bly murderous. These were evidently 70 a gross "That," said Tommy, "is the man's favorite weapons. His fin7f slander. As a matter of fact, Collins' one of handle round the closed 7(4 gers recommendation for the D. S. O. went of them. 1 in before any one heard a word about But the police officer was a man of 2 the cheese." He had, besides, neip at courage. He felt that he owed that much to hand. From various parts of the mar B Colonel Heard's reputation. Whatever ket square uniformed men appeared, Collins had done about the cheese. 8 all of them with swords, some of them 7 whether he had eaten It, refrained with revolvers. They gathered round 8 a or baited from eating it, stolen It, the group In front of the hotel. 8 10 mousetrap with it, no conscientious The swarthy driver was not at all 14 colonel would have recommended him dismayed. His heavy eyebrows were A Large Motor Car Drove Slowly 15 for a D. S. O. on that account alone. them under The raised. eyes slightly Pulled Across the Square and Up of a "Oddly enough," said Allen, "I heard with shone Joyful anticipation &v at the Door of the Hotel. from Collins the other day. I supbattle. He gripped his revolver with pose you know he married that little The moment she saw him she Jumped his left hand. Ills right hand held V. A. P. who used to be at to her feet and clapped her hands In over the curved knife. Wimereux." excitement and delight. Tommy was frightened. A fight In Frank Clay Cross. "I always expected he would," said "It's Sandor," she said, "Smdor the streets of Breslau might end In a Toramv. "though in my opinion she from the schloss. He has come to victory for the German police, or It across the channel from England. Then was a great deal too good for hlra. I take me home." might end that seemed almost prob he was sent down to Tours with the can't Imagine what any girl could see Tommy realized that they wer en able In a victory for the militant French, where he handled all shipIn Soapy Simpson?" tering a new stage of their adventure, chauffeur. Either way Tommy and- ments out of that city. He was dis"It was Collins who married her, that the Journey Into Lystria was to his party would get Into serious troucharged In Wyoming In July, 1919. not Simpson. Did I say Simpson?" ble. begin. He became assistant chemist witn "Look here, he said to the officer, an oil company for about a year. In "Oh, Collins," said Tommy. "That's They hurried over luncheon. They Collins if you don't believe we're the people the Interval he married Miss Helen M. different, of course. What's spent half an hour In frenzied pack doing now?" ing. Hotel porters dragged down bags we say we are, send in to the hotel Fry, a former schoolmate at tlft Uni"He and she are running a chicken and rugs. The little party gathered and ask for Mr. Allen. He'll Identify versity of Denver. She was of d famfarm in Monte Curio," said Allen, in the norch of the hotel. But the us." ily of teachers and Cross' thoughts The officer, who did not understand "making quite a good thing out of It, start was delayed. turned to that profession. He went In a word lommy saia, srareu at hlra for more schooling economics, sociI believe." An official in uniform, perhaps a po After that Tommy escaped and went liceman, perhaps a military officer, ap angrily. ology and political science and then to bed. But Allen came at htm again peared from the room of the hotel "Oh, hang It," said Tommy. "Why. became superintendent of a consolidated school. In ltvi't he became head the next morning. He had a passion manager, and walked np to tommy, can't the fool understand plain Eng for reminiscence, and seemed to have He halted, saluted and in, a long lish? Say It to hlin." he turned to of the department of economics at the known every single officer In "the old speech asked to be allowed to see the Janet, "In German or some language Colorado School of Mines. He also became a lecturer at the regiment" except Colonel Heard him- passports of the party. Tommy did he does understand. And at the same school." That self. Young Bright had come to grief not understand anything the man saiu time tell this swashbuckler to stop Penver "opportunity over a dud check which he cashed in except the word passport. Thnt made fiddling with his revolver and get back was a turning point for him. the thing which led directly to his appointment a night club in London. Tommy ex him uneasv. Breslau is not a frontier Into the car." who was quite as frightened riresseil trreat reirret for his fate. Poor town. The examination of travelers' as director of the Americanism comJanet, In as Tommy was, began with the orders mission. He gave lecturen of advice, Styles was still limping about and pnssporta there Is unusual, and Tommy to the chauffeur. She gave them In cases unnecessary. would never get back the use of his most Inspiration. Information. He touched German, and the man took no notice on anything which would be generally IP. Tommv reirretted that, too. After turned to Janet seeking to of them at all. He understood Ger "Is It our passports he wnnts?" a while Allen got back to the subject helpful to the foreign-horto play and was citizens the knew no and she American man traveling become officer underwho Heard hotter than the Mrs. and his of Janet, sUter, their part ps such. He hnd two with a stolen passport, became nerv stood English. canteen. "You tell him," said Tommy to the thoughts In mind. One was to gl-"She'll be surprised when I tell her on. She spowe to me omccr nu inn nil the Information nMesxarv to pass I've met Mrs. Heard out here.' said peredly. asking him what right he had princess. was the It lanin a their to man I to the naturalization examination. The the from had passports. spoke Calypso Inspect letter Allen. "That last Her could done. have other was to give them nn understandIf she as to which several sounded worst Invited guage thing her she said she'd been of man's aroused the someat were Irritation the all nervous ducks ing and appreciation of America, Us hungry quacking, meet Mrs. Heard at a tCHpurty did not same time. The man replied with a what the country stands for. of where In Kensington. Unfortunately suspicions. Iler question lis institutions. Its customs, its Mtory. frighten him at all. Ills uniform gave number of deep bass quacks, which she couldn't go." Ideals! Us and to lnplre ne do to almost sounded a him while anything aspi"""" threatening. quacked right Calypso been long "That must have American citizens. to live good hem to low man back him. bowed at The chose. ago." said Tommy. "Just better citizenship" Is the way Come on." said Calypso. "We cant her, kissed her hand, and stepped "Not so lone." said Allen. "I only he sums It up. hack Into the car. stand here all day." got the letter last week." out the nnestb.n the BB CONTINUED.) Church (TO Janet by seized She tea Helping to mn to that had gone "If your sister In th Coloexamination car. The teacher Into the for her rm nulled snd wouldn't "she party," said Tommy, found new director the Irith Wake forward schools, and rado out hesitated ofllcer stepped She's bren if tiava mot mv espethe teachers, of too A Is a that shade out a a many was wake with lie vigil corpse. to stop them. here for the last six months." In outlying districts, knew "less TVe word Is derived from "waecan." stood between Tommy he cially but a to stop late, he put felt, ought That, that Anglo-Saxo- n for a watching. It is still than a kid ought to know" about the to an chance meeting In London be and the car, rleiirlynot determined .,rwt,imnntn1 of Americanism, fo tie It. In Into should get many countries for at customary least he Allen Miss I tween Mrs. Heard and j r Americanism section One and friends of the deceased organized worked mind quickly. neighbors Tommy's whose name of course was not Allen He association. State the to with sit the tint had hnpened. Perhaps up nlgnts corpse ny longer, for she had niHrrled an of of two things also formed the Allien ix.uncn i"r Colonel Heard had discovered the loss It Is burled. The custom probably fleer whom she met In the canteen Americanism Committees, embracing Herman set la the ancient the and Mrs. originated of superstition his passports that a thing which showed ' the various patriotic societies of the esse a In unless that cart them. for that frilly guarded Imiklng Heard had not kept a tight enough pdlce state. himcarIn was for no all of at saw being corpse danger hope Tommy hnnd over her. Meantime John C. Vivian, command self and his nsrty. Colonel Heard's rled any by spirits from Hsdes. Ths Tommv went to bed Tery well snt of the Colorado department of the er is In once, at Irish be notorious. wake would especially recognized hnd passports It himself. proved Isfled with Hteln-veld- t had seen his work and Invited some von of Ireland was It those remain Prince legion, parts of But perhaps surprisingly easy to play the part chairman of the state become to Mm mo In a set with tha the had corpse who ing nights up spend police It would, no (Muni Colonel Heard. From this cotnmitlee. Americanism his and have lime le'lln? id changed drinking, dancing have been equally easy to play that tion. He might the advanced wns by be fesIs to a It p.wit1on go jokes and stories. highly Tommy free of Itrd Norheys, He begnn to feel mind about leaving to the dicommittee executive In orr that he had not done so In where he liked. II might not care to live ocrnslon. drace Oreennood AmericanNational of the of Travel" has this to rectorship on pioteat! of claiming his own name and run the risk of allowing the princess her "Stories ism commission, w here he goes r., .lt on Then he remembered Miss to enter Lrstrla. But he would not ssy shout the Irish wake: a "A wske. neering (ns his fathers hnd done for man heh an sure entertainment It's the gives what passports party Temple and felt glad that he had re know h'm). not wltn oreaiay v,rs Mfore this after he Is dead, when his disconso fused to be Lord Norheys. Miss Tern It might be possible to persuade with a practicality that , but v,.Mc't1es was Col late friends all sssemhle at his hou., file would, apparently, have been a troublesome officer that he f tha problem, for t j -- och 1.1 the beatt onel Heard and that the two ladles to discuss his virtues snd drluk kU I I Atnor't a nopelesa obstacle to Ma marriage with were his wlft and t: " 4'sthnntlar Uagsr.iBa secretary. poteen. a little wnem Calvnso lis wond-r- ed CHAPTER XIV I AlD'D'E.N A PUZZLE CROSS-WOR- When the correct letters are placed In the white, spaces this Inpussle each trill spell words both rertlcally and hnrlxontally. The nrst letter In the deflnlllon listed below word la Indicated by a number, which refers headed a defines "horlsontal" the pussle. Thus No. I under the columnto black square to the the word which will all the while spaces np the "rerticnl" dednea a word which Inwill Allblack right, and a number under black the one below. No letters go white square, to the aril names. are dictionary words, etcept proper apaccs. All words Abbrevlatlona. slang. Inlllnls, technical tcrma and obsolete forms are ladlcated In the dennltlons. rr URSERY RHYME ;vr PUZZLE .Pl 1 V TATt 1 :'-v- v 'fel e In-I- I . ) ' am, ram, go away. Can't you see it's picnic day There's a lunch packed I in my Rain, please stop because irj Two OtHr Pieknitkara. I basket. ask it. Top Side Down, In Hairbowj T on Dreas l ot CwNh |