| Show r 7 fO y T r W- W j. j ti f F. F I 1 All For His 1 1 C Country i t A Story of War far With Japan Japans f s By J J. J U U. GIESY i I. I Copyright by i prank Munsey A. A Munsey Co j s tit SYNOPSIS Meade Meado Stillman shows shown Colonel of ot th the board of ot strategy and others hi his hll aero lero destroyer a wonderful Implement of war war- operated by radium Congressman Gotz who sells seUs aeroplanes aeroplanes' h the government opposes him Meade 1 the colonels colonel's daughter Bernice to tola t la a already a he he ano announces that not d defaulter and Meade Muade dein deru de- de dem dIm in turn creating a scone Icene I ro ru rode de loves Bernice lie ne goes back backe e e. e Gotz plans to block the acceptance acceptance accepts accept accept- s ance once of ot the aero sero destroyer Mexico and Japan are acting threateningly f Meade writes Bernice that If she or his hili country needs him he will come coma Mexican troops invade the United States fi Japanese soldiers surprise the garrison ft fl- fl of ot S San Ban n Francisco and capture the tho forts tofU t end and the city jj j r. r L j They threaten to destroy the city If the thet the thet t t Y American fleet neet Interferes Colonel Gotz starts by aeroplane to carry the news toJ to J Sacramento i. i Gotz kills two Japanese aviators and sends lIend tho the news to Washington President Gilson GIllon calls for tor volunteers j i I f r. r 0 CONTINUED 1 f r f CHAPTER IX Twentieth Century War V spoke up Send up all the planes sir Weve We've got five Well We'll get those fellows nna a ud then then go over the forts torts and nud give h hem them n a t few to too keep them busy huy busy Ra Raymond mond shook his bis bead head L Those tw works ire are practically aily bomb proof Mr Ir Farrel and nd such action w would only draw w down their ven vengeance ance I It t or on the helpless folk of the city Gentlemen Geny Gen Gen- y It fU seems stenis ms to me that our duty rJ t calls II II for a n personal I sacrifice more bitter bitter bit bit- I ter than the chances of ot battle hattie If It we yield we WI shall yield as men of ot honor and d not not break k our ur uro word o ii when when given i v n. n Gentlemen what I Is your answer Do Dowe Dowe Dowe we accept or risk all on one cast cut at fit lt once once once- r Hodges Bodges open opened cd his lips Ups For myself myself my my- self elt as I 1 said I 1 had rather die he said thickly For the sake of ot the helpless we must yield Raymond bowed his head So be beIt beit It God grant we be understood by some ome when they say later that we were afraid He lIe called his orderly x i- i and spoke to him briefly y Pw A few minutes later a n white flag g gt t was raised by an American cruiser Without a n word Raymond bowed his Ills bead head and walked back t to his quarters L He Be sat down and drew a sheet of paper before him took up a pen and began to write I have surrendered d' d L f this position in the name of ot humanity to a avert vert from helpless thousands the theL 1 L death deuth which threatened Let none none judge of my actions till such time as asbe asbe ashe be he face a similar situation In n the eventual victory of this nation I have no doubt To die for tor ones one's country is sweet I prefer that death 1 sought Rought to turn from others v I Five minutes later his orderly white whit faced and gasping rushed from trow thedoor thedoor the thedoor door of Raymonds Raymond's quarters and cried I Ito to the first man ho met that the commandant commandant commandant com com- mandant had bad shot himself and was was was' lying with a n bullet through his bis brain And while the aeroplanes from the Presidio patrolled the navy yard with t watchful eyes eJes Colonel Go Gotz sat sut In his quarters and drew meaningless circles and aud scrolls on a It bit of ot paper He De Devas was vas thinking and his thoughts were werl were unpleasant unpleasant un un- pleasant A scowl marked his always saturnine satur nine trine face tace Ho stepped to the door and called to tos s a marine Him he directed to request st the members of the aviation squad to report at at once His lIls men came to him him live five slender t wire tense figures In the uniform of ot the service and with them live five others their assistants assistant Were Vore useless here he went on when they were seated and we might be of no small service ser el elsewhere lust Just where w we can an go safely I don't dont t know but I believe belle that Sacramento Is probably ably still In our our hands The percentage 1 fl of laps Japs In that district is smaller smaller- mostly pickers I do not behove believe be be- Ue hove lieve that t like Ilke this Over up III there t I Tonight therefore 1 l am going t to lea leave here her In the lar largest est plane and try to reach that city We can lan get up under cover coer of nt the dark and If It we can rby those fellows well we'll have bave a course If f I 1 get through h I 1 will twill communicate with Washington at once and report what has t hI happened here bere j In n the light of what has occurred this seems scorn s the only course o open cn Night came cairn down with a cloudy sky In which n a moon played I d hide tilde and seek Gotz ruse rose dunned donned puttees and leathern leath ern era coat nod and cap and placed placid his hla gog glen gle In bl his bis pocket He lie gave IV th the word to wheel out tb the great biplane which he intended to use Ilse Little came cume cameto to the e colonels colonel's side Idl and Imd reported all nil ready eady The rue colonel olo el nodded andi and r c i i 4 I- I L spoke to the slender young lieutenant te ant who no had had brought the thew w wore word rd of the Japanese planes that morning when they chased Farr Farrel t b back c Larkin I am leaving you In command command coni com com- mand of the three planes planed which will go with the marines and sailors' sailors col col- amnE After Alter Farrol Farrel and I 1 go up give us as thirty minutes and then send th the theother theother other after atter us He had better go to to the north I 1 think rather than follow tollow our course and swing around later toward toward toward to to- ward Sacramento when hes he's sure he laclear is la clear Farrel and I will try and handle these ese fellows above us If It th they y spot us He lie turned walked to th the plane piano and climbed to the pilots pilot's seat Farrol Farrel seized the blades of ot ash and twisted them with a n quick wrenching motion leaping back A A. swirling cloud of ot dust grew behind the machine Farrel Farrel Farrel Far Far- rel ran aro around nd and leaped quickly to his place behind Gotz He wore a alight alight alight light rifle of ot high power strapped to tobis his bis backAll backAll backAll back All ready sir he cried Let goP gar Gotz threw his levers The biplane darte darted forward from from the tho restraining hands bands It was wa gone The colonel had bad chosen a n moment for tor his bis start when the moon was completely complete complete- ly veiled yelled A shadow followed dimly perceived by Farrel who crouched In his bis seat watching and reporting Like a great bat it wheeled and came on In pursuit pursuit pursuit pur pur- suit of ot the biplane He turned his Ws heed head and cried the news to his colonel colonel colo colo- nel turned back and and- resumed his s watch The moon came clear of Its cloud and showed the spidery outline of ot the pursuing plane its vanes silvered silvered silvered sil sil- I vered into things of oC in gauze the light its pilot a dark blot in its front like the head of a dragon fly The pur of the Curtiss lessened the speed with which she flew ew before slackened The man a at Gotz's back Jerked his head bead around In silent Interrogation rh The he pursuing plane crept up lP The light was was growing paler A red led spurt of ot flame darted from the hostile aeroplane aero aeroplane aero aero- plane spitting forward like a breath of menace On Ou the instant Farrel heard Gotz cry out felt the plane tip until he be clung with both hands to retain retain retain re re- tain his position and found himself hurtling through space on a reeling thing of rods and stays Yet the motor motor motor mo mo- tor purred on and It came to Farrel Farr l that this was not the swirling fall Call of but the th dizzy dash of ot purpose pur pur pur- pose Gotz's voice came back to him Dod Dodged ed him Now If It the moon keeps under maybe maybl hell he'll think his chance shot hot got Jot us With tilted vanes the aerial craft raft be began an once more to climb Once more its light flooded the air Off Oil to tl the north the unfriendly machine machine ma ma- chine which had hud threatened whirled about In 1 hurried seeking Reeking f for r its ifs lost chase As Gotz swung east eust it t to too turned in a long along Iong slant aimed lImed to intercept him The colonel sword tensely and und spoke again Im going dose to that t chap Farrel live Have a tr try at him Farrel crouched d a his bis pilots pilot's back saw the outlines of the Japs Jap's plane sweep 8 up lip to meet et him Ills His lf 1 rl rifle e came UI up and he fired tired at nt tile the man Yet even as he be fired he be knew by Instinct that he hc had bad missed d and aud jerked in another another an an- other shell and fired tired and fired a again aln ills His bullets went wild Again when the Japanese machine loomed In what seemed inevitable Ine collision collision col col- the plane to which he be clung dipped i toward the dark mass of the earth carth and rushed downward rd as Gotz evaded that meeting ln- ln midair For a sickening Instant they seemed dashing dashingto to certain death righted once more and be began to climb in n a lon long easy sweep o Gasping 1 Ul- Ul Farrel looked for their pursuer pursuer pur pur- and to found III him behind and below them thew where he h hud bad followed that earthward rush Ho It was even e as us they were hl his bis lowing with the till moon light his shadow hudo thrown beneath bunin him bun himIn In widely distorted outline on the earth He fie left his seat and threw himself fate fare downward ou on the plane beside the motor and und from frow there he downward on the plane below fh HI became lIme cOuscous u ut uth h be stopp stopped d tl to to reload that thai his lils hi colonel was sp speaking to him blur Theres another one behind and higher lip up Well We'll have ha trouble dodging lug ing them both Get et into your seat scat and hang bung on Im I'm going to show shoo this first chap a u genuine Yankee trick rick I Without question he wriggled d back bUck place and gripped hold bold Gotz whirled the aeroplane around In a turn so 80 short that for tor an Instant the Jr great ut vanes vane I stood In lu a u nearly perpendicular perpendicular line brou brought ht her upright and started bark balk down the moonlighted d hill bill of air which they had climbed a afew afew afew few moments before In t the e swoop J of f a vulture he bC rn rushed bl I 7 E J. J I downward r the tb the air singing J a u sibilant harmony about the tense sta stays of ot tin the plane Farrel Parrel caught a Ii glimpse e of ot the thi Jap Jal plane turning to w evade e that desperate desa desperate des des- assault then theu with an elastic clastic yet rending Impulse the Curtiss struCk her ber foe toe one terrible blow with whit her hei middle and lower part pirt Well nigh hurled seat Farrel Far Far- Farrel rel reI clung through a throbbing instant of ot time beaten out by the snarling chatter of ot the two motors then with t a wrench and a stagger the biplane herode ht he rode tore Itself free Cree shuddered and anC swung upward Beneath them he saw the other one of Its vanes rones broken and swinging go gc swirling In unguided course courso dropping downward A moment and It turned completely over and fell tell turning and twisting to Its doom Got him hissed the colonel turnIng turnIng turn turn- Ing leg eastward again A A. A fierce A-fierce fierce jubilation tion in io his tones My Godl panted little FarreL Parrel That the the the thing I ever ever exp expect to see colonel My God what a chan chancer el It got by said Gotz with a n chuckle I fancy that other othe other chap will keep his distance after alter that Where Is 18 he lie now now now-I've Ive I've lost him Parrel Farrel strained his eyes across the light flooded heavens to find fild the other plane Maybe It was wag one of ot ours he suggested No said Gotz shortly There It Is to the south and west Parrel Farrel l announced and paused parsed again to break out almost at once In to an excited shout Colonel the lights lights all all along the tho horizon to the west They're searchlights colonel long ribbons ribbons- five ten twenty the Japanese fleet said Gotz snarling the comment Well all they've got to do Is land He sent the biplane forward In a n savage rush They flew above the vast Suisun marshes beside the Sacramento river before belore he be spoke to Gotz Cots Slow down downa a bit colonel and give me a chance at that fellow back there thera Let me we try ju Just t e 8 a shot or two at him just him Just one or two The colonel nude nade no answer but the pur of the motor lessened the speed of the biplane slackened Behind he could see the other plane creep up up P. P Stretched beside and below the motor on the lower wing he lay and watched the Intervening distance lessen until of ofa a sudden flame spat toward him and anda a bullet sang close at hand He threw threw up his fired bl back k shot after shot till his Ills magazine e was empty swore at his failure reloaded and reloaded showed shoved out Iut the rifle and an waited Of Ot a sudden the craft rode on steady wing and the dark figure of ot the Jap pilot leaped Into line with the sights of ot his rl rifle e. e His Hia finger pressed presed the trigger and even as the pungent smell of the powder powder pow pow- der struck his nostrils the man he had aimed at lit sagged forward above his con con- The plane he guided staggered In drunken fashion darted sidewise w e. e turned quite over and spun over and andover andover over down to its moonlight grave in inthe inthe inthe the marsh Go as far tar as you like said Farrel Parrel Far Far- rel edging back to his station That fellows fellow's done for unless hes he's a fish They rushed d on Little by little th the light grew plainer until the whole glowing golden dome of the California state house bouse lay before them and swept swiftly beneath Gotz shut off his motor and nd swung the plane In a gigantic sweep Circling Cir Circling Cir Cir- cling the light starred roof below belo them they slid down and came to a landing landingIn In the park in the capitols capitol's rear Jotz Hotz climbed limbed stiffly from his seat and turned to hi his companion From Irom the amount of light In this place they're open for bu business I Imagine well we'll find the governor Inside CHAPTER X President Gilson's Proclamation ARLY on UD the W. morning of ur the E of Octo October eJ a II messenger aroused d Secretary Secreta of War iVar u and handed him a 8 message in code ode He lie turned to o his translation key ke and read it On Board Destroyer Hornet cornet Secretary of at War Var Harrison Washington D. D C. C Sir Sir For For Gods God's sake recall Heel fleet from Vera Cruz and order to Intercept Japanese fleet now reported in neighborhood of ot Azores Have definite Information at last ast Great trouble In getting to coast explains delay Am certain of approach from Crom west of Japanese fleet supposed to be In home waters Was mobilized at six weeks ago go and equipped to war footing tooting Balled talle 1 by y far tar northern route lIa Have t reason to believe it equipped at with new and very cry potential weapon In nature of aerial bomb bomb exact character unknown Fleet In Atlantic probably equipped with new ew bomb before sailing n last August Get Carton a o out t of Mexico I at earliest e I P |
