Show BU ca no L fin dor UMMOND the th adventures of A D De mobilized officer who found peace dull fry CYRIL I 1 ivull A A al SAPPER antons by MYERS Copy copyright by goo GO H doran co Con concluded eluded from laist litmus SYNOPSIS in december 1918 11 fo four at r men gathered in i k I 1 ciote I 1 ote I 1 in bunt berns and nd heard on one of 0 the cut lille AL a pla plan i t to p paralyze para ealyse lyie great and at tile the same urn unia seize world power the other three hocking flocking american and and von gratz germans german all millionaire agree to the echeme providing another man allram ilir m totts otte an american li in taken in the ins of tile the plot gives lve lili file name amne aa comte cointe do de quy guy but when he h leaves leave for with his daughter he h decides decide to u use tb the name carl peterson Pete raon CHAPTER 1 I caal C aal hugh bulldog Dull Du lidor dog a retired ad advert V artimi lm s f for or work that will ai alve v s him excitement x 1 I lament signing lining X 0 A As a result lie he meet phyllls phy lie benton ban ton a yount youna woman sho ho an sa ei ou lila life ad ahi 6 b 0 tells him of murder murden and rob robber b e ries leo of ahl which c it a ho he sun ua pec lecta t to a band he headed ded by cirl peterson iiii henry lie n ry of being the leaders CHAPTER Drummond II 11 decide to ko go t to 0 the Lar karchem chem mies MIB bensons bentons Ben tona tons home hollia an a attempt in if ninde on oil the road to wreck lila ills machine when another occupied by peterson Pe tereon lackington kington lA and a strange range man blocks blocha the road while dining d I 1 ill ng with phillie denton benton and lier her father drummond drut imond bears a terr terrible I 1 ble iciek I 1 at the eln elms s during I 1 rg the he t night n I 1 drummond leaves baes tile larch 11 and a it d explores the imms elms ile he discovers it covers La kIngton ano and peter Pet erdon using a thumbscrew w on an n american who milo a a paper drummond rescues the amerl can after a glit and takes him to to hit him home the man li Is hiram C potts CHAPTER ill Petr wt drum mond mon d the next day departing with a threat thre a t to return later and recover potts pott and alo iso a torn paper which drummond Dru inmond salted elied the night of the fight with the th aid or of pe peter ter darrel an old army friend dru to n 01 d arranges arran geB to hide potts and bohs in his place a one a de mobilized nold ler r who in ID seized by peter son on and hi his gang and taken to the F alm hils along with drummond Drumm onil CHAPTER IV when petron pets irson covern the hoax drummond Is by irma to a room where he in to stal eany for the lie night during tile the night drum mond la Is exploring the house when he gets beta in a strange room in which Is ie a cobra he it 0 ec e oi capes arp but on the t it 11 stairs has hag a fight in the dark CHAPTER V brummond dru enlists the old aid of algy aigy ronsworth I rong worth toby roby sinclair f ted and jerry seymour the thai latter an aviator drummond after an I 1 encounter r with the th pseudo potts potta meets meet irma talking to the marquis of maldley Ial dley and suspects the gang la Is plotting for the faidley Ta idley jewels drummond and hla his are kassed gassed as ag they sit in him apartment La kington carries olt off potta vl VI when wh n drummond hai nd hla Is 6 lands recover arthey they plan to again reah ranh cue potts drummond goes to see bee phyl lis ila and besides learning potts has been taken to the rims rima also becomes eni na caged pd to ht cpr r drummond to Is captured by thi the gang in the attempted leacue re actie I 1 he opened the door and stood thero smiling TWO the darkness could rifi be felt not IB real darkness inside a house always call be felt not the tha even of showed anywhere and remained s wondering what ohp next move was baini to he be now alint tile HIP lilg lils ordeal ila lind commenced hll fill his nerve lilt and r turned to him ile HP felt ice rold rind as his powerful hands clenched ani unclenched toy y his sides lie he grinnel faintly to himself then very call commenced to feet feel ills his way toward the door at that hat moment someone brushed past him like n flash hughs hand shot out anti and gripped him hy by the arm the man wriggled and twisted hut but he was powerless as FA a child and with another short laugh hugh found his hir throat with his other hand and again silence settled on the room still holding the unknown man in front of film hp he reached the foot of 0 bic stairs tind and there he paused 10 I 1 lina tin lin alous rl ous filing hall lanil enst liln ills cipal that flint other find dipti clanged suddenly into tile the wall mil beside him flint ile had none gone up ill he alve stairs it lind hall hopp happened envil and no with t ills foot font oil fill tile flu first lip lie started to in do 1 if i peterson lind kindly assured they mod to try wid hini him nind it was ns unlikely that till would kill 1111 lint on oil flip stairs at ohp knill time it wall as obviously nn nit ellent tillable of JACC nt fill and foro it was mas more fluell 1110 that they lh v would upp irp it to fright mi hani 1111 and if ali they ibi did if they did the unknown man Ivd fetha it in ills lil illinois alli and n sudden li loot look little fin fill ill ti II nelis alice ifs is ils the flip only possible chance it he said to to liline lf and if its you nu lit nic file laddie I 1 guess its got to b he yil voil with t n leflek litno lie ill clr mati off ft ills hi fiet tini ind hint up lilt till 1114 iced ani ill lie loo level off f st wn alion clu tellIng him light IK cell ti to cling ills III n ni p head ns lit ant nt dnn I 1 still lechel e li if ill alio region of flip lip mans binns back will nii he took no notice of flip feebly kick ing then tit nt int lip lie I 1 child tile lip fourt I 1 and n 11 t 1111 botill burden lip prossa lilo his hend elii e en lonar ima er in fit the min anek anck fill and lifted lilar aiho ui tit another nother ii chri illchen Ill nolif nc ches lif itaw awfully jolly if lie imiri nim 1 I flip will mill YOU 01 ill id stand quite kill it if I 1 waif pre tin A d 1 lit suavely 1 alit list tan As blugh lind had gambl edmi t tin it i er cr fin IKC was un fleigner fleIg ned to frighten lilli tn instead of lint flint lilt idt 1116 aft nick m k nf the lip ninn he was holding avith illi sueh tone force that lint it wrenched hini him clinn clean nl if ills his firms then vanie amp the clatia liali ill phlp lp him flint ani with a series of owin ominous otis thuds a body hod rolled domai alif stairs etli it li into file hall below lipo you fool lie it heard 1 11 olca voice shrill sin with etli finger boll youve 1 ve killed lafin switch nil flip light hut but before lite iho order ile hp cari rlph out aurli had disappeared I 1 iipp ke a great gacht ent cut into tile lie JAI of flip a age i lioe As luck would imp it I 1 lie III alist st I loom lie darted into wn nt empty hill and I 1 lie ile flung aung up tile willbo ando wil llo and peered out A A antery watery moon showed him n timidity foot drop onto the gr rinh grilii ilig binl III it hout 1 I 1 lie ile filing lili 1113 lil i legs over tile sill and nt at lint flint nio lilo nit iu nt prompted lihn to look upward nl it was MIS a dornier window and to nn nil fictive ninn mail access to tile roof was wit it fill 1111 lip e aban ill it ull till flim of retreat fn an and I 1 whon lim wo exalted inen rashed nili cd if in to the room romu lie he als anil AN 1 I 1 11 fil his e asedo of tile 1191 of nf the window not it yard md from their bends securely hidden in ill the shador lie watched tle flip it proceedings wah fill gonino tWe ration A awl low from tile the two ann nion that thery lind find ills line imp of nf esc p itile will n ail in ill linof it 11 tile was ns full or nf hurrying figures one due cal cailin in unit his identify betrayed only by h the lie inevitable cizar stood hy by till garden loot door taking no part in file die laking ton toll blind with ich fury wits MIS running round in mail circles cursing every e coone the car ls Is still thore there A mail came tit iii to peterson and hugh heard tile the distinctly then lies over at benton jonh 8 housa I 1 will M III RO go nill and hugli wat Clied flip thick l pt et ninn inna we figure stroll down don towne tow aid ii tile wicket gate and lip lif laii eliod gel 1 to himself ilivia lip grew se rillus and with a frown I 1 in pulled out ills watch anil and livered al it one conr two to inora hours before dawn and in most twe IMP cimurs lif ile Alrin wanted ted to tit alic houze front from on nn top especially lip lie if to have a look nt at ohp m room of if chiril phyllia lind bad spoken lipil to hlin 11 in ill alic where larington kept ills tr treasures ensures lint hut tile lip throng helow elov went indoors it M ves unsafe if to move once out of nf flip shil thildow dow any one would hf he able to see fito him flint crawling over ncr the file roof in ill the 1111 moonlight at chriso tile thought of nf the linia leria ician ninn for whose kienth lip lie h lif hd d in imp vyv lipen responsible recurred to him but he shook ills head ancrile it had been hp he ion 3 ou ran call carry upstairs airs in a normal housa without him havilla his heck broken still and then lie he wondered wonder who lie ho was mas it lind hall apon one of the tip inen wit lio round the tall of flint he as talf r ably ehly certain rul but 7 ns its it the frighten pit or the plan or the gentleman valli lilt the ohp mood blood hot cliot eye the only enni comfort fort was as that lint ahm it had bad been flip world auld would not cot be babir the ti i cr ig for jilia hib budden irreasa Rease ir nu af hiie llio only runlet regret was that lint it iwen lorn floor henry 11 ortry lie HP find it dl for henry which for exceeded bast lil dislike 1111 ke tit of Ile ichen temon on UPS iles not over ncr there q voice mie cattle to tit him front below aco and weve ee wilst iisha e d time engligh ns its it Is 14 rhe nien men had gathered ether in ili it kroup group dinst pia 1 elow apic HU ns sitting evidently awalt further of 01 lets do volt on inpyn to say in were lost flip lip 1 oun ung swine tig dignin nin said Ln kington angrily not dinst merely lital awed peterson the nimo moio I 1 of flint the lie more in I 1 tits tive the I 1 Ington it will uis lint flint d 1 41 fool hols ls own fault lie he why lip keep still illel ns its lie uis alq told act 0 o to do why berill ned F felion ills hinr i roll d and im ave c fail nevi r kno up ill 1 Is very vi v fiend lit lip turned tinned toward the libuse h IM Il flint lat tit lie for I 1 think yil fici defill mi lilt idl po go to bod aird IP HP fil dt into inin tin ani aliv in followed Fi lowly for ahr thile hoang ix iiii 11 its serc lilt annii will niah n agh of if relief tin lin lebed als i illuas mid and lily back anit k lignin sf lie loping boning roof if only lie lc lind hall dined Ill reI to light it 11 cigarette THREE tt it was MIS linof finif tin nn leour arnin anond dl elded chilt it stir itic to start 1 ilist finst lie hr enok ml off T lin his alio find hip file laces fo Dyt gether lin lip ho slun them nt kronid witia lilt neek llin rs sl hi lall ns lie ewall lie oll gnp ea to s1 sf sa 11 it walf ns not ain operal loll at div 1111 hinr tonic ton pc blin llillie flown down arld 1 ingli ilu in into the gardell ln lnla ln etli if broken leg IOK it at tit ho vely vel en y duist f foi ill hi nans in there was ais ol 01 li ill of if dislodging it state nn nil un vIs ls ploce proceeding eding in n i arciere inns inose of the sivila wibb alth gnp eye P of open tivit mit lint sit lit dinst lie hf eit cot big hands lidmil i over lilt ridge ax tin the and in ili ji minoll notier or ino inn 1 inelia in he sitting Itt liiK I 1 ill lit naros i ti A 0 loc lo t c ili 10 blin nindo lint hlin slin mull InIe ln lonh tilly kiil to curs him 1 1 n pit foi fill a ns file alic liet nto 1110 ment awl ln lean caherly ono oil of lip flip lind find livan relva smi from ill life ic loom and it pale anlo dIT iril fight felti ina ont into the lip finin tile hip hiie alc or of file ili ganss loof or I 1 lie I 1 ns as still craning litick hickM ward iid and for virl ird it 10 try binl till ind soine chink ilal through larli lip bouli bild 61 ftp with etli a 1 klinl of del one of the blips of glass salol sl ol pvc it II ws MIS orsted jl kel on of it n I 1 1 int 1 I 1 let cliot I 1 0 t from lind elligh ills thank to 0 o ile ansi en IV hicl li cl icv 1 thell IH n lif ill leally forward und ami peel roid d in fit the HIP adolp avam ais to to and ills jin jaw lightened nr 08 lip took look in the lit in fill 1111 smoking IS US its ever silt sat avier oli il he ns r i iding 1 loth letter i bild nulla ninn 1 ichii alli 11 pi ili vil 11 in if 11 table MIS 11 1119 mid every now no unit lien lie out till 11 over it 11 few f and bilaki tin n enar entry hut but it was MS not son on fill choin leoin ill llie wilt ellel aioo 1 I A is 18 ills atte aitt lillon it i ng Lit I hington in inai it rid red el pact t ho box out of it drawer in alic ilsk ill he opella oncil it lovingly lovi naly and hugh SUM the fl sl sh vf cf diamonds let lilt in stones run tigh lil 1111 hand linnas glitter I 1 ing aitla alli a i fl tiamen ailles wh cilc 1 ic illiad ill iid d Ini il tn ile ald scornfully aliett li ett willit will you ion g et for foi il I 1 in ivill in tin af pf 4 re the ili its not lir ibo I 1 care il limit its alic lie dill plit in ill linvIl lc pill the lilt required to ret get aviel smi shrug gA III sl which leilh kulil give you mm licin II pis of if volt till 1111 it into arper I 1 iced ill alic anil 1 I ilin bp ali off of lulu tl P gl pinto alte cirt cirl little possibly but it bolls damn it to ili hi s mi lily frivold aint idelt you 1011 like ill 11 big 4 11 ITic as ts I 1 P tin till in 0 nid n 11 id ill all nell drawn etching which Ifil ikes us its si 11 nery MI happy von OID Ilet cron on the 1 ho iward af pf aels dont for forget t nrc dour conr loli jot the hig thing i liiK lie lic to tn tile obber jilt ciul at trace of caulp into ills olet althe kllc big 11 filing IS 14 illine abe sound of tile dour door olien le both melt swing sin rolive houi t peterson stepped pd dirward if i us as brinit ntina entered nt ind anck in tear hardly hadl expected boll ni 0 so o foon FOOD in in a tv few words lie IP told ill lir girl what liml halt happened find slip site el filipeo her hands together deligh teMy assuredly I 1 shall have to marry ninn imin slip she lip ile Is 14 1 4 quite iiii it the lie least icam libring andt I 1 have met in ili tills this emi slip sill sat down and lit a cigarette 1 I 1 sn ann wal ter irr imal alit up ile cattle over v t to C yon inn they willit you there for foi a int liin eIng ine nt at tho I 1 ina etim lilt pet arsun fr mined leq lie re igini bcd with ali it simile of annoyance in ille hi voice il am III ill lie say si why other thinas I 1 think they re about the silla nn merod my al deor duall anui you call vasil ly lj slip it fr n lily of courso I 1 can enfil irritably but tint that doan Ioel nt t alaor alt the fact flint its things Ihli iKs vill lt lie shortly conflux con flut to it ii bead bertand I 1 mint to i ito h 01 0 tile lie spot ei erlie start etl to walk alk up tit and dou tile fro fronina fron lna continued next issue |