Show i I JI q s 8 r a If I ADVENTURERS ADVENTURERS' f CLUB tot t n 11 HEADLINES iJ IH D L I N E S FROM FRO THE LIVES L I V E S t II OF PEOPLE PEOLE LIKE YOURSELF When ff Two Spies Meet By y FLOYD GIBBONS GI ONS Famous Headline Hunter HELLO H ELLO EVERYBODY J- J JJ J- J You know boys and when girls you stop to think of it every everyone one of us has had some outstanding adventure sometime in in our lives that is of interest to other people Leo Faccone of Jersey City N. N J J. J writes that he had been reading the adventure column for months before he thought of sending in his own ad ad- venture Leo is twenty eight and the father of two children but aside from the great gleat adventure ad of marriage and fatherhood Leo says the greatest thrill in in 10 his rus life came when he was only nine years old Lets Let's go back over the years with Leo The World war was on and Leo was playing soldier with little John Ferara and other Italian Italian- American youngsters of the neighborhood These boys' boys forefathers were of a race that once conquered the world and playing soldier came nat nat- natural natural natural ural to them When it was suggested that Leo play the part of a 3 Ger Ger- German German German man spy and hide he agreed The he shades of night had just fallen and it would soon be bc time for the boys b ys to go home but there was time for one last game flame Leo as the spy slipped away to hide He Hc knew a swell hiding place behind the black black- blacksmith blacksmith blacksmith smith shop which backs on the right of way of the Pennsylvania rail rail- railroad road There were lots of wagons standing in the yard between the rail rail- railroad railroad railroad road embankment and the building and Leo slipped in between them like a real German spy and lay quiet as a mouse on the ground Play Pla Spy Sp Met Mel Up With a Real One Leo could picture the other boys looking for tor him him everywhere everywhere but here The spot was the sort of place that people would avoid avoid- unless of or course they were determined German spies like Leo Out hi in in the street traffic went by now and then and once a train roared by on the tracks over oyer his head bead but otherwise the spot was as quiet as the grave Suddenly however Leo became aware that he was not the only only- per per- person person person son hiding out that night The tall figure of a man rose quietly quietly- quietly only only about ten feet away from him him and and furtively arranged some sort of off f t 1 t un t He lIe Handled the Box ox Very Carefully box he carried in his hands The actions of the man frightened Leo Perhaps he is really a German spy Leo thought Frightened but de de- determined determined de- de determined the boy lay still and watched He could not see the features of the man but he could see his outline and hear him tinkering with the box Once Once frightened frightened apparently by someone passing in the street the street the theman man dropped to the ground and lay still He hid himself so well that even Leo could not see him Leo was glad of that because it meant that the man in hi turn could not see sec him There Was Vas a Ticking in the Box Minutes went by during which Leo shivered with excitement Here lIere he was out playing placing that he was a spy and suddenly the tables were turned and a real spy was before him liim He De hoped the other boys wouldn't come hunting for him here and spoil it all Leo wasn't very old to be a detective but he knew from the mans man's actions that he was doing something he shouldn't be doing and Leo wanted a chance to get the police What a feather teather in his cap if the man did turn out to be a spy As he was thinking these thoughts and listening to his own heart thump the mans man's tall figure rose suddenly again right beside him I He was closer if anything and Leo was scared stiff that he would be dis dis- covered The boy got ready to make a break for it at the slightest sign of suspicion S But the man man he was was seemed seemed unaware of Leos Leo's presence He was intent on the box before him He handled that box very carefully care care- carefully carefully fully Leo noticed and once when a passing car threw a light in the yard Leo saw a tense cruel face under a mop of gray hair He hugged the ground and waited Finally Leo listening heard a strange sound from the box It sound sound- sounded sounded ed like a clock ticking The man seemed satisfied with the sound and moved with the box in hi the direction of the railroad embankment Leo saw him rum bend over and place it under a culvert beneath the tracks And just then the other boys nearly spoiled the whole game They started calling for tor Leo to give himself up Wen Well sir Leo says hed he'd seen enough anyway and was pretty glad of a chance to sneak away if he lie could do it without being seen lIe He crawled along alon on his stomach and then made a run for it The other ther boys were scared when they saw Leos Leo's pale face but when he told them about the spy he had found they all ran in hi different directions directions directions for a policeman A policeman was found and he brought with him two other men who didn't laugh when Leo told them his story Instead they went back on one side of the blacksmith shop while the policeman went on the other The boys stood on the sidewalk and watched a real spy chasing game Yes It Was a Big Time Bomb The policeman went along noisily flashing his light to the spot where Leo had seen the man Some of the boys thought Leo had just been seeing things and started to laugh 13 gh but the next minute the laughs froze on their faces as a n man running at top speed tore out of the dark dark- darkness darkness darkness ness away from the policeman and toward them He didn't get far though Leo says before he had run right richt into the arms of the two men waiting for him They caught him and held him while the policeman came up Leo says he didn't look like a spy at all when they had him in hi the light But a good spy never does look like one The man never said a word Leo says while the policeman called the patrol wagon Leo even began began to feel eel sorry for him hirn and to think he had made a mistake but in 10 a few minutes he knew differently He led the policeman back to where he had seen the man place the box They picked the box up gingerly And what do you suppose it was A time bomb With enough explosives in it to blow up the entire neighborhood The clock was set for lor midnight when a train would be passing and according to experts the explosion would also have killed Leo and his whole family who lived a few lew doors away And that boys and girls is the story of how Leo caught the German spy sov Luck Perhaps But luck and adventure are companions m Service |