The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-13

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down n The rear OF tie top, which
was down and overhung the back OF
The car
go over the Forrseeond street
ferry. Francois directed Elaine 10 the.
chauneur Then ven ten you.
how TO strike the best roads 10 Lake
wood q
The spying Sam waited to hear no
more. but gHded quietly up the,
street as We shot down along the aye
nue. to the ferry
Rockledge was 4 handsome estate,
and the house was one OF the show:
places OF lakewood. Accordingly,
Elaine lost no time N taking advan-
tage of the recreation IN the country
which She had promised herself
had scarcely set down the art
parapherna1ia when she announced
that she was going to Csc 1t right
away. For several minutes I stood on
the veranda overlooking the bright
green terraces, holding the sketchins
Kit and the umbrella and admiring the
view.
Elaine came tripping gayiy out on
the porch In the 1atest OF little
sketching costumes
Sore paraacl.r baneered, opening
the gay green and white striped shade
I shouldered it and para6ed on with
X. while Elaine followed. Iaughtng.
Here" she c-ied at last I'm go
ing to do a landscape. Isn't that bit
OF hin beautiful? want you over
there-Iike that
I took a pose where she directed.
and she started to sketch
Outside his hangar, a rough shed
with a runway before It. Sprague was
standing, talking to WI and Long Sin
MASTER" interrupted low voice,
deferential1y-
It was Sam, who had hurried to the
hangar after watching Elaine and
the rest OF rs ride on
.wellr demanded WI.
The girl with another. her cousin,
has gone with that slave OF Kennedy
to a place they call Lakewood across
the river
Though they did not know 1t, kennedy
had not been IDLE. With the aid OF an
agency OF private detectives, which he
had often employed for routine Jobs.
as well as the police and some secret
service men. he had located and set
a watch, with his Characteristic thor
oughness on every acceptance hangar
in and about New York
Even; as the three plotters moved
over to the aeroplane one OF Craigs
detectives lay hidden directly under
the runway.
Out On the aviation field, In front Of
the hangar, Sprague had dragged the
aeroplane down the runway, and there
he stopped to explain TO WI and Long
Sin the workings Of the gyroscope sta
bilizer-
I'm make the fight to Lakewood
easily" he remarked. then tapping
the bundle OF arrows confidently, add
ed. -and it won't be long before Elaine
and that fellow Jameson are settled.
you bet
Il shall go with you. he said at
length laconica1ly to the aviator.
= very well" Sprague agreed. Two
OF us will make It twice as certain .
He climbed into the machine. and
WI followed
Kennedy's detective. from his hid
ing place, had not missed a motion AS
the aeroplane disappeared he craw1ed
out and quickly made his way down
the road
Meanwhile. high over the country.
Sprague and WI were flying, easily
picking out the general direction OF
Lakewood.
People at Lakewood may stu re
call the aeroplane that circled again
and again over the town and the beau
tiful estates. Sprague finally located
Wellington Browns. but Elaine was
not there and there was no use vast
ing the precious arrows on anyone
else. WI peered about eagerly
through afeId glass
There they are-over on that hill
side" he muttered with low, guttu-
raj exclamation
Sure enough, they could see Elaine
under the umbrella, quite conspicu-
ously, with myself posed some feet
away
Hurry-speed 1t up" WI urged
sprague, indicating the exact spot
Kennedy had hastened out to the
fort even before our departure, and
there he had met Lieutenant Waters.
AS they were examining the freight
car, an orderly came running to them.
rs there Professor kennedy here?
he asked.