Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-11-29

to be in his vicinity when he wished
to take a look around. as If desirous
of making up in altitude what he
lacked in inches)
mot a sign of the big fellow" said
Billy, scramgling down from his
perch What time is it by your
watch 2"
"Two-thirty," 1 answered, holding
up my watch until a ray of moonlight
struck it.
"Huml Now. let's see; it will be
broad daylight in an hour and half.
Every raid of the big fellow has been
made in the early forenoon-seems to
be q settled habit-so that, If your
guess is right and his next raid is due
to be made at New York or Philadel-
phia, or even Baltimore, he ought to
be somewhere in this region of tho
sky within the next few hours"
"Yes-if my guess is right"
answered gloomily. If"
"Well, old fellow" said Billy encour-
agingly, II have no doubt your guess
is as good as another's, and you know
that guesses are all We have to go
upon in regard to the big fellows
movements. But let's start the motor
and get up aloft, where we will have
better chance of seeing him if he
should be hereabouts this fine morn
ing. Pm going up about ten thousand
feet. There's not a cloud in the sky,
except those low down on the horizon,
and we know the big fellow is high
flyer.
A few moments later the hum of
our motor awoke the stiffness of the
mountain terrace. and with rush
and iwhirr we left the tiny plateau
and sailed out over the valley. Soar
ing in broad circles, we gradually as
cended until the wooded heights,
shrouded in the mists OF the morning,
lay nearly ten thousand feet below.
1t was the sixtieth day of our quest,
the tenth of almost ceaseless vigil,
fitting hither and thither from the
Catslxills south to the region of the
Cumberland; thrice in that time the
dreaded Pirates of the Sky had
swooped down upon far-distant cities,
leaving terror and destruction in their
wake and bearing away loot that ran
into millions. No man could form
any accurate judgment of when or
where they would strike again, and
my guess that it might be at New
York or Philadelphia was based solely
upon the fact that those cities-the
whole Atlantic seaboard, in fact-had
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tacks. Meanwhile, we had taken
precautions during the past two
weeks to conceal our own where
abouts from the world at large. This
We had accomplished by establishing
caches of gasoline and provisions at
remote spots among the highest
ridges of the mountains, so that, not
being obliged to descend to the towns
and villages for those necessaries, we
had succeeded in yelling our move
ments in mystery almost as impen-
etrabIe as that which attended those
of the sky pirates themselves. This
was with the view that the black
winged marauder, not knowing our
whereabouts, would neither be able to
avoid us at will nor attack us at dis
advantages; for not withstanding the
dread mystery which involved the gi-
gantic black aeropfane-her COM
mander, her crew, the bourne from
whence she fiew-we were we'll con-
WINGED that the sky pirates were in
formed each day of the news of the
whole world.
1t was now almost a year since, on
a morning late in September, the
black aeroplane had swooped down
upon the city of Denver, dropping
bombs into the heart of the business
district. Having thus. through terror.
secured freedom from interference,
her crew had looted the Rocky Noun
tain National Bank of specie to the