The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29

Mdo dO" dHu OFelHuH6 IiiS uoSh oA the car.
 Go over the Forty-seeond street ferry, Francois" directed Elaine to the chauffeur. Then we'll tell you just how to strike the best roads to Lake wood"
 The spying Sam waited to hear no more, but glided quietly up the street as we shot down along the ave- nue to the ferry.
 Rockledge was a handsome estate, and the house was one of the show places of Lakewood. Accordingly, Elaine lost no time in taking advan- tage of the recreation in the country which she had promised herself had scarcely set down the art paraphernalia when she announced that she was going to use it right away. For several minutes stood on the veranda overlooking the bright green terraces, holding the sketching kit and the umbrella and admiring the view.
 Elaine came tripping gayly out on the porch in the neatest of little sketching costumes
 Some parasol," I bantered, opening the gay green and white striped shade. l shouldered it and paraded off with it, while Elaine follow ed, laughing.
 Here" she cried at last, Pm go- ing to do a landscape. Isn't that bit of hill beautiful? l want you over there-like that"
 took pose where she directed, and she started to sketch.
 
 Outside his hangar. rough shed with a runway before 1t, Sprague was standing. talking to Wu and Long Sin.
 Master" interrupted a low voice, deferentially.
 It was Sam. who had hurried to the hangar after watching Elaine and the rest of us ride of
 Well?" demanded Wu.
 The girl with another, her cousin, has gone with that slave of Kennedy to place they call Lakewood across the river.
 Though they did not know it, 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 watch, with his characteristic thor oughness, on every aeroplane 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 Wu and Long Sin the workings of the gyroscope sta biizer.
 I'll make the flight 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"
 T shall go with you" he said at length laeonieally to the aviator
 "Very we'll Sprague agreed Two of us will make it twice as certain. ;
 He climbed into the machine, and Wu followed.
 Kennedy's detective, from his hid ing place. had not missed motion. As the aeroplane disappeared he crawled out and quickly made his way down the road.
 Meanwhile. high over the country, Sprague and Wu were flying, easily picking out the general direction of Lakewood
 People at Lakewood may still 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. Wu peered about eagerly through field glass.
 There they are-over on that hill side he muttered with low, guttu- ral exclamation.
 Sure enough, they could see Elaine under the umbrella, quite conspicu- ously, with myself posed some feet away.
 Hurry-speed 1t up," Wu 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 Is there Professor Kennedy here 9" he asked
 Yes spoke up Craig. T am Mir. Kennedy"
 Someone on the telephone, sir. You can take it at the guardhouse. He says it's urgent"
 Craig hastened across with the or derly.
 I've located our man." shouted his detective over the wire, an aviator named Sprague-a crook and a dope fiend. Somehow they have found out that Miss Dodge has gone to Lake wood with MT Jameson Sprague has just gone in the aeroplane, carrying bundle of aero arrows, with that Chinaman, Wu Fang"
 The deuce," muttered back Craig. Well. you get the local police in force and surround the hangar. Ar rest them if they return. I must get to Lakewood myself"
 He hung up the receiver and was about to dash out, when another idea occurred to him.
 Lakewood, 626," he almost shout. ed at lnnr distance ..I1.11.