Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-09

gives them when they fall from a height"
he went on. Those grooves keep them
always point down. and they are
Weighted too. Take can Of them,
empty 1t out. They spread like bird shot.
You can't miss. And the one that strikes,
weIl--good night!'
MASTER interrupted a low voice diff
erentially.
II was Sam, who has hurried to the
hangar after watching Elaine and the
rest of us ride off.
"Well?" demanded WI.
THE girl, with another, her cousin, has
gone with that slave Of Kennedy to a
place they call Lakewood. across the
river"
Wu, Long Sin and Sprague looked at
each other significantly a moment. Then
they moved over to the aeroplane before
the hangar
/ Though they did not know it. Ken
nedy had not been idle With the aid of
an agency of private detectives which he
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 thoroughness, on
every aeroplane hangar in and about
New York
Even as the two plotters moved over
to the aeroplane, one of Craigs detectives
lay hidden directly under the runway
into which sprague had been dropping
arrows.
out on the aviation field in front of the
hangar, Sprague had dragged the aero
plane down the runway and there he
stopped to explain to WI and Long Sin
a I'll
now encased in its aluminium vacuum
case. which Schmidt had delivered and
sprague himself had attached to the ma
chine.
I'm make the flight to Lakewood
easily" he remarked. then, tapping the
bundle of arrows, confidently. added.
''and it won't be long before Elaine and
that fellow Jameson are settled, you
bet"
WI had been much interested in the
stabilizer, considering how much It added
not only to the safety Of the machine
but the accuracy in dropping things
from It.
II shall go with you." he said at length
laconicaIly.
Sp-ague hesltated. He had not counted
on having a passenger. But he did not
dare to say So or oven suggest It.
Very WELL" he agreed, quickly. 1.-TWO
of us will make 1t twice as certain"
He climbed into the machine and WI
followed.
Just twist it rapidly" he gave orders
to Long Sin and Sam, indicating how to
start the propeller Then get out of
line with the blades. They throw grease
and stuff back with terrible force. close
up"
They did as he directed and the rapid
staccato of the engine whose cylinders
stuck out like the spokes of a wheel told
Of the starting. The two Cinnamon
jumped back.
Quickly and gracefully the aeroplane
ran few feet along the ground. then.
like the great mechanical bird that Il
was, rose lightly in the air and few
away-a little speck in the sky.
Kennedy's detective, from his hiding
place, had not missed a motion As the
aeroplane disappeared and the two China
men left the field. he crawled out and
quickly made his way down the road
Meanwhile. high over the country,
spraSue and Wu were flying, easily
picking out the general direction OF Lake
wood. That was easy enough. But to find
two particular persons in the country
| is not an easy job. even for an aviator
with bird's-eye view.
People at Lakewood may still recall
the aeroplane that circled again and
again over the town and the beautiful
estates. sprague finally located yelling
ton Browns, but Elaine was not there
and there was no use wasting the pre-
cious arrows on any one else WI peered
about eagerly through a field glass.
There they are-over on that hillside. -
he muttered with a low. gutteral ex.
clamation.
sure enough. they could see Elaine
under the umbrella quite conspicuously
with myself posed some feet away.
"Hurry-speed 1t up" urged WI OF
Sprague. indicating the exact spot.
Kennedy had hastened out to the fort
eNen before our departure, and there he
had met Lieutenant Waters. With some
other officers and several soldiers, he