The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-03-23


with the purposeful air Of strength
and efficiency that stamped the chauf-
feur and his companion, whose mar
roWed eyes flashed her a penetrating
look Of interest when she appeared,
resolved her doubts and raised her Gu
rlously to the Nth degree.
She recognized in the companion
one of the best-kno~n operatives Of
| the United States secret service.
".
Felix Hazard as yet had not the
| faintest inkling Of the nature of the
affair whose urgent gravity his chief
had been at such pains to emphasize.
| He knew only that the emergency
must have arisen within the last &c
| hours, else he would have had some
hint of it before leaving Chicago.
! His thoughts were imbued with
Helen; he was impatient of the sep
aration, however brief it might prove
to be, and he saw little enough of
sights already familiar to him.
The building that housed the Suth-
erland offices was distinguished from
all it's newer neighbors by having
entrances on three streets.
Hazards taxi drew up at one Of
the main entrances, and at the ap-
pointed minute he sprang out and hur.
ried in, to find Prentice impatiently
waiting for him.
| Something's happened since you
showed up" said he with an air of un-
corking himself "All our plans are
| changed; the man you are to see will
come here-should be here now-in.
stead of us"
| The almost GREATNESS explanation
vas rudely broken in upon by the
! harsh rasp of buzzer Indicator.
Prentice snatched up his desk tele-
| phone. BET that's him now" said
he.
| lie listened a moment, then a
strange, awed expression overspread
his features.
"Show them right in," he jerkily
| commanded, slamming up the receiver
and running over to open the door.
A man presently entered. the dig
nifty of whose position brought Haz-
ard instantly to his feet.
1t was the president.
Close behind him followed two 9TH
e1s in whom he recognized the sec
rotary of war and Curtis, head of the
United States secret service.
| Before any sort Of introduction
could be made the secretary at once
explained to Prentice:
We decided it would be more ad-
| visable for us to come here than for
| YOU to come to us. Curtis and ar
rived singly and waited for the rres-
ident, whose deep concern would
not allow him to wait for our
report Every entrance. hallway and
elevator is closely guarded by Mr..
Curtis men, so there is little like
lihood that we shall be unpleasantly
intruded upon" ....
Then Hazard was presented and
the party at once got down to business.
The secretary took it upon himself
to lay the case before Hazard.
"On the eighteenth of last March
! nearly year agO-an American in
ventor named Colewich came to Gen
eral Harker, head of the Army bu-
reau, with a new type of explosive.
Colewich's claims were so extrava-
CANT that the ordnance department
was very skeptical regarding them;
but following their customary policy
not to disregard any possibility of adj
vancement in any branch of the serv-
ice, Colewich was promised a thor
ough trial of his invention, and later
he was notified that the first day had
been set.
1T is enough to say of this explo-
sive that it more than justified it's
inventors claims. 1t proved so pow
erful, as a matter of fact, that if it
| is not lost to the world it will re-
duce the possibilities of future war
ties for destruction are simply be-
yond the power Of words to describe.
In shells of ordinary field-type artil-
lery, the solidest and most modern Of
Notifications become as houses of
'straw.
1T is obvious that such terrible
| instrument of destruction should not
be allowed to fall into the possession
of any other nation; but, alas, it seems
as though it has.
However, that's neither here nor
there now. Very little time was vast
ed in coming to terms with Colewich,
Of whom can confidently assert that
he was quite patriotic in uniting with
US to keep his formula secret. But
during the course of the rigid tests
he expressed belief that he was
| being Swallowed. He was-by Cur
it's men. But he maintained that
the espionage had begun before ever
he had made himself known to us.
I'VE doubled our precautions. Cole
witch already had taken extra care to
safeguard his precious formula, which
was in the safe deposit vaults Of
one of New York's largest banks.
| - A.