The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-07-26

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his suspicious that a clever trick had
been perpetrated.
Bertha Bonn's loclet Is not in Colonel
Dare's safe, after all. Pardon my error.
Thanks for the canal defense plans"
1t was, of course, from the Silent
Menace, under his usual silhouette.
Brent crushed the note in his fist
and compared 1t with one he had re-
ceived by an unknown messenger at
the barracks earlier in the day.
"Major Brent" the first note read.
"You will find the locket in Colonel
Dare's safe. No one but Adams who
hid It there knows this"
But the signature was not that of
the Silent Menace, nor was the writ
ing the same. 1t purported to come
from Bertha Bonn.
He destroyed the two missives and
joined the colonel who with Adams
and Toxic had returned to the library.
They were greatly agitated and at a
loss to know what to do. Wondering
what the trouble was about, Pearl
came down the stairs and joined the
group.
Naturally Adams was embarrassed
in the extreme.
at was $50 sudden like, l didn't
know what happened It'll 1t was all
over" suffered the miserable fellow.
az shoulda know'd better than to ego
near the blamed window with them
,,Iane In ~, INV hands
Suspicion was now removed from
Brent as his explanation OF the affair
at the safe had all the marks and veri-
fications of the truth. 1t was his
chance to be insinuating and sarcas-
tic about Adams and he did not let 1t
slip.
ut seems to me that every time
anything happens to the Canal defense
plans you are in or around tor
somewhere about" he could not re-
frain from saying to Adams in a most
caustic manner.
Colonel Dare raised a protesting
voice. 1.-THE fact of the matter is that
there has been entirely too much
misunderstanding among us ALL" he
declared, testify. He looked at Major
Brent severely. you, and Toxic, too"
he gave his chauffeur a sharp glance,
"-and possibly my daughter and my
self have been over suspicious of this
young man." He laid n kindly hand
on Adams shoulder 1.-The time has
come when we must trust one another
more fully or else we will get nowhere
in our efforts to unmask the Silent
Menace and the secret foreign alliance
with which he is cooperating. / must
confess that 1 am at my wits ends"
Toxic looked sheepish. Adams
stared out of the window. Brent
shifted his eyes uneasily. His fea-
lures twitched perceptibly.
Pearl asked question or two. 81
| trust Adams-when he acts in the
open. But will he explain how he came
to preside as the Silent Menace at that
meeting of the Foreign Alliance?"
81 wasn't presiding. l w-was pre-
tending" put in Adams quickly.
"Did the Foreign Alliance think you
were pretending?"
"Surel If you hadn't thrown t-that
bomb at them they'd have been caught
too. W-wouldn't they colonel?"
The colonel turned to his daughter
with a faint smile. adams can ex'
plain all that, Pearl"
HAS he explained how he located
the meeting place of the Foreign ALI
ance in the uninhabited tenement
house where the note from the Silent
Menace was found not two minutes
after he entered and disappeared"
"No'm, but 1 w-will. 1 got the ad
dress l-left by the Silent Menace al
the newspaper office when he answered
1.-THE governments adp'
Even Toxic was obliged to admit
how simple and clever thing to dc
this was.
81 don't know yet, colonel, who
n-nailed Miss Dare in the box will
the b-bomb," Adams went on, seeing
the doubts about him dissolving some
what. "It m-might have been tina
there Silent Menace, but 1 d-don'
think 1t was" For brief second hi
eyes enveloped the nervous major
at mighta been the c-cabin boy, jus
to g-get even. He's dead anyhow ant
so are them there munltion m-manu
facturers. They were killed In thu
explosion"
"What were their names?" interject
ed the colonel.
81 don't know. And DIDN'T know
the names Of the Foreign Alliance
nuther. Except Karnavi, which
flake. II they're alive after that ex
plosion, They've got the Canal dc
Tense plans, that's dead sure. Blu
they haven't got the chemicals so the
can't use the p-plans."
Then for the first time Adams wa
told how the box of waters from Pear
7 reached Colonel Dare through Berth
Bonn and were subsequently stole
! from Major Brent. The major did tn
T talking.
Adams made Brent repeat the stor
! several times before he could bellev