Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-06-13
SIXTEENTH EPISODE
The Surrender.


 The battle with the police, beside the prison wall, was spirited, brief and decisive. The Apaches made desperate effort to overcome the officers, but the police were quickly re-enforced, when other officers responded to the blowing of alarm whistles, and Pats men were soon subdued.
 The driver of the electric patrol, sticking to his post through the scuff1e, had watched Pat make her getaway and had seen her hail the taxi and drive away.
 As soon as the Apaches were over- come, the driver told the commander of the police party what had become of Pat. The chief ordered several po- hcemen to climb into the patrol and 1t was quickly driven away, headed in the direction Pat had taken when she commandeered the taxi.
 After running several blocks, the had just received telephone orders from headquarters, directing the wag0nload of officers to abandon the indefinite chase of the girl and proceed direct to West Farms. The attack on the anarchists hut, had been under stood among the authorities and it was proposed to have the men in the patrol get there in time to help in the raid.
 The mad dash of the patrol failed to land the policemen at the Frenchman's cabin, before the anarchists had ex- ploded their charge of nitrOglycerin. When the wagon was less than half a mile away, tearing down the road at full speed, the noise of the explosion and the flare of the fire as the flames began to consume the debris, gave no- tice to the police that they had, in a measure, failed in their purpose.
 But the patrol-load of police were a useful addition to the band of secret service men who were now consider ably stunned by the sudden shock of the explosion and the exciting events that had so quickly developed. The anarchists, making their way to free dom through the tunnel they had dug, were fast disappearing from the scene, fleeing in every direction.
 The commander of the patrol squad quickly perceived the necessities of the occasion. Some of his men he dis persed, post haste, in pursuit of the anarchists.
 The patrol chauffeur was ordered to speed to the nearest telephone and transmit call for an ambulance-for Pat was still lying insensible upon the ground, beside the chief of the secret service men whom she has so heroical- ly rescued from the burning ruins, of the Frenchmans shack.
 While some of the police busted themselves in an effort to revive Pat and the secret service chief, others hurried into the underground tunnel in the hope of catching some of the an- Hrchists who might have failed to es- cape. Others joined the secret service operatives in scurrying in every direc- tion, trying to apprehend their escap- ing foes.
 There was desultory attempt made to subdue the fire in the debris of the wrecked cabin, but the absence of any equipment, and the scarcity of water, made the undertaking hopeless from the start. So the tinderlike wood burned and the embers smoldered.
 Shortly after the call had been turned in for an ambulance, the chief of the secret service operatives began to show signs of recovery, and by the time the hospital attendants arrived he had shaken off the effects of his sudden collapse. He refused to enter the ambulance, and Pat alone re- mained to require medical attention.
 The surgeon made a nasty examina- ton and concluded that Pat was not seriously affected by the shock and ex- citement of her adventure. She was, however, placed on stretcher and showed into the ambulance for pre- cautionary trip to the hospital.
 Because of his unfamiliarity with the suburban roads, the driver of the ambulance chose. the wrong turning, soon after he had started on the return trip to the hospital. His mistake cost Pat her liberty and left the ambulance driver and surgeon in an embarrassing position.
 The anarchists knew every foot of 4he surrounding territory, and when they escaped from the immediate vicin-