Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-06-06

if they were called upon to suddenly vacate, and when they learned of the proposed visit of the secret service of ficials, they made sure the tunnel was clear of Instructions.
 An explosive mine was placed under the floor. The bomb was connected by wire with the underground passage, and made ready to be discharged by electricity when pressure was applied to an exploding-key. To make sure of their work, quantity of nitroglycer- inc was stored in the tunnel as force for vengeance held in reserve.
 Everything was prepared for the welcome" the anarchists intended to give the government officials, and the beetle-browed villains waited restless ly for the arrival of their victims. Some time after dark the lookouts re- ported that the attacking force was approaching.
 The raiding party advanced eau tiously from several directions until they finally completely surrounded the
 
 cer in command, with few of his subordinates, approached the only door that gave access to the hut, and knocked loudly for admittance
 There was no response to repeated demands, and at last the officers pressed their shoulders against the panels of the door and forced it open. Searching the one big room that occu- pied the ground floor of the hut with their electric torches the officials made careful inventory.
 The gleam of the lights upon wire stretched across the floor awakened suspicion. The leader of the party, concluding that the wire could not be there for any especially good purpose, promptly cut it-and thereby saved the lives of himself and his men.
 Underground the anarchists were de- batting just how soon they should ex- plode the mine that was intended to rid the earth of at least q few of their settled the discussion by pressing the connecting key, and no explosion re- suited, the gang knew that something had gone wrong with their plans.
 The leader of the anarchists grabbed the container of nitroglycerin and started to crawl cautiously through the tunnel, followed by the rest of the anarchists. When their mine failed to explode, one of their greatest schemes Tor vengeance was shattered. They had only the hand-operated explosives now to rely upon.
 When the anarchists began their exit from the underground tunnel, the shout that was set up by the officers the attention of the raiders who had gone inside. Some of the secret serv- ice men rushed from the cabin and joined their fellows to repel the threatened attack.
 At this instant new and entirely unexpected element entered into the exciting situation. Pat drove up to the Frenchman's cabin, from the main road just as the anarchist in posses sion of the nitroglycerin was about to hurl the deadly stuff into the group of officials who had gathered in front of the hut.
 Pat had but second to think, and in the decision to fulfill the purpose for which she had come, the girl took careful aim with her revolver and shot the anarchist at the instant his arm was drawn back to hurl the explosive. The shot was true, and when the bullet struck it's target the nitroglycerin fell a few feet away from him and explod- ed on the ground.
 The shocH was indescribable. The old shanty fell in crumbled mass, and an overturned stove set fire to the ruins. Officers and anarchists were alike thrown violently to the ground.
 Pat had opened the door of the taxi cab when she aimed her shot, and the shock of the explosion likewise threw her to the ground. Men in such trying times have been known to be far more excitable than women, and in this case Pat was the coolest person in the pan- ic-stricken crowd.
 When the girl scrambled to her feet the first blaze of the burning cabin at tracted her attention. To her utter horror she fancied that she saw, through the open door, man in the Frenchman's hut wave his arms in sign of distress and then fall to the floor.
 Pat wasted no precious time in de- ciding what she should do. In mad leaps she covered the ground and dashed into the burning hut A few feet inside the door, with the flames