Gilpin observer., 1917-03-29
eleventh EPISODE
A Million Volunteers!

Adams looked at her apprehensively.
"No'm, to t-them three questions. It's
the solemn truth, girl. Did that ST.
lent Menace get the w-wafers?" he
added in voice so full of anxiety that
PEARLS doubts of him vanished.
"He's got them and he initiated you
to perfection!" she cried. Here was a
new suggestion. Was it possible that
all along the Silent Menace masque-
raded as Adams to throw them off the
scent? She made a mental note to
mention this Illuminating thought to
her father.
In spite of her protests, Adams haz-
arded n close examination of the burn
ing machine, and perceiving the re-
mains of the aviator, drew her away.
Whereupon they spent the better part
of an hour securing the neighborhood
for the masked man and finally gave
up the futile hunt in disgust without
having found single trace.
BY this time farmers whose homes
We're in the vicinity and curious and
morbid city folk began to arrive in au-
tomobiles, on foot, in buggies and on
horseback. Mounted Washington po-
lice and troop of cavalry rode up
presently and took charge Of the situa-
ton, assembling order and affording
much-needed privacy to Pearl and
Adams.
When Colonel Dare, with Major
Brent and Bertha Bonn, in the automo-
bile with Toxic at the wheel dashed
into sight, Pearl could hardly restrain
her impatience She fell into the
coloners arms, weeping Historically.
"Take me home ~ she sobbed,p her
nerves giving way. adams will ex-
plain everything to you" And they
carried her to the car.
During the ride back to Washington,
on the outskirts of which these scenes
were enacted, Adams briefly related
his side of the thrilling adventure. He
had on his own responsibility forsaken
the party at the Chemical building
after the lost race with the Silent
Flyer, hurried to the adjacent hangars
of the Aero club of America, borrowed
n one-man machine, and had flown buck,
arriving at the moment that the Silent
Flyer, with Pearl hanging around the
drivers neck. began to ascend from the
roof. He observed the parachute at
tached to the Silent Flyer and swept
by just as Pearl detached 1t and start
ed to descend. The Silent Flyer s
driver whipped out his revolver to
shoot Pearl. Adams bullet knocked
the revolver out of his hand. Adams
now scared above the Silent Flyer,
which he bombarded with explosives,
Both machines had veered in west.
erly direction, some distance out of the
straight line of Pearls downward
flight.
"She couldn't do 1t a-again, not once
in Thousand times" averred Adams
in conclusion with an admiring glance
ut the half-falntlng girl in her fathers
arms. Which was probably the truth
Only twice before in the history OF
aeronautlcs-ln the Somme and In east
ern Poland during the great European
conflict then raging-had transference
in air flight been accomplished by hu
man beings.
When the Washington morning pa
pers came out, the front pages In bolt
type We're devoted to this hair-raisini
experience of Miss Dare and her fa
lhers orderly, now celebrities tn,
world over. Reporters We'd with eacl
,ther In trying to outwrite the "fea
:Vre." which was too rare to miss. B.
40 means satisfied with the main them,
II their tale they spun 1t from ever!