The Arvada enterprise., 1917-09-20

drilled persistently and made familiar
With rife practice"
"In other words, they are being made
into q private army Of trained med.
ready to be offered to the country's
service in event Of war"
"Exeellency-yes."
II must SO for myself. A dangerous
business, Q dangerous precedent ;
should many American captains Of in
dustry adopt this scheme, the United
States will have q standing army too
soon, far too soon. We must ind some
way to discourage this young woman
some way to sterillze her efforts to-
ward preparedness before she can
prove them practicable"
Kato bowed assent. After another
moment Huroki dismissed him upon
his errand.
Within ten minutes the two. thor
oughly masked against recognition in
their motoring garments, left the
house and took their places-Kato at
the wheei-in q high-powered motor
car Of the roadster type.
Tooling the car along in discreet rec
ignition Of tradlc regulations as long
~ they travelled city streets. once they
had gained open country Kato drove at
. pace which would have been fool
hardy In q driver less adept.
For Q time. en- route, their way ran
parallel with railroad tracks. Fur %
much ~ q mile the roadster raced 4
light special train. Then, admoalshed
By Huroki's touch On his sleeve. Kato
modified the speed and permitted the
special to draw ahead. A. II did 20,
Huroh identified unmistakably the
slight siriish figure that sat alone on
tho observation platform.
30 Patria Claiming was likewise
bound for Powder Towni
Even had he been without q mask,
the faes Of the japanese would have
betrayed no trace Of emotion. Yet the
sight Of the girl had ret astir in him
passions which had for some time lain
dormant-dark passions bred Of hatred
and chagrin. For, alone among the
many men and women with whom he
had come In contact in the course Of
a long and active and varied career,
Patria had proved q stumbling block to
his ambition, stubbornly opposing her
puny strength to his-and overcoming
him, persistently thwartins his shrewd-
ct schsmes-and paying no penalty.
His arrangements were now an
made for q furtive. unostentatious exit
from the country which Patria had
made too hot to harbor him longer. He
was, In effect, being driven out BY this
lnsisnincant wisp Of womanhood- out
lawed, q failure. disgraced. In Ill favor
with his emperor.
And he had been prepared to 20
without further attempt to balance his
score with Patria. But this accidental
encounter-of which the girl had re-
mained % serenely unconscious
him change his mind. Secretly he d.
tefmined, before the special had
rounded Q bend ahead and vanished
from his view, upon one anal essay
to aveogs his wrongs ere he Ged.
An hour later It stood empty with
engine idle on q by-road near the sum
init Of hill overlooking the little val
Icy In which lay Powder Town. TWEEN
y feet above It. in the cover q Q
group Of trees On the hilltop. Huroki
and Kato were looking down into the
valley. with the aid Of binoculars, the
japanese reading plain confirmation Of
all the Newspaper alleged concerning
Patria's activities In the cause Of pre-
paredness.
On the open space that lay between
the group Of factory buildings and the
town, upwards Of i've hundred men
In semiuniform and bearing arms were
performing evolutions with q snap and
precision that spoke well for Donald
PARIS system Of training.
Huroki's face darkened.
Down the road from the railway sta.
ton came Q m0tor-car. In 1t sat Patria
Charming. Al II appeared the men In
training responded quickly to snapped
orders and arrayed themselves Ia long
ranks for review. presenting arms a.
the car came to . pause at little dis
lance before them.
Alighting. Patria was welcomed by
Captain Parr and group Of ofllcers.
After walking the length Of the front
ranks, Patria returned to the motor.
car and took from the tonneau an OBJ
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