Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-06
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Lieutenant Rex ballard, DR.. Frank
Gordon, both in love with Patricia
Blair, Red Gross driver, follow her
TO Paris on receiving news Of her
KIDNAPPING. It is near the close OF
the World war. Patricia, Joint heir
with her twin brother. Jimmy, to a
huge estate. has partially identified
a wounded aviator, apparently suf-
fering from aphasia, as her twin
brother. but ballard and Gordon be-
lieve another youth. also an aphasia
victim, TO be the real Jimmy. This
latter youth is spirited away from
a Paris hospital. Then Herbert F..
Maxwell arrives from New York. an
%nouncing himself as the legal guard
ian Of the twins, and also his inten-
ton Of taking the partially identi-
fled brother back to New York.
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CHAPTER 10
IF we only knew something about
that legacy-in-trust." continued the
lieutenant, almost dolefully, then
we'd have something to work from.
I assume that it was left them by
their deceased father. But what are
the conditions, If any. attached to
its transfer to them on their twen-
ty-fifth birthday? If we knew the
wording of the will we'd have a
pretty good idea as to whether Pa
tricia and jim are at present in
actual danger of their lives. Or
whether, perhaps"
The possibility involved in the ua-
finished sentence was too horrid
even TO contemplate. They must 60
on as they had started-on the as
sumption that Pat and Jim still
lived.
II was during this talk that DR..
Gordon voiced a question that had
bothered Margery ever since Dali
lard's first suggestion that the lad
who had saved his life was very
likely the brother of Pat Blair.
How Is il, lieutenant" the doc
tor asked. a puzzled look In his
kindly eyes. How do you figure any
preconceived plot in that airplane
crash that dumped the man with the
James K. Blair letters IN his poe
ketSout on the road in front Of
Pat and /? You know, don't you,
that She cried out TO me, its my
brother, Jimmy even before we
found the letters? How do you ac-
count for those things-the crash
and ALP
Its just the arm OF coincidence"
averred ballard, a grim tightening Of
the mobile mouth betraying the null
ish blood in his veins. "A chance
happening. It's like might not occur
again in a million years. And 1t
might occur today or Tomorrow.
so far as concerns the letters in
his pockets" went on the Lieutenant.
warming to his subject, haven't /
told you what the lad. Jim. told me
IN the shell hole that morning? Don't
you recall that his uniform, letters,
tag and everything were stolen and
a German uniform left for him?
This chap. who had been chosen by
Maxwell Just because he looked so
much like his ward. James Blair.
had been waiting for this very
chance 10 get at young Jim. Blair
was known to be a flyer in the Amer
lean corps. They were flying back
and forth across the lines on both
sides every day. and every day or
SO a flyer was brought down-Some-
times dead, sometimes badly hurt
and sometimes unhurt. This day Ii
was Blair's luck-or ill-luck- to be
brought down unhurt when the gas
tank Of his ship was punctured by a
bullet.
so now" continued Rex ballard,
grinning as he noted the wrapt looG
on the faces Of his two listeners.
nov VIC reach the place where We
begin to pick up the slack III the
thread Of narrative. Here is
this bird who looks like Jim Blair.
He, too, is a flyer. acting as a spy
for the Germans. a young French
man who has put in several years
IN New York, learned to talk Eng
lish as it's talked on New York's
east side. Well, he has his inStruc-
tons from Maxwell-'Keep a lookout
for young Blair And Blair finally
drops down-just as scores OF Others
have dropped down. OF course this
Frenchman recognizes Jimmy. who
looks SO much like himself. When
the chance offers he steals the
young flyer-prisoner's khaki uni
form with all his letters, tag and
everything. He leaves his own Ger
man outfit. Then he takes the air
all decked out in an American avi-
ator uniform.
The crash is out-and-out acct
dent. He simply loses control when
a wing splits and hits the earth,
and 1t happens TO be on the road
where Pat Blair is driving her am
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