The "Blacklisted" Cadet — page 62: what you’re looking at

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124 TOUCHING THE BUTTON. unarined into the power of the lurking desperado, with comrades presumably in the vicinity. To hail or signal by voice was scarcely worth the trying. | . Yet with Vic’s capture, and the discovery of what two chalk words iad conveved to Cif in the workshop aloft, might come compzications essentially ~Mavorable to the conspirators. “If what I guess is*true,’’ soliloquized Clif, fer- vently, ‘thei Lomasine is, indeed, an heiress. No weapon!’ | Clif had not even a pocket knife. Vic had brought his uniform, recovered from the scarecrow, along with him to the crematory, but the pockets had been rifled. Clif’s hand, about to hopelessly abandon a search, tingled with a queer, sudden sensation. “Whiv,’? he saia, {I remember!” What Clif “remembered”? was that in the wagon that had brought them to this neighborhood Vic had thrown off lis coat on account of the heat. When Clif led the horse to the shelter shed he had noticed an object under the wagon seat that had acci- dentally dropped from one of the pockets of the gar- et. He had picked it tp, and now his fingers came acruss it, and arash hope filled his mind. “My invention !’’ Clif half smiled. ° It had been a trivial one, in Chf’s mind—:more of a toy than a thing of utility. But now he estimated that it should serve ainighty— purpose, and his face crew serious. Chis invention wasa clever device that had grown out of a suggestion from little Nauny. The diminutive plebe had insisted on having some signal to warn when they ran across an antagonistic city crowd. Its uses, too, would be many during a recreation deploy or brief encampment. ‘ oo . - * : . » a re V : P : 5 > = . ' ».A4% x”. / - e 4 ) 4 . . <* : re P Se \. aa 7 © ‘S im ¥ ¢ - P a 4 m4 | | p - od ty v iw ah 6 ee te » > “ . ss acon irs a - A elle =, ‘¥ SPE ee 7 a 4 44 4 ’ ys ft Oe = ~ t ile weds ; , ant ty ~ Oe ae oA MeN re ¥ res e I ig = + OS ads foe 4s a ~~ a — ~ Rae . - . — 1 “se ¥ ” ~ gute’ > , SN Pl - ~et Ae: a. on 8 : = =