. St. Nicholas [serial]. ave itready ! By the light of a lantern the sentry examinedthe passports, looked at the words written on theback of each one by the officer at Culoz, grunted,and rested his musket carelessly on the ground,while Jack examined his machine and got readyto start on again. Before mounting, he came up to Cyrus andleaned against the motor-cycle while he said afew things. Now look here, Cy. I dont know but I did afool thing to bring you up here just now. Itis nt any picnic or little excursion. These fel-lows are getting down to work fast, and theymean business. You dont seem t
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ave itready ! By the light of a lantern the sentry examinedthe passports, looked at the words written on theback of each one by the officer at Culoz, grunted,and rested his musket carelessly on the ground,while Jack examined his machine and got readyto start on again. Before mounting, he came up to Cyrus andleaned against the motor-cycle while he said afew things. Now look here, Cy. I dont know but I did afool thing to bring you up here just now. Itis nt any picnic or little excursion. These fel-lows are getting down to work fast, and theymean business. You dont seem to be just theadventurous type, you know. You talk toomuch. Shant get much chance up here, where Icant understand their lingo. I9i6.] SAVED BY A CAMERA 205 Well, I 11 do the talking, and you just dowhat I say, do you hear ? And keep your pass-port handy and fork it out every time we 11 go through this performance about everyfive minutes on an average. We re all right ifwe stop and show our papers right away. If we. TO CVKUS S HOHROK, THE MACHINE KEPT ON AT FULL SlEED dont stop, we 11 be shot straight and no parley-ing, and dear old New York will see us no more,and they 11 put up a tablet at Princeton for thetwo members of the class of i6 who laid downtheir lives on a foreign shore. A thought struck Cyrus. He would speakwhile he could if he had to be dumb after-ward. the motor would nt stop ? Sometimes it s con-trary and wont. Jacks bonny face grew s just got to stop. I 11 make her; if not—well, we re done for, and that s all there isabout it. Yes, she s got to stop ! It was not a cheerful did not know wherethey were going, but he sup-posed that Jack did. It wasnt fair for Jack to say thathe could not enjoy adven-tures. It must be his Londonclothes. He d ruin them to-morrow, if that was the wayto do in war-times. Jack was right. Aboutevery five minutes a sentrycalled Halt! and theyhalted. The motor obeyedjcautifully; their papers wereexamined and the
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