"
Porky looked quickly up.
"I got the same hunch, Colonel," he said.
"Same man," added Beany.
"Eh, what's this?" demanded the Colonel.
The boys were silent; and while the officer continued his puzzled
study of the two faces, the long racer swept again to the steps,
and Captain DuChassis stepped out and handed down a lovely girl.
She was in a riding habit, and she ran lightly up to the Colonel
and kissed his tanned cheek. "Well, daddy," she cried, "we are
going to take a ride together, Captain and I!"
She looked at the young man beside her and smiled. He was
resplendent in riding clothes and returned her smile tenderly.
They stood talking with the Colonel while they waited for their
horses.
"How does everything go, daddy? Have you heard anything from
Elinor Pomeroy?" She turned, "Elinor is a school friend of
mine," she explained. "She is in dreadful trouble. Her brother
invented a gas that will absolutely whip Germany, and he was
attacked the very night that the gas was tried out, and
frightfully hurt, and the formula taken away from him. Of
course, it wouldn't matter if he could tell some one, but he
never will. I heard to-day that he is conscious now, but the
past is a perfect blank.
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