uble between Dick Mercer and Jack Young on one side, and the telephone lineme

t had stolen up on them. But now, with a groan, Dick and Jack both knew it for one of the Bray Park cars. So, after all, Dick's flight had been in vain. He had escaped the guards

ent over by the hedge, and saw a spot a little darker than the rest of the ground about it. Jack, he saw at once, had taken the one fai

almost blinding the three of them, as they held up their hands. In its light four men, well armed with revolvers, were r

e slip and fall from idiomatic English that Harry Fleming's sharp ears had caught. Dick, was thrilled, somehow, even while he was being roughly bundled toward the motor. If these fellows were as bold as this, cutting telephone wires, running about without l

ering. But the sheer, unnecessary brutality of it shocked and angered him. He felt that Englishmen, or Americans, would not treat a prisoner so–especially one who had not been fighting. These men were not even soldiers; they were spies, which made the act the more outrageous. They were serving their country, however, for all that, and that softened Dick's feeling toward them a little. True, they wer

the two linemen, the one who had been hit still unconscious, were pitched in beside him. The other two Germans were in front, and the car began to

much sense, but if a passerby should hear us speaking German, he would be suspicio

n," said the driver. "This Boy Scout. The other

Dick, knowing he was spe

for long–that could not be. But we need only a few hours more. By

st. There are the soldiers. Then Buckingham Palace. Ah, what a lesson we shall teach these English! T

re they so sure of success that it did not matter? As a matter of fact, he did not fully u

might say something he would understand, and, moreover, if he got away, it was possibl

d Dick, and he drew away. The Germ

hurt you! What a country! It se

Dick felt himself warming a little

u are to be put where knowledge of them will do no harm–for a few hours. Then you can go

Bray Park, he felt, and he thought that, once inside, neither Jack nor anyone else could get him out until these m

" said th

een hurt obeyed; the other lineman was l

. He pointed to the open door, and they went inside. One

the boy," said the leader. "See that none of them escape.

r!" said the ma

trange procedure was, in some sense, military, even though there we

ol house. There was one window; that and the door were the only means of egress. The German looked hard at the window and laughed. Dick saw then that

one ear open! You cannot get out exce

rman, so that Dick was the only one awake. Through the window, presently, came the herald of the dawn, the slowly advancing light. And suddenly Dick saw a sha

ded up and down vehemently, however, and Dick understood him, and that he was to stay where he wa

of the three men disturbed the quiet of the little hut. But then, from behind him, he grew conscious of a faint noise. Not quite a

last the earth cracked and yawned where he

le underneath. You can squirm your wa

d dug from the outside. He was small and slight and he got through, somehow, though he was short of

me to lose. I've got a couple of bi

uiet and peaceful. And beyond the hut was the menace of Bray Park and t