NORTTT PLATTE SE1UI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. BULL- DOG ft DRUMMOND Who "COME ON, B0Y8I" Syiiopatii. In December, 1918, four men gatlier In a hotel In Home and hear one of tho quartet outllno a plan to paralyze Oreat Ilrltaln nnd at the name time boIzo world power. The other three, Hocking, Amcrl can, and Stelncrnan and Von Qratz, Germans, all millionaire, agree to the (scheme, providing Another man, HI nun Potts, an American, Is taken In. The Instigator of tho plot gives hie name as Comto de Ouy, but when he leaves for England with bin daughter he dorldes to use the name Carl I'etorson. Capt Hugh (Dull-Dog) Drummond, a retired officer, advertise for work that will give him excitement, signing "X10." As a result ho meets I'hyl Ils Denton, a young woman who answered his ad. She tells him of strange murders nnd robberies of which she suspects a band headed by Peterson and Henry Ijaklngton. Drummond decides to go to The Lurched, Miss Denton's home. Pe terson and Laklngton stop his car and look him over. CHAPTER II Continued. "Ho's ho iiiotlonloRs," answered Hugh. "Tho bully fellow hasn't moved n muscle since I've been here, 1 bcllovo he'd sit on n hornet's nest, nnd leave the Inmates picsslnK. Great Klft, Mr. Laklngton. Shows a strenftth of will hut rarely met with a mind which rlseB nbovo mere vulgar cu riosity." "It Is undoubtedly n great gift to tmvo such a mind, Contain Drum mond," said Lulclngton. "And If It Isn't born In n man, ho should most certainly try to cultlvato It. Shall we bo seeing you this evening?" Drummond shrugged his shoulders. "I'm tho vaguest, man that ever lived," ho Raid lightly. "I might bo listen ing to nlghtlngnlcs In the country; or I might be consuming steak and onions preparatory to going to.n night club. So long. . . . Hope you don't break down , again so suddenly." He watched the Kolls-ltoyco start, hut seemed In no hurry to follow suit. And tils many friends, who wcra Wont to regard Hugh Drmninond as a mass of brawn not too plentifully supplied with brains, would havo been puz zled had they seen tho look of keen concentration on his face, as ho stared nlong the white dusty road. Ho could not say why, hut suddenly and very certainly the conviction had come to hi in that this was no hoax and no leg-pull but grim ann sober reality. In his Imagination ho heard tho sud den sharp order to stop the tnstnnt they were over the hill, so that I'eter son might havo n chance of Inspect ing him; In a Hash of Intuition ho knew thnt theso two men wtero no ordinary people, nnd that ho was sus pect, Two thoughts were, dominant In his mind. Tho first wns thnt there wns some mystery about tho motion less, unnntural man who had sat bo nlde tho driver j the second was a dis tinct feeling of relief that his auto matic was fully loaded, THREE. At half-past flvo he stopped In front of Oodulmlng postolllce. To his sur prise tho girl handed hlin u wlro, and Hugh toro tho yellow envolopo open quickly. It was from Denny, and It was brief and to tho point: "Ihono messngo received. AAA. Must see you Carlton tea day after tomorrow. Going Godalmlng now. AAA, Messngo ends." With n slight smile ho noticed tho military phraseology Denny nt ono time In his career hud been n signaler and then ho frowned. "Must seo you." Sho should nt once. Ho turned to the girl and Inquired tho way to Tho lurches. It was about two miles, ho gathered, on tho Guildford road, and Impossible to miss. A biggish houso Htandlng well back In Its own grounds. "Is It anywhere nar a house called The Elms?" he asked. "Next door, sir," Bald the girl. "Tho gardenH adjoin." He thanked her, and having torn tip tho telegrnm Into small plows, ho got Into his car. There i was nothing for It. ho had dechlwl.ttut to drive boldly up to tho housp.and wiy that ho had como to call on Miss Henton. Ho had never been a man who heat Rbout tho" bush, and slmplo methods nppealed to him it trait In. his char neter which ninny n boxer, addicted to tortuous cunning In the ring, had good causo to remember. What moro natural, ho reflected, 4han to drive over nnd seo such nn old friend? He had no dlfllculty lnv finding tho house, nnd n few, mlnuteH later ho was ringing tho front-door boll. It was answered by a maidservant. "Is Miss Denton In?" Hugh asked with n smile which' nt onco won tho girl's heart. "Sho has only Just come back from Ixmdon, sir,' sho answered doubtfully. "I don't know whether . . ." "Would you tell her that Captain Drummond called?" mild Hugh as tho The Adventures of A Demobilized Officer Found Peace Dull CYRIL MC-NE1LE Illustrations by IRWIN MYERS ooyriqht by Geo H Do ran Co maid hesitated. "That I happened to fine myself near here, and camo on chanco of seeing her?" Once again the smile wns called .Into play, and the girl hcsltntcd no longer. "Will you come Inside, sir?" she wild. "I will go and tell Miss Phyllis." She ushered hi in Into the draw-Ing-rootii nnd closed the door. It was n charantng room, Just such us he would have expected with Phyllis. Big windows, opening down to the ground, led out on to n lawn, which was al ready a blnzo of color. A few great oak trees threw a pleasant shade nt the end of the garden, and partially showing through them, he could see another house which he rightly as sumed wns The Kims. In fact, oven n s he henrd the door open and shut behind him, he saw Peterson come out of a small summer-house nnd com mence strolling up nnd down, smok ing n cigar. Then he turned round nnd faced the girl. Charming as sho had looked In Lon don, she was doubly so now, In a sim ple linen frock which showed oft her llgure to perfection. Dut If ho thought he was going to have any leisure to enjoy the picture undisturbed, he was soon disillusioned. "Why have you come here, Cap tain Drummond?" sho sold, u llttlo breathlessly. "I said the Carlton the day after tomorrow." "Unfortunately," snld Hugh, "I'd left London before that message came. My servant wired It on to the post olllce here. Not that It would have made any difference. I should have como. anyway." An Involuntary smile hovered round her Hps for a moment; then sho grow serious again. "It's very dangerous for you to come Jiere," eho remarked quietly. "If once those men suspect anything, God knows what will hap pen." It was on the tip of his tongue to tell her that It was too late to Worry about thnt; then lie changed his mind. "And what Is there suspicious," ho asked, "in nn old friend who happens to be In tho neighborhood dropping in to call? Wherefore your telephone message? What's tho worry?" Sho bit her lip and drummed with her lingers on the arm of tho chnlr. "If I tell you." she said at length, "will you promise me, o'n your word of honor, that you won't go blunder ing Into The Kims, or do anything foolish llko thnt?" "At tho present moment I'm very comfortnble where I nm, thanks," re marked Hugh. "1 know," sho said; "but I'm so drendfully afrnld that you're tho typo of person who . , . who . . ." Sho paused, nt n loss for n. word. , "Who hollows llko n bull, and charges head down," Interrupted Hugh with a grin. Sho laughed with him, and Just for a moment their eyes "'' -yooj' "It's Very Dangerous for You to Coma Here," 8he Remarked Quietly, mot, and sho read In his something quite foreign to tho point at Issue, In fact, It Is to bo feared that the' question of Laklngton nnd his com pntflons wns not engrossing prum mond's mind, ns it doubtless should have been, to tho exclusion of till else. "They're so utterly unscrupulous," she continued hurriedly, "so fiendishly clover, thnt even you would bo a child In their hands." Hugh endeavored to dissemble his pleasure nt that llttlo word "oven" nnd only succeeded In frowning hor ribly. "I will be discretion Itself," he as sured her firmly. ' "I suppose I shall hnve to trust you," she snld. "Hnvo you seen the evening papers today?" "I looked at the ones thnt como out In tho morning labeled six p. m.; be fore I lind lunch," he nnswered. "Is there anything of Interest?" Sho handed him n copy of the Plnnet. "Head that llttlo paragraph In the second column." She pointed to It, ns he took the paper, nnd Hugh rend It aloud, "Mr. Illram C. Potts the celebrat ed American millionaire Is progress ing favorably. He has gone into the country for n fow days, but Is suf ficiently recovered to conduct business us usuul." He laid down the paper and looked at the girl sitting opposite. "One Is pleased," he remarked In n puzzled tone, "for the snke of Mr. Potts. To ho ill and hnvo a name like thnt is more tlinn most men could stand. . . . Dut I don't quite see . . ." "Thnt mnn wns stopping nt the Carlton, where he met Laklngton," said the girl. "Ho Is a multi-mil-Ilonnlrc, over here In connection with some big steel trust; nnd when multi mllllonnires get friendly with Laklng ton, their health frequently does suf fer." "Hut this paper says he's getting better," objected Drummond. "'Suf ficiently recovered to conduct business ns U8unl.' " "If he Is sufllclently recovered to conduct business ns usual, why did he send his confidential secretary nway yesterday morning on nn urgent mis sion to Delfnst?" , "Senrch me," snld Hugh. "Inci dentally, how do you know he did?" "I nsked at the Cnlton this morn ing," she nnswered. "I snld I'd come after n Job ns typist for Mr. Potts. They told me.nt the Inquiry ofllce that lie wns III In bed and unable to see anybody. So I asked for his secre tary, and they told me whht I'vo Just told you that he had left for Delfnst that morning nnd would be nwny sev eral dnys. It may be that there's nothing In It; on the other hnnd. It may he that there's n lot. And lt'u only by following up every possible clue," she continued fiercely, "that I can hope to beat those fiends and get daddy out of their clinches." Drummond nodded grnvely, nnd did not speak. For Into his mind hnd flashed suddenly tho reihembrnnce of thnt sinister, motionless figure sented by the chauffeur. The wildest guess work certainly no vestige of proof and yet, bavins once come the thought stuck. And as he turned It over In his mind, almost prepared to laugh nt himself for his credulity millionaires nre not removed ngnlHst their will, In hrond daylight, from One of the biggest hotels In London, to sit In Immovable silence In nn open car tlie door opened nnd ,nn elderly mnn enme In. Hugh rose, nnd tho girl Introduced the two men. "An old friend, dnddy," she snld. "You must hnvo heard me speak of Captain Drummond." "I don't recall the name at tho mo ment, my dear," ho answered courte ously n tfact which was hardly sur prising "but I fear I'm garttlng a llttlo forgetful. You'll stop and have $ome dinner, of course." Hugh, bowed. "I should like to, Mr. Denton. Thank you very much. I'm afraid tho hour of my call wns a little Informal, but being rbund In theso parts, I felt I must como und look Miss Denton up." , Ills host smiled nbscntmlndediy, nnd walking to the window, stnrcd through the gathering dusk nt tho houso opposite, half hidden In tho trees. And Hugh, who was watching him from under lowered lids, saw hltn suddenly clench both hands In a ges ture of despair. It cannot bo said that dinner was a meal of sparkling gaiety. Mr. Hen- ton wns palpably 111 at ease, and be yond n fow desultory remnrks spoke hardly at all; while tho girl, who sat opposite Hugh, though sho made ono or two valiant attempts to break tho long silences, spent most of the meal In covertly watching her father. If anything moro iiad been required to convince Drummond of the genuine ness of his interview with iter at tho Carlton tho preceding day, tho atmos phere at this strained and silent party supplied it As if unconscious of anything pecu liar he rambled on In his usual In consistent method, heedless of wheth er ho was answered or not; but nil tho tlmo his mind wns busily working. Ho hnd already decided that a Holls Hoyco was not tho only, enr on the market which could break down mys teriously, and with tho town so far nwny, his host could hnrdly fall to ask hi m to stop tho night. And then he hnd not yet qulto settled how he proposed to have n closer look at Tho Kims. At length tho menl wns over, and tho maid, placing tho decanter in front of Mr. Denton, withdrew from tho room. "You'll have n glnss of port, Captnln Drummond?" remarked his host, re moving tho stopper, nnd pushing tko bottle toward him. "An old pre-war wine which I can vouch for." Hugh smiled, nnd even ns ho lifted tho heavy old cut glnss, ho stiffened suddenly In his chnlr. A cry half shout, half scream, nnd stifled nt onco had como echoing through tho open windows. With n crash tho stopper fell from Mr. Denton's nerve less fingers, breaking tho finger-bowl In front of him, while every vestlgo of color loft his face. "It's something theso days to bo nblo to sny that," remarked Hugh, pouring out himself u glass. "Wine. Miss Denton?" He looked nt the girl, who was starlug. fearfully put of the window, nnd forced her to meet his eye. "It will do you good." His tone was compelling, nnd nftcr a moment's hesitation, she pushed the gluss over to him. "Will yoil pntfr It out?" she said, nnd he saw that she was trembling all over. "Did you did you henr nnjthlng?" With n vnln endeavor to speak calmly, his host looked nt Hugh. "Thnt 'nlght-blrd?" he nnswered enslly. "Eerie noises they mnke, don't they? Sometimes in Frnnce, when everything was still, nnd only the ghostly green flares went hissing up. ono used to hear 'cm. Sturtlcd nerv ous sentries out of their lives." He talked on, nnd gradually the color came back to the other man's face. Dut Hugh noticed thnt he drained his port nt a gulp, and Immediately re filled his glass. . . . Outsldo everything was still; no repetition of that short, strangled cry again disturbed tho silence. WvIth tho training bred of many hours In No Mnn's Lnnd, Drummond was lis tening, even while he was speaking, for the faintest suspicious sound but he heard nothing. The soft whisper- With a Crash the Stopper Fell From Mr. Benton's Nerveless Fingers, Breaking the Flnger-Qowl In Front of Him, While Every Vestige of Color Left His Face. Ing night-noises enmo gently through the window; but the man who hnd screumed once did not even whimper again. Ho remembered hearing n similar cry near the .brick-stacks nt Gulnchy, and two nights Inter he hnd found tho giver of It, at the edge of a tnlne-crnter, with glazed eyes that still held In them the horror of the final secoh'd. And more persistently than ever, his thoughts centered on tho fifth occupant of tjie Rolls Royce. . It was with almost a look of relief that Mr. Denton listened to his tale of woe about his car. "Of course you must stop here for tho night," he cried. "Phyllis, my dear, will you tell them to get a room ready?" With an Inscrutable look at Hugh, In which thankfulness nnd apprehen sion seemed mingled, the girl left the room. There wns nn unnntural glit ter In her father's eyes a flush on his cheeks hardly to bo accounted for by the warmth of the evening; nnd it struck Drummond that during the time ho had been pretending to look nt his car, Mr. Denton hnd been forti fying himself. It wus obvious, even to tho soldier's unprofessional eye, that the man's nerves hud gone to pieces, his daughter's worst forebod ings wero likely to be fulfilled. Ho talked dlsjointedly and fust; his hands were not steady, and ho seemed to bo always waiting for something to happen. Hugh hod not been in the room ten minutes before his host produced tho whisky, nnd during the time that he, took to drink a mild nightcap, Mr. Denton succeeded In lowering three extremoly strong glnsses of spirit. And what made it tho moro sad was that the man was obviously not n heavy drinker by preference. At eleven o'clock Hugh rose nnd snld good night. "You'll ring If you want anything, won't you?" said ills host. ."We don't have very many visitors here, but I hope you'll find everything you re quire. Drenkfast nt nine." Drummond closed tho door behind him, nnd stood for n moment in silence, looking round tho hall. It was deserted, but he wanted to get tho geography of tho house firmly Im printed on his mind. He stepped across toward tite drawing-room. In- sldo, us ho hoped, ho found the girl. Sho roso tho Instant he came In, and stood by tho mantelpiece with her hands locked. ' "Wlmt wns It?" she hnlf whispered "that awful noise at dinner?" Ho looked nt her gravely for a while, and then ho shook his head. "Shall wo leave It as a night-bird for tho present?" ho snld quietly. Then lie lenned townrd her, and took her hands In his own. "Go to bed, little girl," ho ordered; "this Is my show. And, may I say, I think you're Just wonderful. Thank God you saw my advertisement I" Gently ho released her hands, nnd walking to the door, held It open for her. "If by uuy chanco you should henr things In tho night turn orex nnd go to sleep again." "Dut wlmt nro you nolng to do?" sho cried. Hugh grinned. "I haven't tho' re motest Iden," fie nnswered. "Doubt less tho Lord wfll provide." The Instant the girl had left the room Hugh switched off tho lights, and stepped across to tho curtains which covered tho long windows. He pulled them (aside, letting ithem como to gether behind him; then, cautiously, lie unbolted one sldo of tho big cen ter Window. Silently ho dodged across the lawn townrd the big trec9 nt the end, nnd leaning up against one of them, he proceeded to make a more detailed survey of his objective, The Elms. It wus the same typo of house as the one he hnd Just left, nnd the grounds seemed nbout the sarao sizo. A wire fence separated the two places, and In the darkness Hugh could Just mnke out a small wlcket-gate, clos ing a path which connected both houses. Ho tried it, and found to his sntlsfnctlon .that It opened silently. .Save for ono room on the ground floor the houso wns In dnrkness, and Hugh determined to have a look at thnt room. There wns d chink In the curtains, through which the light was streaming out. which struck him ns having possibilities. . Keeping under cover, he edged townrd It. and, at length, he got Into n position from which he could seo Inside. And wlint ho saw made him decide to chance It. nnd go even closer. Sented nt the tnblo wus a mnn ho did not. recognize; while on either sido of him sat Laklngton nnd Peter son. Lying on n sofn smoking n cignrette nnd rending n novel was a tnll dark girl, who seemed completely uninterested In the proceedings of the other three. Hugh plnced her nt once ns the doubtful daughter Irraa, nnd resumed his watch on tho group at tho table. A paper was In front of the man, nnd Peterson, who wns smoking a large cigar, was apparently suggest ing that he should make use of tho pen which Laklngton wns obligingly holding In readiness. In nil respects n harmless tableau, save for one small thing the expression on the man'a face. Hugh had seen It before often only then it had been called shell shock. The man was dazed, seml uncon8clous. Every now atad then h stared round the room, ns If be wildered ; then ho would shake his head nnd pass his bund wearily over his forehead. For -u quarter of an hour the scone continued; then Lak lngton produced nn instrument from his pocket. Hugh saw the man shrink back In terror, nnd reach for J the pen. Dut what Impressed him most In thnt momentary finsh of nction wns Peterson. There wus something inhuman In his complete passivity. Even ns he watched the mnn signing his name, no trace of emotion showed oh his. fnce-r-whereas on Lnklngton's. there shone a flqndish satisfaction. ine document was" still lying on the table, when Hugh produced his revolver. He knew there wns foul piny nbout, and the madness of what he had suddenly made up his mind to do never struck him; being thnt manner of fool, he wns mudo thnt wny. Dut he breathed a pious prayer that he would shoot straight and then he held his breath. The crnck of the shot and the bursting of the only electric light bulb in the room were almost simultaneous, und the next second, with a roar of "Come on, hoy's," he burst through the win dow. At nn Immense ndvnntugo over the others, who could see noth ing for the moment, he blundered round the room. He timed the blow nt Laklngton to n nicety; ho hit him straight on the point of the Jnw and lie felt the mnn go down llko a log. Then he grabbed at the paper on the table, which tore in Ills hnnd, nnd picking the dnzed signer up bodily, he rushed through the window onto tho lawn. There wus not an lnstnnt to bo lost; only the Impossibility of seeing when suddenly plunged Into dnrkness, had enabled him to pull tho thing off so far. And before that ad vantage disappeared he had to be back at The Larches with his burden, no light weight for even n man of his strength to enrry. Dut there seemed to be no pursuit, no hue nnd cry, As he reached the llttlo gate lie paused nnd looked back, nnd he fancied he saw outside tho window a gleam of white, such as a shirt front. He lingered for nn lnstnnt, peering Into the darkness and -recovering his brcnth, when with a vicious phut something burlod Itself In the tree beside him. (Drummond lingered no more; long years of experience left no doubt In his mind as to what that something was. The rescued mnn turns out to be Potts, the American, (TO BE CONTINUED.) The "Week-End." Week-end means the end of tho week, but by extension, tho period from Friday night to Monday morn ing. In England the term Is also used attributively, as tho week-end holi days, and from this has sprung the verbal phrase "to veek-end," meaning to employ tho week-end as a holiday season. A well-known authority in al luding to tho expression, week-end. says: "This brief holiday has got Into serious history. No less an authority than Dr. H. S. 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