"I should say not!" came the ready answer, accompanied by a keen look, first at Jack and then at the other, as a dazzling idea suddenly flashed into Beverly's mind.

Jack's extremity would be his, Lieutenant Beverly's, opportunity.

"But that doesn't cut much figure, for we can easily find our way down to Beverly's hangar on the coast.

But, much as I hate to say it, I fear something serious has happened to Beverly's hangar; in fact that a bomb has destroyed it, or else some rank Hun treachery has been at work there!" CHAPTER XIV READY FOR THE START "Just our beastly luck!" gasped Jack, turning white with apprehension.

"The Major himself admits that he's only afraid it may have been Beverly's hangar.

"The plan is entirely Lieutenant Beverly's, sir.

Tom declared their equal had never been installed in any plane that was ever built, and Lieutenant Beverly's eyes glowed with satisfaction to hear his pet praised so cordially by one whose good opinion he valued as highly as he did Tom Raymond's.

Mr. Smedley also sent a long telegram to that friend of Colin Beverly's who lived on Staten Island.

(Beverly's Hist. of Va., p. 98.)

(Beverly's Hist. of Va., p. 98.)

(Beverly's Hist. of Va., p. 98.)

(Beverly's Hist. of Va., p. 98.)

(Beverly's Hist. of Va., p. 98.)

(Beverly's Hist. of Va., p. 98.)

He was Beverly's college-mate and mine, though somewhat our senior.

" "What do you mean?" "Have you not heard how curiously Beverly's intimacy with Harold was brought about?

Beverly's eyes flashed like live coals, and he sprang at Rawbon's throat, but

She put aside Beverly's arm, which was extended to support her, and thrust him away as if he had been a stranger.

She mounted Beverly's horse, while he and Harold supplied themselves from among the horses that the negroes had rode, and thus, slowly and silently, they threaded the lonely forest, while ever and anon a groan from the litter struck painfully upon their ears.

" She gave her hand, and welcomed him gracefully and warmly, and, having introduced Mr. Searle, excused herself while she glanced at the contents of Beverly's letter.

There were pen and paper on the table, and he wrote a few lines hastily, placed them in the envelope, and put Beverly's letter in his pocket.

He was conscious that it would be impossible for him to avoid complying with the marshal's request, and yet it was most annoying to be obliged to make a third party cognizant of the facts contained in Beverly's epistle.

She would give but short and evasive answers to Beverly's questions, and stubbornly refused to communicate the particulars of Miranda's history.