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"As for a pipe," said he, "I can h What's looood s tiarhts the two rifles Stern had chosen fro bandoliers to carry their supply of cartridges The possession of a knife once hted the man enorh rusty, enabled him to trim his beard and hair Beatrice hailed a warped hard-rubber coreat discovery still awaited theed every plan of travel, opened the world to thele stroke increased their hopes ten thousandfold--the discovery of the old Pauillac nant with such vast possibilities, in a concrete hangar back of the Federal courthouse on Anderson Street The building attracted Stern's attention by its unusual state of preservation He burst in one of the rusted iron shutters and cliht be inside

A moment later Beatrice heard a cry of astonish at the"Come in! Come in--see what I've found!"

And he stretched out his hands to help her up and through the aperture

"What is it, boy? More arms? More--"

"An aeroplane! Good God, think o' that, will you?"

"An aeroplane? But it's all to pieces, of course, and--"

"Come on in and look at it, I say!" Excitedly he lifted her through the"See there, will you? Isn't that the eternal li to find one in New York!"

He gestured at the dust-laden old n disrepair, stood at the other end of the hangar Together they approached it

"If it ork," the man exclaiirl exclai with the exciteht portend "Can you put it in shape, boy? Or--"

"I don't know Let , peering at the ear, the stays, with hands that trereat adventure had begun

As he examined the machine, while Beatrice stood by, he talked to himself