The "Blacklisted" Cadet — page 63: what you’re looking at

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TOUCHING THE BUTTON. What Clif had done was to adapt to automatic pressure a kind of.a deviline whistle. = 8 © — ; _ He had affixed the tube and vent ina wooden cas- ing that enclosed a small flexible rubber bag. At the bottom was a button, and by applying an intricate principle of mechanics Clif had bulked a tremendously expanding force on its action. Pressed, it saved the use of the lips and exuded a screain like the whistle of a steain fire tug. i Che sound was appalling. Clif hoped it would not lose its efficiency now. , He tried it. A thousand demons seemed chorusing in the holiow, vibrating void. ‘Good!’ he commented, ‘‘now then!” ‘Vic 19) That was Clif’s clear-cut word—shot forth on “code”? principles. Then the rest of it—a quick, clear warning, a Ufief lint of the signaler’s peril, an imperative order to fly for help. Before he had got through, Clif. felt“a stone come hurtling down. But he kept on, re-assured, delighted to know that his shrill, telegraphic call had penetrated the outer alr. He squeezed close to the wall. The shower of mis- siles was repeated, then it ceased, and Clif dangled coutent aud confident. He was so buoyed up with what he had discovered —the hint of those two words chalked on the stone wall aloft—tliat he passed over the miseries of an un- coinforttable seat and the hovering danger of a fall. He did not believe that any of the conspirators had viewed the queer work-shop. One hour—Clif felt pretty weary. Two hours— Clif bent. his head to catch vague sounds miore definitely, A spark of light showed like a star, way aloft. / a 4 ’ . ’ » “ ral "* rs ‘ ‘4 = “ J . % . . a - * oO ‘ * Be : , _ ™ J ° . Of * 5 <2 “a ws a a <= < a aa + 3 . “ - yn “ — . - i “3 : * har? “4 | ; i.< poe , > . a 7 a al ; : ‘eg - 7 a . , ad ry per oa Ae 2 4 4 5 ~~ v we SF ’,’? >. “* ey ty ‘ mf po > i . . 4 “ee ~ 9 . > me, -% ss . ms a } Pa Zt -j % | , & way “ ¥ , aa a ; o' ¥ > i \ ° 2 > - . ‘ 7 a ou! . ‘ z “ a ae ° e ‘ rs . - ris ~ * 1 on d a . - as% : OE ES Be Be Ny ea MET dee oie SO TIRE aR ete Na RO ae a Ras Seeds Men CY AES eee RET ale, -g SOR Ho i | * * Ts a =. _™ < ~ y~y “Co ae ae , iss . a - ; ‘ : he ‘ Ai 48 ey Bey - F rat <1 ew F . ee ie am, . rs i _ - a eS . ; ; ‘ ~ Mn 2. wt Me “iT; Me oY. ~~ iT eo wi ef nn , 4 st», "a — comicbooks.com