Quick, before
this other wireless cuts in on us again. I want others to get the
message as well as Burke. Send this: 'Have your men watch the
railroad station and every road to it. Surround the Stamford
cottage. There is some wireless interference from that
direction.'"
As Shirley, with a half-insane light in his eyes, flashed the
message mechanically through space, Craig rose and signalled to
the house. Under the portecochere I saw a waiting automobile,
which an instant later tore up the broken-stone path and whirled
around almost on two wheels near the edge of the cliff. Glowing
with health and excitement, Gladys Shirley was at the wheel
herself. In spite of the tenseness of the situation, I could not
help stopping to admire the change in the graceful, girlish figure
of the night before, which was now all lithe energy and alertness
in her eager devotion to carrying out the minutest detail of
Kennedy's plan to aid her father.
"Excellent, Miss Shirley," exclaimed Kennedy, "but when I asked
Burke to have you keep a car in readiness, I had no idea you would
drive it yourself.
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