ILLUSTRATIONS

"'What have you got there?' asked the man in the road"	[Frontispiece]
	FACING PAGE
"Gard turned a pocket flashlight on his own lips: 'Try to find out how they are to be shipped'"	[54]
"When Doctor Yen affixed his signature Gard signaled"	[134]
"'If one of you advances a step toward me I will fire'"	[188]