While he stood guard over their prisoner, Jack sent Perk off at dawn, mounted on one of the cavalry horses, and accompanied by a soldier who would fetch back both animals, Perk’s duty being to get the stranded ship off the ground, and drop down at a more convenient spot closer to the former mountain stronghold of the tiger-like Yaquis.
By nightfall they were hundreds of miles on their way over Arizona and New Mexico, Jack having decided to carry his prisoner, whose wound did not prove to be very serious, though painful enough—all the way to Washington, and present him to his superior, with his customary air of not realizing that he had done anything extraordinary.
That this thrilling feat was only a common occurrence in the lives of such intrepid manhunters as serve the Government through the agency of the Secret Service and that from time to time Jack and Perk might with reason be expected to duplicate such adventurous feats can be set down as certain; indeed, the title of the next number in the Sky Detective Series, “Eagles of the Sky; or With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes,” a tale of the smugglers of the Florida Coast, will grip the reader from start to finish, and prove to be one of the most thrilling stories ever written for lovers of action and valor.
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Transcriber’s notes
1. Silently corrected typographical errors, many unmatched quotes; retained non-standard spellings and dialect.