Inside of an hour he had his boy pressed close to his heart, and even Perk who sometimes liked to call himself a “hard-boiled guy,” turned away to wipe the unbidden tears from his cheeks.

Of course in due time they heard from Headquarters, with more or less words of high praise, such as seldom spring from such offices where Uncle Sam’s Secret Service agents do their business without expectation of anything more than routine acknowledgment. They were given quite an extensive holiday until there came up another knotty problem which might be submitted to their solving. That such did come along sooner than expected can be understood by the title of the story following this, viz: “Flying the Coast Skyways,” or, “Jack Ralston’s Swift Patrol.”

THE END


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by Harold M. Sherman

Harold M. Sherman, one of the most popular

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