Over There with the Canadians at Vimy Ridge

by G. Harvey Ralphson

CHAPTER X

DOTS AND DASHES

Not more than a minute after reading this letter and examining the slip of paper that accompanied it, Irving said to himself:

"This drawing is very similar to the cubist tattooing on the arm of Lieut. Tourtelle."

He studied over the matter a little more and then added:

"I believe that both were made from the same copy, or original."

A little more puzzling over the problem caused him to supplement thus:

"It looks very much as if Tourtelle and the soldier who bared his arm over the table in the hospital laboratory are one and the same person."

The suggestion startled the boy as a realization of the logical sequence flashed in his mind.

"Gee whillikens!" he exclaimed. "That means that his story about being an art student and about the tattooing of that picture on his arm by one of his fellow students is a fake. But why should he have faked it? Why wouldn't the truth have served his purpose just as well?"