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32 - Black Stars Campaign by Johnston McCulley · Black Stars Campaign

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty two of Black Star's campaign by Johnston McCully.
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  Speaker 1: This Liberalvox recording is in the public domain. Read by
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  Speaker 1: yob anand Black Stars Campaign, Chapter thirty two, the letter
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  Speaker 1: he can't have got away, Max exclaimed, Where did he go?
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  Speaker 1: The chief demanded, He didn't come past us. One of
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  Speaker 1: the policemen declared, I don't see how he got out
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  Speaker 1: of the circle. Why he hasn't had time to get away?
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  Speaker 1: And the men in the street. The officers in the
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  Speaker 1: street already had been warned. The entire block was surrounded.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed impossible that the master criminal could escape. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he dodged the boys here, but he'll never get away
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  Speaker 1: from the block. The chief declared, have more search lights
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  Speaker 1: turned on the lawn and tell the men in the
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  Speaker 1: alley to keep awake. He can't be far out of
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  Speaker 1: the sky came a blinding light. It flooded the house
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  Speaker 1: and lawn turned the night into day. That that light,
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff Cowen gasped, the light is a They waited watching
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  Speaker 1: the sky. They were silent. Now no sound reached their
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  Speaker 1: ears except the din from the house. They saw nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and then they heard the Black Star's voice. Did you
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  Speaker 1: really think you had me, It said, I must admit
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  Speaker 1: that you have wrecked my plans and scattered my organization again.
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  Speaker 1: Some of my men will have to go to prison,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose, But you haven't caught me, never will catch me.
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  Speaker 1: I shall leave the city, and you cannot prevent it.
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  Speaker 1: I have prepared for this emergency. When my organization is
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  Speaker 1: formed again, perhaps I shall return. My campaign is over
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  Speaker 1: for the present, but there will be another. The voice
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  Speaker 1: died away. There were silence for a moment, and then
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  Speaker 1: the brilliant light flashed again, flooded the lawn, almost blinded
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  Speaker 1: the men. There there's a letter by the alley gate.
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  Speaker 1: The voice of the Black Star now came to them faintly.
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  Speaker 1: Good night, gentlemen, Cone, the chief gasped, Cone. But how
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  Speaker 1: on earth Cowan began that letter? Where theer? Let's get it.
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  Speaker 1: They hurried to the alley gate, and there they found
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  Speaker 1: the letter. As the Black Star had said. They carried
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  Speaker 1: it back to the Polys automobile and read it in
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  Speaker 1: front of the searchlight. Gentlemen, if you have this letter,
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  Speaker 1: it means that my plans have been ruined and that
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  Speaker 1: I've been forced to escape. I cannot neglect this chance
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  Speaker 1: to tell you how futile have been your efforts. Have
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  Speaker 1: you wondered how I spoke to you out of the sky?
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  Speaker 1: Have you worried about the bright light? Are you surprised
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  Speaker 1: at the way I escaped? Just now I have in
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  Speaker 1: my organization. A wonderful man is a mechanical genius gone wrong.
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  Speaker 1: He as perfected airplanes as no man dreams they can
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  Speaker 1: be perfected. I've been using an airplane, but it is
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  Speaker 1: a noiseless airplane. Can you imagine what that would mean
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  Speaker 1: if the world had the secret an airplane as a
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  Speaker 1: public knows it heralds such approach. With this, I can
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  Speaker 1: sail at night over the city without making the slightest noise.
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  Speaker 1: I can hover over a certain spot. Yes, I mean hover,
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  Speaker 1: for this airplane is so perfected that it can stand
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  Speaker 1: still in the air. It can be raised or lowered,
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  Speaker 1: straight up or down. Do you understand now? The airplane
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  Speaker 1: was hovering over the lawn, A rope ladder dropped from it.
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  Speaker 1: I merely claimed that the ladder as the airplane ascended.
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  Speaker 1: I am writing this in advance, but I know what
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  Speaker 1: I shall do if forced. I always plan for every emergency.
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  Speaker 1: You see, and while you poor fool, spider nails in
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  Speaker 1: your chagrin. I shall be speeding through the air to
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  Speaker 1: a certain refuge I've prepared. There, I shall recuperate and
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  Speaker 1: plan some more. Roger Werbeck read the letter aloud. A
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  Speaker 1: chorus of gass came from those who heard it. Well
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  Speaker 1: he's gone, Werburk said. But this band is broken up,
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  Speaker 1: and that is something. And if he ever comes back here,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get him, won't we. Boss mucxast will geton. Roger
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  Speaker 1: Weerbeck said. There was determination in his voice. The end
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  Speaker 1: of chapter thirty two, the end of Blackstar's campaign by
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  Speaker 1: Johnston mccalley