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CHAPTER XXIX

A LAST RESORT

Meanwhile how fared Jack in his share of the
ocr>   attempt to corner the defiant and persistent law-breaker?
fix>   attempt to corner the defiant and persistent lawbreaker?

He had crept around the corner after leaving
his chum, fully convinced that some sort of
heroic measures must be brought to bear on the
ugly situation if they hoped to succeed.

One thing had already been amply proved--this
was the unmistakable fact that Oswald
Kearns must be having one of his occasional
brain sprees, the result of his wartime gassing
when he was apt to tip over his balance and for
the time being imagine himself beset by a myriad
of bitter foes whom it was his duty, as well as
privilege, to mow down, regardless of everything.
Acting under this delusion he was
doubtless resting under the belief that these were
Hun machine-gun squads secreted in nests in the
Argonne and that he was duly recruited by
Heaven to round them up, disseminate their
ocr>   number, and fetch a goodly bunch info the
fix>   number, and fetch a goodly bunch into the
American lines as prisoners of war.

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