BRIGHT IDEAS

"'TIS YOUR DOING," SPLUTTERED NOAKES, SHAKING THE SOOT FROM HIS CLOTHES. (See page 28)

CONTENTS

THE SMOKE MACHINE
TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED
A GAS ATTACK
THE CLIPPER OF THE ROAD
THE COLD WATER CURE
A BRUSH WITH THE ENEMY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FRONTISPIECE IN COLOUR

"''TIS YOUR DOING,' SPLUTTERED NOAKES, SHAKING THE SOOT FROM HIS CLOTHES" (see p. 38). Frontispiece

"THERE WAS A RATTLING SOUND AND NOAKES WAS HALF OBLITERATED"

"ITS RIDERS WERE FLUNG INTO THE HEDGE"

"TEMPLETON GRIPPED THE UNHAPPY MAN BY THE COLLAR, AND HAULED HIM UP"

"'I'VE COTCHED 'EE,' HE CRIED"

"'HERE I BE, AND HERE I BIDE,' SAID EVES, BRANDISHING THE POKER"

"THEY TRIPPED OVER THE WIRE AND SPRAWLED AT FULL LENGTH"

"'YES,' CUT IN EVES, WHO HAD COME OUT INTO THE ROAD. 'IF I WERE YOU, YOUNG FELLER, I'D JOLLY WELL CHUCK HIM INTO THE HORSE-POND'"

"THE BOOM SWUNG OUT, AND CAME INTO SHARP CONTACT, FIRST WITH NOAKES'S HEAD, THEN WITH THE WIND-SCREEN"

"DAZE ME!' SAID THE CONSTABLE. 'SURELY—AY, 'TIS THE MAYOR'"

"THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF TEMPLETON'S EXPERIMENTAL TANK POURED DOWN"

"THE LAD DASHED ITS HEAD FULL IN NOAKES'S FACE"

"COVERED THEM WITH A DELUGE OF LIQUID MUD"

THE SMOKE MACHINE

I

Bob Templeton tucked a leg under him on the parapet of the bridge on which he was sitting, and with a look of gloomy disgust spread a number of coins, the contents of his trouser pocket, on the weather-beaten stone.

"Eleven and ninepence," he