EAST AGAINST WEST The major, peering down through the trap, swore luridly.

Leclair muttered something to himself, with wrinkled brow.

"Captain Alden's" eyes blinked strangely, through the holes of the mask.

The others stared in frank astonishment.
"What the devil, sir-- ?" began the major; but the chief held up his hand for silence.

Again he spoke whisperingly into the strange apparatus.