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JACK HOWARD'S SURPRISE PARTY.
It was the critical moment in the famous sham battle of Easter Monday.The bicycle corps was a mile and a half away, and the signal post hadbeen captured by the enemy. Unless the corps could be brought into theaction the day was lost, and the wood road running back of the"Cardinal's Nob" offered the only possible means of communication. Butcould the message be conveyed in time? Colonel Howard turned to his sonJack, who stood anxious and silent at the front handle-bars of theArrow, a modern racing quad, geared to 120, and stripped down to theenamel. The inspection seemed to satisfy him, and hastily scribbling afew lines on a page torn