long white scroll, with
scarlet seals on it, the story of how I had saved the young chap from
the chariot that noon, and all about the cabin boy and the fat old
banker I'd helped on my way home!

"'Does the herald speak truly?' asked the Borderland King. And all the
rest strained their ears for my answer.

"'Sure pop, Your Majesty!' I replied before I knew what I was saying. At
that he pulled from his finger a new signet ring, inked it with some
magic ink, and motioned for me to hold out my right hand. How do I know
it was magic ink? Why, it must have been, for the print it made has
never faded. Look!"

Bob and Betty looked at the little scout's right hand, which he held up
again like the crossing policeman downtown. And this is what they saw:

[Illustration: UNIVERSAL SAFETY]

"'Hold it up,' commanded the King, 'where all can see!' And then the
trumpets sounded again.

"'Long live Colonel Sure Pop, the Safety Scout!' cried the herald. The
court wizard stepped forward, waved his hand and mumbled a few magic
words over me, and--what do you think!--I found myself dressed in a
brand new scouting uniform, the only one just like the King's!"

_Long live the Safety Scouts!_
--SURE POP

[Illustration]

ADVENTURE NUMBER THREE

THE WOMAN AND THE WIZARD

Sure Pop, the Safety Scout, drew a long breath and watched the
automobiles whirling recklessly down the busy street. "But say, haven't
you twins had enough stories for one day?"

"Not much we haven't! What did the King do next?"

No doubt about the twins' being thirsty for adventure! Sure Pop smiled.

"Well, a single wave of the King's hand dismissed his people. Looking
very sorrowful, he opened the great book in which he keeps the record of
everything that happens over here in the New World.

"I looked where he pointed, and trembled. For this was what I read:

"'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

'Fathers and mothers and boys and girls killed by
accidents last year....
'Injured, blinded, crippled, and maimed...'

"He ran his finger across the page to the totals, and I saw that the
first total ran clear up into the thousands--and the second one into the
millions!

"'Colonel Sure Pop,' said the King, 'if only the thought you put into
the mind of that lad you saved this noon, might be put into the mind of
all America!'

"'Your Majesty means--Safety First?' I asked.