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» SERIAL STORY I STANTON WINS By rteassr M. ls«rw CHAPTER The Man Who Dared, The official starter let his raised nxn fall and leaned forward, peering sans« the blended glare and darkness. "'•'hatT' he shouted, above the pul sating roar of the eleven racing ma- eObes lined up before the judges' stand "What?" There was a flurry around the cen- trsl car. whose driver leaned from his •eat to stare down at the man who had slipped from beside him to the gjbund The great crowd congesting ths grand-stand pressed closer to the Bar i i er. staring also, commenting and ■abject uring. “The mechanician of the Mercury is •ff his car!" -Fainted—“ •Fell—" “Tbe automobiles hadn't started; he ntwst be sick." The referee was already pushing his way back, bringing the report from tbe hastily summoned surgeon. “Heart disease,” he announced right and left. "Stanton's mechanician just dropped off his seat, dead. But Stanton himself had already ■wring out of his car, with the ener getic decision that marked his every movement. “My man is out." he tersely stated to the starter. "I've got to run over to my camp and get another. Will yon bold the start for me?" The question was rather a demand than a request. There was scarcely one among the vast audience who would not have felt the sparkle gone from this strong black wine of sport they bad come to sip, if Ralph Stanton bad been withdrawn from the twenty- foerhour contest. He had not only fame as a skilful and scientific racer; be had the reputation of being tbe ■Met spectacularly reckless driver in America, whose death could be but a question of time and whose record of accidents and victories verged on the appalling. He knew his value as an attraction, and the starter knew although preserving impassivity. “Five minutes," the official ceded, and drew out his watch. Already a stream of men were run ning toward tbe Mercury camp with the news. Stanton sprang into bis machine, deftly sent it forward out of the line, and shot around into tbe en trance to tbe huge oval field edged by tbe Beach track; a mile of white rib bon bordering a green medallion. The row of elcctric-lighted tents, each numbered and named for its own racing car, was in a turmoil of excite- ment. But most agitated was group before the tent marked Mercury." -Durand’s down and out—give another man," called Stanton, halting his noisy, flaming car. "Quick, you—" But no one stepped forward from the cluster of factory men and me chanics. Only the assistant manager of the Mercury company responded to the demand: “Yes, go; one o'f you boys. I'll make It right with you. You, Jones.” “I'm married, sir,” refused Jones ■uecinctly. “Well, you then, Walters, Good heavens, man! what do you mean?” For the burly Walters backed away, actually pale. “I’ll dig potatoes, first, sir." “Why, you used to race?” “Not with Stanton, sir.” There was a low murmur of appro val among his mates, and a drawing together for support. Stanton stepped down from his car, snatching off his mask to show a dark, strong face grim with anger and contempt. “You wretched, backboneless cow ards!” he hurled at them, his blue- black eyes flashing over tbe group. “Do you know what I and tbe com pany stand to lose if I’m disqualified for lack of one of you jellyfish to sit beside me and pump oil? Isn’t there a man In tbe camp? I’ll give fifty dol lars myself to the one who goes, a hundred if I win." “I’ll promise twice that,” eagerly supplemented Green, the assistant manager. He had private bets on Blanton. Not one of the clustered workmen moved. “Damn you!" pronounced the driver, bitterly and comprehensively. "I’ll re peat that offer to the man who will go for the first three hours only, and meanwhile we’ll send to New York and find a red-blooded male.” Tbe men looked at one another, but •hook their beads. "No? You won’t? You work your miserable bodies three months to earn what I off ar for three hours. What's tbe matter with you, don't I risk my peck?” ' He turned, sending his pow erful voice ringing down the line. -Tiere, hunt tbe paddock, all of you— two hundred dollars for a man to ride ths next three hours with me!“ "You can’t take a man from another camp. Stanton," proteated lh« frantic Mr. Green. "He might trick you, hurt the car." His appeal went down the wind un heeded. except for one glance from tbe racer’s gkamtng eyes. "Ha won’t trick ms," said Stanton. The crowded stands were a bulk of swaying, seething impatience. The 1 paddock waa In an uproar, the Mer- 1 cury camp (he center of Intervet, But no volunteers answered ths call, The panting machine, its hood wrapped In I jets of violet flame, headlights and tail lights shedding vivid Illumination around the figure of Its baffled master, 1 quivered with impotent life and strength. Raging. Stanton stood, watch in hand, his face a set study in ' scorn. Suddenly ths harsh rasp of the offi cial klaxon soared above tbe hubbub, warning, summoning. “Four minutes," panted the despair ing assistant manager. “Stanton—" Some one was running toward them, some one for whom a lane was opened by thd spectators from other camps who had congregated. "Get aboard," called ahead a fresh young voice. "Get aboard; I'll go." "Thank Heaven for a man!” snarled Stanton, as the runner dashed up. "Why. it’s a boy!“ "Floyd." Mr. Green hailed hysterical ly. "You’ll go?" "Hl go." assured Floyd, and faced the driver; a slim, youthful figure in a mechanic's blue overalls, his sleeves rolled to tbe elbows and leaving bare his slender arms; bis head, covered like a girl's with soft closely cropped curling brown hair, tilted back as his steady gray eyes looked up at Stan ton. "You? You couldn’t crank a taxi cab." flung the racer, brutal with dia appointment and wrath. "You'd go? A boy?" "Im as old as the driver of the Singer car. and scant five years young er than you—I'm twenty-one," flashed the retort. "And I know all there is about gasoline cars. 1 guess you're big enough to crank your own motor aren't you, it I can’t? You’ve got thirty seconds left; do you want me?" Met on his own tone, Stanton gasped, then caught hit mask from tbe man who held it. "Why don’t you get on your clothes?" he demanded savagely, "Are you going to race like that? Jump, you useless cowards there— can't you pass him his things? Tele phone the stand that I'm coming, some one." There was a wild scurry of prepara tion. the telephone bell jingled madly. “Jes Floyd is one of our new factory dancing behind the goggles, the red young mouth smiling below the mask, the shining young curls which the cap failed to corer, llo stared, then slowly relaxed into a smile, and went forward. "Tho talking dono while I'm up. la done by me,'* statod Blanton forcibly. "Remember.“ “Don't yon ever need a rest ?" queried Floyd. Stanton opened hia lipa, and doted them again without speaking. Hia trained glance went to aweep hia op ponent«, gaging their ralaUre posi tions. their probable order on tho flrat turn, and hia own best move, Ths successive flashlights on either elds were blinding, the atmosphere waa suffocating with the exhaust gasolene and acetylene fumes. It waa as fa miliar to him aa the odor of sawduat to the circus dweller, as the strong salt wind to a habitant of the coast; the unusual element lay tn the boy beside him. Mau. he refused to acknowledge him. The sharp crack of a pistol, the fall of a flag, and the vhole struggling, flaming flock sprang forward toward the first turn, wheel to wheel in iteath-edgvd contest. Aad Stanton for- got bis mechanician. The Mercury led the first circuit, as usual. It was very fast, and its pilot took the chances more prudent drivers avoided. Still, the lead waa leas than the car's own length, two of its closest rivals banging at its flanks, when they passed the tumultuous grandstand. Just ahead lay again the “death curve." There waa a swift movement beside Stanton, the pendent linen streamers floating from his cap were deftly seised and the dust swept from bis goggles with a practiced rapidity. "Car on each side an' one trying to pass." the clear voice pierced the bearing. "No room next the fence." Stanton grunted, The boy knew how to rise in a speeding machine, then, and how to take care of his driver, he noted, Nevertheless, he meant to take that fence side. And he did. As the other drivers shut off power to take the dangerous bend more slowly, Stanton shot for ward at unchanged speed, cut In ahead and swept first around the turn, tak ing the inside curve. Tbe spectators rose with a universal cry of consterna tion; the Mercury swerved, almost facing the Infield fence, skidding ap pallingly and lurching drunkenly on two wheels, then righted itself under the steering-wheel in the master's hands, and rushed on, leading by a hundred feet. The people cheered frantically, the I band crashed Into raucous music, Stanton’s mechanician got up to lean ov?r tbe back of tbe flying car and feel th-“ rear caainga CHURCH DIRECTORY Remember the Name-BOHNA WHEN YOU WANT LIGHT GROCERIES. BAKING GOODS. CONFECTIONERY. CI GARS. FRUITS. VEGETABLES. ETC. 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A trim ap parition in racing costume darted from the tent *o swing into the nar row seat beside the driver, and Stan ton’s car leaped for the paddock exit with a roar answered by the deafen ing roar of welcome from the specta tors. "Seven minutes,” snapped the start er, as the Mercury wheeled in line. Stanton shrugged bls shoulders with supreme indifference, perfectly aware of bis security, since the start had not been made. But bls mechanician leaned forward with a little gurgle of irresistible, sunsbot laughter. "Don’t worry,” he besought. "Really, well get in seven minutes ahead." His moqking young voice carried above the terrific din of tbe eleven huge machines, and Stanton turned upon him, amazed and Irritated at tbe audacity. The starter also stared, Just as a flashlight flared up and showed fully the young gray •y«a "You're tryin' to tires," he imparted, his accents close to the driver’s car. That was the first time that Stanton noticed that Floyd lisped and blurred his final *'g" in momenta of excite ment It might have sounded effemi nate, if the voice had not been with out a tremor. As it was— At ths end of the first hour, the bulletin boards showed the Mercury five laps ahead of its nearest rival. And then Floyd spoke again to his driver. "What?" Stanton questioned, above tbe noise of tbe motor. "We've got to run in; I’m afraid of the rear inside shoe. It won’t stand another skid like the last." Stanton's mouth shut In a hard line. ”1 will not," he stated. "Get back in your place. You can’t tell." “I can.” Stanton deigned no reply, sliding past one of the slower cars on the back stretch. To go in meant to lose the whole time gained. As they took the back turn, Floyd again leaned over. (TO BC CONTUiUKIU REAL ESTTAE BARGAINS We have listed perhaps the biggest list of bargains in real estate of any firm in the city. Our list includes many excellent buys in Lents property. 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