sat betweea ths telegraph operator "WhAt have I done?" he naked alm- ) and the telephone. ply "Where la Floyd T" ha casually Both men were still unmasked, their wondered. prlvaoy of speech was secured by the "Hallo, hallo—no, hold tha wire uproar around them. Stauton looked What la It? Floyd? Oh. ha's gona to i grimly back. > Coney Island. Hallo, yaa—wrong ; "Lied to me. Tou were not kept numbar." away from New York by work with "To Coney Island! Tou sent him?" Green, or any other work, for the last “He offered to go." Mr. Green two weeks.” jerkily Imparted. "Please go to bed. A tinge of scarlet streaked Floyd's won’t you? Floyd can take care of pallor, he bent hla head. himself. I should think, and he has "Yes, I lied to you." he admitted, had a two weeks' rest to ■et ready tor Stanton's gauntleted hand closed on this." his wheel. "What do you mean? He has been "There was no need. Your time wm working at the factory or with you your own, Floyd; I claimed no control ever since we came back from Indian- over you. I don't know why you did It, apo Ila." to be rid of me for a while, I suppose, In a nervous exasperation the assist­ but the reason doesn't matter. Last ant manager whirled his chair around. night I thought a good many wild "He had a two weeks’ vacation." he things about you. and your sister, but reiterated crossly. "He told me that this morning I've got my grip again he was going off by bluiself for a quiet No doubt you had all you could stand rest. You don't have to know every­ of me. I'm not precisely lovable and thing, Stanton. I fancy he needed a I would have understood If you had rest after what you put him through Just told me so. But 1 will have no out west, he asked me not to tell you friend I can't trust all the way. Get vprnjbi UUX l'toa Boatta Mamu about It Hello—454—“ in—we will finish this rnce. and part.” a Stanton paused for a moment, dumb, Floyd raised his head and gave to SYNOPSIS. then turned on his heel and went out. the stern scrutiny his candid gray He was so stunned and bitterly an­ eyes. At the beginning of great automobile race the mechanician of the Mercury. gered that little red flecks danced be­ “Stanton, trust me all the way now.” Stanton s machine, drops dead. Strange fore hfs vision. Floyd had lied to him. youth. Jesse Floyd, volunteer», and is ac­ he appealed. "Can you do that? Can cepted In the rest during the twenty- systematically deceived him; In order you take my word that your friendship four hour race Stanton meet« a stranger. to escape from his too pressing friend­ is the only thiug tn the world I want? Kills Carlisle, who introduces herself. The He remembered that If I deceived you. It was so I could be Mercury wins race. Stanton receives ship, no doubt. Bowen from Mis® Carlisle, which he lg- the mechanician had always shrunk here to race with you today. I will norea Stanton meet* Miss Carlisle on a train. They alight to take walk, and from his personal advances and only tell you afterward. I can't now." train leaves Stanton and Miss Carlisle yielded to them under compulsion. "You mean—" follow in auto. Accident by- which Stan­ ton is hurt is mysterious. Floyd, at lunch Now he understood the letter which Floyd held out hls hand. with Stanton, tells of his boyhood. Stan­ he had received the previous night "I've got everything badly mixed ut ton again meets Miss Carlisle and thev dine together Stanton comes to track from Green, and Mr. Bailey's confused but it's clean to offer you. Stanton “ •lek, but mak.s race. They have acci­ answer to his question about Floyd. As swiftly impulsive as hls condem­ dent. Floyd hurt, but not seriously. At dinner Floyd tells Stanton of his twin He had been put off to be amused by nation was Stanton's movement as be •tster Jessica Stanton becomes very 11! Jessica, until Floyd was again ready bent to give the clasp. • nd lose» consciousness. On recovery, a to use him In the plans for the Comet t.is hotel Stanton receives invitation and "All right,” he said curtly. "Get In; factory. Jessica! Stanton stopped I ought to have given you a chance.” visits Jessica. They go to theater togeth­ er. and meet Miss Carlisle. Stanton and short tn the dark hall. Had Jessica »yfl meet again and taJk business And as the other obeyed: "I didn't They agree to operate automobile factory also deceived him? Was she too play- mean to meet you as I did. an hour •s partners. Floyd becomes suspicious of lpg a part In order to keep him 1n a ago. anyhow; It slipped me.” Miss Carlisle. Stanton again visits Jes­ sica. and they become fast friends Stan­ good humor? He struck his clenched "They're signaling," warned Mr. ton becomes suspicious of Miss Carlisle hand violently against the wall beside Green, hurrying over. "Are you ready? Just before important race tires needed him. for Stanton's car are delayed. Both of you?" "What’s that?" cried the affrighted From hls place beside Stanton. CHAPTER XI—(Continued). Mr. Green, within the room. "Who—” Floyd turned a face of Incarnate sun­ “I ran against the wall. In the dark." shine to the assistant manager, a face The assistant manager stared in a reproach touched with hysteria. His Stanton called, his voice a little so changed In Its color and glow and collar was wilted, his eye-glasses dan­ hoarse, but evenly controlled. "Good warmth that all who saw drew breath gled by their cord. night" in sheer wonder. “Good night. We'll fix things all "Buy them? Buy enough racing "We're ready." hfs lilting tone® A3- tires Otting the Mercury to last you right, Stanton; you take a good sleep” sured. "Don’t worry." "I shall. ” promised the driver. for a three hundred mile road race, Stanton laughed with him. fastenlng He did not. and get them here by to-morrow morn­ on the mask, and sent the Mercury At seven o'clock, the next morning. rolling forward. The world was right ing? What's the matter with you. Mr. Green burst into the hotel dining­ once more, and life sane. Stanton?” "W'ell, since there Is nothing to do room where Stanton was at breakfast It was an exquisite morning; wind- "He's got them! They're coming.” less, cool, with happy little effects of but eat. come to dinner, Floyd,” said be rejoiced maniacally. "The car snowy cloud against a cobalt blue the other. “It isn’t dinner. It’s supper," cor­ wasn't at Brighton, but he located It sky. The October air waa a summer- rected his mechanician. "This Is the ten miles farther over, on a siding. distilled cordial, an ethereal Intoxi­ country and you had your dinner at And he raised such a disturbance cant The racers had no time to no­ around the express people's ears that tice It, yet the effect was there. The noon. But I’ll come, anyhow.” At the table In the course of the they unloaded the tires then and there, speed made on the first laps was reo- meal, a small tea pot was set before and rushed out two motor trucks to ord-breaklng. cart them across to us. They’ll be Etanton. The brown or gray streak of road here by eight and the race starts at ahead, the deadly turns, the treacher­ "Chocolate, sir,” he was apprised. I have been up all night—an nine, "Why. you bad none at luncheon!" ous smooth hill down whldh It was so hour ago It looked as if you would easy to make speed and still more The pompadoured waitress giggled. to be withdrawn from the con- "No. sir. But the gentleman sent a have test for lack of a few sets of rubber easy to meet disaster—for the first boy after some and came down and tires. That fool tire company!" He hour Stanton had no attention to spare •aw the cook, and cook's that fond of wiped his forehead. “Don’t you want from these. Moreover, the spectators nonsense, and she fifty-four next De­ to come out to the course, after you were massed over the course in many cember—” finish here? Floyd is due on the train places, recoiling just enough to leave Stanton looked across into Floyd's which arrives in fifteen minutes, if he a lane for each car's passage, and so mirthful gray eyes. Isn’t smothered by the crowd. I never imposing another anxiety upon the "I hadn’t anything better to do,” saw such a mob of people; they have drivers who knew the swerve of a foot was the malicious explanation. “And been coming since dawn; all night, in must bring death to some one "Car behind,' Floyd’s clear accents I was afraid your nerves would go to fact, and they’re still coming.” pieces If you didn't get your usual "Yes." acquiesced the other un­ gave the familiar cautions, from time drug and then you'd wreck us to-mor­ emotionally. His dark face gave an to time, “He's tryln’ to get us before row." the turn, The Atalanta’s head in the dust" “He’d coax a bird oft a tree, air, The pace maintained was the fastest tittered the departing maid. at which the Mercury could b* held to -’Give me your cup and have some, the road. It waa Stanton's way to gain Stanton briefly commanded. the lead first w'hen possible, then "Going to throw It at me, like you keep a steady average regardless of did that jug of water on the first night hls rivals' spurts of speed; unless ths we raced together?” teased his com­ race were too short to permit such panion. obeying. tactics or the contest too close. Now, Stanton's head lifted slightly, the re- at the end of the second hour Floyd n caí I» week tree.) ----- OKKMAN KVANGKI.K1AL LUTNRRAN CHUltCII -Grays Uromlng, K <> Mesa, pastor Hunday Ik^btMM al IU im ». Murvlgw at H:uW I German Rchuol Naturday el I to. 0MUR0H Grays <'ro««lii|f. K. 0, lleae pastor Munday Me bool at lu:O» Her vice el ItnM) Ger« man Mchoul, Mattirday 1 au I •T. HAUL'S Krilk'OPAbCIIURC'H.WOODMKRR Mervti'e« ami st'rmon al 4 p m .everjr Mun­ day. Munday Mi’bool at 1:00 a. m. Com iuu ta­ lon srrvlt'r.un eueond Munday of each month. Dr \ «I! Wall , «I. 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