chance to move asid.. but seized him surprise had gained the closed floor I
inclined to believe that Marrop.iat so fiercely by the wrists that be in­ before they recovered and sought t»|
stay him.
CHAPTER XXVI.
i clung passionately to hl’
"Tell mo them was momentarily growing less hoped to stop the taxicab by deriv­ stinctively HHed to
indifferent to them all, he shook the 1
ing it, in course of time, cf its !"e and she fairly threw him
L' ¡t rit » dozen
again that you love me!" she tiiayed. noticeable.
knob
and shouted: "Rose! Rose!" I
As
Marrophat
’
s
car
drew
abreast
He
brouyl.il
up
with
And
with
th:.,
tn
tiind
he
was
present
­
Make-Bilieve.
feet
from
her.
I
—
—
Promise me you 1! never let anything
Her cry came back to him, a ruuf. I
For upwards of tin'": quarters of an : com* lirt'siri us. I’ruini. " n. A’an Alaa nodded and said quietly: ‘‘Don't ly surprised, as the cab took a corner, a crash against the w all even as the
tied scream: "Alan! Help! Help!" I
hour of that imld.-u i irnliu; which fol-
promise m you I! b- kind lu t.io al­ be alarmed; I can attend to this gen­ to see Marrophat’s car stop at that door siauimed b hind the gill-
tleman single handed.”
Backing away with a mad idea of I
When Alan, Hie first to recover,
corner ar.d Marrophat himself get
low« d U m night of hfa r,turn to N- w ways, dear!"
And this he proceeded to demon­ down, The trow 01 a hill intervened, gained the sidewalk, she was already throwing himself bodily against the I
York, Mr. Law was permitted to es­
"Can you doubt 1 will be kind?” bo
strate io Illi admirable ease, even shutting off sight of th 9 blackguard as in the taxicab. Whatever reward she door and breaking it down, he was sufl. ]
teem himseli lc apt , st of mortals
niurmuie l reproach'ul!y.
was the had promised the man. he whipped his denly confronted by a hideous mask ot I
And Inasmuch as this i< not only :i
"I am alt.nd
. . she whispered, though called upon to do so tar eoon- he knelt and lit a match. I it suddenly
Io, r unlnteri
II
ot happi­
"Hua could I be anything eLe, lov- er than lie had thought to be—thanks girl who gave the alarm, the win- machine away as if from the fear of humanity—face of man all misshapen 1
to Marrophat s hair-brained precipi­ withdrawing her head from
bruised and swollen and disfigure^ I
ness than is bum n!y common but is mg you as 1 do?”
sudden death.
tancy. Fur, failing to influence the dow to scream at Alan:
And darting from the house hard with smears of dried blood and a dirty 1
more of that unction thin ordinarily
"I am airaid . .
leaver the who!, of Ilf- time, Aluu
Marrophat bandage round his temples, but none I
"He’s fired the gasoline! It's flam- on the min ster's heels, Marrophat.
"Why should 1 ba unkit.d to you?” taxi driver by shouted demands or
was perhaps to be < t.vl d, even though
- the line leaped into his own car and, as if he tho less vaguely recognizable.
"It isn't that. . . . I’m jusl threats, or to gain the least attention ing along the st re.., - ing
from Alan, Trine's first lieutenant ab­ of the leak—and catching up with us.
disillusionment v.l. n it came was sud­ afraid."
The words that etreamed from ite I
had not heard her threat or received
ruptly and surprisingly took his life
Without pausing to put Ins hand to substantial proof of her earnestness, distorted lips drove recognition home I
den, sharp, ami to .him unspeakably
"Of what?”
in his liand3 and iu one wild bound the latch, Alan kicked H, door open. tore off in pursuit.
“Gee, ’ellers, look’t who’s here! If I
shocking—a swift, unprt et,''J plunge
"Of losing you.”
bridged the distance between the two
"Jump!” be cried. "For your life
it ain't th' guy what threw me off’n <
from sunlit p> al, : uf i upt erne content
“But that can never be!"
flying cars and landed on the taxi's jump! As soon as that flame catches
to the black depths uf a bleak Aver­
that girder this mornin’. Stand back '
“You can’t be sure. IVki
CHAPTER XXVIII.
running board.
up with the tank—”
(
and let me kill th’—"
nus of despair.
were to find you’d been m
Stop!” he screamed madly. "Stop,
Simultaneously the chauffeur, over­
The beginning of the p< i lod was She caught her breath an
i Without the hesitation of a heart- '
And the Rose.
I say! You don’t know what you’re hearing, eliut off tlie power.
synchronous with th" tl in of a taxi­ hastily—“That you didn't re
Taking the dazed young man by the beat Alan swung heavily for the thug’s
doing! Let me tell you—”
The three gained the sidewalk bare­ hand, ae though he had been a child, jaw. The blow went solidly home.
cab dour that shut away a superfluous me, I mean.”
He got that far but no farther. In ly in time: the tiny trail of flames, al­ the Reverend Mr. Wright led Alan The man fell like a poled ox.
world from the comi ny of two who
"Oh, that'e ridiculous!”
loved.
"1 can't be sure. Nothing in life 1.; the same breath Alan had flung wide most imperceptible in tlie sunlight, back to his study and established him
Pandemonium ensued. Rallying to
The sound spelled safety as well ae permanent. M hat Is love? Illusion of the door and was at the fellow’s throat. was not a yard from the jet that spurt­ in a comfortable armchair beside his their comrade, the ruffians attacked
success In Alan’s understanding.
the senses! What is happiness? A There was a struggle of negligible ed through the bullet hole in the tank. desk.
Alan with one mind and one intent.
The cur slipped smoothly away from will-o'-the-wlip!
What is life? ▲ .duration; Marrophat was In no way In the flutter of an eyelash the explo­
“Sit there and compose yourself, my Murder would have been done then
his antagonist’s match; within three sion followed. Had the cab been load­
the curb, pursut d only by u little gust make believe!"
dear young friend,” he insisted in a and there had it not been for a rotten
of s< nii Ironic rli-ers tiom tho little
"Dearest!” He held her more close­ seconds he threw out both hands, ed with nitroglycerin its destruction soothing voice.
banister-rail, which gave way, precipi­
clutched
hopelessly
at
the
framework
Company of working nun wl.o had wit­ ly still. “You are nervous and over­
could have been no more absolute.
At the elbow of the Reverend Mr.
nessed as well :s measurably partici­ wrought. You don't know what you’re of the cab, and fell heavily to the
There was a roar . . - and then Wright a telephone shrilled impera- tating the lot to the ground floor of
the hallway.
pated In the putative elopement from saying. You can't mean what you’re street.
a heap of smoking ruins.
t’vely. With a gesture of professional
The taxi sped on without pause, its
tho house of Trine.
Without waiting to admire the spec* patience he turned to the instrument, ! Simultaneously the lamp on the wall
«saying. . . . But say that it’s so—>
was struck from its bracket and
Vigilant for any indication that their that life is all make-believe. Then driver deaf to the hails of innocent if taele, Alan caught the arm of the girl
indignant bystanders. Alan pulled and hurried her up the street, at tlie lifted the receiver to his ear, and crashed to the floor, its glass well
evasion hud had a wltne: , In that make-believe you love me—"
himself together and looked back Just same time calling to the chauffeur to spoke in musically modulated accents. breaking and loosing a flood of kero­
strange homo ot deathless hatred,
"Oh, but I do, 1 do!”
“Yes . . . Yes: this is Mr. sene to receive the burning wick. The
Alan watched it through the little
“And make believe for a little we’ve in time to catch a glimpse of a num­ follow. And chance brought them to
window in the buck of tlm cab until a caught the will o'-the wisp—only for a ber of loafers lifting Marrophat to his the next corner as another cab, fare- Wright. ... Ah, yes, Mr. Digby. explosion followed instantly. In a
I . . . Not coming? But, my dear sir, trice the hallway was a lake of burn-
corner blotted out the vision of It; little until you wake up and realize feet and helping him to the sidewalk •
Mr. Law is already here. I must tell , ing oil, and hungry flames were lick-
then with a ul -.li of relief sank down that it's all real and true."
you
—”
' ing up the rotting wallpaper and eat-
by the side of the woman to whom his
She cloced her eyes again:
He checked with a reproving glance , ing into decayed baseboards and stair-
every thought, impulse und imotion she breathed, "you are right,
for Alan, who was twitching his sleeve , treads.
were dedicated.
make-believe It’s till true for a little
insistently.
“Rose!” he whispered, and tenta­ longer . . . aud forget . . .”
Still fighting like a madman, con­
"If you please,” Alan begged, “let testing every foot of the way, Alan
tively touched one of the hands that
Ho could by no nu ans account for
me speak to Digby at once. Forgive was borne down the hall and out of
luy clem lied in her lap.
this strange humor; but he did his
me—”
She responded with never a sign to best to comfort In r, none ti e less ten­
the front door. A scream of “Fire!”
Reluctantly the minister surrendered greeted him as he reeled out into the
Indicate consclom no. -< either of his derly because of his mystification. And“
the telephone.
touch or Ills wliisja r
; open. It was echoed by a dozen
for a long time she let illusion blind
And reminding himself of the strain her. resting quietly in liis arms, mak­
“That you, Digby?”
: throats.
imposed upon her by the experience ing believe . . .
"Alan! Bless my soul, what are you
The doorway vomited men and
through which they had jiiHt passed,
doing over there? Is Miss Trine with women of the tenement. They choked
Only on approai Ring the Twenty-
Alan excused In r ten1 ; it :.I, < nc: s on third street ferry they must needs
you? But how can that be possible?” it for a time, blocking both egress and
ground , of r- ietlon, and for the time louse und i,tt apart cunrlralnedly for
"Rose? No. What about her?” Alan ingress. By the time they broke out
felt constrained to let his sweetheart I ar tome one might glauce through
demanded, stammering with anxiety. and left the way clear a solid wall of
root and r< • In la r normal poise: the window and surprise their secret
"Why—one of my spies has just re­ flame stood behind it.
there v as 1-11 ■< eiiouvh for liitu in the
ported by telephone. He was going on
Au if one needed the evidence of a
Thrice Alan essayed to pass that
Consclousiie: rt Hi. ’ he had won her caress exchanged to know that they
duty this morning when he saw a barrier of fire, and thrice it threw him
safely away, that nothing now mote were lovcis, v. ho had eyes to see the
young woman—either Rose or Judith back. Then, struggling and kicking
than u slant hour's diive across town flushed loveliness of the girl shrink;
—wearing a rough coat over boudoir to release himself and try again, he
nnd by ferry across the Hudson stood inr. back in her corner or wit to iuter-
dress—climb out of one of the base­ was seized by a brace of able-bodied
between them and the marriage that pret the radiant happiness that shone
ment windows of Trine’s house. She policemen and rushed fifty feet from
should prove tho consunib.atiun of ull in Alan’s face ;’.3 he hint forward and
was apparently in great distress of the house before let go.
their trials . . . Barring sceldunt! watched warily from the winde
mind and anxious to escape without
Alan had toj often f.iHT ri 1 tlm pen­
being seen from the house; but before I Lack of breath checked him momen-
alty of di cap intiiierit t< r , v, r indul­
my man—whose post of observation i tarily.
CHAPTER XXVII.
gence In thi falling of his for depred­
He looked up, dashing from his
is in the third story of one of the
ating Hie unforese, a, not to make tlie
houses opposite—could get to tho smarting eyes tears drawn by the
mental reservation, "Barring acci­
“That Woman is Judith Trine, You Idiot—Not Rose!”
street, she had been caught by several stifling clouds of smoke, and saw
Theos was tho last vehicle to swing
dent >!" with a Hub' shiver of dread.
I rough-looking customers, who rushed vaguely at the second story window a
less,
hove
into
view.
Promising
its
between
the
gales
before
these
last
Hud any of Trine’s household been
of an unsavory-looking tenement, be­ driver anything he might ask, in or out of Trine’s house, seized the girl, woman leaning out and shrieking for
cognizant of his daught, r’u e.-.cape, v.or j closed.
fore the cab took a corner on two out of reason, Alan gave him the ad­ and made off with her in a motor-car help.
And
this
was
quite
as
well;
for
Alan,
Alan argued, interference must have
wheels . . .”
That it was hopeless to attempt the
rising
for
one
last
backward
glance
dress, and helped the girl in.
bearing a New Jersey license number.
been Instant.
"Not seriously injured, I fancy,” he
staircase he well knew. ’Drawing
through
the
rear
window,
started
in
­
If
Marrophat
pursued
Alan
could
see
I
am
sending
men
to
watch
the
Jersey
Despite the re.'rearing aspect, the
told the girl in response to her eager no sign ot him. The second car made ferries. Call me up in an hour—”
aside, he endeavored to come to his
preoccupation of his companion bc voluntarily a'«d choked upon an ex, look.
"Worbe luck!” he added better time than tho first. Unhindered,
clainatlon
when
he
descried
a
power
­
Without a word of response, and sober senses, and cast about for some
I
wore upon him Hi.it ho was pt... entlj
gloomily.
and as far as could be determined, without a word of apology to the Rev­ more feasible way to effect the rescue
no longer uble to i drain from disturb ful touring ear tearing madly toward
But it seeemed that he was to have without being followed, it covered tha erend Mr. Wright, Alan dropped the of bis Rose.
the ferry house, its one passenger halt
Ing her.
greater cause than this to complain of
The tenement occupied one corner
"Rose!" he begged ngalft, closing a rising from the trout scat, beside tho his luck, before that ride was ended. brief remaining distance in a grate- receiver, snatched up hi3 hat, and fled
of a narrow street. Directly opposite,
driver,
und
exhibiting
a
countenance
fully short lapse of time.
that
house
like
a
man
demented.
hand tenderly over hers. "Dearest
Three blocks further on a tire blew
The suburb dropped behind a maze
Rose, escaping from Trine’s house, a storage warehouse stood upon the
girl, don't worry ffliother ins tant! De purplo with congested chagrin ns ho out with a report like a cannon-crack­
calm yourself: remember we are snfr saw Ills car baited out of tlie carriage er, und the taxi lurched perilously, of streets where dwellings stood shoul­ overpowered and made the captive of other corner. Before this last was the
entrance.
der to shoulder and dooryards were Trine’s lowest creatures—gunmen pos­ common landing stage for truck de­
Quickly 11 n. ilivc to bls emotion, tho hesitated, slowed down, and limped scant. The car swept up to a corner sibly, of the stamp of that animal liveries, protected by a shed-roof.
dejectedly
to
the
curb.
girl caught nervously at Alan's hand.
of modest and homely aspect. whom Trine had charged with the as­ And, suspended from a timber that
Alan and the chauffeur piled out in house
"What Is it, dour?"
peered out over the eaves, a hoisting
Two
minutes
more, and Alan was ex­ sassination of Alan the night before!
tho same instant, the one standing changing salutations
"Marrophat," lie snapped.
with and making
There was neither a motor-car in
guard
—
with
un
eye
out
as
well
for
She uttered a hush'd < ry of dismay.
his bride-to-be known to Digby’s good sight for him to charter nor any time
"Don I bo ul.ir.ti -d, however,” ho another cab—while the other assessed friend, the Reverend Mr. Wright.
to waste in seeking one. Alan could
hasten, d to comfort her. "He's lost damages.
Embarrassment worked confusion only hope to find one on his way back
"Nothing
for
it
but
a
new
tire,
sir,
”
the race: (lie rates are i hut—even tho
with the young man's perceptive facul­ toward the ferry. It must have been
passeuj:' r mit, and there must be this last reported sympathetically. “It ties. As this moment approached upwards of an hour before he came
must
have
been
a
broken
bottle
or
a company spotter somewhere near by,
when two should be made one who had into a street which he recognized, by
for the gatenuiu Is virtuously refusing something like that—It sure did rip gone through fire and flood, literally its dinginess and squalor, as that In
the
usefulness
clean
out
of
that
shoe."
to b< billed by a roll of money as
“Go to it,” Alan advised lilm terse­ as well as figuratively, for each oth­ which he had thrown Marrophat from
thick as my wrist!"
ly;
"and if you make a quick job of it. er’s sake, incredulity drew a veil be­ the running-board of the taxicab.
At that Instant the taxicab rolled
fore his vision. He viewed the world
And then, as he paused, breathless
aboard t!ie ferry bent; tho deck gates I’ll stand the cost of the new tire.”
as in a glass, darkly.
and footsore, to cast about him for the
"But
if
another
cab
comes
along
were closed; a hoarse whistle reut tho
He was aware of a decently fur­ way to the ferry, a touring car turned
roaring silence of the city; winches while you’re at it you’ll lose us as nished minister's study; of two wit­ a corner at top speed and slowed to a
rattled and chains clanked; mid the quick as a wink. Here's my card, in nesses in the guise of unassuming stop before that selfsame tenement of
bout wore ponderously out of Its slip. cubc we have to desert you in a hurry; womenfolk of the minister's house­ the unsavory aspect to whose sidewalk
"So much for Mr. Marrophat!" Alan you understand this is a matter of Ufa hold; of the Rev. Mr. Wright himself he had seen Marrophat assisted by
crowed, sitting down. "Foiled again! and death, and 1’11 nave no time to as a benevolent voice rolling sono­ the loafers of the quarter.
settle up with you. Hut you can call
He can t stop us now!”
And this touring car was occupied
at Mr. Digby’s office and he'll fix rously forth from a b’ack-clad pres­
‘•Perhaps . . .”
ence; of the woman of his heart stand­ by some half-a-dozen ruffians in whose
things
up
to
your
satisfaction.
”
"Why that p' haps? Why that
The man took the card and after a ing opposite him; of questions asked hands a young girl writhed and strug.
nc?" he demanded sharply, struck
and responses made; of a ring that gled when, immediately on the stop,
by the foreboding her accents con­ glauce at the name touched his hat was magically conjured from some they jumped out and wrestled her out
with more noticeable respect.
fessed.
“AU right. Mr Lar.-,” he agreed; store apparently maintained against with brutal inconsideration.
‘"Jliis Isn't th - only ferry. There’s
precisely similar emergencies; of a
Like a shot Alan had crossed tho
the Pennsytvanlu and the 1 ackawauna "anything you say.” And forthwith hand that took the hand that was to be street
—but only to bring up nose to
-and by hard driving Ito might even got to work.
The rapidity with which he com­ his wife’s and placed it in his; of his the panels of the tenement door, and
manage to catch Hie boat that con­
nects with tills from the Christopher pleted the change of tires proved him clumsy and witless bungling with the to find himself seized and thrown
an excellent chauffeur, an adept at his task of fitting that ring to the finger roughly aside by a burly denizen when
street ferry of too Eric!”
of his sweetheart's hand . . .
he grasped the knob and made as it
"Impossible! 1 don’t believe It! I craft; but the delay was one disas­
Charged With the Assassination of
Aud then he was aware of a door to follow in.
won't!”
trous for all that. It worked together
Alan.
that
banged
violently
in
the
hallway;
"Keep
back,
young
feller!"
his
as-
with
what
Alan
pardonably
described
"Let s not," she agreed. "Cut, Alan
of
the
sound
of
a
man
’
s
voice
making
sailant
warned
him
viciously.
"Keep
as the devil's own luck to bring the
, tackle dragged the ground with Its
She Appeared Anxious to Escape
touring car in sight at the precise mo­ some indistinguishable demand; that outa this, now, if you don’t want to ropes.
"Yes?"
get
into
trouble.
”
Rose
’
s
hand
was
suddenly
whipped
Without Being Seen.
"Pronilse me If he should manage ment when tile chauffeur was cranking
It was the work of a minute to con­
to
cutch up with u»—you won't let him up and Alan on tho point of re-enter­ away, before he could fit on the ring; i To the speaker's side another vince a thick-headed policeman that
now, we fooled them handily—thanks
that
the
study
door
was
flung
open
and
ranged,
eyeing
Alan
with
a
formidable,
ing the cab. And though they were
to your faith and bravery, sweetheart! talk to you. 1 mean, don't let him—" off again before Alan could close the that this animal of a Marrophat had scowl. At discretion he stepped back the attempt was feasible and should
"No fear of that!" lie asservated
and everything In going to be well
and turned as if persuaded tc, mind his be permitted. It was the work of less
the attempt was hopeless from precipitated himself into the room.
with ns from now on. Over iu Jersey both. "If ho tries to exchange one door,
He
opened
his
mouth
to
protest
—
own
business, then swung on his heel, than another minute to rig a loop in
the
start.
the minister Is waiting now to marry word with tm I only wish he would!"
and
Marrophat
silenced
him
with
a
caught
the two in the very act of open­ the line and fasten round his body
She scorned atfi-.tled with that; but
And yet — whether or not because
the arms. Volunteers did not
V»; and down at the White Star dock
cry.
ing the door, and threw himself be­ beneath
lack; a couple of husky longshoremen
the boat Is waiting that la to carry us the Incident had served appreciably to Alan's distaste for Interference bad
tween
them.
"You
foul!
Drop
that
ring!
Stop
chill
their
spirits.
They
accomplished
been too convincingly demonstrated—
off to England the moment we re mar­
this farce! Don’t you know whom
An elbow planted heavily in the pit sprang to the ropes at his firet call.
ried Think of that and that I love the remainder ot that voyage in a the touring car for the time being you’re marrying? That woman is Ju­ of the stomach of one disposed of him They heaved with a will. His feet left
you Nothing can possibly break tbo silence that was no less depressed be- contented itself with trailtag about dith Trine, you Idiot—not Rose!”
for the time being. A blow from the the ground, he soared, he caught the
causo they sat hand in hand through­ fifty feet in the rear, while the taxi
strength of that Combination!”
Blankly
Alan
turned
to
the
girl.
shoulder sent the other reeling to the eaves of the shed-roof, and shouting to
out.
fled the tenement purlieus of-the Ho­
Fur another minute «he rested as
Her
flaming
face,
her
sullen
eyes,
gutter. And Alan was in the tene­ cease hauling, drew himself up on this
Nor was their taxicab three minutes boken waterfront and found Its way
»he had ever »Ince sinking Into her
I ist, backed a little ways down It and
of tho ferry house on the Jersey into the broader streets of an unpre­ her very pose, from which the man­ ment’s lowermost hall—a foul and c tlculating his direction nicely, vith
corner of the taxicab—moveless, taut, out
tit
r
of
Rose
had
dropped
like
a
cast
evil-odored
place,
dark
as
a
pit
the
shore-
though
the
chauffeur,
stimu
­
tentious
suburban
quarter.
iinrvs|H)ti!ii vp.
a running jump launched himself out
Not until they were wvll into the garment, confessed the truth of Mar- instant the door was closed, its murk ox er the street.
I ben a long sigh shook her to her lator bv AlaiifS extravagant promises,
rophat
’
s
assertion.
And
as
if
this
were
was doing his beet to fracture tlie suburbs, with tew dwellings near aud
relieved only by the flame of a kero­
very hemt. and of a aud len the small speed
The momentum of his leap carried
laws and escape arrest—when no pedestrians to interfere, did Marro- not enough. Judith confessed it doubly sene lamp smoking in a bracket near
list In Alan', grasp relaxed and her the girl's
hi ii well out over the heads of the
with
a
sudden
outbreak
of
such
rage
fears
were
amply
justified;
the
foot
of
the
stairs.
phat's purpose become apparent. Then,
face turned to bis like a flower to
from bt'hlnd drew Alan’s head however—and it happened while Alan as never could have been brewed in
Sounds of scuffling of feet were au­ th reng assembled in the street and
the sun. a face transtigured, Ita lipa a out shout
Rose's gentle nature.
of
the
window
on
one
side
and
the
dible
on the first landing. Alan ad­ truly toward that window where Rose
was
looking
back
—
the
touring
car
now soft and yielding, its eytw un- girl’« or the other and proved to bctR
"You
devil!
”
she
cried
—
and
threw
dressed
himself impetuously to the was waiting. Then its force slack­
drew
in
sw
iftly
and
easily
and
Marro-
< h'aed and siulllng into his a smile that Marrophat had indeed found some
herself
in
front
of
Marrophat
with
a
staircase, gaming its top in half a ened, For an awful Instant he be­
phat, rising in his seat, leveled a re­
all misty with unshed tears.
way to make the crossing without volver over the w indshield and fired.
spring
as
lithe
as
that
of
a
leopardess.
dozen
leaps, and only in time to see a lieved that he had failed. But with the
Alan she breathed gently,
It
The crack of hie weapon was prac­ "Take warning now from me: keep door slammed at the forward end of last expiring ounce of impetus, he was
r n’t be true! I in try Ing eo hard to great delay.
His touring car was within fifty tically coincident with a metallic thud out of my way fcrever after this—or the hall and hear a key turned in its brought within grasping distance of
b .Hew but all the while I know It
the window sill.
yards when they first were aware of beneath the rear seat of the taxicab. i take the consequences! God knows,” lock.
cant be true!”
Hauling htmself ap, he gathered her
and Marrophat, Handing on the
Not for some moments did Alan ap­ she panted, "why I don’t kill you as
A cluster of men blocked the way. Into
Ho converted a skeptic with the It;
his arms . .
running
beard
was
.
houting
tuartlcu-
you
stand!
”
preciate
the
viciousness
of
the
scheme,
He
didn
’
t
pause
to
wait
for
It
to
be
ute eloquence of hl» lips . . .
latelv
and
flourishing
an
imperative
A
great
tongue of tawny flame licked
He
was
In
her
way.
between
her
and
cleared, but threw himself headlong
.irinimg that the gasoline tank bad
Iliad upon tna shoulder, the girl
bind; while the distance b. _.a
pun.tvred by the bullet, be was ths opeu duor. 8Uu gave him no t into their midst, and by dint of the angrily out of the windows as be
swunt her back to Eoluty.