Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1923, Page 18

“PAWNED” An Unusysl Romance of Pesple Whose Very Belng Is edged to Do the Bidding of O - By l*RANK L.PACKARD Author of “The Miracle Man,” “From Now On,” etc. Copyright, 1928, by Public Ledger Company. T was Crang in there! John Bruce, now almost at the top I of the stairs, was unconscious was panting heavily | from his exertions, unconscious of | everything save a new refrain that had taken possession of his mind “It was Crang in there! It was Crang in there!"” | It was the door just at the right of ! the landing. Crang's voice came from there! and the voice was high, like squeal of an enraged animal: | “You're mine! I've got a right to vixen, and T'm man's got girl he's going to mar Do _you think I'm g t off that he in in a cry - sound of 4 ling chair, th more of fee John H\'Ih- flung !\!' B s the light as though in the of some | mad dance y face of the | woman small clenched fi o ¢ v | the f the 1 whose were around her. John Bruc forward. He laughed aloud, urally. His brain, his mind ¥hirllng: bat somethir ed in his two enc ) fingers | ! s throat | upon him— n &rip slipped from er's 3 | d his hand | pass, of giddy 1 should though with the ague! Again brushed his hand across his e would pass oft. He now. Claire the floor; but knees now, using the for support, and. Her voice rang wildly through mvy room. out! Oh, look out! lhn\m\\‘ pace e it se something leaped re in the fous or zgled forehead, with p on brought a curi- olor to supplant the callous of the fact; n a ed way o and though his face wor sion, and the pas: & with @ vicious guard €went 2 second blow almed is side, { his left fis crashed to the }n v. But the n dug. nara | And they nd lurched, ferocity— into l'ul‘h nthn r's shoulder: rocked there, and sway a curious impotence | and toppled to the 'hm John Bruce's grip tightened Crang _fought 1y to 1 over door. John | in 3 though Le had been told. And so John Bruce, between his gasp- ing breaths, still laughed, and rolled over and © vays toward the door. From somewhere roached John Bruce. implorinely, in terror. Of course! That was why he | was trylng to get to the dnor. to get out of her room—through resvect for her—to et Somewhere where he could finlsh this fizht between one stand on his feet throuzh rmees and another whose drug ore Claire's volee body. hi And_so he rolled ov ard the door, heedless of th taking, and he, Johi probably not strong eno: other way to force the of the room twhere they thie. They rolled to the out into the hall. could fin threshold—and his feet, and leaned heavily instant agalnst the jamb of the door. But it was only for an instant Crang was the quicker upon his feet. Idke a beast, there was saliva on the other's lips, his hands clawed the air, his face was contorted hideously like the face of one demented, one from son had flown with pa r mained—and from the ing opposite the door Cr ng launched mmseu forward upon 3 John Eru he screamed. TH teach | finish | 'ihe's mine!" been watching you twol mine—mine! Tl with his Sgatnst the Goor jamh, but 1 ing, whirled again, an ¥ The man began to curse to use his fist as a cork it into the other's mouth to up the vile flow of epithets that in- Taded Claire and coupled his name with Claire’s. Claire 1 The man was raving, jealousy. John Bruce struck. His fist found its mark on Crang's lips. and found it again; how his arm seemed 1o b little strength. and to sag bacl the elbow from each impact. He writhed suddenly as Crang reached him with another blow on his side. And then they had grappled and locked .together again, and swaying like drunken men how - to this side, and now to that, of the rrow hall. T Yould not last. John Bruce felt his knees giving way beneath him. He had underestimated Crang's re- sistance to the overdose of drug. Crang was the stronger—and seemed 1o be growing stronger every instant. Or was it his own increasing weak- 5 e ang's fist with o short-arm jab smashed at John Bruce's ' wounded side once more. The man struck no- where else—always, with thé cunning horn of hell, at the wounded side. John Bruce dug his teeth Into his iips. A wave of nausea swept over him. He felt his senses leaving him, and he clung now to the other, close, tight pressed, as the only means of protecting his side. He forced himself then desperately to a last effort. There was one chance left, just one. In the livid face, in the hot, panting breath with which the other mouthed his hideous profanity, there was murder. Over his shoulder, barely a foot away, John Bruce glimpsed the staircase. He let his welght sag with seeming helplessness upon Crang. It brought Crang around in a half circle. Crang’s back was to the stairs now. John Bruce let his hands slip slowly from thelr hold upon the other, as though the last of his strensth was ebbimg away. He accepted a vicious blow might hear! insane with on his wounded side as the price he must pay, a blow that brought his ¢hin ‘crumpling -~ down upon his breast—and then with every ounce of remaining strength he hurled himself at Crang, and Crang’s foot stumbled out into space over the topmost stalr, and with a scream of infuriated surprise the man pitched backward. John Bruce grasped with both THE FVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1922 ALIEN LAND DECISION | CONDEMNED IN ]APAN’ . 128 Boys’ $1.75 Threat to All Asiatics Seen by Coat Sweaters Fine Jersey Weave Cotton Coat Sweaters, a collarless style, with two pockets; in tan only; can be worn under coat; sizes 28 to menting on U. S. Ruling. 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