Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1927, Page 20

THE BLACK BY ISABEL (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER XXIL In Ambush. ANET thought that everything was lost, but the old woman cackled contemptuously. “You young men are mighty bright, but them t the wheelbarrow! The boys was cartin’ dirt this mornin' from the gully for { my truck garden. Look 'round if you want, but I dunno why you allus pick [ on Ben and us when you're lookin' r somebody! : m“(;uzn we'll do that, Aunt Carrle!” The other trooper spoke for the first time. “We pick on you because you and your old man are back of most of the devilment in these hills! Come on, Jim!” : The mending dropped to Janet's lap, but she reached under it for the re- volver as the two members of the con- stabulary unceremoniously pushed open the bedroom door and clattered up the ladder. She was allied indeed against the forces of the law now, but she realized only that the gallant young man who was fighting such un- equal odds to serve her in this crisis must not be aken. Then another thought came to her and she whispered fearfully to the oldl an: {v clothes! They'll find them in room:" = “Not where I've hid 'em!” Aunt Carrie shook her head as she listened tensely for sounds from above. *Should have thought to scuff up them |, tracks in the road, though!" The tramp of heavy feet and slam of trunks and old furniture being thrown about made the very rafters shake, but the dreaded uproar of dis- covery did not come and presently the two_searchers reappeared. *“Think mebbe I'd fetched that bi- crcle thing you're talkin' ‘bout up to the attic?” Aunt Carrie demanded tartly, but they only laughed good- naturedly. “I wouldn't put it past you!" the young trooper called “Jim” replied. “We'll Just take a Jook around the cel- jJar and sheds and then be on our ‘way.” Janet shivered again. One danger was past, but if they discovered the machine ‘itself they would not rest until Francois Durant was in_their hands, when the fabrication of her |Ww; relationship to the old hill woman would be shattered. But again the agony of suspensé ended In relief, for they did not find the motor cycle and after a hasty search of the shed ,and outbuildings they mounted and rode away. Their pace was slow, however, and their saddles rubbed as they drew close together, bending to examine the tracks once and talking with a grave air. Janet sighed with relief as she tried to slip the revolver into her walst without the old woman seeing her, but the sharp eves saw the gesture. “You've got grit!” She nodded ap- provingly “They won't go far, though, once they got a notion." The girl scarcely heard: she was unmin‘(ato cautious feet descending the ladder and when Five of Dia- monds, as she must always think of Dygant, came into the Kkitéhen, she gave a little cry. ““Oh, how is it that you weren't found™ “A miracle!” he shrugged. “They opened the trunk and poked in it, but I was under a heap of clothes. It seems that always when you are in danger I it leave you to fight it by yoursel She knew that he was thinking of the time when Bill had discqvered her in his tent and he had been forced to let her go under superior odds, and shook her head at him. ‘‘What would become of me if you were taken?" she asked. “But Aunt Car- rie thinks they won't go away, for they saw the traces of the motor “I know!” he interrupted in his char- acteristic fashion. *“I saw them from the gable window as they road away.” “Then how can we leave?” Janet's tone was almost despairing. “We'll manage!” he re) fully.. “The sun’s pi low and we won't start till nightfall, hut I want you to try to get some rest now. Go : and lie down in the other room. Aunt Carrie, can you get hold of one of the boys and send him out after Ben? I : want to talk to him.” Janet obeyed meekly and when she ! had eurled herself up on the hard bed she was quickly asleep from sheer physical exhaustion, but in her dreams the crash of the overturned motor i~ evele and the wreck of the special re- . turned to haunt her in all their horror, . and she woke quivering in every nerve - when the old woman appeared with a . candle. ¢ __An hour later a cart drawn by two mules and heaped high with brush ereaked slowly away from the cabin and started along the uphill’ wagon trail under the stars. A soft wind stirred in the deep woods on elther side, but the two passangers, half- smoth.red under the brush beside the motor cycle, could only gasp and grasp the sides of the jolting cart to avold being tossed about in the deep ruts It was worse after the brow of the hill has been passed and the mules trotted down the slope swinging their burden from side to side, but ut the bottom they turned off into soft, marghy ground and stopped. Shaken till her teeth chattered, Janet waited until Durant had drag- ged out most of the brush and then lifted her out, depositing her carefully on a dry hummock of course grasses while he turned back to the cart. A grizzled, little old man had descended from the driver's seat and helped. with unexpected strength, to unload the machine. Half wheeling and half lifting it, they disappeared along an obscure path which Ben seemed to find by instinct, for there were no lanterns on the wagon and the moon had not yet risen. Janet hesitated, afraid to step down into the quaking mud. She was again in her pedestrienne knickers and stout shoes, the revolver in her blouse, to the under side of which she had trans- , ferred the seven of hearts when aban- doning her coat in the lane that morn- ing. Around her neck, beneath the soft, rolling collar she had clasped her string of pearls with the ribbon of her wrist watch dependent from it, and her packet of papers was safe in the pocket of her blouse. The night was so still that the eroaking of bulifrogs sounded un- maturally loud and when an owl hoot- ed weirdly close by it startled her. Then she held her breath, for other sounds were borne on the night breeze above the splashing of unseen water id the stamp of the mules’ hoofs—a ealthy rustling and whispering, then a sliding jar and gurgle as though a heavy body had slipped and fallen in the mire. Was it an animal or a human be- ing? Janet glanced about her help- lessly for cover, sure that she must be plainly discernible in the starlight. ¥rom the direction in which Durant and Ben had gone there came a re- newed #Plash and then silence, but that nearer noise of something or some one floundering about held the girl's frightened attention as she @rouched low, trying to pull the tall, dead grasses about her. and jumped sidewise apd a perilously close to her. imuttered a eurse and then called: “Jim!" The two troopars had lain in walt for them and now they were caught in ambush! With no further thought of the terrors of the marsh, Janet sprang from the hummock and darted off in the dm‘guen of the path, but the cheer- | Wa: JOKER OSTRANDER. to her knees, catching at knife-edged rushes that cut deeply into her hands, but she managed to free herself and plunged on. A lantern flashed behind her, but in such wide arcs that she knew she had not yét been located, though the horse shouting of the constabulary as they wallowed and lunged about tracks of | seemed to be coming closer, when all at once she tripped over a hummock and fell. Janet felt that her last ounce of strength had failed, she could not rise, she was beaten! She was scarce- 1y conscious that something came to- ward her and passed, then another figured appeared, caught her up in his arms and, turning, dashed off in the direction from which he had come. “All safe, Seven of Hearts!” Dur- ant's voice breathed in her ear. “Ben will hold them, we'll take to the wa- ter!” Behind them she heard the voice of the old man raised in a wordy combat with the two troopers and then she saw, facing her a stream whose rip- ples reflected the stars, with a little skiff straining at its rope against thé bank. Durant lowered her into it, cast off the loop of rope which had been wound about a stout sapling and, leaping past her, seized the oars. T come but here to burn brush, I tell you!" Ben's strident rage reached them as they swung out into the cur- rent. “You fellers come botherin’ the old woman and Minnie this arternoon and ‘ypsottln' the house, and now The voice was merged in the dis- apvointed growls of the troopers and all were stilled in the distance as the oars ground in the rowlocks and the littie craft headed upstream. “Won't the motor cycle sink us?” Janet gasped, still breathless from her struggle in the swamp. “No. This is Ben's own skiff built to carry the products of his still.” Durant’s tone was buoyant as ever a8 he labored against the current, “Sorry I had to leave you there; thought it was safe enough and we had to get the bike aboard. Want to make the bridge if we can.” Seeing that he was saving his own breath Janet lapsed into silence, but the atream appeared to be much broadér than when viewed from the shore and the stars were very bright. ith each stroke of the oars spray dashed up on the bow and it was ap- parent that they were making- little headway. What if they were seen and fol- lowed? Surely a couple of horses could gallop along the bank at a far greater speed! Would they be cut off at the bridge? Durant was facing her as she sat huddled in the stern and she could not glimpse his features distinetly, but she saw his figure stiffen su denly, then he pulled with. all his might on the right oar, steadying it with the left until they were tak- ing the current nearly broadside and the boat rocked gently, making for the opposite bank. Janet did not need to question him, for distant shouts told her that her fears had been realized. As they grew nearer they were accompanied by rhythmic thuds and glancing aver her shoulder she saw two shadowy mounted figures dashing along the bank they had just left, making in the directfon they had themselves headed for. The bridge! How far were they from it? She knew now that Durant meant to land, but the side of the stream they were approaching pre. sented a dark and unbroken line of defense woods. The resourceful Five of Diamonds might turn the motor. cycle adrift in the boat, but withs out it ‘would they not soon be ridden down by t men who must know every bypath,and wagon-track of that region? Then upon her. apprehensive ears came the sound whiech had dreaded, :ne'clntur of hoofs on hallow plank- ng! “They've reached the bridge!” she cried. Durant nodded coolly. “They’ll have to come a roundabout y back on this side,” he replied. “It I can strike the cove . . ." Janet glanced again at the black gloom of the wooded bank they were approaching and now she saw, a lit- the way down stream, a break in its line, a separation of the trees like a crevice into which the water appeared to flow. % “Is that it?" She pointed. “Yes! We mustn’t drift past it or we'll never make our way back in time! Steady now, Seven of Hearts!” She clasped her hands tightly in her lap despite the pain of the cuts from the rank marsh reeds and watched the opening as it widened before them. The horses had passed the bridge and it seemed that every minute they must burst from among the trees on the shore and head them off! Would they never reach the bank? % ‘Then udden swirl of current caught them, and heavy and flat-bot- tomed as their small craft was, it bore them along as though hitched to some submerged creature of titanic strength apd speed. Janet uttered a little exclamation of despair, but Durant pulled madly on the oars to bear into the cove. They were abreast of it now, so near the bank that she could almost have reached out and touched a jut- ting rock, but maliclously the boat seemed to swerve from it—they were passing! Then with a desperate, magnificent sweep of the oars Five of Diamonds drove it into the shelter of the cove, where ‘it sped up on the shelving bank and grounded. “Oh, you made it!” Janet cried. “We're safe!” The words were stilled upon her| lips by the call which rang through the sudden crash of branches, “Up with your bands!" (Continued in Tomorrow'’s Star.) Somebody Ought To Tell Him of These Facts ‘The Motorist Who Doesn’t Use Ebonite Is Missing a Lot! Ebonite ki a heavy film of oil about the. gears | which absorbe shocks, prevents friction, and makes gear shifting easy at all times in today’s congested traffic. One filling will last 2,500 miles. EBONITE (Combination of Pure Oil) 20 Cents a Shot At Filling Stations and Garages BAYERSON OIL WORKS i e A ccount s DEAL AT 1 ) BOTH SIDES OF 7™ AT K ST. 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Goldenberg's—Third Floor.—Charge Accounts Invited. inner lining; “Bluye Crane” Chiffon Silk Hose ‘Women prefer “Blue Crane” not only because of - their being sold with a guar- antee to wear satisfactorily, but be. cause of their beautiful . lustrous sheer, filmy qual- ity. Made with cotton heel and toe and three- seami back; sllk garter weilt. Spectal pains have been taken to insure snug fitting, trim ankies that well dressed women admire, They come in an assortment of the most popular shades for Fall Gol X ey TR R 48c & 50c Cretonnes 24c yd. Yard-wide, fast-color Cre- tonnes, full bolts and mill lengths, plenty alike for drap- eries and coverings of all kinds. Light and dark floral, stripe and bird designs. Fourth Floor, 25¢ Outing Flannel yd. 36-inch Outing _Flannel, good, heavy, softfleeced-finished grade for “warm Winter garments. Pretty checks, stripes and plaids in_wanted colors. A 29¢ Shaker Flannel, 18¢ 27-nch Bleached Shaker Flan- nel, extra heavy double-fleeced quality, & Printed Challies, 16¢ 36-inch Printed Challies, the ideal material for comfort cover- ing: new styles and colors in a large variety. Fast colors. berg's—Wirst Flaor. CRare aounte Taviiear” Bargain Table and PG o $38ilk Fringe Panel Curtains - $1.85 Beautiful Silk Fringed Panel Curtains that you will admire when at your win- dows—choice of Filet, Scotch or shadow lace weaves, in white, ivory and ecru. 2}4 and 214 yards long; neat, novelty effect and elabgrate worked designs, copies of the most costly laces, 75¢ and 98¢ Rayon Draperies 50¢ 36-inch Rayon Drapery Fabrics, in plain, two-tone and combination figures and stripes. Rose, blue, gold, green, mul- berry, taupe and other combination colors. Full bolts from which we will cut any quantity. Equally desirable for scarfs, cushion and other coverings, Goldenberg's—Fourth Floor.—Charge Accounts Invited. $1.29 Wool Sacques, $1 N Sweater Sacques, Also buttoned front white trimmed with pink and Sweater Sets, $4.50 Sweater Sets, sweater, cap and leggins; blue and pink; 100% wool and very $2.50 Blankets, $1.98 Warm Blankets, to wrap the little one in—size 36x50 inches, nursery patterns and block de: signs finished with®sateen bind- Crib Sheets, 69¢ “Wear-proof” Waterproof Crih Sheets, size 18x27 inches; finished with four eyelets at ends. Silk Bonnets, $1.25 New Silk Bonnets, with soft trimmed styles in a great va. Eiderdown Coats, $6.98 ‘Wool Eiderdown Coats, pink and blue with hand-embroidered collar, cuffs and pockets; soft- finish’ lining. Eiderdown Hats, $1.95 Babies' Eiderdown Hats to match coats, light blueé and pink, made with ear laps. Drawer Leggins, $1.19 Little Tots' Jersey Drawer Leggins, in white, powder blue, tan, navy and black; buttoned hip and knee. “Vanta” Shirts, 50c anta” Shirts, of merino, no pins nor buttons to injure the delicate flesh, just twistless tape ties; fancy silk stitched; also ab- dominal bands and binders. Flannelette Garments, 50c New White Flannelette Ger- trude Petticoats, Kimonos and Nightgowns, finished with draw string. sweaters; and ribbon Thursday’s Big Silk Value! $2.25 Washable Flat Crepe $165 yord Beautiful, heavy, all-silk quality, with rich, lustrous finish, in many of the lead- ing Fall shades, as well as the lighter shades for dainty lingerie, also black and white. 40 inches wide. $2 Satin Charmeuse, $1.69 40-inch Satin Charmeuse, rich satin face, all- silk quality, in black and newest Fall sha $1.75 Crepe de Chine, $1.39 40-inch Washable Crepe de Chine, heavy all- silk quality, in street, evening and lingerie sha as well as black and white. Goldenberg’s—First Floor.—Charge Accounts Invited. $7to $8.95 Virgin Wool 'Filled Comforts $4.85 Goldenberg’s Purchased Hundreds of High-Grazde Seamless Rugs In the $5,000,000 Auction Sale Last Week’ htf‘u"'za!‘mmmunnmnu | \ I ‘]A exander Smith&Sans What an opportunity for homelovers! Daily shipments coming in from this tremendous sale. All Seamless Rugs in new 1928 patterns—every rug perfect—all designs new—and every rug up to the high standard set by this world famous manufacturer, Alexander Smith & Sons. Each rug is a dis- tinct bargain—priced far below the usual. This sale gives our customers a real opportunity to purchase quality rugs at great savings. Seamless Axminster and Fringed Velvet Rugs 9 by 12 ft. and 8 ft. 3 by 10 ft. 6 Sizes 26 34 39 443 54 orative colors; and Persian designs. grades. grade. Fringed Velvet and Axminster Rugs in Smaller Room Sizes 213 11z g sizes. $17.50 grade. 7 ft. 6 by 9 ft. Axmin- 5 ster and Fringed Velvet o signs. $30 grade. === to blend with any decora- tion. $40.00 grade. Goldenberg's—Fourth Floor. Charge Aceounts Invited. All durable weaves in new Persian and Chinese designs; many decorative colorings. $60 and $65 grades. Rich, deep worsted velvet nap; the new colorings and patterns. 6 by 9 ft. Axminster and Fringed Velvet Rugs; Chinese and Persian de- 4 ft. 6 by 6 ft. 6 Axminster and Fringed Velvet Rugs; colorings and patterns to match many of the larger Rugs, soft rich colorings . New, 1928 colorings and untsual de- signs, in 9 by 12 ft. and 8 ft. 3 by 10 ft. 6 sizes. $40 and $42.50 grades. Chinese and Persian designs, in dec- both all-over and broken borders. $45 and $47.50 grades. New colorings to harmonize with your new Fall color scheme; Chinese $50 and $55 $75.00 Good-looking, practical spreads Samples and odd lots from a large mill—100% virgin wool filled, soit, warm and fluffy; coverings of sateen and other materials. Figured both sides with plain borders, others plain both sides. $6.50 Part-Wool Plaid Blankets, $4.85 66x80 extra heavy-weight fine grade Part- 35¢ Pillowcases, 25¢ 45x36 Bleached Pillowcases, large size; perfect quality; hand torn and ironed. 25¢ Sheeting Cotton, 15¢ 39-inch Unbleached Sheeting Cotton, extra heavy, round thread quality. for all-year-round use—cream color grounds with fast color blue and gold woven stripes. Full length for covering and pillows. $1.19 $1.50 Bleached Bleached Sheets, 88c Sheets, $1.19 81x90 double-bed 81x90 double-bed size; perfeet qual- size; free from and torn and starch or dress- wool Blankets, jacquard plaid effects in blue, rose, tan, gray, lavender and gold, with wide| sateen ribbon bound ends. Goldenberg's—Fourth Fleor.—Charge Accounts Invited. $4 and $5 Grades Low Shoes $2.95 : Pair d Stylish looking, good wearing shoes for Fall and Winter wear— choice of Operas, Step- ins, Strap Pumps, Ox. fords and Ties, of%pat- ent, black satin, velvet and dull leather. Spike, Spanish, mil tary and low walking heels. but sizes 3 to 7 in the assortment. Goldenbers's—First Floor.—Charge Accounts Invited. Sc Sewing Silk Three Spools, 9¢ Good Quality Black Sewing Silk, for machine or hand sewing. Letter A only. Three spools for 9c. New Notlon Sectlon—Eighth Street Annex, Broken assortments from regular, ' Galdenberg's—First Floor—Charge Accounts Invited. i B ing. $32.50 to $42.50 Values No woman in need of a hew coat for Winter can afford to let. (§ this sale pass by unnoticed—for values such as offered here are \f seldom put before the buying public. Suedine, Fine Kerseys, Bolivia and . Broadtail Cloth Handsomely trimmed with large collar and deep cuffs of Pointed Coney, Mandel Coney, Beaverette and Erminette. The Styles: New Side Fullness Modified Flares Diagonal Tucks New Draped Effects Shawl and Tuxedo Collars Long Scarf Collar Fur Bordered Styles Fancy Stitchings Silk Braid Trimmed, Ete. ur-Trimmed Coats $24.75 N g The Warm New Shades for Green, Wine, Rust, All the Popular Tan and Brown Shades, Black, Etc. Sizes for women and misses, 16 to 20, 36 to 46, and “Stout” sizes, 42} { Fall Wear T e G QYT