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The Evening World Daily Magazine: a THE IRON RIDER PRARAARRAL Ree 1, 1916, ht Tie ek Sh By Maurice Ketten THREE CHEERS FOR GENTLEME! Odo tan & — sy | i OUR DELEGATE TANeWaN’ } So PRaud! DASH, DARING, Were possessed by FRANCOIS VILLON, the beloved vagabond poet of France, All his lova- A ROCHW MOUNTAIN ROMANCE OFAFIGHTING RAILROAD MAN: r PR ee | || THINK MY HUSRAND ¥| — ble brilliant qualities are brought out vividly in ln AA AAAR AAA ALARA . om a ; . E GOING To NOMINATE : By FRANK L. PACKARD ‘ ” eng | |( we Presi THE GLORIOUS RASCAL ee ne 7 7S | Oe Cos CoB WRG ANTONI NG HARA ARA NING Wa) iF: ON THE Coprelt, the Frank A, Munsey Co, was not an instant to lose! He jumped ‘ By JUSTIN HUNTLY M’CARTHY NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD You will be thrilled by the flashing of sword and color in this fascinating story of ROMANCE AND ADVENTUR noisclessly as a cat across the room to the door, unlocked it, opened tt stealthily inch by inch, and, satisfied that the corridor was deserted, slipped silently from the room. | Another instant and he had locked the door again, pocketed the key, ant! Lary tannery Was down the stairs and out of the) nt. mites his wag building; then, stealing along in the} > sr shadows of the station, he reached the Fated Taine We tat Fn end of the platform, jumped to tha| Vmactar of the Blocks Wisiern “railroad! 7) ae AR) ry with M. Vow ® sound drut a tracks and broke into a run, heading) ee CHAPTER IV. for the upper end of the’ railroad |were ounding nearer, In another turned and stood motionless to look (Continued) Meth iinute he would be caught, back again, She was still seated, book 7 What are you going to do™ he in hand, in the lounging chair; and tt Larry Pays His Score. CHAPTER V. | again, automatically, was as tl Nhe were gazing upon a » leaned sude ( ; toward her. pet t ele " rt “ OU know what I meant" Wanted—-Dead or Alive. | Atta "going to trust you-to sive & solely rome fat oe Turemee, wat . sald Larry between his HB twilight was gone, it was pape aint ie heat po mt he ‘and because, too. it seemed in some strange Coad stood ay dark now, and all about the ped acrona the compartment to the pact initsrreation. © veto” neem ou ever since Halton © u yards the ewitch lights ONE ROOM AND Lxeroom cout, wip) neide and “He saw Felton board the car from you've been here, but I'm were twinkling white and )] YEs, SIR TAM A Two BATHS closed the door bebind him, the side of the track, saw the big Rus- through now! ‘There's no more press and $08 and porsie, ( DELEGATE oe | ‘ee ne sian official follow, saw the latter di head - of- my - department business! From a yard mpur, as Larry reached [RR ‘ices AN A | CHAPTER VII. appear inside the car and Felton draw Tm out! I'm not working for you the upper end of ‘the yards, No. 67, ? DELEGATE ( G | No Sanctuary! TO aca cae ae 4 or the railroad any more! It's you awite vot ce ity rane J TS THE | N the darkness inside the tinct, the vision to fade, and after & and I, man to man, You've been “jig had been just in time; and now, | stateroom, Larry crouched While there was only a blurrish point handing it to me cold, but you handed crouched by the track-side, Larry | against the door, every fWe- Thats winked {ittle eves and. vanished ights winke le eyes and vanishe | {t 0 me once too often to-day, you ee Be oer t gto neane aboard ulty alert. It was not fear presently around a curve. The coast } yellow skunk! You sent me up there Car after car rolled by. i Further of her, of what she’ might express was gone. against those devils’ knives, you sent and further away showed the lamp | do-in those eyes, In that | Again what had happened at Angel’ me up there to get mine for kesps— Vet Was dangling in the hand of the | face was something that spoke of loy~ bso Foot ory of which be kon} and now you're going to get yours! front end brakeman from the top of ty to a trust, however Imposed, a8 @ accused? sage Rg | If E told the boys what you'd done, One of the forward cars. Still the ne gt Mi accused? ‘That was the one vital thing, they'd string you up on the corner train rattled and bumped past him, |""ut. presuntly Larry relaxed and Sonesta bia’ | owe BOW that mus of Main Street out there and fill you gaining speed alittle now, but atili he w back, He could hear the chairs full of holes—and maybe you'll wish Waited. A few cars further down being drawn together—then the mur. | And now, up the track, his eyes fast- they had before I'm tbrough with toward the rear of the train he could mur of quiet and sustained conversa. hed frat on the station window, a* you!” make out some flats, which offered at thon, die beygan to fool his Way around Nundred yarda west of where he stood ‘ Mason cast a hunted look around Jest, the prospect of mora comfort stateroom, hunting for the bag- then on a bobbing lantern—that woul him—and dodged suddenly, with the than" the buffer beams of the box ce and belongtags that would fur- be Peterson, who was the operator at @vident intention of putting the desk ©4rs, and, If loaded, much less chance nish him with a clue to tts occupant’s Manloops; and then beyond the lan {between himself and Larry. of discovery. fdentity. ‘There was nothing—the tern again, still further up the siding But he was not quick enough. With _ They came abreast of him. Tho a lightning, short-arm jab Larry’s fist first slewed by—and Larry, with a found the man's face, and sent the Short ejaculation of satisfaction, other staggering back again—and Jumped forward, swung the fron foot then, his fingers closing around Fest of the second car neatly, drew Mason's throat, choking off, half- himself up and climbed aboard. Luck uttered, the other's cry for help, he Sreater than he had dared to hope for held the paymaster pinioned, a wrig- Was with him! The flats were loaded sling, gasping thing against the wall., With two massive steel bridge girders A strange silence for an instant running the length of both cars; and, held in the room as Larry, his face blocked up from the flooring, left | workirg; in his fury, listened. Outstde Toom to craw! beneath in the yards an enginé blowing from Larry sat down on the floor of the a full head of steam drowned out all CAT and propped his back against a other sounds. Mason's cry had not Portion of the heavy timbers that been heard. shored up and secured the girders in “You try to yell again’—Larry’s place. How long would it be before voice Was a whisper in ita hoarseness they knew, before they found Mason? “and I'll make pulp of your face That man who had come to the door, | while I ohoke you-before they can Was his mission imperative enough break in the duor! Do you under- to cause him to seek Mason elaewhore stand?” His hand fell. away from M4, finding no trace of the paymas- | Mason's throat. “Now stand up and ¢eF, return to the office, and with | you cur—you're big enought” suspicions aroused, force the locked or God's sake," w Mason, door? bid hined Masom, “Tt was a terrible thing to have ry's open hand fell Killed a man! It was not Meson in stinging across Mason's lips. "Fight, Concrete sense; for Mason, the man, you aniv ; ard! ight-—-l'm 80 Pity would come—it’ was the giving you your chance—and that’s thought that he had taken human fore thant you gave mo with those life. Go where he would, effect his devils up there in camp! Fight. Wtlmate escape beyond all chance or | stateroom was evidently not tn use UPON @ faint glow, from the gaugy at ail. He was @afe, then, on that }4™p probably emanating from the cal» count! of a locomotive. The 403! How hgd ‘A sort of confidence growing upon she come there witheut hurt or da! him, he returned to the door, and very &8° to herself, quiescent and still on slowly, cautiously, silently, turned the the stding? handle, opened it the fraction of an It would be the blunder of a fool to inch, and peered out. Felton, the as- Use the 403 again, opportune as the wistant superintendent, not far from engine's presence there in evidently the stateroom door, was leaning for- serviceable condition appeared to be ward in hia chair talking earnestly, There was another way. Subconscious now to the girl and now to @ big, ly, almost, a plan was forming in bis heavily built, bearded, pleasant-feat- mind, But first he must find out what ured man, Whose chair held the samo had occurred at Angel—tho details of relative position to the stateroom door the theft of which he was accuse as did Felton’s. She had manoeuvred but in which he had had no part. It her chair into a strategic position be- might be that he could very easily tween the stateroom and the two men very readily disprove the cireumsta: —its back quite clors to the door—an 4s that had laid the accusation upon uosuspected sentinel on guard, him—it might be then that he nee Larry slured out of the window, face no more serious charge than as They had come to @ stop now. He Sault upon Mason, which at least was pressed his face close to the pane, Preferable to being hunted like a say | striving to see further up the track— &ge beast through the mountains. Or when, suddenly, he whirled from the the other hand, if such did not prove window and leaped toward the door to be the case, a grim resolve was up- as his ear caught the sound of the permost tn his mind—that he would handle being turned, And then, before not euffer for a crime of which he he could reach it, the door was flung was innocent! He must know before wide open and, set faced, binking in he made another move, must know the light, desperate as a man with his exactly what had taken place at back to the wall, he halted—but the Angel. Erte whe! —La you' cing to get it anyhow!" He Possibility of capture as he would, he next Instant, his eyes accommodating — How quiet it was in the mountains’ Gra auchine the wan be tee Veaate could never escape—himself. While themselves to the Hght, relief upon Approaching the station it seemed ders, stinging him again and eg he lived the ghastly secret in hisown | ——- him, he stepped forward again. It was ag though each step he took, cau- across the fave with his open hand Soul Would live, a hideous companion Mera Pelenof etanding there and @ tious aa he was, crashed out discord- ead wuddenly ed backward from though all his life. But tt was done On Larry ran, casting quick glances took out Matt Peasley’s dinner pail, cautiously, listened, and stopped in- | ‘T gee!" she observed caustically, “uick glance through the doorway over gntiy, alarmingly in the allence. He MEM eT Patwokn hie Own cee, now-—nothing would change that. over his shoulder. A lantern showed found the fireman's pail in the tender side. “One of these Western hold-ups! Of her shoulder showed him that the could even hear the click of the tele Like a cornered ret, Mascn had It grew cold and chilly, and his suddenly around the end of the ca- box, and then, waiting until the mi His footfalls nolseless on the thick course dt is very thrilling, theatricar Compartment was empty, graph plainly, though he was yet drat Mason bad pure shoulder stiffened, Larry rose to boos® and came tearing up the track; Gul with long, hoarse, laboring panta, carpet, Larry stopped quickly acrons and dramatic. You chose @ fortunate ih Nt i ho said with @ forced yurda away from the station. Peter- ‘ar, half of fren. M8 feet and began to pace up and pounding fect, those of the front-end Reared the summit like a snail, the compartment and started along moment. But whether I ring or not, Mueh. 1 didn % son was rattling the despatcher's call, ‘ ale of fren, down between the girders, but keep- brakeman, presumably, raced down dropped to the track-side, a narrow corridor that opened off on you are in danger of being disturbed | “Come out of therel” her vélce rang then: “O, S., Manloops, No. 1 west, rushed at Larry furiously, : ing an eyo warilyson the roof of the the platform on the opposite side of | 1S watched the mogul disappear the left-hand side of the car, He at any Instant~ the cook and the por- hard as flint engine 1608, out 9.12." ished at Larry furiously. imaci¢ DOX-car ahead should the front-end the cars toward the spot where Haley in the darkness, listened as It topped moved stealthily forward now. It ter arg Jn the galley at the forward and amazed, he gazed at “The wtatfon door was open. Larry now and. sidnateppink, wrung and Prakeman happen to come back ona had been standing. Then Haley's the summit and the exhaust began to wag a very short corridor, and where end of the car; and my father and Mr face was white with anger stepped notselessly on to the plat- Ae A saa tour of inspection voles broke {na roar: crackle again fast os a gatling, and \t swung sharply to the right ahead Felton, the assistant superintendent pe dla Pdi pl hed ee cst form, cromed it, and reached ¢he A big man was Mason, and heavier _.Th¢ train bumped and jolted to a “He's jumped out on the other then—he had had no food @tnee morn- of him would probably lead into the of the division, who have just sten- rides; and now sho stamped her foot doorway, Here he paused for a mo tae ee amon, and heavier stop. By peering out under the girder side! Quick there, Pete! Get through! na—he sat down on the embank- inain body of the car. Half way along ped into one of the other cars with ? ry bey ON Peers ina ment, Thanks to the door of the desperate panic, he clinched and hung Matty could sco tho station lights, He'll be making for the bushes on the Nh) and opened one of the dinner he stopped and listened. ‘The noise the conductor, are Mable to return Seed een your’ operator's private sanctum being algo eee eon eg curened find NUN® and made out that tho flat-car he oc- river bank!" pails, Somewhere between Beaver of the train was not wholly an un- any minute. It will be necessary for Poston like thi ow dared you!" open, it was quite ght even in the cupied had stopped just abreast of the lower end of the platform. That was a little strange! His face began to Dam and wherever the 403 came to an mixed blessing; for, while tt deadened you to work quickly—b she cried furtously, “Lf only you had ; for, : on to ekly—-but as 1 have Ubvtle waiting room. It was hardly + ann, ey Plat, end of its career they would know, of any sound that he might inadver- never been in a real hold-up before L told the truth, UT would not have step to where the man ‘sat with 5 Aa i course, he had left the engine; but tently make himself, he, in his turn, am not quite sure of the pi 4! But you lied to me! Leave The racing footsteps on the plat- form ceased abruptly Around the room they circled, swa ing, staggering, locked tn each other's ! D1 a 0 behind him, Larry caught the gles y er pro- : 4 back turned, And then Larry moved arma The breath of the man, hot cioud again, He crawled hastily from the brakeman'a Fee eee ech While they prepared to gearoh that could hear nothing, He went on ceshure, Shall T begin with my rings? “it cur instandy forward, and gasping, was on Larry's check. gross tho car and looked out on the Logan to crawl, throueh.. Farmer Poron of the Mountaing for him. the again, reached the short right-angle I have no pura Lied to, your’ Larry stepped Out "Good evening, Peterson!" he eald fain and again Larry flung the other othet side, Nothing! Steps, evident- back by the flat-car which be bad feat Wain creeping up the grade, if at the end of the corridor, took aetep A flush crept over Larry's face as, se apn ive Tenia nicambis, GMT: 2 luck was with him at all, would carry forward to obtain a view of the car just deserted showed another light, a8 him out of the immediate danger heyond—and the next Instant reeled of some one scrambling over and go Zon hac’ ‘ dropping to the ground; then the one “°"® band, #2 6 Doreing tym same tate sald numbly. is true I forced you into a false position, but 1 had no other way and ly those of one from the caboose, ran by on the platform. Why hadn't they taken the siding if tho stop was for The chair-legs came down with @ crash to the floor; and, with a eter, tled yell, Peterson jumped to bis f ‘ained his blows on Mason's face and body; and again and again Mason closed and hung, wrapping arms and with @ gloam of moc) ing anger in her dark eyes, she pulled a diamond cir- clot from her finger and held tt out s-point and the other train 5 violent collision with him Tam sorry for. ad 1. His ey legs tenaciously around Larry in an % Tmeeting-point F coming up from the rear joined this, 4 5 to him, NBorryctha word taldaoW ¢ and swung aroun¢ eyes aw effort to. escapo the terrific puniah- W9e Not already there! a iat. and both started running in a mad CHAPTER VII. Came a low ery in a girle voice “| am afraid my appearance is tronic tury. "Sorry. aoa With your Larry's face, held with a kind of hor ment of Larry's smashing blows. © crawled back again to the plat- pace across the siding for the bank of On Trust. that mingled —ognaternation and against me!"-it peomed itrolevant, apecious aory to arouse my sym. ffed fascination on the revolver that form side, and lay suddenly tense, ipa cuyar, ainazement—and he was staring unnatural calm upon re stealing to his pockat . Tarry, his face hard, sprang in be- And now Mason was fighting like a ifger, and with the wnprincipled cun- ning of a beast. Suddenly from a dangled carelessly in Larry's band and his face went white. he gasped. “You out-of-place, that her opinion of him pathy! 1 know now, for they have in & personal way should have any just told me! You are a thief! In- sort of col RAG and rock and towering mutely into a pair of great brown him, his fin peak blended into indistinct, eyes that, the first shock of surprise y is tween two box-cars ind stood mo- | 1 t hearing upon the critical position in ktead of being an unfortunate vietim _ “Larry Lannigan! + clinch he loosed his hold and darted 824 closing around the stock of Bie il Te ine mun crawling through, | misty, changing shapes In Passing ewiftly away, gazed back at whici he found himeelf, but there of circumstances, Instead of Maving eH TT qt Ne, «2 hack bebind the desks. His own was TX°NOT is merad from the plat. two care behind, had heard him, 1 4 moonlight. From far down hin hardening, from out @ piquant, wag a sudden bitter burt in his voice hy accident killed @ man in fair wit, Slt down,” eald yarry coolly. closed, but from the other he snatched up’a heavy piece of railroad fron that had served Larry aa a pa- per-welght, and, gripping it as Larry ; ; 4 ere Just dropped in for @ little talk.” Then, 4 F the flatecar ahead no! The man’s ight shot up and down below, gurgli upward from the as he drew back you deliberately and in the most bru- a ey pe Puaticmeiann oe the track for a moment, and then h® canyon feat cone ee foverish chat. ,4, Strange allence held. Larry “Then | apologize!” ahe said aaroas- tl manner attacked the paymaster, i) Teanan tlh staee mhasing peak two men walking in his direction, and too. Was dashing across the siding to a 4+ neither moved nor #poke, It was a tleally. “You certainly look as though knocked him unconscious and robbed 1%. hie Ygice, rose, sharply, imper then a voica, full of gruff amazement, Join the others toring of the Beaver River—there was face whose charm, great as was Its you had been in the wars!" Her his safe of three thousand dolla atively, “Sit down sprang for him, swung a blow with ; no other sound ds that ‘ond beauty, waa not tn’ its beauty alone-- 4 - Her words, seathing, seethii 4th , The man dropped down hurried!y : » laughed shortly, {ronteally, un+ und, an a 8 beauty alone-- browa puckered as she balanced the r words, hing, seething wi all bis strength at Larry's face. Some Fo: Fake,’ Hill) teat ain't PRL Ui A dt unin again he. Seemed but to ‘emphasize the vast indefinable in any epecific ring tentatively in the palm of her Contempt, poured Hike a flery flood {nto his chair again. cary foes In his forward rush, caught Be sioient, is it? is tween two cara as, following the en- Silence of the night. Calm, peaceful » Was wistfulness, a hand, ‘Well, then, if you are not upon him. “And [sat there and shel- Pin, calmly appropriate je other tween the desks that were scarcely with another let, in whose immensity scamed sweetness there, and courage and after this sort of thing, what are tered you! Tf had no right do tt, one. n three feet apart, Larry had no room ,,Litry recognized the volce—it was gincer, the firan he diumber moasureless rower and might self-reliance; and the curve of the you dolng here? What deyou want?” {don't know why I did it, except that _ "My God, J diin't figure you were to dodge the biow, He dung up his Haley. ihe seaduclor of the srelgbt: torah ane @resneye aurea, and grandeur, lay the Rockies-im- lips, tight though they were now, "A far hardor thing thas diamonds 1 could not bring myself to betray within mil of here!” muttered Peter- arm to ward it off, but succeeded only PINE eo the dee frome the oa, He lavghed again mutable, majestic, were lutent with @ tender simile; and to got,” wuld Larry, 4 ttle wistfully, ove" sul at you, T have no right to #On. as though involuntarily: i in detlecting it. It missed his cheek spatcher,” Hill's voice answered, "I {t was against the rules for the men Long since Larry had finished his there could be a glad, care-free The eyebrows arched five you the chance that Iam giving ‘hey're utter no pretty close by @ hair's-breadth, grazed his neck, Cio.y Larry's spilled the beans for to leave their engine! repast and stowed such of the re- laughter in the eyes whon that cold, ‘1 want help,” said Larry. you now; but take {t--and go!" aren't oem Peterson he asked Fes Se Bere on? Gas shire ore keaps. ‘They say it must have hap- Aan instant Larry waited «mtil the mainder of the food aa he could carry uncompromising glint was gone! “Help?” She replaced the ring . White to the lips, Larry stared at bas yy bys dial. pacaraains. Cie bs jou a e lett * nened just before you pulled out of man was woll awa in his pockets. ‘as he mad? He, a hunted man, slowly upon her finger—then tho her; but he was not listening to her 5 Apevia | renee and then, for tt He got up from the track-side where desperate, runnin: M you're in ah tt y y ow, ' KR for his life, to brown eyes awept him critically from “ny more, He seemed to be living, ¥°" ‘The room swirled around before Aneel, and chat there's @ chance he Whe epeol again that counted now, he had been lying end stood listening stand there as though turned to head to foot, “Welly wo ont’ aha existing in unreality, Out of it ali “How close tim—but through neither pain nor pped yo a yway, © OF epurted to the forward end of the intently. It was the coast express at stone at the sight —teraely wes : of a woman's prompted—mt her voles somehow only one thing aastimed prominence | Peterson fidgeted. ‘The revolver lift weakness. Rod streaks were dancing SO Oe ete RT ~s train. In a flash ne had Sune bp last! face, glorious as that face might be! seemed softer now, and to have lost over another, and that in the mast ¢d an inch i ' before his eyes, and, in a fury that , Tlaley’s grunt was still coupling-lever on the pas enn the And now, as the right of way twist- Her eyes held his for other in- ita mockery. strange and incomprehensible way here's a sheriff's special out— lashed his soul to madness, he leaped MACAO eee ea the orders, all tender, and, stooping, nad ed for the e4 and turned following the winding stant; then, a sudden color tinging It was an instant before Larry the paymaster had been knocked un- the Dam now,” confided Peterson ~end drove a terrific emanh to the po tat Te tooks to me like a Couplings on the hose. river, the gleam of the headlight be- her checks, sho turned abruptly, and spoke. It waa hot a pleasant story consctous hastily, “Ti ning to pl | point of Mason's jaw. It rocked the TET t a ‘fool businese—-we're five min. .,Trere wae a hiss, a report in the gan to stream out every now and then without a word walked back into the at its best for a woman's oars “LE did nag kill bin, you say?" he extra No. 67, the fast freight, t 4 man's head far ‘back upon his shoul- vies late now—what? There ain't a Stillness of tihe night Ike a sunshot, across the canyon, wink and disappear, interior of the car as he leaned I killed a m Mwn there ut Angel Whispered. % "Ile was only uncon. but they'll have to wait at The Forks ders, lifted bin literally from his chance in a million that he’ ‘The #3 he uncoupled, It was answe red by and show again—until at last, down forward watch she coolly to-night’ he jerked his hand toward cious? He ts not dead?" to cross extra No, 32, the eastbound feot, and sent him hurtling backward Shanes tn & snapped off short; then, @ Sudden wild yell from the bushes, the straight of the grade, tt came reached out her hand for the nearest the rear of the train, sped gin a Wh a splendid actor!"-her freight, that's holding now at Eli j against the open door of tho sate. Win "ov yore: Rvhat the blazes 1a @nd, torches dancing in the air, lan- blazing suddenly into sight. and held) push-button. low, hoarse tone. “They aro after vked in its e Arm for the coast express. After 4 ‘There was a ce, the thud of @ ng with you?” terns bobbing, branches crashing, the steadily, like a glowing ball of tire ‘The act brought Larry with a men. me—hard, It wasn't murder, it was know what you mean!” he that, they'll come here, drop the spe tailing body. and Mason lay. enrawied pl men, tn full ory at the found no rall~ Rrowing largerend larger. tal Jerk inte action, ‘Therm wax no a fain fleht, aud lis death 7 he desperately for control ell, and the fast freight'll keep on an inert thi . AVA road man ever mistook, came dashing rry stepped back behind a boul one elae in sight in the co ™ cident; but if they ever get ' West with the special's engine LANs clamped. ‘hia thats ‘clenched, mathe single word burst in a hoarse, back tor the engine-end of ‘he train, der and waited. ‘The last car eine and he st He REL CIPRCUTIGD Eon guna @ ohante cL cane aboard 4 kely to get “LE see!" said Larry; then, shortly ] arry was standing over the other in 4CtOa Basp trom TN utc, with A epring, and Larry was out from abreast of him—and with tt @ sharp in its quiet, reserved control, eur, '@ hide somewhere hera in the f deserve, “You know what happened down at Ap dnstant,) un h hie Olt a instance warning, “The'meam Detween the tender and the car; an exclamation of surprise NS prised himself intl) P got furth tho line -and tnother minute or Ange Get up.” he snaried through hie Coa ine ‘conductara lamp, playing tier and he waa through the mang lips, Tt was a private car! He knew "+ Pleaxy don't do that,” he sald give them, the slip That's a erorted. "My father and “L guess there isn't any tha 1 set teeth, ae wp, you curl Vm not inadvertently along the side of the Way and into the cab. With a arash now why the express had stopped @! She did not withdraw her hand, but © broke the silence abruptly still M nly stepped out to don't: by this time,” Peterson an PRES with you yet! i car, had seeped in under the girder, he swept the reversing lever into the ‘The Forks—to couple on the Russia. neither did she push the button twosting at her ring wey > swoered Ho glared at the man on the floor, iid parry, with a twisted smile, saw forWard notch of the segment, and, official's car that he had passed there And why should [ not? she in Then you must bea Larry Lane ned ominously Vell me about then >mmand but Ma an made Bo nov 4 , inst it-likht up his boots! - snatching at the throttle, wrenched it on the siding quired coldiy fon, the assistant paymaster, "oth Take the chance « { J Mason'e he ud hac ora 6 are nat Rae TOOLS) open. Larry dropped flat on the ground ~ it was the living room compartment hil & fight up that camp ne wiving 1 before f change im: » stared the sharp stenl edge of the safe door, CHAPTER VI Tike some thoroughbred atung to &@ the rear trucks of the car came of the car, aa it were, Laren coon Beaver Dam this morning Won't) to 1 T-1 hate mys habout 4 exclaimed laying bare the skull in a great, ugly y E . madness hy a deap-aunk spur, the Opposite to him—and then bis eves awapt around ft with e questioning | larry nodded mechinieally: | 4 for not exposing you. TP hate you be \ to know } un i reat mogul seemed to rear from the Were straining eagerly, feverishly 8! slance, and rested with quick «gis NO! strange that she should ky ' - ing, Nov Nt to know wha 1 know What sens of horrible familiarity Quick Thinking. frack Ina sudden, forward plunge, the spacious, brass-trimmed —# Be ee eT ee Anat even uae aly peer tina é Maw in aluee tares | ms | was this that was in the scene! The HERP was an oath from Quicker eame the exhaust of the dome-lighted observation platform of a stateroom at the upper end of You," he Peet hte en He BO ase ‘ \ Boater f 1 ‘| Wempiigat in is a m8, the open doo Haley, a yell from Hill—and engine, faster the speed. There was with ite easy chairs, It ras wnoes " 4 compartment but the moment's 1 And now that a know ut : ' rai rs We xided Lae \ ly ate ape tae Re ade we | ight ow 4 + a lurch of the cab aa the mogul Pled! He was conscious that he wan ¢ istied him was emp! ® you going to do? I i 7 f ji \ vit | tionless f on the floor! It was all ae ie! Blas ara pe pane Awung tha curve of the river ap- Wetting dry lips with the tip of hiv ae atien Taaeetc. Uke wheder died on hik lipe Tue | “gti gad t I : ' 1 cracked thera, cevall by detail, exactly as tt ry's body, and full Into proach, and, fast now, the exhaust tongue, @xperiencing a fort of ner ay forward door of the car was Bla ter f 1 at Aways came in those vivid, hideous Larry's face, But it hel@ geepening into a full-toned roar, the Yous relaxation from suspense 4 19 spoke inelsively, her Velently and there came the sound of 4 , ] Sheers with Mason lying dead @t there only for the fraction o @ ae@ engine thundered across the trestle sirain, as be Jumped to his feet, raced eves searehing him tn a sort of judi. Men's volees- dt was her father and be i Gi ! P f ; ie There was a flash of lights Nke forward and, grasping the brass ga al, fearless appra isu! « L superiniendent of t A a is tt ( ‘ . His heart seemed to stop tts heat, 0nd. Like lghtateg, tron-nerved, B® Qotiii ting diamonds from a car on hauled himself over and aboard Ditet inet hae eace eiakdll division coming back s fee OD ® ' me A low cry of horror was on his lips jumped into action, It was life an@ fhe siding as he flew by--and The Fle drew in his breath, half in re sp let ner * tated ter 1, picking uf > i and then. frantically, he was bending death in the next few minutes! He jes was tehind hiv Met, half with a quick, new anxiely nor ma nt you r face had gone m little w be rain the 4 A ! over Mason, tearing open the man's whipped his revolver trom his pocket, ‘On “tha siding he had a glimpse of He had been fortunate for the i, ns her hands, reach MOG) Tasnaie palais A , ry pa the shirt and vest, feeling for the other's and even as Haley spoke, ordering the single car’ all Lrhied up And ment, that was all. A book lay ope) imply as PANO BAO OC a DiOKsE y her , er heart be! There was no sign of life, him with a nervous growl out of ty ‘ . p At on th ‘i aha ver : MTER ‘ then he remembered-—and disminsed it On the xeat of one of the chaira, That x nome t ered f CHAPTER IN A step sounded in the corridor with- there, he fired at the lantern, There from his mind. ff was th | ar platfo d bee cated thet r Yi . ‘ , e 1 i was the private car platform had been vacated then pe uve 4 ohicat Pepi ¢ ara ri Poke ? ed out, came closer--and stopped before was a crash, the splinter of glass— to the Russian raliroad om. hans only a few minutes before, and Be cuaen ye : The ven” at Manioope, the door. ‘The handle was tried knoss—and Larry was across the maa it yea. evidently only tempora tte saint mera , F \ hot The door was tried again. Jaw flung car, linder the girder, out on the op- J anavschie vince ivf A den ' N ip a little forward, Larry's face set like posite etde, and, dropping to the 1 ee TOMARSEEN. - : t Fi 4 4 iron. ground, was speeding up the track, Bens Paral dp leey i ‘ Started ‘All was stil! again—the footsteps had A bellow from Haley was echoed Rut Parry wa ' S uPhee a he watietied hinacl wa Sat away Larry ewepr the moisture from both the rear and forwant ends tention now to the cnet! tcould ne. the compartment. beyon ‘ ne \ f ae i his forehead with the palm of of the train, but the train crew wore gotiare the grade in ita own fashion! « On smokin aad lene : Fala ' MisvMLAdT HUE Gil’ VASE OOWR “Aree Glin ee LEA mF on, ine hand. He must go now. There all on the platform aide of the etation le fted the seat of the driver's boa, room, war vacant, opened the dou! iibenatel) wo abair, Ding agai at high wpeed. Tle voces (ve tack, hidden by the darkuess, be (1) Be Coutinued) } \