The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1916, Page 15

The Evenin THE REAL MAN By FRANCIS LYNDE The story of an Eastern man who did not “find himself” until he became a fugitive from justice in the rugged West, ee Camere ie ene Reremers tenes Bthore® a the Binal section of the Though the high water our of creat wal your guards owt, ae oe Th Beith bog “Twenty of Ue be Bnd. They ere patrolling ides of thé river, with instructions a fepert if they ove pe much os 8 jump up” Between the nvon- hour =o ecloek Hopbra House U David Kinge lett hie the bank and crossed the street to the Inquiry at the eounter 6 boy enme >» WIth word that Miss ie Michlander was waiting In the mea- sanine parlors, banker ed him, “era die. agreeable duty, you know, 1 wanted to ask about tiie young man, Bmith. We don't know him very weil bere in ‘owater, and us he has considerable ness dealings with the bank, wo— ip. Th at © lon CHAPTER XVII. MITH made an early break- fast on the morning foljow~ ing the euto drive to the } ib your” ; he—er-—he says Smith & fugitive trom tice; and we thought"——— Davia Kinzie, well hardened fn all the processes of dealing with was mak diMcult weather of It with thie all-too-beautitul young woman, Miss Hiehlan ‘s laugh wae well restrained. Bhe seemed to be stru: abandoned mine, hoping thereby to avoid meeting oth Miss Richiander and Jibbey. ‘The Hophra cafo was practically empty when he went in and took bis accustomed place at one of tho al- ove tables, but he had barely given fie order when Starbuck appeared and canfe to join him. “You're looking a whole heap bet- ter this morning, Joho,” said the mine ‘ewner quiszically, us he held up a finger for the waiter, “liow's the grouch?” Smith's answering grin had some- thing of its former good nature tn It. “To-day’s the day, Billy,” he said, ‘To-morrow at midnight we must have the water running in the ditches funny!” she commented, “You know, of course, Mr. Kinzie, that this Mr, Smith and | are old friends; you've robably seen us together enough to pe sure of that. Hasn't It gocurred to you that however I might know the Mr, Smith my father has written you avout, L should hardly care to be rt n public with him?" Then there are two of them?” Kinzie demanded. The young woman was laughing again, “Would that be so very won- derful?—with so many Smiths in the world?” “But—er—the middle name, Mi or lose our franchi: What do you hase AE acrat, infern—so Near sj very © bipesrPowhinrs gh “it is rather remarkable, ten't it? “All quiet during the night; but the ther reports ure scaring him up @ good bit this morning. "Storms on the range bit 4 The river gained fouf foet last night, and there is flood water and drift coming down to beat tthe band, Just the same, Barley says he is going to make good.” Smith nodded, “If Stanton can block as before to- morrow night; hang us in some way and make us lose our rights under the charter; re gone—snuffed out like a candle. Listen, Billy, and I'll tell you something that to tell anybody, not mn win. The minute we fail, and lon, before we could hope to reorganize second time and apply for a new charter, Stanton’s company will be in the Bald, with ite charter already ran! h ‘rom that to ing posses- Sion @f our dam, either by means of mean—the kind of man who wears an enabling act of the Legislature, or 4788 clothes even when he dines by purchase from the paper railroad, #!0ne, and who wouldn't let bis board will be only a step. For a week Brow overnight for a King’s ransom Dut wait a moment. There is a young But there are a good many Mon’ in our part of the world, too. The man my father wrote you about al- ways signed himself ‘J. Montague, if he were @ little ashamed of the ‘John, “Then this Brewster Smith isn't the one who is wanted in Lawrencevil or embezzlement and attempted mu: ler?” “Excuse me,” said the beauty, with another very palpable attempt to} smother her amusement. “If you! could only know this other Smith; the| one my father wrote you about, and the one be thinks you were asking! about; they are not the least bit alike. J, Montague, as I remember him, was a typical society man; a danging man Who was the pet of thi younger girlea—and of their mothers, for that matter; you know what I Stanton has been busy on the paper- railroad claim, and that is ade gentleman here who came last eve- me buy a few cases of Winchesters ning direct from Lawrenceville, Let me send for him.” Sho rose and prassed the bell-push, and when the floor boy came he was sent to the lobby to page Jibbey. and send them out to Williams. 1 was afraid Stanton might try force, He won't do that if he can help it; he'll go in with some legal show, if possible, because our force at the During the little wait, D: dam far outnumbers any gang he ©: kilfully made to talk about other could hire and he knows we are things. Jibbey was easily found, as armed.” it appeared, and he came at once, Biarbuck was nodding slowly. “I Miss Richlander did the honors What you meui now,” he said. 160 graciously. “You're looking to see a United — “Mr, Kinale, this is Mr, Tucker Jib. States Marshal walk up to Bartley bey, the son of one of our Lawrenco- Williams so! time to-day and tell ville bankers, Tucker--Mr, Kinzie, the him to quit. That would put the final President of the Browater City Na- ‘etbosh on us, wouldn't it? tional." Then, before Kinzie couid A little under clerk had come in begin: “Tucker, I've sent for you in from hotel of and was trying geif-defense. You know both Mr, John to give Starbuck # note in @ square gmith, at present of Brewster, and = , a4 PRETO wea eayine! alao J. Montague Smith, some time of ith took the note ‘ope! Lawrenceville and now of good: he scarcely heard the clerk's ox tion that It had been put in hi before, and that the only knows where. Mr. Kina! ia ing to make out that they are one and the sat Jibbey the eveni: laughed broadly. He atood “ ole without aenine dcr re in no awe of banks, bankers or stub- rom Verda Richlander, and it had ly mustaches. neither superscription nor signature, “I'll tell John, when IT see him again—and take a chance on able to run faster than he can, chuckled, “Then you know both men?" ‘This is what Smith read; “Mr. Kinzie has located my father, being he oald me. Kingle, glancing at his watch and “That was my knockout, Billy," he rising. said with @ quietness that was almost “Like a book. They're no more overdone. suddenly alike than black and white, Our man been shortened to hours—perhaps to here is from Cincinnati; {sn't that quickly a8 You where you met him, Verda? Yea, can and go to Judge Warner's house. L have an appointment with him at 9 o'clock. Tell him I'll keep it, if L can, but that he necdn't wait for me it f em not there on the minute,” William Starbuck's new car was standing In front of Judge Warner's jouse in the southern suburb when 4 Smith descended from the closed cab Where, but they didn’t say where, Ho which he had taken at the Hophra Was the first man I met when I iit House aide entrance, ‘The clock in @oWn here, Damn’ Uttle world, fen't the court-house tower was striking !t Mr. Kinzle? the quarter of 9 While he halted An hour further along tn the after- I'm sure it is—that night at the Carg sons's, if you remember, 1 believe I was the one who introduced him, And I recollect you didn't like him at first, because he wore a beard. They told me, the last time I was over in Cincl, that he'd gone West some- on the terrvce Starbuck came out of Noon, Starbuck's car, pausing mo- the house. mentarily at the construction camp to “The Judge is at br ®ve its occupants a chance to wit. mine owner announced, ‘ow ness the rapid fulfilment cf Wille go in and wait, What do you want fams's prediction tn the swiftly pour- ‘ne to do next?" ing streams of conorete, advertised Smith glanced at the automobile, its presence to the engineer, who “When I get through with the Judge eame up for a word with Smith while 1 shall want to go out to the dam Starbuck had Ms head ender the Will you walt and take mo?" hood of the motor, “Surest thing on earth,” with prompt acquiescence, And then: “Is tt aa bad as you thought ', was going to “Somebody's been trying to get you over the wire, John; some woman,” he sald, in tones as low as the thun- be, John" dering of the rock-crushers would “It's about as bad as tt can be," sanction, “She wouldn't give me her was the sober reply, and with that number, but she wanted me to tell Smith went in to wait for his intere view witn the Timsayor!'s best-be- loved jurist. ., Driven by Starbuck, Smith reached the dam at half past ten and was in But even as Smith was recetving time to seo the swarming carpenters this belated moasage from the engi- begin the placing of the forms for the n: ita assurance of safety wi you, {f you came back here, that It was all right; that you had nothing to be afralt of She sald you'd mn. derstand,” _ a : ue World ing rendered false, for Stanton, |, ing Banker Kinzie'y investigations, was hastily scribbling a telegram while @ messenger boy waited. It was addressed to Sheriff Macauley, at Lawrenceville, and the wording of It showed how completely Stanton was \gnoring Banker Kinzie's investiga- tions Your man Montague Smith 4s here, known as John Smith, secretary and treasurer Timanyon! High Line Com- ny, Wire authority quick to Chief ‘olce Brewster for his arrest and send deputy with requisition, Rush or you lose him, CRAWFORD STANTON, He let the boy go with this, but immediately set to work on another which was addressed to the great man whose private car, returning from the Pacific Coast, was due to reach Denver by the evening Unton Pacific train. ‘This second m he translated laboriously into working it out word by word from a worn code book taken from the safe, lated, and which, after the cipher ade, he carefully destroyed, tacle tg removed. MoGraw and his men will take possession to- night and hold until we can make the turn. BTAN' CHAPTER XVIII. ONVINCED by Vera Rich- lander’s telephone message to the construction camp that he stood in no imme- the heel of the afternoon in the High Line offices, keeping tn wire touch with Stillings, whom he had sent on a secret mission to Red Butte, and with Williams at the dam. and went across to the hotel to dress for dinner, The day of suspense was ractically at an end and disaster atill Reid aloof, was fairly outdistanced in the race, asit seemed, Wiliiama’s final conerete pouring was completed, and the long strain was off, Smith went to his rooms, and, as once before and for a similar reason, he laid his dre: clothes out on the bed. He made sure Verda Richlander, and he wi ping his coat when he heard a tap at the door and J y came tn, “Glad rags, eh?" said the blase ono, with a glance at the array on the bed. needn't. Verda's dining with the Stantons, and she wants me to keep you out of sight until afterward, By and by, when she's foot-ioose, she wants to see you In t two can go for @ bitef You taow the town and I don't.” Smith put his coat on and together they circled the square to Frascati's, taking a table in the main cafe, At himself and returned to the hotel. He had scarcely chosen his lounging chair in a quiet corner of the mez- ganine before Miss Richlander come to join him. But the copy from which he tran TON. C diate danger, Smith spent mith closed his desk at 6 o'clock report had been to the effect that the that he would be require: “Tye just run up to tell you that you Isn't there some quiet little the end of the meal Smith excused “It has been a long day, hasn't it?” Daity or- ehe began evenly, “You have been busy » considered now, Though Mr, Kin: Magazine, rriasy WHY NOT Take THE FLAT on THE SECOND FLooR? <i Ss CH EAR G WE HAVE CLIMBED 10000 FEET By Maurice Ketten ern ne en September 6, 1916 aienaanmenenanenneaananans’ , NEXT WEEK'S c 4 “Craig Kennedy’ which will ditad the ¢ i detective.” us seentific t tory * ad by the courte, of inant. (hat tm gota, ay Therefore t blow for lOriends, an an do get Starbuck's ¢ far ae vinke one the colonel and mig ' tm going to do it * the puliwe long enow iting chair righted tt a er niga id “Count me tn.” wet it” nd the Colonel and Williams; the Marshal i# holding them out at the dam?” Thehuh; locked up shack, Ginty saya,” “Good. T ahan't need the Colonel, but I ehall need Willams, Now, ans other question: you know Sheriff Harding fairly well, don't you? What sort of a man ts het “Square aa A die, and as nervy ae they make ‘em. When he gets a war- in in the offee rant to serve, he'll bring In bis man, dead or alive.” “Thave fi TM aak of him. Now go an ind mae an aut nd then No, THERE IS No can fade away and ge ly to prove a good, stout alibi.” ELEVATOR IN THIS “You-—like fits [ will!” retorted the BUILOING AND | CAN'T CLINE A FLIGHT OF “ee mine owner, “I told you once, John, that I was in this thing to a finish, and I meant it. Go on giving your orders.” “Very well) yoy've had your warn. ing. Tho next thing ts the auto, I want to catch Judge Warner before he goes to bed. I'll telephone while you're getting a car.” Starbuck had no further to go than he ‘here hi came out of tho shadow of the en- trance to mount beside him. “Drive around to the garage again and let me try another phone,” was the low-spoken request, “My wire fon't working.” ‘The short run was quickly made, and Smith went to tne garage office, A moment later a 200-pound police- man atrolled up to put a huge foot on the running-board of the waiting auto. arbuck greeted him as @ friend, “Hello, Mac! Tow's tricks with dis band to me—knowing that I would be sure to tell you—-inakes me afraid that tbe trap has already been et for you.” er words, you think he has gone over Kini d and bas tele- graphed to Lawrenceville?” Montague, I'm almost certain of with ey dam, I suppose, but I—I have had nothing to do but to think, and that is something that I don't often allow myself to do. You have wone far since that night last May.” “In way, ' suppose I have,” be admitted, “You have, Indeed. ore You are @ to- it! Smith stood up and put his hands behind bin, “Which means that I have only a few hours, at thy longest,” he sald quietly. And then: ‘There is a good bit to be done, turning over the busi- nes of the office, and all that; I've been putting it off from day to day, saying that there would be time If one in transmigration, ong would say that you had changed souls with some old, hard-hitting, rough- riding ancestor. “You are thinking that it Is change of environment, wider horizons, and all that, which has changed you, enough to set my house in order after Montague; but I know better, It is the (raj bad been sprung. Now [ & woman, and, as you may remem- am like the man who has put off the ber, I have met her--twice.” Then, making of his will until it ts too late. Will you let mo thank you very artily and vanish?" What shall you do?" she asked, “Set my house in order, aa 1 eay— as well as | can in the time that re. mains, There are others to be con- sidered, you know.” Fifteen minutes office In the Kti ith a faint glow of spiteful fire in magnificent eyes: “How can you |i make yourself believe that she is pretty?” He shrugged one shoulder in token of the utter uselessness of discussion in that direction. “Sentiment?” queried, “I think ‘we needn't go into that, at this late day, Verda. It {6 field that neither of us entered, or cared to enter, in the di that are gone, If I say that Corona Baldwin has—quite uncon- sclously on her part, I must ask you to believe—taught me what love means, that ought to be enough.” Again she was laughing softly. “You seem to have broadly forgot- ten the old proverb about a woman scorned, What have you to expect from me after making such an ad- mission as that?” Smith pulled himself together and stood the er he was in his Bullding, trying in vain to get Col: Baldwin on the distance wire. He was jiggling the switch of the desk phone for the twentieth time in the effort to secure the desired line of communication with Baldwin whea @ nervous step echoed In the corridor and the door opened to admit William Starbuck. ‘There was red wrath in the mino owner's ordinarily cold eyes when he flung himself into @ chair and ed the nausea of hia soul tn an outburst of picturesque profanity. “The jig's up-—definitely up, Joh he was saying, when his speech ame lucid enough to be understood, We know now. what Stanton's string’ was, A half hour United States marshal, with @ posse big enough to capture a town, took possession of the dam and stopped the work. He says It's @ court order from Judge Lorching at Red Hutte, based on the claims of that infern: paper railroad!” t us put all these indirections ide and be for the moment merely a man and a woman, as God made us, Verda,” he said, soberly. “You know, and I know, that there was never any question of love involved in our relations past and gone, We might have married, but In that case neither of us would have gotten or appre exacted anything more than the con- CHAPTER XIX, ventional decencies and amenities. HEN the full meaning of We mustn't try to make believe at this late day. You had no illusions about me when | was Watrous Dun ham's hired man; you haven't any lusions about me now.” “Perhaps not,” was the calin re- Stanton's coup had thus set Itself forth in terms unmis- takable ®mith put his el- bows on the desk and W Joinder, “And yet to-day I have lind propped his head tn his hands, It was to save you from those who are trying not the attitude of dejection; tt was to crush you. Mr. Kingle believes or 2e- ( 0 . now that fou are another Amnith-onot marner ® trance like rigor of concen the one who ran away from Law- tration, with each and all of the renceville last May, But never mind newly emergent powers once more tha there are other matters to be springing alive to answer the battle~ . © call, has been put off the track, Mr, Stan- “Does ton hasn't, I have earned Mr. Stan- ton's {Il-will because I wouldu't tell Col. Baldwin know? ha Wim about you, and this evening, at “Sure! That's the worat of it, table, he took {t out on me,” Didn't I tell you? He drove out to “In what way?" the dam, reaching the works juat "Ilo gave me to understand, very ahead of the trouble, When M'Graw plainly, that he had done something; that there waa a@ sensation in pros- pect for all Brewster, He was so ex- ultantly triumphant that it fairly of @ fake, (Ginty, the frightened me, ‘The fact that he quarry brought the news to wasn't afraid to show some part of town. He says there was @ bloody and the posse outfit showed up Colonel got it into his head that the whole thing was merely another trick for a hundred thousand dollars of * fo a deputy yy you to-night?” “TH trick mix-up, and at the end of it the Col- onel and Williams were both under arrest for resisting the officers.” Smith nodded thoughtfully, “Of course; that was just what was need- ed. With the President and tho chief of construction locked up, and the wheels blocked for the next twenty~ four hours, our charter will be gone, “Rut we're not dead yet Billy, it's running in my mind that we've got to go out there and clean up Mr. McGraw and his crowd.” Starbuck threw up bis hands and mado a noise ike a dry wagon-wheel. “Holy smoke!—go up against the whole United States?” he gasped, Smith's grin showed his strong, even teeth. “Starbuck, the time has come when T may as well fill out the blanks In my story for you. The night T left my home city in the Middle West I 1 called down to the bank of which I was the cashier and was shown how I was going to be dropped into a hole "a y “"Tis a man named Smit for, Misther Starbuck— Irishman, I'm_ lookin’ boss av th’ big ditch comp'ny. Have yo seen ‘um?" Starbuck, looking over the police- men's shoulder, could see Amith at the telephone In the garage office, Another man might have lost his head, but the ex-cow puncher was of handily In an emergency. “He hangs out at the Hophra and I'll drive you around. Three minutes later the threaten. ing danger was a danger pushed @ little way Into the future, and Star- buck was back at the garage curb waiting for Smith to come out. Through the window he saw Smith replacing the recetver on its hook, and a moment afterward he was opening the car door for his passen- er, Starbuck set the car in motion and sent It apinning out of the aide atreet, around the plaga, and beyond to the leas brilllantly {lluminated residence dlstrict—which was not the shortest way to the court-hou “You mustn't pull log, John,” hoe proteated, breakin: purring silence after the quarter had been left behind; too good a man for tha “I shall tell him the exact truth, ao Unluckily, I held a few shares of far as we know It," was the quick atock in my friend's company; and 'ePly. “There ts one chance in a there you have it. Unless the presi- thousand that we shall come out of dent would admit that he had auth- this with the law—as well aa the orized the loan, I was in for an of. @aliltles—on our aide. I shall tell the fense that could be easily twisted into Judae that no papers have been eeiwlamentee served on Us, and, wo far as T know, 16 presideng stacked the cardson they haven't. What are you driving the bank's money; a loan which I had made as cashier in the absence of the president, but which had been authorized, verbally, by the preaident ge Warner's the others, Go on.” “It was a frame-up, all around. The loan had been made to a friend of mine for the express purpose of smashing him—that was the presi- dent's object in letting {t go through. all the way around here for?" “This ts one of the times when the way ou "Ho did. It waa 9 o'clock at night and we were alone together in the bank, He wanted me to shoulder the blame and run away; offered money to go with. One word brought on another; and finally, when I dared him to press the pollce-alarm button, he pulled a gun on me. I hit him, longest round t# the shortest way hon tarbuck explained, “The bad news you were looking for ‘hag came” While you were ‘phoning tn the carne I put one veliceman w to nothing,” king for me?” Billy, and he dropped like and by name, We'll fool around here in the back streets !—deaa?” until the Judge has had time to show “IT thought he was, His heart had up. Then I'll drop you at the court stopped, and [I couldn't get him up. house and go hustle the sheriff for Picture it, {f you can—but you can't, you, You'll want Harding, [ take it?" I had never struck a man in anger = “Yes. I'm taking the chance that before tn all my life, My first thought only the city was to go straight to the police ata- netified In my. p affair—not tion and make a clean breast of tt, the county offic a long Then 1 saw how impossible It was chance, of course; | may be running going to be to dodge the penitentiary, my neck squarely into the noome, But authorities have been and I bolted; jumped 4 freight train it’s all risk, Billy) every m ip thin and hoboed my way out of town, night's kame Head up for the court “Stanton has got hold of the end of house. The judge will bo there by the thread and, while I don't know it this time.” tically certain ho F If the Brewster » are nét looking for mo et this definitely, tt 19 pri has sent a wire, Two minutes beyond this the car was drawing up to the curb on the mega-facing side of the court house m t, they will be shortly, That squtre. Yoere were two lighied wip brings us back to this High Line dows in the second story cf the knock-out, As the matter stands, I'm otherwise darkened building, an¢ the one man in our outfit who has Smith sprang to the sidewalk. Seaclniely nothing to lose, I am an “Go now and find Harding, and officer of the company, and no logat have him bring one trusty deputy has been served upon ma, Can with him: V'll be ready by the time you wet back,” he directed; but Star- buck waited until he had seen Smith eafely lost in the shadows of the THREE OF THE FAMOUS FOR EVENING WORLD READERS *, THE SCIENTIFIC GUNMAN Iy ANTIUR story the first of a seri In thia he pits himeelf againe a ruader eruminal whose methods are BEGINS IN NENT MONDAYS EVENING WORLD ON te ne nee me, he mine owner i an’ I'm tryin’ N id thi J..Mon-tay-gue Smith! th’ fi-nanshal Sa: the chosen few whore wits sharpen 6! ONTLETH NOVE i REEVE of Unee. “ecient fle of lots the as his own Pilared cour! Rowse en tianee he drove away jall aod bad gone bome bie ranch on th CHAPTER XX. iN N Sherit Marding had S left bis office In (he county ot the eariier, not a! consumed » | * information onty,* waa the brusque reply, “You have @ stake ta the country and name to maintain, | have o Hut you ean tell me a few things Are our ‘h# portal. bomen puy, workinen stil on the ground?” . Wording,” he ae “Ye inty eal ore were only “Judeo Warner haa gone home a tow stragglers who come to tows nee Gate me his momengey, lth him. Most of the two shifts ae See ae staying on to get their payor until they find out that they aren't golng vesd ute pended upon in & 9 them the road in two ‘The sheriff, @ big, bearded man who might have sat for the model of one of rie Hemington's trontie “Toit @ eorep’ likely to be, There are war- rants to be served, and there will moat Probably be resistance, Your posse should be well armed.” “We'll try for It," was the decision. “On the north-alde river yeu pay? You'll want us mounted “It will be better to take horses, We could get autos, but Judge Warner aarees with me that the Sag | had better be done quietly and without making too much of @ atir io “All right.” said the mao of law. “Te that all? “No, not quite all. The first of the warrants is to be served here in Brew~ ster—upon Mr. Crawford Stanton. Your deputy will probably find him at the Hophra House. ere ie the paper: it is @ bench warrant of com- mitment on a c! raay, and Stanton is to be locked up. Also you to see to it that your jail telephorie ts out of order, so that Stan ton won't be able to make any at- tempt to get @ hearing and ball be- fore te-morrow.” wn.” “That part of it is mighty risky,” eald Harding. “Does the judge know about that, too?” ¢ does; and for the ends of pure Justice, he concurs with me—though of course he couldn't give # manda- baa? Ap nol je sheriff turned to his jail dep- uty, who had descended from the rumble seat in the rear. ‘ou've the dope, Jimmie,” he said shortly. “Go and get His fobs and lock him up. And if he wants to be yelling ‘Help!’ and send- for his lawyer or somebody, why, telecmon ‘3 takin’ a lay: vvy The deputy nodded and turned upon his heel, stuffing the warrant for Btanton's arrest into his pocket ae he went. Smith swung up beside Starbuck, saying: “In a couple of hours, then, Harding; somewhere near the bridge approach on the other of the river,’ Starbuck had started the motor and was bending forward to adjust te oll feed when the sheriff left ms ‘ou seem to have made a ten- atrike with Judge Warner,” the ex cowpuncher remarked, replacing the flash-lamp in its seat pocket, “Judge Warner |s a man in every inch of him; but there ts some! behind thia night's work that I d@n’ quite understand,” was the quick ¥e- ply. “I had hardly begun to state the when the jud, ‘I know,’ he sald, ing for you ple to come and for relief.’ at do you make that, Billy?” “I don't know; unless som Stanton’s outfit has welched. mint have done it. He has been to Bob Stillings, and Btillings says he ne at Stanton for some aa, oe an some vague promise of in the High Line business if the railroad people would agree not to prosecute,” “There is a screw loose somewhere; I know hy the way Judge Warner took hold. When I proposed to swear out the warrant for Stanton’ he said, ‘I can't Smith, why you haven't done tl before,’ and he sat down and filled out the blank. But we can let that go for the p: nt. How are you go ing to met me across the river with- out taking me through the heart of the town and giving the Brewster Police a shy at me?" Starbuck's answer was wordless, With @ quick twist of the pilot wheel he sent the car skiddirg around the corner, using undue haste, as it neomed, since they had two hours before them, A few minutes farther along the lights of the town had bean left behind and the car was speeding swiftly westward on a country road paralleling the railway track; the road over which Smith had twine driven with the kidnapped Jibbey, “Tm still guessing,” the passen, ventured, when the last of the rail. road distance signals had fashed to the rear And then: “What's the frantic hurry, Billy? Starbuck was running with the muffler cut out, but now he cut it in and the roar of the motor sank to @ humming murmur, “T thought so,” he remarked, turn> ing his head to listen, “You didn’t notice that police whistle just as we were leaving the court house, did you?—nor the answers to it while we were dodging through the suburb Somebody has marked uy down and passed the word, and now they’ e ne ue with @ wagon Don'y you hear it?” (To Be Com !inued) Next Monday’s Evenl Begin Reading the First Story in ng World —_—