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v *V', " ' ? ? { I The Trey 1'. A Novelized Version of the Motion Produced by the nt , In r LUUU JU AutW mfTU F*rtmm Hun*r.~~T Dhitrttad with Photagrafhi ! OoDjrlaht, tfli. by CHAPTER XXXI. Via Air Line. Not once In the course of the next sixteen hours but. a thousand times Alan questioned (aud, it will readily be allowed, with all excuses) his sanity In permitting himself to be influenced to humor Judith's insistence and make her a party to this wild aerial cross-country dash. Between whiles the plane flew fast and high, cutting a direct line, as tho rrnur fltoa o V? ?.* * ov.ir.UK, iiiu v.isiern and western states. Chicago they raised as a smudge on the northern horizon about one o'clock In the afternoon; thereafter eome little time waB lost In descents to ascertain the Identity of the many railroad lines that criss-crossed the swimming landscape. Only at the third cast did they sucoeed in picking up the line of tw Santa Pe. And it was some hours later, though still daylight, when they ffecked up the special train, flying like a hen ting across the levels. There was scant room for doubt that it was the train they sought. Speeta Is are not common. Moreover Alan eontrived with considerable difficulty ho focus binoculars upon the rear platform of the car, and caught a fugitive gTimpse of a white-coated figure with a black face that was watching the biplane In the same manner, that Is, with glasses. The man in the white coat, Alan assured himself, was positively Barcue. And hardly had lie comforted himself with this assurance when his sardonic destiny struck the motor dumb. In response to his look of dashed inquiry the aviator merely shook a weary head and muttered the words: "Engine trouble." Swiftly the earth rose to receive the volplaning mechanism. Under Coast's admirable handling it settled down alj 111 : Escape of Alan and Judith. imoat without a Jar, on the outskirts of a city whose name Alan never learned. For the biplane was barely at a standstill before he was out and, reel lag with the giddiness that affects men after long flights, making bis way as beat ho might toward the manager's office connected with a trainyard immediately adjacent to the spot where they had come to earth. Lavish disbursements of money won him his way against official protests that what he demanded was an impossibility. Within twenty minutes, leaving Coast to follow on when and as best he might, Alan and Judith were spinning through open country in the cab of an engine running light, with only clear truck between it and the special. The several hours that ensued be- j fore the rear lights of the special were brought to view were none too many for the task Imposed upon Alan of overcoming the scruples of the cn gineer and fireman. Another minute, and less than fifty teet separated the two?the special train and the light engine, both hut* tling through the light at top speed. With a word to the engineer Alan crept out along the side of the boiler, with only a gveaay handrail and a narrow foothold between himself and what meant death, or oima. I ly resembling it, should be be shaken off by the tearing wind and the sway* tag ot the locomotive. It seemed an hour before he worked himself up to the cowcatcher?now within four feet of the rear platform ef the special. On this last he could see a woman's Igure Indistinctly silhouetted against the light thiough the door, and beside her a man in a white coat, clinging for dear life to the knob of the door? holding it against the frantic efforts of some persons inside to tear it open. Another hour of suspense dragged out?or such was tho effect?while the Vight engine with intolerable slowness bridged those four scant feet. At length it was feasible to attempt the thing. Rose (he could see her strained white face quite plainly now) was half over the rail of the car ahead, ready to jump. _ fY 1-9A?ai I w Jk jivwa 1*0 I 1 Picture Dnuna of the Same Name I Universal Film Co. | XT SEPH VANCE I ht Brmu rUfJ.~"Tfm BUck &?.".? * | I froaa tie Pictmre Production I Until Jmpb Vaooe His heart failed him. It was too hu./ardouB a risk. He dared not let h6c I take It. Something very like a shot sounded 1 from the train and something very like I a bullet whistled past his cheek, and 1 proved the signal for several more. Strangely, that knowledge steadied I his nerves. Straining forward and j holding on to a bar so hot that it | acorehed his palin, he ofTered a hand 1 to the girl on the rail. Her hand fell confidently into it. She j Jumped. His arm wound round her aa I she landed on the platform of the cowcatcher. He hoard her breathe his j name, then hurriedlv ursspH nor ??*.. tween himself and the holler to the footway at the side. The lireman was waiting there to help her. Alan turned | his attention to Barcue. i To his dismay he found that the enj glne was losing ground. The space waa widening rapidly a* Barous released the knoh and threw himself orer the rail. By a miraculous, flying leap, the man accomplished that lnoredible feat and gained the platform. An instant later ten feet separated the engine from the special, as the engineer applied the brakes. And this he did none too soon: for at the same time Marrophat and another appeared on the rear platform and opened a hot. but, thanks to the widening distance, ineffectual fire. The engine ground slowly to a halt as the rear lights of the special train swept from sight round a bend. CHAPTER XXX11. Light Engine. Townrd the close of that summer's day if was the whim of that arch-man1 ager of theatricals whom men call Fat& to stage an anticlimax in the midst of a vast and hilly expanse of desolate midulo western country?a rude and rugged disk of earth which boasted no human tenancy within a circle of its far-flung horizon and was bisected, not neatly, rather irregular; ly, by the flowing double line of steel ! ribbons which marked the railroad's right of way over the old Santa Fe trail. So much for the stage: the light effects were provided exclusively by the crimson and purple and gold of a portentous sunset; the properties employed were simply a special train and what is known as a light engine (meaning a locomotive unhandlcapped by care); audience there was none, if one j except the actors?who were one and < all far too deeply preoccupied with the I interpretation of their ??voml rr?ion j to bo aware of the show. They were not many In number: perhaps half a dozen aboard the special train?which was making away as fast as It could run toward the glory of the sunset; as many more aboard the light engine. It was the engineer who started the trouble. After bringing his monster to a full pause, he turned upon his passengers and?not without plausible excuse?violently indicted Mr. Alan Law for abuse of his and his fireman's trustfulness. This the said fireman (climbing forward over the tender) vigorously applauded. They had been engaged, both gentlemen asserted vigorously, for nothing more dangerous than a quick run across the prairies, in furtherance of the unspecified plans of Mr. Alan Law and his companion, Miss Judith Trine. After starting out, they had wickedly and maliciously been bribed by the said Law to put on speed and catcli up with the special, in order that he might, rescue from the latter a young woman, his bride-to-be and the 6ister of Miss Trine. But?and here was the grievance? they hadn't bargained to be shot at with pistols. And precisely that outrage had been put upon them during and subsequent to the moment of rescue. It was unhappy Mr. Barcus who pre! clpitated the affair. This gentleman was suffering from a severe sprain to his sense of decent pride. In the service of Miss Rose Trine and her betrothed, Mr. Law, Barcus had black ened his face and hands to the hue of ebony and had garmented himself in the garb of a Pullman porter, surrendering himself to humiliating service to those aboard the special, suffering their insolence and scorn without a murmur, but with the tides of wrath mounting ever higher in hie boBom. And now, when at length he had won his freedom from that ignominious servitude, it was only to be sworn at and vi' fled, as a common nigger, by railroad h .nds! It was the fireman (to be just) who brought the row to a focus by a slighting reference to that "shiftless and misbegotten dinge." He repented quite promptly. Mr. Daeeii. 4. 1 M ?- I - naitua juiiiju-u 1UI 1118 mroai WIIO & bellow of rage. Th? brakeman leapec for his shovel and brandished it threat eningly. Mr. IJarcus made nothing o' that ho closed lu without hesitation and got the fireman by the throat, proceeding to shake the breath out of his q'MK LANCASTER NFAVF One of His Arms Was Around Her Shoulder. ! body with the greatest good will and dispatch. In the course of* this entertainment the fireman slipped on the cab platform, trod on nothing, and went over backwards, taking Mr. Barcus with him to the ballast. At almost the same moment Mr. Law, attempting to restrain the engineer from going to the assistance of his fellow-worker, ducked in under a vicious swing for his chin, grappled with his foe. tripped him up?and went with bis to the ground on the opposite side of the locomotive from that occupied by Mr. Barcus and the fireman. For the next several seconds he was very busy indeed keeping his face out of tho ballast. The engineer was a heavy man. but active and infuriated. lie fought like a demon unchained. It van ail very exciting. Mr. Law was even beginning to enjoy It when he heard a woman shriek. At the same instant revolvers began to pop. Mr. Law released bis foe almost as quickly as he was released. Both rose as mo man, to find Judith* Trine hes;<! hem i littis smile of excitement playing r< irul her tips as bhe looked up the track and >?* etched the special plow down to a sfo??several persons on the back platform plying busy trigger-lingers all the while. A s these last throv open the nlatform gates and dropped to the ballast, suu perforating tre air with many bullets, Mr. Law, Mis? Judith Trine, and that iate belligerent, the engineer, turned simultaneously aud sought tlio rear of the tender. On the opposite side they found Rose Trine and Mr. Barcua standing uncertainly above the body of the fireman, who, it appeared, had stunned, himself iu falling and remained insensible. The appearance of Law and Judith from behind the tender, closely pursued by the engineer, who was in turn closely pursued by gentlemen with revolvers, stirred Barcus and Rose to action. Alan passed him at a round pace, pausing only long enough to seize Rose and drag her with him toward the special. Judith flung him a phrase of well-meant advice in passing: "Come along, you simpleton?unless you want to be shot down where you etand!" Mr. Rarcus acted on that advice, as immediately as resentfully. Judith Trine was little before him at the steps of the Pullman: Mr. Law had already assisted Rose aboard. Mr. Barcus ungraciously gave place to the lady: his ingrained chivalry sorely strained by bullets that kicked among the ballast round his feet. CHAPTER XXXIII. Pullman. "Come inside," Law suggested, "and introduce me to the brakenmn. 1 presume I've got to fix things up with him?" "If there's really any doubt in vour mind as to that," Barcus said, rising, "I don't mind telling you you're right." He paused as Alan entered the car before him and was greeted by a storm of vituperation that fairly blistered the panels of the Pullman. Mr. Seneca Trine, helpless In his invalid chair, thus celebrated his introduction to the young man whom he had never before eeen whose life he had schemed to take these many years. His heavy voice boomed and echoed through the car like the sounding of a tocsin. Alan made no effort to respond, but listened with his head critically to one side and an exasperating expression of deep interest informing his countenance until Mr. Trine was out of breath and vitriol; when I the younger man bowed with the slight-' est shade of mockery in his manner and waved a tolerant hand to Barcus. "He has, no doubt," Alan inquired, "his own private cell aboard thiB car?" "Yas, suh!" Barcus agreed, aping well the manner of his apparent caste \ and color. "Ain't dat do troof?" "Take him away, then," Alan re-: quested wearily?"If you please." "Yas, suh!" Bnrcus replied, with j nimble alacrity seizing the back of the . wheeled chair and swinging it round tfyr o *1? i ??- -* .>/. ? nji.u u|> mo itriif.,111 oi me car. Before Trine had recovered enough to curse htm properly, the door to his drawing room was closed and Barcua was pmbllng back down the aisle. * DKrKMBKU 29, 1914. His grin of relish at this turning of the table? on the monomaniac proved, however, short-lived. It erased lteelf in a twinkling when Tudittyshouldered , mil 111 V tl!IKl hit? ? .-i?? - - ? ' utiu, ?. .ai 1115 a u 1 it'll and forbidding countenance, and flung herself into the drawing room with , her father. The cause of her temper was not fax to seek: at the far end of the car Alan was bending solicitously over the chair in >yhich Rose was resting. One of his arms was around her shoulder. | Her face was lifted confidently to his. Barcus mused morosely on his apprehension of trouble a brew, simmering over the waxing Are of that etrange woman's jealousy. He didn't like the prospect at all. If only Alan and Rose hadn't been so desperately in love that they couldn't keep away from one another! If only Alan had been senl sible enough to outwit the woman and ! leave her behind when he started in I pursuit of the special! If only there had not been that light engine in pur- i suit? us Barcus firmly believed it must be?loaded to the guards with Trine's unscrupulous hirelings! No telling when they might catch up! The fear of this last catastrophe worked together with his fears of Judith to render that night a sleepless i one for Barcus. He spent it in a chair whence he could watch both the door to the compartment Judith had chosen for her own tformorlv M 11 'a quarters) and the endless ribbons of steel that swept beneath the tracks. But nothing happened. He napped uneasily from time to time, waking I with a etart of fright, but always to And nothing amiss. Ever Judith stopped behind that closed door, and ever the track behind was innocent of the glare of a pursuing headlight. Nor did anything untoward mark the progress of the morning?unless, Indeed. Judith's protracted sessions with her father behind the closed door of the drawing room were to be I counted ominous. Ever since lunch-lime the girl had been closeted with her father; Barcus had been getting some well-earned and \ sorely-needed rest in his quarters; ' Alan standi. 3 h! tel. on the observation platform, In company with Rose; and the train booming along through au uncouth wilderness of arid mountains, barren mesas, and sunsmitten flats given over to the desolate g nius of sagebrush. Whatever had been the tenor of tlio c mmunlca'lon between father and daughter, Judith eventually emerged nun the drawing room in an ominous temper, larcua, coming drowsily away from his compartment at the same time, was jarred wide awake by right of the foreboding countenance she wore; and after a moment of doubt lollowod her hack to the lounge at the rear 01 the car. He got there in time to see her at rigid standstill, staring steadfastly at wiu nvn ngures bo close together on tho observation platform. But on his appearance Judith shook herself together, snatched up a magazine, and plunged wrathfully into an easy chair, burying lier nose between the pages of the publication with every Indication of deep interest In its text. Mr. Barcus, however, had learned the lesson of bitter experience to the effect that the outward bearing of Miss Judith Trine was no sure index to her inward hurnor?unless, that is, it might be taken to indicate the direct contrary of its semblance; though even this was no rsllable rule. Reminding himself of this, he therefore invented a morbid interest in another magazine?round the edge of which he kept & wary eye upon the young woman. For all her exasperation, Judith contained herself longer than might have been expected. Her continued Bhow of placidity, indeed, lulled Barcus into a dangerous feeling of security. Persuaded that she meant to behave, he gradually ceased to watch her as narrowly as at first, and lost himself in a morose reverie whoso subjec t was the seemingly permanent mourning into which ho bad plurnred his face and hands for the purposes of his masquerade?staining them a shade of ebony upon which soap and water and scrubbing had no effect whatever. And he had invented a most excruciating method of revenging himself upon the druggist who had taken advantage of his confidence tthd sold him the in eradfable dye?when he was roused by the sudden flight of a magazine across the car, missing his head by a bare two inches, and the bang of a chair overturned by Judith as she Jumped up and flung herself furiously toward the door. Just what had happened on the observation platform Harcue didn't know, but he could readily believe that th? lovers had just indulged in some especially provoking and long-drawn-dut caress. He overhauled Judith none too soon. In another momeut she would have had her sister by the throat?if her purpose had not been to throw Robo bodily overboard, as llarcus suspected. Happily, he was as quick on hie feet as Judith on hers; and almost before he had grasped the situation, he had grasped her?had seized her arms and drawn them forcibly behind her back, at the same time swinging her round and endeavoring to propel her back through the doorway. It was a man-size Job. For the ensuing five minutes he had his hands full of violently resentful and superbly able-bodied young woman. Only with the greatest difficulty did he succeed in wrestling her up the aisle and to the door of her compartment, where 1 an even more furious resistance for [ some additional mjnutes jjrefaced the rlti.nate closing orthe door upon tho maddened Judith. Even then ho might not draw a free breath: there whs no way or looking that door from the outside; and ho dared not leave go the handle, lost the girl again fly out and renew the battle. Waving aside Alan's proffer of assistance, he acidly advised that gentleman to return to his poet of duty and not let his infatuation blind him to what might at any inoiuont loom up on the track behind them, Barcus stoutly held the door against the girl's attempt to pull it open and through another period when she occupied herself with kicking Us panels as if hopeful of breaking a way out. A long pause followed. He heard no sounds from within. And wearying, he wondered what the devil she was up to. Then her voice penetrated the bai rier, j Its accents calm and not unamiable: "Mr. Barcus!" "Hello!" he replied, startled. "What 1? it, Miss Judith?" "Please let me out." "Not much." "Oh?please!" Struck by the fact that she hadn't lost her temper on hearing his refusal, he hesitated. It was very true that he couldn't stay there forever, holding on to that knob. "Will you be good if I let you outf "Perfectly." "No more shenanigan?" "I promise." "Word of honor?" "If my word of honor means anything to yon?you have it." "Well . . .!" he said dubiously. In the same humor he turned and released the knob; promptly Judith opened it wide and swept out into the corridor, her mood now on? of really fetching mockery. "Thank you so much!" she laughed into his face of discomfiture; and dropping liini an ironic curtsy, she turned forward and swung into the drawing *oo:n occupied by Trine. "Wonder what she put that on for?" ralah'd, with reference to the i i( : h g l'utimau wrapper which Ju). ! seen lit 'o don during her 1 of captivity. "Heaven know:; ) ' , ot. : without wearing iv.eez lii t'asm decency demands . . . < a ncv?r can tell about a w in: I bet a doll; r I've nmd a ! ?rin: cao of myself?letting bet . his da bta . it. comma: ' i - h . -r aiion i l.-t ; . umleo r-d to horn the t.'.t.; ' J , Vi 1? 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