The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 05, 1917, Image 6
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THE CAST.
MRS. VERNON CASTLE as
1 Patria Channing.
MILTON SILLS as Donald Parr.
WARNER OLAND as Baron
Huroki.
DOROTHY GREEN as Fanny
Adair.
SYNOPSIS.
Baron Hurnhi, chief of the Japanese soeift
service in America, conspiring to embroil
the United States with Mexico, licit,
res control of the prcat Channing munition
plants iiwiiiil 1 ?> ! atria. last of "The
1-iKhtitiK t'liaiu inns." ami sole executrix
?>f a $k'0,<K>o,(K,t? trust secretly created by
pntriotn progenitors to eombat tiie national
petals inherent in "unpreparelm
ss." His schemes fail, thanks to I'atria
and her tiance. ? 'apt. Honahl I'air, whose
determined oj-p< siti a at length Urivea
13aurn lluioki into li <l;nvr.
TENTH EPISODE
War in the Dooryard.
IN TIME OF PEACE.
The banishment of Huron Ilurokl
proved to be as complete an affair as
licart conld wish, a mystery as profound.
as finished, as thoroughgoing
us could reasonably have been exI
looted even of Oriental subtlety, cunning
and forehundness. leaving no room
for doubt but that the head of the Japanese
secret service in the United
Stales had long anticipated and planned
against precisely such contingency
ns had at last driven hint out of public
life.
Without the slightest considerable
lend into that blunt labyrinth of underground
life wherein the Japanese hail
taken refuse, ltitria's private bureau
of investigation, under the direction of
Ihtnald I'arr, worked tirelessly for
weeks upon the problem, leaving no
istone unturned in its efforts to track
down the fugitives.
AJ last l'arr, innately incredulous,
auspicious and solicitous for Pat rinks
welfare, wus drawn to admit that
Haron Huroki witi*l huve tied the country.
He was ai once glad and reluctant
to believe this?reluctant because he
feared lest some disaster impossible to
foresee develop through overconttdence;
glad because with Uurokl eliminated
from the land, Patriu was free
T.nre more from that persecution and
peril pf assassination which hat] lieen
her dally portion ever 'ii coining
of age, she had been so unfortunate as
mo attract the attention of tlie Japanese-Mexican
junta. - -I
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**111 U mull I >? !i:tI<1 mihI l'atria
l'renthcd iuure freely as day followed
day without overt attack upon the lattir
any oj her ju-i^crth'*, Uiey Jjd
not Ticrmlt tlo-uiselyes to he deceived.
Hoiieath lids truce both divined an un.
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jf; 'CcosiiiK ebb ailti now 01 intrigue.
Impossible a.s it was to surmise In
vlmt (juarter or manner that malign
v^utbreak should be apprehended, l'atria
and her aides neglected no iinagl-'
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liable precaution . '.'lie small arms and
munitions facto. . <*, the ordnance foundries,
arsenals and shipyards owned bv
fhunnlng, Inc., were reorganized to a
degree of the highest etliclency, each
Working three shifts <?t employees
every twenty-four hours. Kxisting contracts
with the aWies for war material
were filled, renewals and further oriters
were refused. (treat stores ot
arms and ammunition began to uecu
liiulate, and wore hold against that da\
wheli, plunged unoxpoctodly into war
this nation should find itsolf in urgoni
need of equipment for the hordes o
untrained volunteers who wouh
spring u|? to its defense.
And whereas nothing could pcrsuadi
a purblind people t?i prepare physicalI;
lor the trials and strains of warfare
nothing could prevent l'atria. or an;
other patriot, from putting the met
on the pay roll in shape to light 1<>
their homos.
\ crv ouirtlv the 1'latlsburg schein
was put into effect at I'owder Town
in accordance with the proiuiso Petri;
loui made hot* employees at tin* time o
the strike. Under tlie supervision o
Captain I'arr the employees were or
Kanized into <'ompanies. put through
course of setting-up drills, and it
strueted in the use of arms?all on ful
l??y for tlie time demanded for tlies
exercises. Almost immediately the su<
eess of the experiment was assured h
tlie response of the men, their euge
Interest and willingness.
With this encouragement, Petri
caused the experllnent to he put int
effect at all the Uhannlngs plants. It
success was uniform. In a space t
time incredibly brief the half-millle
men employed by Channlngs in var
??us capacities were organized and r?i|
idly approaching a state of militai
efficiency.
In short, all that couhl he necori
(dished toward the preparation of th
country for war by private ti'iim
whose eflorts were unsanctioned by tl
government was done by 1'atria wit
ihe assistance of Donald Purr and the
staff of Aides.
Despite their most determined ?
forts to cloud these matters in secret'
^owever, the new* leaked out. Khar
RIArj
>Ct?f PREPAREDNESS
)&ZPn VANCE n
w Puture /V.iy of the
' for the lutcrnational Kj?{
//v I) rati on of
Ctf\r:^ht Stjr Comf-.:ry.
nosod ropornts. tloni od adinittaneo to j
tho grounds <if tin* various ChanninKsj
works, hukod in tho oiling with oars
u-prick for ovory hint and ovory sylhddo
of hu-autiotis gossip. Inovitahly
thoro liiiwwd a (hiy wIioti the news
was bruit t <1 to t ho world..
it was tho day proooding that on {
n\ 11;"-?j Pntrin purposed starting. in hot* I
private car 1'<>r the border ranches, to j
-ee f..r hriNclf w hat was the truth
about the situation in tho Soulhwest,
\v? II as to inspoct her living corps,
take personal instruction in aviation,;
and supervise such proparations j
against aniit't) invasion as might, in i
la r judgment and Donald's, he deemed
w i<c.
Y\ bat was really going on along the I
liorder and south of it was masked in
rumor, misinformation and ollicial ccnrsliip.
The country's half-trained and
ill-equipped militia had boon mobilized
arid transported to the Soiftlvwest ; fol1
owing \ hi< h it had ncisuuplishod?by
all reports- precisely nothing.
To look into those conditio?]*., then,
to liud out for herself how grave the j
danger was <>f invasion following the (
prospective witlulrawttl of the Ameriean
troops from Mexican territory,
mi to make due provision to protect
her own properties?since slie would I
n all probability he prevented hy ad- (
minis! r.-.tive ukase from extending J
MHMt pr?>(ccUO|l (<l (MIHM'S WHS till' I
mi:.in lujrjMix* *.f iatria's contemplated
'uiiniry,
Ami localise she had become ono of'
tin* widely advertised personalities in
:.<* I'nit* <i Sia.tes. sije'e her accession I
to sole control of Ohaniiings. Inc., site
had caused lu-r plftns to In* made with
.dl possihh* seeree.v.
None tin- 1? ss they had heroine pubic
prop< fty. While slu* dressed for
her last trip to l'owder Town, to review
her employees there, a newspaper
dory advised her that she could hope
to make few moves without the knowledge
of the people.
Beneath a portrait of herself, ill display
headlines, she read:
Miss Patria Channing
America's Bertha Krupp,
who Is rapidly converting her extensive
arms and ammunition factories
into armed camps, forsakes society to
safeguard her vast properties in the
Southwest?is reported to have said
she will spend $100,000,000 to protect
this country against peril of Japaneea
influences In Mexico. i
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Over this the girl shook an exasper- 1
at^vl
, She made no doubj hut that Baron
liuroki?presuming that lie were still
in hiding somewhere within tlie radius
of metropolitan newspaper circulation
U.,.. a.
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Ami she was right.
i Many miles away, In a dead little
house in a dead little side street in ?Teis
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, sey <_ity. seated on tlte floor or an
apartment euiimngly transformed by
moans of screens into the semblance
of a room lu a Japanese house?a room
' from which every ray of daylight was
jealously excluded?II u role I was curling
his lip over the headlines which
' made I'atria's secrets his, and all the
world's to boot.
1 P.ut when lie had finished rending,
the sneer had faded from his face, u
cu>_t of t hough t f if I n ess replacing it.
1 For many" minutes he sat pondering,
as still ami immobile as one of the
graven gods which, secretly, he wor
. shipped. When at length he moved, it
was merely to clap his palms together
thrice; this done, he relapsed into
j. t no v el ess n ess. Nor did he stir so iinieh
I as to turn his head when his summons
was answered.
, 1 A cringing, servile creature in Jnp^
atmse robes slipped noiselessly into the
room and stood at attention, announv
cing himself hy one word in his native
{ tongue:
,. ".Master . . . ?"
HuroUi thought for another moment
before he spoke.
, "What are today's reports, Kuto?"
;l "They say that we are apparently
f safe. All efforts At pursuit have been
C abandoned. The (.'banning girl is at
.. her hot el in New York. Captain I'arr
a spends most of his time in the Channing
factories near Powder Town. It
II is certain that no sort of watch is be^
ing kept upon this house; not orici
.. since we took cover here litis one ol
v the ('banning investigators approached
this neighhorliood."
I The ha run nodded approvingly.
a "order my roadster to the door
() Feted dusters, caps and goggle mask?
1H for yourself and inc."
,f "It is an order."
,n ! Kato said no more, and his tone win
.p eolorJess; yet in the barely pereeptibh
p. I hesitation tie evidenced about puttln;
y these orders into effect, Iluroki senstM
j muttered criticism; Was tlds wis*
n. j on Ms part ?
' In response he touched the new spa
?w.r ?> ? (I,,, a,?,,r him
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le ! "Vou have read tlds story, Kato?"
Ih J "KxeeMency?yes."
ir "J)o >'?u believe It is true that thli
?:ir! is converting tier factories int<
>f. armed camps'/" .
yt "Our reports show that the ('nan
iiiogs employees evcryw here urc heir;
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drilled persistently unci nmdo familiar
with ride practice."
"In other words, they si? ?? hein?r made
Into a private army of trained men.
ready to ho offoroil to the country's
service in event of war."
"KxecHeney?yes." |
"! must see for myself. A dangerous ,
business, a dangerous precedent ;
should many American captains of industry
adopt this scheme, the United
States will have a standing army too
soon, far too soon. We must find some
way to discourage this young woman
?some way to sterilize her efforts toward
preparedness before she can
prove them practicable."
Kato bowed assent. After another
moment lluroki dismissed him upon |
his errand.
Within ten minutes the two, thoroughly
masked against recognition in i
their motoring garments, 1 < t" t the
house and took tln?ir places?Knto ait
the wheel?in a high-powered motorcar
of the roadster type.
Tooling the ear along In discreet recognition
of trntlic regulations as long
as they traveled city streets, once they
hud gained open country Knto drove at
a pace which would have been foolhardy
in a driver less adept.
For a time, en route, their way ran |
parallel wilh railroad tracks. For as |
much as a mile the roadster raced a
light special train. Then, admonished
by iluroki's touch on his sleeve, Kato
modilied the speed and permitted the
special to draw ahead. As it did so,
lluroki identified unmist aknhly the
slight, girlish figure that sat alone oil
the observation platform.
So l'atria ('banning was likewise
bound for l'owder Town!
Even had he been without a mask,
the face of the Japanese would have
betrayed no trace of emotion. Yet the
fight of the girl had set astir in him
passions which had for some time lain
dormant?dark passions bred of hatred
and chagrin. For, alone among the
many men and women with whom he
bad come in e aitact In the course of
n long and active and varied career,
l'atria had proved a stumbling-block to
his ambition, stubbornly opposing her
puny strength to his?and overcoming
ldm, persistently thwarting his shrewd
osi scnemes?uiKl i?:?\ iiiK no penalty.
His arrangements were now all
made for a furtive, unostentatious exit
from the country which 1'atria laid
made too hot to harbor him longer. He
vjis, iu effect, being driven out by this
Insignificant wisp of womanhood?outlawed.
a failure, disgraced, in ill favor
with his emperor.
And he had been prepared to go
without further attempt to bahmce his
score with 1'atria. But lids accidental
encounter?of which the girl had remained
so serenely unconscious?made
him change his mind. Secretly he determined,
before the special had
rounded a bend ahead and vanished
from his view, upon one thiol essay
to avenge his wrongs ere he tied.
An hour later it stood empty with
engine idle on a by-road near the sum%
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mit of a hill overlooking the little valley
in which lay 1'owder Town. Twenty
feet above it. in the cover of a
group of trees on the hilltop, Iluroki
and Kato were looking down Into the
valley, with the aid of binoculars, the
Japanese reading plain confirmation of
all the newspaper alleged concerning
l'atria's activities iu the cause of preOn
the open sluice thai lay between
the group of factory buildings and the
tffo'n. upwards of five hundred men
in semiiiniform and bearing arms were
In i i'?i 111111^ c\iiniuniis wiui ti snap una
u precisian that spoke well for Donald
I'm it's system of training,
liurokl's face darkened.
Down the road from the railway station
came a motor-car. In It sat I'atrla
Charming. As it appeared the men in
training responded quickly to snapped
orders and arrayed themselves in long
ranks for review, presenting arms as
the < ar came to a pause at a little distance
hctore them.
Alighting, Patria was welcomed by
Captain I'arr and a group of officers.
After walking the length of the front
ranks, Patria returned to tiie motorcar
and took from the tonueau an object
resemlding, at a distance a pole,
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half of whose length was sheathed In !
black wrappings.
With this In hand. she addressed
briefly the nucleus of her private
forces. Having spoken, she offered the
pole to the ofllcer commanding under
Captain 1'arr.
I'nsheathing the flag, the commandiitg
ollieer held it high, its hriliiant
colors radiant in the autumnal sunlight,
before delivering it to the color
guard.
A great roar of cheering broke out
In the ranks and was carried eleari.v
to the ears of the watchers on the hilltop.
With an angry gesture Uurokl
turned and strode buck to his roadster.
"Drive home," he ordered; "follow j
the railroad tracks as closely as you (
can. I must find some way.
TUP TDCCTI IT
A mile or so beyond the rUlge-pole
of the hills walling in the little valley,
the road dipped down into another valley,
rather more shallow, which the
railroad spanned hy means of a long
high trestle.
Through this valley meandered a
river, broad but not deep, some two
hundred feet below the trestle at this,
its highest point.
Well watered though it was, this valley
ottered little temptation to the agriculturist.
Its soil was somewhat
sterile and thickly sewn with outcroppings
of rock. Nevertheless, one fanner
had thought well enough of it to
i.wt.il.licl. .1 - ' "
< ?? iiwuiv 11v*iii "lie run (M lilt'
trest le.
This optimist was a Japanese. His
utmost efforts, aided by those of liis
family and one or two helpers of bis
own race, wrung bill the barest livelihood
from the soil. Yet he persisted,
year in and year out, patient and uncomplaining.
It is a singular fact, to be interpreted
at the whim of the reader, that
any great railroad work in the United
Slates seldom lacks a Japanese neighbor,
swell as this toiling liule farmer.
It Is not known that these hardy
tillers of the soil have stores of dynamite
or oilier high explosive cached
conveniently; but if they had, they
could readily at an hour's notice cripple
t lie transportation facilities of this
country and render efforts to rush
troops to the western seaboard futile.
At the dwelling of the Japanese
fanner in question, Huron lluroki
alighted from his motorcar and engaged
his countryman in a conversation
which engrossed both till well past
noon; at which time I'atria C'lianning's
speciul train was observed
crossing the trestle, homeward hound.
When it hail passed from sight, liuroki's
course of action was mapped out
to the last detail.
Summoning Kate, lie delivered to
him certain instructions, some by word
of mouth, others written on scraps of
paper in Japanese characters, and dismissed
him with un injunction to make
all possible haste upon his vurious errands.
lluroki himself retired to an afternoon
of inaction in the house of his
compatriot.
Hut Kato put in one of lite busiest (
afternoons in ids experience, in person,
by telephone and through aides, ,
he communicated the orders of Baron
Iluroki to half a hundred industrious
Japanese gentlemen jnnlnhiy j#ii<J lncomspicuoUsly
engaged in smnil ways'
of business throughout tin area bound
? <! on the north by Harleuj, on the
I'ast by the remotest fastnesses of
Brooklyn, on the soiitli and west by
the city of Philadelphia. (
He likewise fouiftl time to visit a
small hut seaworthy private yaeltt
which lay at anchor off Paulus Hook.
It was dusk wh<*ti. " :ny hut ludomitable,
he reappeared al the .Japanese
farm beneath the trestle, delivered his
report to Baron Huroki, and drove
on Into tTie darkness,
Hy that time nearly a hundred motorcars
were converging from every
point of tin* compass upon the little
valley occupied by the Chunnings'
po_wder mills.
Kach of these cars was occupied hy I
at least five impassive Japanese, all
reservists of the Japanese army, many ;
of them veterans of the war with Kus- !
sin. whose topcoats covered a complete
infantry equipment for light marching.
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se No Time in Attacking.
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huioki's Men Set Fit
Tn tlie bottom of each ?11* lay at
least live m???|?ti? maeazlno ri 11? s.
l'itnlnu their progress ro reach a certain
point at a certain moment, they
moved sedately through the twilight
and the darkness, attracting no attcntion.
lielween seven and cljdtt these ears
came together in a lonely stretch of
countryside adjoining the valley of
1'owder Town. The driver of each re
p#rted to Kato personally, then parked
his cur in the fields hy the roadside.
Checking off each arrival on n compact
tally sheet, Kato at length extinguished
the pocket Hash-lamp hy which
he had worked, and?having consulted
iiis watcli?gave the word to inarch.
At precisely twenty minutes to eight
o'clock tin* last tile of armed Japanese
trotted past him and disappeared in
the gloom.
He delayed before following only
long enough to plant a small rocket in
tlu* earth and touch a match to its
fuse.
Spearing up infti the night on a
course which kept It invisible to the
inhabitants of Powder Town, the rocket
broke at an elevation which permitted
it to be seen from the valley of the
trest le.
At sight of it, Karon lluroki, standing
on the porch of the Japanese farmhouse,
uttered an inarticulate sound of
satisfaction, pocketed his binocular,
and, going into the house, took up the
telephone and gave the number of tin*!
Kit/Carlton in New York.
At eighteen minutes to eight l'atria
Charming paused in the act of completing
her toilette for dinner to answer
the telephone.
"Yes!" site called. "This is Miss
Clumning. Who are you7"
Out of the mystery of the night h
voice responded in aceents oddly fa-!
lui'm r yet oddly unreeogni/.ahle:
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"Your men hive mutinied In Powri^r!
Town. They are rioting and shooting
up the town. Captain Parr and others
are besieged in the office building of
Mill Number Five, in momentary danger
of being blown up."
The voire ceased abruptly. There
was the click of a receiver hung up.
The girl's distracted efforts to get tin
connection renewed failed utterly. In
panic she threw the instrument from
lief and began to tear off her froek. (
"Ketch me a traveling suit," she or-1
deled iter maid. "Then call up the'
railroad and t?-ll them to have my train
ready for immediate service. I'm go- i
ing out to l'owder Town as quickly
as I can."
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Twenty-three minutes later she
boarded her special at Jersey City.
As the train pulled out of the yard
a furtive little Japanese dodged away
between tiie tracks, left Hie yard, and
seeking tlie first saloon addressed himself
to the telephone.
Having received definite word that
I'utrbi was on tiie way, Huron Huroki
hung up, loft the Japanese farmhouse,
and superintended the setting off of a
great rocket.
Tills last, rising to a great height
at high speed, was plainly visible in
1 l'owder Town when it exploded.
Kato saw it?-he hud been waiting
for precisely that signal?and scrambled
to ills feet. Applying a whistle
to his lips, he blew a single blast. Immediately
the field in which he had
I boon lying at length became peopled
with the shadowy shapes of ids countrymen.
A second blast set them in motion.
In \?tter silence hut for the rattle of
1 accoutrements and the thudding of
| their feet, they bore down at double;
quick on the unsuspicious little town
' which they had surrounded in the
darkness.
( In three minutes more the vanguard
i of the raiders debouched in the main
street of Powder Town and charged up
it, shooting and bayonetting all in
their path.
Taken completely off their guard?
who had, for that matter, no reason
to anticipate anything of the sort, tin
terrorized inhabitants fled before this
general assault like leaves before ?
great wind.
In five minutes the Japanese wer<
in complete and undisputed possessioi
of the town ami were firing its houses
The glare of those flames agalns
the sky was synchronous with the call
ing of a bugle in the main yard of tlx
('banning factories. The first refugees
had Just arrived and begun to gasj
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e to Powder Town.
out their talus of horror. Purr, sutuIii?>ii
-?I trout what laid hoop intended
us his tiual council with I ho otheerw
voimiiam<: u?; I'atrla's private army,
prior to his departure for the Southwest
, 11:m 1 iieede<l t?? hear no more
than half a dozen words before Ihe
l.'ave the order to sound a general *nll
to arms.
Thanks to their lohK and faithful
('rilling, the men of the ni^lit shift, VP
dropping whatever work they had in
hand at the moment, assembled under
arms in the yard in record time. The
Jinnies of the second house to be fired
in the town were Just lie^inniiiK to
leap nl?o\e ibe rising ground that separated
tbe factories from tbe settlement
/it'll l'atrias 111<*11 Mutinied out of the
"lain gateway, l>oimhl at their head.
Halfway to the town they got their
llrst taste 4 ?f warfare, encountering
there In the darkness a very conslderahle
htuly of Japanese, outnumbering
them two to one. They responded nohly,
dt ploying in open skirmish order
at the words of command and throwing
lhetnse!\es flat upon the ground before
attempting 10 return the fire of th?
raiders. Though hi re and there a mail
fell, dead or wounded, not one looked
hack. Their casualties, if anything,
'seemed the one tiling ni'fded to stiflTn
their determination to drive back ;l?e
enemy. Ami the accuracy <if their lire
proved so galling that the llrst line of
Japanese was qui<k to give ground
und retreat upon the burning town.
There, in the scorching, llarne-lllu- '
mined streets, the combat became a #hand-to-hand
affair, the raiders, although
limy suffered heavily, giving. 1 <>
begin with, almost as much punishment
as they received, but inch by Inch
yielding.
The main street was littered with f \
dead and wounded when at length the/
broke and fled, hotly pursued by l>onald
and his men.
UilVI.K.I tl.n - ? * 1 * '
jjvti iMiii in*- iiiwn iin* pursuit [icrninfl
mute or loss a minting skirmish, the
raiders endeavoring desperately to
stein the pursuit long enough to enable
them to regain their motorcars.
Ibtth sides had suffered heavily. In
the ejtd It was with hut a handful of
his original command that Donald
pressed the pursuit across the ridg??pole
of the hills and down Into the _ ,
open fields where the motorcars of
the raiders had been parked.
There a filial stand was made, n
desperate resistance opposed to Purr's
men till the last Japanese had found
a place in the car which he ianped
would hear him to safety. Thetn. h?
the final car swept out of the field and
down the rami, spitting fire from half
a dozen rifles, the pursuers swarmed
upon the field and took possession of
the abandoned cars.
Commandeering the first that t ame
to hand, I'arr jumped in with four of
j his men and resumed the pursuit. Other
cars, laden to the rnniiinir In.aids
with employees of f'hannings, followed. f
A running battle of racing ours swept
cut through the sleeping countrysido
and, In'due course, down into the valley
of the trestle.
As his ear took the down grade at
j the top of its speed, the nearest of
the fugitives, leading it hy a hurt^two
hundred yards, Donald saw the headlight
of a locomotive sweep through
tin; cut at Ihe far end of the trestle,
like a sword of light slashing the
night. j
Then, traveling at a fast clip, the y
I train ran out on the trestle?u light. j
train, he remarked, consisting of a slit- ^
gle coaclHn addition to the locomotive
and tender; in short, a special, such .]
as I'ntria was accustomed to ttse.
Hy this time his motorcar had tie- i
scended to the bottom of the valley ]
; mid crossed the bridge that spanned
the river. Ten seconds Inter n sudden
premonition drew his attention to the
i train; he looked up Just in time to see
i the locomotive shoot out at a sharp 4
j angle from the trestle, twist and fall,' 1
drawing its tender and eoach \vflUi it.
i j The crash of the wreck fllle?i the
' valley like a thunderclap, followed by
? a hissing of escaping steam and the
i groans and screams of the injured
train erew.
i Instinctively Ponnld shut off the
i gasoline and Jammed in the emergency
. brake, bringing his ear to a halt within
t thrice its own length. As it stopped, (u
lie Jumped out and began to run across
s fields toward the wreck, his compau
Ions at n!s heels.
) j (END OF TENTH KPISOPK.)
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