Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-15

 like tiger, he sprang at the doctor.
 Nora Warner saw them clinch and fall heavily upon the earth, and then, with 6 mental prayer for her lover, she turned to hunt for the missing key.
 That Jack had the best of the fight so far she readily believed, for the doctor had been taken rather by surprise, and she did not fancy that he was able to cope with her lover, for whose prowess she seemed to have a great admiration.
 Besides, it was quite certain that the mad-house doctor would have made m outcry so as to have drawn some of his keepers to the spot had he been allowed tho liberty of doing so, and the fact that he did not gave Nora hope.
 She stood before the gate for few seconds lost in thought
 She had an indistlnct recollection of having from the grated window of her cell seen some ono place the key oh several occasions in different hole from that which usually contained 1t, and dur ing that short space of time her thoughts were very busy as she endeavofed to remember where this receptacle was.
 All at once it seemed to flash across her mind like an inspiration.
 She uttered low cry of delight and hope. mingled with fear least the key should not be there, and, springing for ward, inserted her hand in the orifice.
 It was time to shiver in suspense, for should she fail to find that which she sought, then all indeed would be lost.
 Thank Heaven, the key was therel
 Eagerly she drew 1t out. All, then, was not yet lost.
 She lost not @ second in inserting 1t in the lock. It was a ponderous key for her hands to turn, but excitement had lent her new strength, and she was giant for the time being.
 The key turned, the gate was open.
 Whom she realized this fact the young woman uttered cry of joy. and hastily taking out the key inserted it ill the lock outside, so that they could place @ bar rier in the way of pursuit by locking the gate after them, which 1t must be ad- mitted was very wise move on the part of tho girl.
 Meanwhile, how progressed affairs between Jack and the mad-house doctor?
 The latter was a wiry individual and no mean antagonist for even an athlete i; but his opponent besides being inordi- nately strong and supple, was urged for ward by the combined powers of love and hate, and this rendered him giant in- deed.
 He had leaped upon Dr. Grim so sud- denly that the latter was not even en- abled to cry out ere he felt his throat seized in grip of iron and himself borne to the ground.
 Of course he struggled desperately. for Ina ha1io h to ho {r dor and what will not man do for his life? Thus, for the space of a minute, it was nip and tuck between the two. although it was soon made manifest that the young man had the doctor in his hands.
 It would not have taken very much to have caused Jack to choke the life out of the wretch while he had his hands upon him, such was his hatred of the man, and his bitter memory of the wrong Nora had suffered at his hands.
 As it was, after he had gotten him fully in his power, he took great delight in choking him until he was black in the face, and otherwise treating him as he had treated many Q patient before then.
 Remembering all the cruelties he had heard of and witnessed, Jack was visit ing his just indignation upon the mad house doctor, and that this species of chastisement was not very agreeable to the party on whom 1t fell can be readily imagined.
 He had just about finished his work when cry of alarm from Nora reached his ear, and looking up he saw in the moonlight three of the keepers rapidly bearing down upon them from the direc- tion of the house.
 To act with Jack was the work of an in- stant.
 Casting tho limp and apparently lifeless form of the sadly-demoralized doctor from him, he sprang to his feet. The Keepers were only dozen yards away as he bounded through the opening, while Nora held the gate open for him, and no sooner did she see that he was safe than, with all her strength, she closed the ponderous structure. Jack was quickly at her side, and, seeing the key in the lock, comprehended hel strategy.
 Just as he turned this the three keepers on the inside hurled themselves against the covered gate, but they had been a few seconds too late.
 With q laugh, Jack hurled the heavy key far away among the bushes. Then, holding his revolver in one hand, and as- s1sting Nora with the other, he rapidly left the spot.
 It would be some time at least before @ regularly organized pursuit could be l started for they would have to first re- suscitate tho doctor; and Jack chuckled to think what sweet task they would have before them, as he remembered how black the mad-house doctor had be- como in the face before he was done with l him.
 | Before this time came it might be OK 1 pected that the two fugitives would be quite distance away, for they would be given a little start, which, of course, would be improved.
 l Would they hunt them at all