Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-13

he emerged into a broader street, when an autono-
bile went chugging past him, and then, just as it
came beneath the rays of arc light. face leaned
to the window arm was extended evidently for
the purpose of shaking the ash from cigar, and
Seigo shrank back. In the shivering white rays he
recognized of the passengers in the machine
less parsonage than the President and with him
another man whom he believed to be the Secre-
tary of War.
From down the road came the sound of another
motor which in turn whizzed rapidly along taking
the same direction as the previous Seigo
certain, but conjectured that within it were
other officials, and, being a of action unhesl-
tatingy dashed after it, neared the closed tonneau,
and after a GREATNESS run succeeded in swinging
himself to the springs behind, maintaining his place
by cutching the overhang of the tenders.
Away through the outskirts he rode, hearing
nothing from within and in constant danger of falling
off his precarious perch. The gained speed until
his peril great, for to be thrown would be
ceIve certain injury. His fingers were strained con-
vuslvely in their effort to hold and once he
almost cast off by sharp declivity in the road
Now he could only trust to chance that the automo-
bile which he rode following that of the
President; but mile after mile reeed off with
out sight of the other machine either hand, he
felt assured that the party all one. He leaned
out across one of the great rubber tires and peered
ahead to where and then he could catch the
glow of red back lamp, and was content His jour
ney was not without discomfort, the dust of the
road Whlred upward and into his nostrils in sitting
volume until he was begrimed and almost strangled
but he chung on grimly, waiting for the mysterious
trip to end.
The big stopped SO suddenly that he had scant
time to loosen his hold fall off into the dirt and roll
hastily into ditch by the roadside where he might
be hidden from sight. To his surprise the vehicle
turned through a gateway into field where he
heard the slow crunching of the great wheels over
the stubbe. He raised himself to his knees, and
then in a crouching posture essayed to follow it in
its Wanderings, when he arrested by sharp
challenge, betraying the fact that although the
visitors had been expected chance being
taken of entertaining Others. Again he threw him
self on his face, waiting patiently for other sounds
The great fiat before him showed dny in its yellow
baroness. stretching down to where the broad
pane of river cleaned duly and he could discern
other lights than those of the motor which he had
been undiscovered passenger. These suddenly
vanished, and he surmlsed that the chautteurs had
extngulshed them preparatory to leaving the cars.
He could trace out other shapes in the gloom.
Not building raised it's dark bulk in the night
He felt the necessity of advancing farther.
Foot by foot he wrggled forward. the spllnters of
the field Embedding themselves in his flesh unheeded.
stralnlng every to avoid making a noise and
listening at intervals in the hope of catching
the cause of this nocturnal mission. From short
distance ahead came the mutterings of low pitched
voices, and then period of silence. He past
the machines now. still crawling carefully. Once
more he paused when he heard sullen muffled
crash from the direction of the water, and in
agony of surprise and terror to his knees for
getting that he might be observed His hands in
terlocked themselves in stress he watched IN
GREATNESS suspense for moment. and then, almost
moaning IN despair, he crept rapidly back to the
road went cautiously down it for hundred yards,
and took madly to his heels with fright
All caution was thrown aside, and as he ran like