The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-17

passwords of the inner circle of that great
industrial federation, ''the Amalgamated y
The man started at him in wonder.
Hello be stammered.
You understand" retorted Hope in
pistol-shot sharpness.
What's up-a striker
No. an order, postive-for the good of
the society,"
AL right"
See, / have the power to command
Hope exhibited 4 disc. The man bowed
In profound obeisance. as he traced its
symbolic inscriptions.
Turn on the arc lights-quick !" d.
rected Hope-"over the whole plant. clear
down the main road"
That's queer!'
do it 7"
You bet-it's mystery, but the Anal
sive determination, ere he handed him over
to justice.
1T does"
''Then-here goes :"
He sprang to a dynamo crank. Soon the
bright wheels were whirring. the sparks
flying.
Magic illumination prevailed where
grim blaekness had reigned, somber and
dense, before.
Light - exuIted Gideon Hop, ana ran
outside, darted up the tower ladder.
strained his eager sight across the lari
scape.
The crystalline streaks of binding radi-
ance cur air and sky in every direction.
At last great yelling cry parted Hopes
ardent lips.
There. to the west, making for an in
tricate network of railway tracks beyond
the works, black speck was diving away
Kane.
WHAT must he have thought to be sud
denly blinded. overtaken by the fast
and far-extending circuit of electricity :
lie could not hide or evade-he could only
put on, making off fast as he could for
shelter, obscurity, where the jungle of
tracks and trains showed a mile ahead of
him.
One look. one SIRE estimate of course.
distance, pitted towers of speed and en-
DURANGO. and Gideon Hope was on his
trail like the iound on the track of the
fugit' We wolf.
On and on, nearer and nearer-now
purster and pursued were fairly clear of
the plant lights, but the feebler though
more frequent lamps of the vast switch
yards still served to guide the former, and
the latter was almost continually in sight
A fierce joy thrilled Hope The very
peril Of being baffled, the celebrating zest
of a new hunting down, made this second
capture the more precious and treasured.
''f have you - shouted Hope.
A moving train of freight cars blocked
the fugitive He turned--at bay.
Kane snarIet and showed his teetlf.-fIe
glanced wildly about HIM for rock,
coupling pin-aBy weapon of assault or
defense.
None was at hand His fingers Rugged
close to his breast the precious fortune so
nearly won.
"Give it up," said Gideon Hope. his
eyes glittering with triumph as he adyanc-
ed-"IIa ~
His desperate foe had courted death
rather than surrender. Kane dropped to
his knees. A last glance of bitter hatred
he flung at his unrelenting pursuer. Then
he threw himself past the moving trucks
of freight car, scrambling across the
road5ed
A howl of agony rent his lips Quick
and spry, infused with terrific courage
and resolve, he might have got across the
other rail, only that the money package
slipped from his grasp.
Hope sprang forward to seize it. for it
lay fat, freed for moment, directly balanc-
ing on top of the smooth. silver-clear rail-
And thenAa grinding wheel struck it,
moving quicker than human cropping
hands.
Squarely, evenly, the 1ahge cut it in
two-one-haIf fell outside the rail- one
half inside.
Kane snatched up one fragment, Hope
the other
A fash, a rustic, and the schemer
threw hi nself free Of the tracks on the
other side
When the train had passed he was no
where to be seen.
Gideon Hope stood glancing all about
the brightly illuminated switchboard.
Slipped me, eh?" he murmured. But
only for a time I have clipped his wings
Il have robbed him Of his power-half
the two hundred and fifty thousand dol
Iars,n And he waved the severed bank
notes. ~ part, waste paper-and with
out money what is he? A skulking. help
less DegEdE ."Itfty FNduts u Dliti ftSDitts
IL you choose, but you are beaten. mine
/ shall ruin the game in the end "
At daylight Gideon Hope was his old
eold, critical, calculating self.
Reason had succeeded to the furious
-eign of passion and recklessness. lie felt
that he held the reins of fate scurely in
his grasp. He had modified his plans. at
the sane time giving reinforcement to the
power that must eventually enmesh and
drag to justice the fugitive, Kane.
A score Of trusty. willing aides-those
same who has assisted in overthrowing
the political ring of the state-were now
secretly, diligently searching for a trace of
Kane.
He could not go far-a beggar-IIope
realized. and after setting his new pro-
iects at work he calmly reflected over the
labor done. the final results attaining
from the closing up of all the strange
..)rs he had woven to ruin his enemy and
-ss.tore to his rights the duped Albert IRE
maine and his beautiful daughter, Claire.
Ali a new inspiration filed the mans
soul as be comprehended that brisk. bright
morning that he could go to Claire and
inform her that accident-or rather sub
terfuge-had brought Kane to bay, and
no longer need she continue her hateful
part, nor her father remain in obscurity.
True, no tangible evidence sought for
had been discovered by Claire that would
surely incriminate Kane in the Everett
Hope murder. But had he not con
fessed."
And Gideon Hope shuddered now as he
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