Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-02

lleht- A surface car SWOoped down upon
them and past, making night hideous with
gong and drumming trucks. and drowning
Anisty's response. For which reason he
chose to repeat it. with added emphasis.
You try it on. my lady, and see what
happens
ceeded after waiting a moment. But
you're not going to be such a fool. You
have no pleasure in the prospect of seeing
the inside of the Tombs yourself. and be-
sides you ought to know me we'll enough
to know. 80
WHAT" she breathed, in spite of her
self
Anisty folded his arms thrusting the
right hand beneath his coat.
Maitland got only one of my guns" he
announced. ironically He'd We got the
contents of the other only he chose to
play the fool and into my hands. Now
guess you UNDERSTANDABLE turning his
head he fixed her with an inf1axible glare.
chill and heartleSs as steel-'that one
squeal out of you will be the last Oh.
I've got no scruples: arrest to me means
a living death. III take shorter course.
by preference and-Ill take you with me
for company"
"You-you mean you would shoot meor
she whispered, incredulous.
Like a dog" he returned with unc-
ton
You. a man. would-would shoot a
woman
GU re MOI d woman. my IdOy. you re
crook. Just as I'm not a man. I'm a
crook We're equals. sexless. soulless
You seem to have overlooked that. ANA
teurs often do. ." = Tonight l made you
fair proposition, to play square with me
and profit. You chose to be naughty
Now you see the other side of the pic
ture.
Bravado? Or deadly purpose? How
could she tell? Her heart misgave her;
she crushed herself away from him as
from some abnormally vicious. loathly
reptile.
He understood this. and regarded her
with a confident leer, inscrutably strong
and malevolent.
And there is one other reason why you
will think twice before making a row.
he clinched his case IF you did that
and / weakly permitted the police to nab
and walk us off, the business would get
in the papers-your name and all. and
whatd Maitland think of you then, my
lady? What'd he think when he read
that Dan Anisty had been pinched on
Broadway in company with the little
woman he'd been making eyes at-whom
he vas going. in his fine. manlike way. to
reach down a hand to and yank up out
of the gutter. and redeem and-and all
that slush? Eh?''
And again his low evil laugh made her
shudder. Now you won't risk that.
guess, all right.
She was dumb stupefied with misery.
He turned upon her sharply
"WellP"
Her lips moved in soundless assent
lips as pallid and bloodless as the wan
young face beneath the small, incon-
spicuous hat.
J The man grunted impatiently yet was
satisfied. knowing that he had her now
completely under control-a condition not
hard to bring about in a woman who
like this. was worn out with physical ia
tigue and overweight with nervous
strain. The cond tions had been favor
able the result was pre-eminently COM
Portable. She would give him no more
trouble.
The hansome swerved suddenly across
the car tracks and pulled up at the curb.
Anisty rose with an exclamation of relief
and climbed down to the sidewalk, turn
ing and extending a hand to assist the
girl
Come he sad, imperatively. We've
no time to waste
For an instant only she harbored a
| fugitive thought of resistance: then his