Twice-a-week plain dealer., 1909-10-26

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~ checked in Difference to the
street traffic. Brentwicll's mo-
4 n tor car rolled. with resonant
humming of the engine down the
Cromwell road, swerved into Warwick
road and swung northward through
Kensington to Shepherds Bush. Be
hind it Calendars car clung as il tow
ed by an invisible cable. never gain
ing. never losing.
To some extent he reckoned without
his motor car AS long as they trav-
eled within the metropolitan limits.
constrained to observe Il decorous pace
in view of the prejudices of the coun-
ty council, it was matter of no diff
Guilty whatever to maintain his dis
tance But once they had won through
Shepherds Bush and, paced by huge
double deck trolley trans. were flying
through Hammersnlith on the Tx
bridge road-once they had run through
now they were without the city bound
aries-then the complexion of the busi-
ness was suddenly changed
Not too soon for honest sport Cal
endar was to have QNirkwood would
have said in lurid American idiom) Il
run for his money. The scattered
lights of Southall were winking out
behind them before Brentwick chose
to give the word to the mechanician.
Quietly the latter threw in the clutch
irI l1n fourth
The car leaped forward like Il startled
race horse The motor lifted merrily
| into it's deep throated song of the opel
road, its contented, silken humming
passing into Sonorous and sustained
pur.
Kirkwood and the gir! We're frs
| Jared violently forward. then thrown
together. She caught his arm t.
steady herself. 1t seemed the mos
natural thing imaginable that b,
should take her hand and pass it be
meath his arm, holding her so. his fin
gers closed above her own. Befor
they had recovered or had time t
catch their breath Il mile of Middlese.
had dropped to the rear.
Not quite so far had they distances
Calendars trailing Nemesis of the fou
glaring eyes. The pursuers put fort
q gallant effort to hold their place. A
intervals during the first few minute
heavy roaring and crashing could b
heard behind them. Gradually it sui
sided, diving on the wings of the FIRE
rushing wind that buffeted their face
as mile after mile was reeled off an
the wide, darkling English countrysid
opened out before them. sweet an
wonderful.
Once Kirkwood looked back. In th
winling of an eye he saw four fade
disks of light, pallid with despair. to
distant rise and glide down int
darkness. When he turned Doroth
was interrogating him with eyes who's
melting, shadowed loveliness, reveale
to him in the light of the far, sti
stars, seemed to incitc him to til;
madness which he had bade himse
resist with all his strength.
He shook his head as if to sa,
"They cannot catch u.s."
His hour was not yet. Time enoug
to think of love and marriage (as
he We're capable of consecutive thougl
on any other subjecD-time enough
think of them when he had gone bac
to his place. or. rather, when he shou
have found it. in the ranks of brea
winners and so have proved his rigl
to mortal happiness; time enoue
then to lay whatever he might hay
!, to offer at her feet. Now he cou
conceive of no baser treachery to h
souls desire than to advantage himse
Of her gratitude.
Perhaps she guessed a little Of tt
fortunes of the battle that was beil
waged within him perhaps nt
Whatever the trend of her thought
she did not draw away from hil
Presently the silken lashes droope
fluttering upon her cheeks. The tirt
and happy smile lowered about her liz
In something less than half an ho
of this wild driving Kirkwood rous
out of his reverie sufficiently to |
come sensible that the speed w
slackening. Incoherent snatches
sentences, fragments of words a
phrases spoken by Brentwick and t
mechanician. were flung back past |
ears by the rushing wind. Shie!di
his eyes, he could see dimiy that t
mechanician was tinkering t,iparel
ly) with the driving gear. Then. thu
pace continuing steadily to abate,
heard Drpntwick fin" at the man