The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-06-16

and went out slamming the door. l stood with
arm appraised till his echoing footsteps died away.
then l flung myself face down on the bed and
cried myself to sleep like a little child. - !lEA
WHEN awoke it was pitch dark; for "a long
w while lay trying to think; bit by btI remem-te
bered and pieced together the preceding fouri
hours. So it to be Wallace Ceder not Jack, '
who rode in the great race. That Wallacegshould 6
be chosen to fill mechanican's vacant paceae
was not odd. Wallace who stood second atllsct :"
me in reputation for efficiency. Then began &df
wonder drowsily, stupidity whom hadly D Raietls
found for my place, and for a ;moment1I hopedt
venomously that he who to sit ina my seat
might fail utterly. But then remembered that
D'Rael must win to prevent my becoming athDeE
"a thef-the old torture recommended. ciButaH
knew how to drown all that, and91 hurried Z
feverishly down to the saloon. sat 7at a. little
table in the grimy back room, and drank raw
liquor in gulps must forget-at least unt' AFTER
the accused race. The table top gently ttG
ward me and l put my head comfortably upon 1T
and closed my eyes that L might not see things
spin around. 1t was very pleasant so;1t dFeams,1
gaily colored, warm, musical dreams glowed3with-s
in my head; and then heard fara off 1.-The
tnkle Of glasses at the front room bar;enow and
then far off, laugh. Voices there werea voices
faint, nearer and nearer, till they seemed,
right above and and again heard ai word
and tried to raise my head to protest. -a+s' -
wreck the leading foreign cars - asiEN--at
wagon from cross road y y ''-last iap,ac
"-bouuuets--" A waiter shook
me angrily by the shoulder, then dragged me- to-
my seat, and pushed me, resisting maudlin1y to's
party of sitting around table talking excits
edly, pounding the table with his fist and
shouting, "No American car can win unless some
thing happens to them foreign. devils. We've made
a fool bet" Then / pushed violent1ya7out OF.
the door and spun round several times before
sat down heavily the pavement. I got to my
feet unsteadily and looked with blurring eyes
up the long dusky vista of a. shadowed street
with the lighted saloon windows making pale;,'in
frequent spotches in the black perspective aoft
buildings My head still whirled with fragments
Of 1rnn ordy 9ndh nEQn PQC
few of which repeated themselves until they grip
ped my wandering attention: Wreck the foreign
cars'-'wagon from the cross road CROPPED
through of words which l tried to con-
meet. A big touring whrled around the cor
ner it's muffed occupants huddled in the tonneau.
"To the race" l thought bitterly.
A ND then like a provision, there evolved from
the nebuous of dreams and mperfectly
heard phrases picture of horses and wagon, car
and men piled in hdeous writing heap to
be crashed into by another car and yet another;
and at the bottom of the CHASTITY mound would be
DRaiel and buried with him would be my chance
to restore the stolen five thousand dollars. Even
the place was clear-a place we'll remembered
in practice runs-"Kays" had heard, Rays cross
roads of oh, l saw the whole diabolical
scheme now, how wagon to be driven unex
pectedly from lonely crossroad on the course in
order to wreck the foreign and permit an
American car struggling in fourth or fifth place to
win the wagers of those feHds in the saloon.
/ began to run in shambling fashion, my head
clearing from the shock and with the cool late
night air To DrRaiel Of his danger was
clearly my course, but with that purpose there
doubt that to rack me until be
came dizzied weather-cock of indecision at one
moment certain that had really heard a genuine
plot and that l alone could avert the doom Of the
foreign cars; the next moment was equally Ger
tain but remembered mad, brandyinspired hal
lucination But | kept on running and PRESENT..
boarded crowded cross-town car for the ferry
stepped off the into a maestrom of people ant
was engulfed before my foot had touched tn
ground. The rush of the crowd caught me VI
and / became in a moment of the pushing
shufng, gasping throng. There. need t
think, a cooperative brain was at work and b
it urged to desperate haste and we rushe
helter-skelter through the station and into tn
boat where crowded far forward poss
BILE and then stood uncomfortably in compresse
mass. Then silence. Everybody must have com
companionless; two people chartered togethe