Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-25

pretending the situation, tried to Crap
pie with the disguised fugitive.
Your game is up, Rivers!" he said
Better yield gracefully"
The other hurled him off, and made
nimbly for the door opening into the
hall.
Let him laugh who wins!" he an
swered, and vanished straightway up
the dark staircase. With convulsive
energy, Hazel grasped the arm Of her
husband.
Quick" she cried, come away-he
Is bent upon mischief. Don't follow
him!" for Heron was striving to reach
the stair. There is something wrong
in this house-I know feel that we
are in deadly peril here. Oh, If you
love me, come, come!"
Wild with terror, she dragged him
to the window. To pacify her, he step
ped out upon the terrace. Still her
white hands tugged at his arm-she
was colorless with some nameless fear.
"Farther-come farther away!" she
gasped, II cannot breathe here. Take
me home. Oh, If you would not have
me die, hurry-hurry!"
Unable to oppose her, he yielded in
silence. They ran down the terrace
like hares. He tried to take her In his
arms, but she resisted, and drew him
faster through the shrubbery. Not till
they reached the boundary-gate did
Hazel pause, even for breath. There
she fell helplessly on the arm of her
husband. What sent you to that
house?" she painted.
Gwen Talcott did not fetch you
home" he answered. Il grew anxious
and started across the Wolfsden
grounds, to look for you. When
reached the chestnut walk l heard
voices"
He would have killed me in a mo-
ment more!"
1.-The arch-scoundrel! Now We have
reached the gate, you see. Go straight
to Heroncroft, dearest, and let me turn
back, and secure George Langstroth
and hold him till the officers
He never finished the sentence. A
terrific explosion reverberated sudden
ly across the garden-a noise like the
crack Of doom. The very skies seemed
falling about their heads-underfoot
the ground trembled, as though ready
to yawn. Heron snatched his wife in
stinctively to his breast-she had hur-
ried him from Wolfsden just in time to
save both lives! What has occurred
Some frightful thing, he we'll knew
His servants came running down
through the Heroncroft garden. He
gave Hazel to their care, and rushed
back through the pines to Wolfsden
AS he gained the garden he looked
around. The old, dust-brown house
where was it? Gone, like a structure
of cards-blown, with everything in it
to a shapeless mass of ruin!
Two men had just reached the en-.
trance gate. Francis Heron went for
ward to meet them.
"You are looking for George Lanss-
troth," he said; you have tracked him
to this place; but you are too late-he
has escaped you-come and see!"
They would never knew whether he
had brought the terrible explosives tC
the house with him, or stored then
there at some previous time, as last
resort, when the hour Of exposure
should come. Nor, till the secret was
subsequently disclosed by old Sa
Bagley. did they guess that the motor
ious cracksman had not perished alone
Jaers inhumane mother, his evil help
mate, the partner of his guilt, wa:
also his companion in death. He hat
ascended to the Bluebeard chamber
under the roof-to. that woman, con-
fined there by himself, and unvisitet
since Bagley's sudden demise, and
perhaps by mutual consent, since es
cape was now impossible for either
the twain had perished together.