The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-08

He padded along slowly. feeling his way. scraping alongside the big barges which delivered coal from the distant mines. At last he found an opening and pushed through. A moment later they were riding under the stern of a broad cargoless Large, plumb up against the water tapped piles of the dock
 Standing in the bow of the boat, he managed to pull himself up over the slippery edge. It was the work Of a second to draw her up after him. He gave the boat mighty shove. sending it out into the stream once more.
 In few minutes loud curses came from the river. proclaiming the fact that .he pnrsuers had found the empty boat. Afterward they were to learn that Newport's shouts mad brought 8 boat load of .aen from the opposite bank. headed by the innkeeper. in whose place Lorraine was to have en- countered Marlanx later on. if plans had not misrarried.
 By this time King had located the open space which undoubtedly afford
  from the dock to the company's yards inside the walls. Without hesitation he drew her after him up this wide. sinister roadway.
 The pursuers were trying for land- ing. noisily. even boisterousiy. 1t struck Truyton as queer that these men were not afraid of alarming the t1tS [ f,aAss n Ssh the gate above. Suddenly it came to him that there would be no one there to oppose the landing of the miscre- ants. No 0Uubt hundreds of men ai- ready had stolen through these gates during the night. serreting themselves in the fastnesSes of the city, ready for the morrow's fray.
 They rushed up the narrow railway chutes and through one of the nutner- ous gate ways that opened out upon the barge docks. No one oplr,sed them- No one was standing guard. From be hind came the sound of rushing foot steps. Lightning flashed iD the sky. and the rumble of thunder broke over the desoiale night.
 They'll see us by t1e lightning" gasped Truxton almost ready to drop from faintnrss and exhaustion.
 Following vivid flash of lightning. two shots were fired by the men who were now plunging up through the gates. a hundred yards or more away. The same flash of lightning showed to King the narrow. muddy street that stretched ahead of thein. Instead Of doing the obvious thing he turned sharply to shs left. between the lines of freight cars. Their progress was slow.
 At last they came to the end of their rope. They were literally up against the great city wall.
 car door stood open in front of them. He waited for second flash of lightning to reveal to him the na- ture of it's interior It was quite emp ty. Without hesitation he cian,bered in and pulled her up after him. They fell over on the floor. completely flag ged.
 A few minutes later the storm broke. He managed to close the door against the driving torrents.
 We've fapled them he managed to whisper close to her ear. They won't look here. You're safe. Lorraine. Cad. I'd like to see any one get you away from me now!
 She pressed his arm. Then she was fast asleep.
 He sat with his back against the side of the car. pistol in one hand. the other lying tenderiy upon the drent.h- ed hair of the girl whose head ted upon his leg. She had slipped down from his shoulder He did not have the desire or the energy to prevent it. Manfully as he had fought against the impelling desire to sleep. he could not beat it off His last waking thought was of the effort he must make to reach Dangloss with the warning. Gro be continued)