The Washington times., 1910-01-25
ALBERT PAYSOf. TERHUNE

Gus pleasantly. He asked me for a
l seat in my wagon and I gave him leave
70 take a nice joy ride with me as Tar
/ as he liked"
shut upl'' ordered the other. "A
i murders nothing 10 joke about
] Murder grunted Matthews, Gee
/ y on don't sayl Who's killed.
| But the other had evidently gone, and
/ the driver started reluctantly onward
} At his blautant joke my blood had
stood still ] had escaped from the
/ hotel Now ] found myself IN little
1 letter case Whittier was ne driving me
/ IN that numbering. spr1nSless vehicle
I whose every jolt almost overturned meE
] To the city market2 If so, / was even
/ now riding TO Surer capture than II 1
1 had taken my chances u escape ia the
( open street To the country where his
( truck farm VASE Possibly But even
80. now that he knew the hotel fugitive
I was wanted Tor so serious q charge
! as murder could hope he would shield
meg
] Al any rate was moderately safe
for the moment 7 could not plan my
/ next move until I knew my destination
/ 30 j fell unCOusClOuslv TO pieCinE out
] the fragments Of what had just Oc-
/ CURED.
J Brock had, Of course, told SiEuorina
( TCTu OF my supposed part ia the kill
| them BlaJchfOrd WaS summoned and
put upon my trail To better the
/ chances OF conviction the bit Of caves
/ dropping was arranged wherein the
] slEnorlna was to lure me into a coz
/ fessi0n-
And I had witIess-y bIuudered into
/ the whole well set trap Even should
I by miracle escape immediate capture.
l my role was all at once changed from
I JhIJ OF amateur detective 90 hunted fU-
/ ElsIve- There could be no more search
/ Tor the bonds Nothing now but con-
/ slant flight.
! Huddled behind rIy shaky barricads
/ under the interior Of the cart, / had
/ naturally no way whatever Of guess
/ ing whittier We might be going
As time Jagged on. and the plOddinE
/ progress Of the mules continued I'm
/ checked, 7 became convinced We were
/ not bound for the market BY my
] calculation we must have passed that
/ point some minutes earlier
/ / managed TO Ish out my watch from
4 my WaisICOat pocket Ten minutes past
4 nine We had been travelling for fully
I half an hour. More than time enough
10 reach the market And the know
/ ledge gave me relief. since Il meant q
! momentaTy respite
/ Were we on our way 20 the suburbs
I 10 some ya-d where the wagon was
( stored or 20 one Of the truck farm dis
. JriCts out IN the country
I The wagon i0lted on for another enc
: less period I had strained my ears
I 10 catch some sound from outside that
: might indicate our direction As the
mules hOOfs had not re-echOed over any
I long bridge knew We would not be
( headed for virginia To Maryland
g tlens IN all probability Or
! A distant booming 8 -Un1 reached my
/ ears The mules heard it. too For
/ they moved faster and one OF them
/ Suor-ed nervOUsly-
= leaned back, assured OF our where
( abOuts- For the far-otf sound was the
! roar or q Hon . EnSE u came from
/ the great Zoo, and that we must,
! therefore, be on the Chevy Chase road,
: travelling nOrthwestvar I'd through south
! ern Maryland
{ I knew Washington well. and the sur
rounding country too This much was
in my favor. When. some time later
& we turned In At q gateway and Cre2lzeu
down q lane. therefore had some sen
/ eral idea as TO our whereabouts
The cart cover brushed against the
oveThanginE caves Of shed; then the
mules stopped
I could hear him embarrassing his
beasts Of burden and leading them one
by one TO a nearby stall
I had my plan ready I would be sun
until the dying away o. his footsteps
I should tell me ne had gone from the
+ barn 10 his house, which could not De
. very far away Then 7 would steal
forth from my place Of COuCealment and
seek. better shelter IN the nearest patch
A distant door slammed open and a
shrill feminine voice called
your dinners ready Jake. Hurry
4 up or itu get cold
J Matthews from the shed as soon as /
Eer these baT'ls and things out OF the
MS fingers were busy with the can
vas that hung down TO the IallDoarc-
T f1mped from the cart-tau TO the
( ground meaning 10 dash past him into
{ the open But my legs. cramped by
long uumbinE inGHtioDr doubled under
I me- and down tumbIed on both knees
at the burIv farmers very feet
( If his hat had changed into q goat
Z Matthews could scarce have been taken
/ more rNnpIetelv aback than by this
a
I man shooting bodily out OF the cart and
down onto the ground before him
/ J scrambled to my feet to confront his
. hulEinE eyes and gaping jaw he was
. between me and the entrance TO the
I shed 10 hope now for a rush to
J safety Even should 7 get past him &c
. would only be after a sharp tussIe
1 whose noise might bring a dozen farm
/ hands about us
/ .-JumDin' jerusalem he calculated.
/ ''Where'd YOU come come FROM
+ i've been your passenger" 7 an
/ sv-ered pleasantly. "and I'd like to set
+ tie with Won for the ride Would 81"
/ Hold on he broke in. his rustic
/ mind working at last That canvas at
/ the back amt been united since left
{ the Arlington You must - got in
I theret You're the felier they're after
/ for murder That's who YOU areI''
[ IF I an" I replied calmly, what IS
/ that to you2 Let me pay you for the
/ ride and start on my way
! Nothing dCtnRt' he yelled. excitetdly.
Z here LGHdENlE 1DI LllE CdALCIlLLlg
/ criminals And Tn going 70 win this
Z one =
'SYou'u have to catch ne hrstrr I
/ clustered And by the time you get
me OveTpOwered you may not be IN
/ shape to claim any reward"
/ His answer was sharp peculiar
whistle
We were too far from the house for
I its sound to reach thitheT. and I had
seen no IabOrer around the shed So I
was at 2 loss TO understand the signal
Hence 7 resisted my first impulse to
/ spring upon the man and try 10 over
power him and escape before help could
3 come
II is well that~I did For before he
+ could repeat the whistle the heavy pad
ding of feet was heard Around the
/ corner Of the shed trotted the most
1 vilIainOuS looking. CrOssbTed brute OF a
3 bulldog II had ever been my III luck TO
& see
Dirty white. with massive shoulders.
/ uuderShOt Jaw and red SuTly eyes. he
/ was the sort Of cur pictured in comic
/ papers as freeing the tramp
/ I invOluntariIy glanced about me for