Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-11-04

around her. She peered forth cauti-
ously upon it.. She saw a ford face,
a woman she knew casually-and
there her eyes fastened, not for the
woman's brilliant presence, but for
what she saw directly in front of it,
thrown into relief upon it's background
"a short and shabby figure, foreign,
%equivocal, reticent, the figure of a
blue-eyed Chinaman.
He was standing still while the
crowd flowed past him. This time he
was alone. He seemed to be waiting,
yet not to watch, as If he had already
seen what he was expecting and knew
that it must pass his way. 1t was I'M
canny, his temperance, at a second
interval of her route, standing as if
he had stood there from the first, pa
tent, expectant, motiOnless. It was
worse than uncanny.
All at once an idea, wild and illog-
ical enough, jumped up in her mind.
Couldn't this miserable vehicle that
was numbering like a disabled bug
move faster and rattle her on out of
reach of the glare, the publicity, the
threat of discovery, and, o all, OF
her discomforting notion?
She thrust her head far out and ad-
dressed the driver.
GO as fast as you can, faster! and
I'll give you twice what he gave you"
The words rang so wildly to her wv
ears that she half expected the driver
to peer down like an old bird Of prey
from his perch and demand her rea-
son. But he made no sound or sign.
Ia $1,000 hox,o honn fhot in hiS time he
had heard ever wilder requests than
hers. He only sent his whip cracking
forward to the ears of the lean horse,
and the cal began to rattle like a mad
thing.
Flora leaned back with a sigh Of re
lief. The mere sensation Of being
borne along at such a rate, the sight
of houses, lamp-pOsts, even people
here and there, fitting away from the
eve, unable to interrupt her course, Oh
even to glimpse her identity, ave hel
a feeling of safety. The more she
was getting into the residence par
of the city, the more deserted the
streets the closer shut the windows
of the houses, the more it seemed tt
her as if the night itself covered ant
abetted her fight. So swiftly she
went it was only a wonder how tn
cab held together. She had neve,
travelled more rapidly in her light anC
silent carriage. Now they whirled tn
corner and plunged at the steep ris'
OF a cross street. Just above, owe
the crown of the hill, she saw the sky
moonless, blackish, spattered wit
stars. Then against it a little futtel
ing shape like a sentinel wisp-th
, only living thing In sight. 1t was il
credible, impossible, horrible that b
should be there, in front Of her, wait
ing for her who had driven so fast
: too fast, it had seemed, for huma
foot to follow. By what ~unimaginabl
: route had be travelled? She was read
to believe he had flown ver tn
f h~ousetops. And above all other hol
: rors. why was he pursuing her?
r The carriage was abreast the Chini
man now, and Immediately he took u
his trot, for a little while keeping u
! lodging along between light an
t shadow, presently falling behind. :
s intervals she heard the patter, pate
h patter of his footsteps following;
9 Intervals she lost the sound, an
ado would engulf the figure, an
e she would wait in a panic for its rea
al For she knew it was thel
somewhere, on one side of the sire
or the other. But, oh, not to see /
To expect at any moment II mig