Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11

tween two men on the platform Buckler saw
but concealed his recognition of the interchange.
He followed Reach's swift stride down the track
past the end of a string OF gravel cars the
siding, and along in their frightening shadows up
the last rise toward the camp. 1t twilight
their side of the peak now and far off the
green valley below them the young moon just
up over the distant pillows of wooded hills
TT was just they rounded the end of the standing
string of cars that man stepped out on the track
ahead of them and stopped He seemed to have
from the farther side of the gravel train and to
have been hurrying He put up his hand to halt them.
,rsh! Wait! he said, With show of seeretiveness
He did not know the man on the track: but it was
enough that Reach seemed to-
Lawler' said the Sheriff.
"That's me, answered the other. You're after
Bart Finney, amt you? heard you ask over at the
station, and | hurried to catch YOU here. They'd
foreman rushed Finney off down the mountain in the
old mans automobile Just before YOU come. He's
gone to catch the westbound overland express at
Hart tonight They found out you was comm and
Bane happened to be here, and
Reach turned to Bucller. Gave the Slip he
said, with the brightness of swift thought in his
here to catch it! Last train gone. Express leaves
in less an hour from now!'' He stopped.
Bucller's mind the possibilities
swiftly. 1t looked hopeless. There's the telephone
They've probably taken of that answered
the Sheriff; but We'll try it,
LAWYER stirred. nedTQ EN- say q Few minutes
ago that they couldn't get Hart any more tonight"
he said significantly
'An right" Reach answered. Then to Vance
Try, he said. If you get 'e1n, Rector call on
my deputy the constable to act. If you don't get
'em, he paused instant, then looked up toward
the camp, well have look around, anyway"
Before he reached the little station again. Buckler
sure he would find the telephone out of commits
sion. He did. Morton all regrets and eXplana-
tons but the fact remained that message could
be got through He was very voluble; but he sud
denly stopped talking when Buckler turned from the
useless phone. The tall young lawyers face
white and his Jaw set; and the loungers stepped
smiling out of his way as he left the building.
Reach, he said when he met the other waiting
by the gravel cars I'm afraid I'd hurt Villas Bane
but hoo it down to Hart and try what the wires
will do toward stopping Finney. We get to Hart
about daylight with luck
standing very still Lawler had left him. He
seemed hardly to listen to the lawyers words, and
looked at him with curious lack of responsiveness
"What's the matter?' asked Vance. ''Anything
more?''
I'm wondering" answered Reach slowly
whether we've got enough between to
start of them miracles talking about
awhile back
AS he spoke he turned and looked up specuativelv
at the turning black in the dusk, and sud
den excitement leaped again In Bucklers brain
Theres Just way to beat Villas Bane's
down into Hart, the Sheriff went deliberately,
and that's by runaway train"
He very quiet about it. Buckler could not see
his face distinctly now; but he that the
question of nerve for such an undertaking was put
For instant the notion of the thing made the
skin on his back chill. He fool to act without
thought. That long, steep winding way down the
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