The Washington times., 1913-11-27
THE DAILY SERIAL

| covery Of having aided me. would be
! cad to permit it. Good night"
He swiftly crossed the space that
( separated them from the park wal,
| vaulted it, and disappeared.
| Katherine watched him go, saw him
! leap the barrier and pass out of sight
! beyond it.
| Even then, for a space, she sat ST.
| lently regarding the point where the
| Night Wind had disappeared. But, pres
! emily, with something very much like a
| sigh, she closed the door of the car,
seized the signal-cord and pressed the
| plunger at the end of it in a way that
| Indicated home"
Inside the park, concealed by the
| shrubbery that surrounded him, Bing-
4 ham Harvard was suddenly conscious
| of the terrific strain he had been under
| since Rushton's attack upon him, and
| the slight, though somewhat telling
| wound he had received as conse-
| Quence. The broken rib ached. The
| unimportant flesh wound smarted: Ev-
| cry muscle of his body seemed odIy 10
protest against the calls he had made
! upon them
He was tired. Already the gray ap-
| proach of dawn was chasing away the
| shadows Of night which were so neces-
| sary to his liberty. And he had no place
to lay his head.
| That room in the Seventies which he
| had taken and where he had hoped 70
| remain for a few days at least was no
/ longer a haven for him. He must seek
I elsewhere for resting place, and al
ready the obscurity of night with It's
deeper shadows to conceal him, was
gone. He smiled grimly at the predica,
! mment he was in. touched his wounded
, side tentatively with hesitating fnsers,
coughed lightly in the hope to reassure
himself that the pleura had not been IN
jured-and became instantly CONSCIOUS
nf raQI NH
him that 1t had been. The fact was not
to be denied.
needless >of paths and Travelled ways.
He came out at Seventy-seeond street
crossed Fifth avenue, and presently
boarded northbound Madison avenue
car. He rode in the vestibGle occupied
by the motorman, and got down again
at one Hundred and Twenty-fourth
He walked onward slowly to One
Hundred and Twenty-fft street and
jumped upon a westbound crosstown
car. But in doing so he passed a police,
man. who peered Guriously al hin'' ana
then turned upon his heel.
The Night Wind was not deceived. He
knew that the officer had recognized
him, or at least believed that he had
done so.
car. Harvard was convinced Of 1t He
saw the policeman climb into the front
vestibule of an Amsterdam avenue car
that followed closely behind the cross
town, and he knew that no uniformed
officer on duty would dare to abandon
his post save on a matter of grave i'm
portance, and in the utmost extremity.
So. again he had been recognized:
For the third time within few hours
he was to be hunted like an animal
for the Night Wind also Knew, by impli-
cation. but none the less certainty, that
the policeman who had boarded that
car that was following after him had
managed somehow to pass the word
along of the discovery he had made be-
Bingham realized that telephones
would be working. that word would be
sent ahead of him, and that the car
upon which ,s,ISss,sa he was q passenger was
And now 1t was broad dayIsht Dark
ness. which had SO often stood his
friend at other times. had disappeared.
The hour was early. nevertheless. .
Comparativelv few people were abroad I
in the streets. The car he had taken |
was not signaled as often as the Fort |
George car that followed, and the con- |
sequence was that Il gradually drew |
ahead, so that when it came to a stop |
at the near side of Eighth avenue the |
pursuing car with the policeman aboard |
of il was lust crossing Seventh avenue
200 feet in the rear.
Ahead Of the Night Wind. a couple Of |
docks distant, WAS tne inIrly -sl&tu !
precinct station house in the West l25th |
street That would be the place to |
which warning messages would have |
been sent by telephone. He knew that |
it must be ayoided-or that the men
who would dash out Of 1t in search Ct
him must be outwitted.
Quick to realize the difficulties he
must encounter, as quick to meet and
to overcome them, Bingham sprang
from the car and went swiftly down
: ~, i
where he turned the corner to the right,
his intention being to seek the cover
afforded by Morningside Park in order
TO avoid his pursuers.
But at st. Nicholas avenue, which |
runs diagonally across the other streets
and avenues. fortune favored him. A
10th street car, westward bound, was
just passing, and he sprang aboard of it
without an instant hesitation.
1t happened that the car was well
filled with Italian laborers bound for
the 10th street ferry, and Edgewater,
and the fugitive easily lost himself !
among them. When the car crossed
l25th street. within sight of the police
station. Bingham could see some of the
signs of activity around il, doubtless
induced by the telephone messages that
he had SurmiSed
He saw more than that. The cross
town car in which he had been a pas-
senger few minutes before. had been
streets. and had only Iust
been permitted to proceed on its way.
Apparently ii did not occur to the
officers Of the law to search the 10th
street car. Perhaps il did not even re-
notely suggest itself to any of them
hat the Night Wind might have man
aged to board IL. At all events, II
passed on UNDECIDED, and so arrived at
he Fort Lee ferry.
Harvard anticipated more difficulties
here; but he could think of no better
way for him to follow than to risk the
erry. and so escape from the immediate
of the city while daylight
asted.
He got down from the car In the
midst OF the swarm of Italians. hunched
lis wide shoulders, pulled his hat down
,yer his eyes, carried his coat over his
urn as many of those around him did,
covered his. features as much as possible ,
With his handkerchief while pretending
TO blow his nose. and thus
passed upon the ferryboat unseen-as
lie supposed
But the handkerchief he pretended to :
lse so vigorously was much too white ,
or the company he was in. and there ,
we're sharp eyes watching that saw il,
wondered at II, and acted upon the sug- ,
,estion IL conveyed.
Fortunately the car had been a trifie
ate. The big gates were already closing
when Harvard dashed into the ferry
louse. He was among three or four !
# the last ones TO pass the waiting
DOM door which slammed close behind ,
hem.
The ratchets OF the mooring wheels