The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-11
The Trey O'Hearts
Romantic Taie By Louis Joseph Vance.
Copyright 1914 by Louis Joseph Vance.
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n !, Alan comes to New, York In search
Judith Surviving many desperate attempts
e. hts iite. Alan learns that Rose L being 9s
; a. train disguised a. solossd porter
Rose and Bareus with him n the eaboose Of
an es a.tre rdes bn IN the ea aheaa
CHAPTER LNIV.--THE FREIGHT.
Assuredly. indeed. success must
crown her efforts now! 1t was all so
easily ordered to her hand: she could
hardly fall
And already she had a plan. ;.
Coming II, she Rugged herself and
rocked to and fro In malicious glce,
binding herself deliberately to the
hideous business that might attend her
one thing only--the pledge she had re-
newed on her knees to her father
The whistle OF a locomotive over
taking the freight sounded the signal
Tor her TO take action on her cherished
plan.
Rising, she glanced out OF the open
loor a curve in the track below the
freight, laboring up steep grade,
snapied her to catch glimpse of
headlight. followed by string OF
ttFfn
car: the special. beyond doubt
without hesitation, since the train
was not running at speed. she dropped
cut to the ballast, wheeled smartly
about, caught the handbar at the end
Of the box car as II passed and swung
1erself up between 1t and the caboose.
tribe later the freight gained the
summit OF the grade and began to run
more smoothly.
Climbing to the top of the box car
ihc peered keenly through the gloam-
ns, which was not get 80 dense that
she might not discern two heads pro-
,ruding from the window of the
'peciais engine. one on either side.
AT venture. she snatched off her
:oat and waved II wildly in the air.
AN arm answered the signal from one
window OF the pursuing locomotive.
Marrophat, OF course!
She turned and pcercd ahead. The
reiBht WAS approaching a trcstle that
y,
So much the better,
Dropping down again between the
lars. she set herself TO solve the
= problem OF uncouplins the caboose.
IN this She was successful Just az
he last car rolled out on the trstle
It's own impetus carried the caboose
o the middle of the trestle before II
= topped.
AS this happened, Alan and Barcus.
'lready warned OF an emergency by
he slowing down of the car. and for
ono time alive to the fact that the
special was again in pursuit. leaped
nut upon the tics and helped Rose
alight
Already the last OF the freight WAS
vhisking of the trcstle. its crew thus
mr. unconscious of their loss
And behind them the special was
,lunging forward at undated speed
There was lno time to execute their
>lan OF the first despers:s{ instant
o run along the tics to safety on the
Folld earth: the distance was to great:
hey could not possibly make II. 't
With common impulse the two men
glanced down to the bottom OF the
gully. then looked at each other with
yes Informed by common Inspiration
Barcus announced in n breath:
Thirty feet-not more"
Alan replicd: Can you hold the
weight OF the two OF us for half a
minute"
night as wcll--even II can't
While speaking. he was lowering
himself between the ties.
"-All right" he announced briefly.
With word TO Rose. Alan slipped
lown beside Barcus. shifted his hold
10 the body of the latter. and climbed
Town over him until he was supported
ioieIy by the grasp OF his two hands
)n Barcus's ankles.
Instantly Rose followed him, slipping
ike n snake down over the two men till
she In turn hung by her grasp op
Alans ankles, then released her hold
md dropped tho balance OF the dis.
= ance to the ground, q scant ten feet.
anding without injury.
a thought later Alan dropped lightly
o her side, staggered n trife recovered
and dragged her out of the way.
Earcus fell with heavy thump aud
went upon his back. but demonstra ted
lis lack CT injury by Immediately pick
ng himself up and joining the others
II a mad scramble for safety
Overhead the special engine. hurting
onward like some titanic bolt, struck
the caboosc with a crash like the ex-
- ,losion of a cannon. 1t collapsed upon
tself like a thing of 2astehoard.
That II had been constructed OF more
solid stun. was abundantly proved by
he shower of timber. splnters pnd
broken iron that rained about the
reads of the fugitives.
For all that, the gods smiled upon
hem for their courage: they escaped
Without y scratch
Across the plain purple shadows were
sweeping. close-ranked. like some vast
lark army Invading the land, pouring
pm over the rampant of mountains in
he east.
The wash of scarlet that tinted the
sunset sky faded into mauve, which In
urn melted into a narrow band of pale
violet. Then the purple army over
COX and whelmed 1T. And 1t was
light
In the cloudless vault great stars
we're suspended like lamps. burning
With febrile brilliance, as II to make
he most of their brief hour of undis-
puted Sovereignty for at 9 the moon
would rise and dim them one and all.
Within the rim of hills that rlnged
he plain like the Clipped and broken
LANCE Of a titanic saucer. silence