The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05

It's escape painted In their face. IT was
riding wildly. swaying from side to side;
the pursuing machine, purring gently,
glided up to It Then the two were
riding as II tandem. Harry could see
the four men in It bending forward, the
two in the rear with teeth crunched into
smoldering cigars. He shouted the
TWO men turned and almost in his face
they laughed.
They held the advantage. The road,
sunk deep and stretching like long
scar across the face of the plateau, was
wide enough only for one. On both sides
1t was bordered by boulders and hum
mocks of sage and mesquite. BY keep
ing to the centre and zlgzagging slightly
at the wider places. they were as a mo-
bile barrlcade. Harry, now possessed
OF a blind loyalty TO the obscure enter
prise, swore mouth crowdlng desert
oath under his breath.
But the little woman at his side merely
murmured a short phrase in her muff.
The chauffeur nodded. his teeth glittered
in dlabolical grin, and with move
ment of his shoulders he threw the
steering wheel sharply to the right.
Harry suddenly rose up in the air.
For a moment he had Of the machine
beneath him vivid birdseye view, then
he descended back upon it, But the
seat was no longer the softly vibrating
cushion to which he had become accus-
toned during the last hour. 1t was a
bucking bronco now. Up 1t came, stiff
backed. just as he met 1t, and he was
thrown forward.
He clutched the front seat, but i'm
mediately he was jerked away and
banged up against the door TO his left
he seized that-and, his arms almost out
Of their sockets. found himself clear
across on the other side. He tried to
stand; a hand heavy as lead placed it.
self upon his head and with a calm
Irresistible pressure bore him down.
Then just as he was becoming resigned
to this position an invisible but ener.
getic foot kicked him up again. Awed
he lay down; for a while he swashed tC
and fro at the bottom OF the tonneau
as II In the deck wash OF a ship on its
beam ends; and then, like music, there
came again to his ear the smooth puri
Of the machine and they were floating
as II upon sea of oil.
When he got up he found. to his stupe
faction, that his companion was curlet
up in her corner as II she had nevel
left It, He looked behind, and bacl
along the road the white automobile wa
disappearing in a cloud of dust. From
II, In clear high tenor a single parting
malediction noated To ;ien,--and then |
dropped off into the shlmme ring night
The road stretched ahead lihs colder
ribbon which the machine wound VI
within itself indcfatigably. Al times
heightened over the desert in long zig
zags; the machine swept into each witt
a swtrve 50 imperceptible that It seeme
not they who were thus lacking over tn
face Of the earth but the moon to tn
right, which was swinging across tn
, sky like a great censor. Lulled by tn
, soft rush of air Harry closed his eyes
A torpor. sweet with vague sense O
, companionship, stole over him.
But soon a fluid Of excitement ema
mating from those about him straight
> ened him up, wld. awake. \ few
/ hundred yards ahead was another auto
mobile, red monster filled with men
In series of elastic leaps the machin
5 devoured the distance between and tn
! two were whirring along as II TIED