Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-05-28


~ 7ssse5 rs hznd across his face;
- SIN seemed dared Haynes
r,ove5 aside ard LEI him see his re-
aectiou. In the mirror Erstehea
tramp. mud splashed and ragged
stared hack AZ Chzrte-1s- The g1oss
shook his head Ike q bal. vent near,
made motions with his hands and
arms and suddenly. with fearful cTy
COLLAPSED insensible a. Haynes feet
The train was moving Al 10 more
tssn eight miles an hour. for the en-
CINE vas pufing near the summit OF
the hin Prom his post u TIE SD
the engine-driver vas watching ne
track for obstacles. While the Two
armed guards shivered and elapPed
their arms across their breasts
Noiselessly Haynes crept 70 the
4 front platform. lesped TO the ground
and reached for the couplings His
/ task vas one which few men could
have accomplished. But il the loneil-
ness Of the penitentary Haynes nao
Z developed the muscles Of his rlgnt
arm into those Of giant, before ne
I had invented his machine. and while
T he vet dreamed Of physical vengeance
4 upoA his enemies. As the train poised
i itself upon the top Of the hill, almost
immovable. waiting 10 make the down
ward plunge. Haynes uncoupled me
4 engine and leaped back into the car
The engine leaped forward. freed OF
the car. and raced wildly down the
( long slope which dipped toward the al
kali country. For half dozen miles
nothing could stay her fight II
would be half al hour before she could
I sporti1gly puff backward 10 the sum
nit again. and then the car, rushing
backward along that swift descent
would lie buried beneath the waters
OF the Blue River that would receive
her when she left the track al the
, turn below.
But that was not yet TO be. For,
barring the way. buzzing like g oee'
the little gyrosrope runabout nobly
bore ND against the weight Of the de-
scendjng car Had the latter obtained
more impetus before encumbering her,
the rsnabout would have been crushed
like an eggsheIl, broken though never
moved from her place until her frame
suraug into fragments. But now, Win
this slow. dead weight leaning against
her breast, the gyroscope only mum
med and crooned its song Of victory |:
and there they clung, the car and the
motor car. locked in that struggle N
which neither could gain yard The
car stood still.
HAYNES took the unconscious judge
nv the arms and dragged him on the
car into the snow. The fan hao
ceased: the cold was terrible upon the
mountains. II might have been TWEEN
+v.fye below zero. il might have been
! more. The rags which the judge wore
might a. well have been wrappings Oh
straw.
The fearful cold, penetrating to the
hone. reused him from his faint
HAYNES pulled him 10 his feet and,
propping him against the platform q
the car, stood over him
once there was q corrupt Judge.
ha said with slow and terrible precf
sion. Sworn to do gnstlee and uphold
b the law, he plundered the poor, pli
LACED the strong. and wrought mus
tice. Once. in the loneliness Of
\ cell to which he had consigned him
one Of the victims swore TO kill thai
man. whose name was Charters And
having so sworn he would not bTeaE
4 his oath.
But Charters has outwitted him.
HAYNES continued TO the covering
h Judge. He died before his victim
ii vengeance fell He died in that car
n ten minutes ago. in a drunken SUM
II her And so mis- victims vengeance
has been rendered useless and all bis
schemes OF no avail
@But in his place stands one who
ia soon to learn what Charters taught
so many other poor souls who stood
before him. confident in the honor and
majesty Of the law which he betrayed
II is Dan Clancy who now waltz mere
in the Mace of Charters TO receive his
punishment That punishment win be
life IMPRISONMENT. for it was he who
killed Judge Charters. and ID tnis
= state. by lucky chance, there Is nc
: capitsl punishment Clancy" be con
:. timed with an abrupt change Of man
ner. YOU can live half an hour. and
not much more. in this temperature
= In half an hour the guards who are
now on that engine will be back Make
= yourself known TO them and they vii
spare you, warm you, feed you. and
!. convey you TO q place where you vii
!, never be cold again
He left the man in the snow and
IL stepped into the runabout With 4
u turn of the wheel and pressure Of the
IN spring. he backed her. steered hel
from the path Of the released car. and
Ia guided her to the roadbed Just as the
K. latter. freed from its support. rolled
81 forward. II sped on down the grade
r. gathering momentum. till the roadbet
vjbrated. ratified onward and down
.. ward. the noise OF its progress grow
10 ing fainter and fainter till only the
$. least sound remained. Above the
,e watchers waited in breathless silence
There came a crash. roar from fal
a below: then the splash Of cascade Of
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