The Sentinel=record., 1914-11-29
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 "Oh, what can it mean?" Rose whis- pered brokenly, clinging to her lover's arm. Surely you don't think Q. Surely, 1t must be accidental .. Surely it can't mean"
 I'm afraid # does." Alan Law re- sponded gravely eyelng the front of the Mountain house. Our luck holds consistently-that' all It wouldn't be us if we didn't pick out the one place where Marrophat and Jimmy chose to stop over night. Fortunate ly it's early; l doubt they're up. With half a show we ought to be able 10 find some way of putting good distance between us and this town before they waken Tom
 But MT Barcus was already at his elbow, in thorough sympathy with Alan's interpretation of the signifi- canoe to be attached to the card that trembled in Roses hand.
 "Sharp's the word!" he agreed, And there's a motor ear over there, in front of the blacksmiths. Prob ably we can hire her"
 "Trines carl" Alan calculated swinging round and recognizing the automobile at a glance. Then he's here, as we'll"
 Looks like it." Barcus admitted But so much the better We'll just naturally take the darn thing of his hands, and I'll bet dollar there isn't another car within a radius of fifty miles! We'll be well out of these giddy mountains long before he finds anything to chase us with"
 But his confidence was demon strated to be premature by the dis covery which rewarded the first cur sory examination, that the car was very thoroughly out of commission.
 Two minutes later. however. their earnest inquiries elicited the fact that, although Earcus was justified in his surmise that the neighboring country was poverty stricken in re spect of motor cars, Mesquite itself boasted two motorcycles whose own tIH were IOl ilulntitul tb d NtlbAN' to sell them secondhand at a con siderable advance on the retail list price of the machines. when new.
 And thus if was that. within ten minutes from Roses discovery of that chance-fung warning in the dust, the party was again in rapid motion.
 His beauty sleep disturbed by the departure of the machine bearing Rarcus and Judith, Seneca Trine reused on an elbow and looked out of the window just fin time to see the second motorcycle gathering momen' tum, Alan steering, Rose in the seat 1 behind.
 Sixty seconds later a Haunting ban ner of dust was all thats sremained to remind Mesquite that romance had passed that way-that. and a series 1 of passionate screams emanating from the bedchamber of Seneca Trine. where the cripple lay posses sed by seven devils of insensate rage. His screams brought attendance; l but 1t was a matter of many precious minutes before his demands could be met and Marrophat and Jimmy reused l from their crapulous slumbers in ad- l joining chambers; and half an hour elapsed before the chauffeur, reused from his own well-earned rest, sue ceeded in convincing the pair that pursuit with the motor car was out of the question.
 But the devil takes care of his own: within another half hour what seemed 10 be sheer bull-headed. dumb luck brought a casual automobile to Mes uuite-a two-seated high-power racing machine of the latest and speediest pattern. driven by two ire sponsible wayfarers who proved only too susceptible to Marrophats offer of double the cost of the ear-f. O. b. Detroit-for it's immediate surrender.
 The two piled out promptly enough; Marrophat and Jimmy jumped in Trfne from his bedroom window sped them on their murderous mission with a blast of blasphemy.
 It must have been an hour later when Alan, checking his motorcycle as 1t surmounted the summit of a long upgrade, looked back and dis covered. several miles distant on the far-lung windings of the mountain road, a small crimson shape that ran like a mad thing tirelessly pursued by cloud of tawny dust like a gold en ghost
 A motor car, beyond all question and one of uncommon road-devouring quality: it might or might not con tain Marrophat and Jimmy, once more