The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-11-07

reasonable care for the life Of the
woman he loved
! Yet his congratulations were prema-
! ture; they were not ten minutes out
/ of the environs OF the city when Rose
| left her seat and knelt behind his. to
/ communicate the intelligence that
they were already being pursued.
A heavy touring car, she said it was,
( driven by man. woman in the
seat by his sido-Judith the latter, the
man an old employe Of her fathers
/ by the name Of Marrophat,
Marrophat!
! Alan remembered that one.
He could only trust in his skill as
! q driver. and skill Is the lesser factor
j in such race.
They could oveTtake the fugitiyes
| practically when they would
But for some weird, Incompetent
sible reason they chose TO hang a GER
/ tain distance in the rear, a distance
that could readily be bridged by two
minutes Of furious driving.
Why
Ii the succeeding quarter-hour the
calmness of fatalism became Alan's s.
| They were biding their. time for some
secret and fatal purpose, The blow
vas predestined to fall. but cruelty de-
/ ferred
For his own part, he drove Ike an
exceptionally cunning mailman ,.
And then. quite clearly. he recog.
uized the time and the place and the
character Of tho road that lay before
him as the car sped like a dFagon-iiy
down slight grade
From the bottom OF the grade II
swung away in vide, graceful curve,
bordered for some distance by railroad
/ tracks or a slightly lever level
He had guessed the feudish plan Of
the other driver only too truly.
| As they approached at express
speed the stretch where the road par
alleled the tracks Alan sought to hug
the lcft-hand side of the road, but in
vain
Roaring, with its muller cut out, the
| pursuing car swept up and batiled him,
bringing its right forward wheel uF
beside the left rear wheel Of his car,
then more slowly forging up until,
with its weight bulk and superior
power, IT forced him inch By inch to
the right, toward the tracks, until his
gight-hand wheels left the road and
ran on uneven turf, until the lefthand
wheels a. we'll lost grip on the road
/ metal, until the car began TO dip on
the si0pe to the tracks
He heard the far hoot-'oot Of a
freight locomotive
There followed a maniac moment,
when the world was upside down
Alans car slipped and skidded swung
sideways witt frightful momentum
toward the railroad tracks, caught It's
wheels against the ties. ana o..
The sun swung In the heavens like q
ball on a string. There was d crash q
roar There was nofbiug-ob-
Tho car had turned turtle, pinnfng
Rose and Alan beneath it
"A1an!" she gasped. You are not
killed.
"No-not even much hurt fancy"
he replied, And you?9
Not much
The deep-throated roar of tho loco
motive believing danger silencea him.
He closed his eyes
Then abruptly the weight was lifted
from his chest He saw man drag
cling Rose frum under the machine,
and saw that the man was Marrophat
I And almost Immediately someone lift
| ID hts head and shoulders. caught him
| with two hands beneath his arm pits
and drew him clear of the machine
And the face Of his rescuer was the
face Of Judith Tripe,
The crash he had expected. Of the
car being crumpled up by the onco4-.
| ing locomotive. did not follow
As he scrambled TO his feet. his first
glance was up the track, and discov-
cred the train slowing to halt.
His next was one Of wonder for the
couuteuauee of Judith Trine Us She
| stood, at a little distance, regarding
him; her look almost illegib1e, a curl
ous compound of passions coloring it
relief, regret, hatred, love e..
| HIS third glance deserted beyond
her the figures OF Marropilat carrying
Rose in his arms, stumbling as he ran
toward his car 81 the highroad
| He moved precipitately to pursue.
| but found his way barred by Judith
Not" She cried violently, mo YOU
shall not"
Her hand sought the grip of a re,
volver that protruded from her pocket.
With a short, hysterical gasp, he be-
gan 70 laugh
What" he tainted her again? ?"
Think what you like she cried in
n frenzy. You saved me once now I
spare you. We're quits But next
time"
"o-rotl" he interiected You viii