The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-12-22

station about eighty miles from New
York The princess. accompanied by
Vroon, who kept well ia the back
ground. entered the car occupied by
the two castaways.
In the mirror at the rear Of the car
Norton happened to cast an idle
glance, and he saw the princess.
Vroon, however, escaped his eye.
"Be careful, Florence" be said "The
princess is in the car The game be-
gins again Pretend that you suspect
nothing Pretty quick work on their
part And that's all the more reason
why we should play the comedy well.
Here she comes. She viii recognize
you throw her arms around you. and
show all manner Of enusiveness. Just
keep your head and play the game"
She lied about you to me-"
"No matter"
"O!" cried the princess She seized
Florence in a wild embrace. She was
en- inimitable actress. and Norton
could not help admiriug her. your
butler telephoned me, I ran to the
first train out. And here you are
beck safe and sound IS wonderful
Tell me all about st. What an adyon-
turel And, good heavens, Mr. Nor
ton, where did you get those clothes?
Did you End her and rescue her? What
q newspaper story you'll be able to
make out Of it ALL Now, tell me just
what happened" She sat down on
the arm Of Florences chair The girl
had steeled her nerves against the
touch of her And yet she was bsauti-
full! How could any one so beautiful
be wicked?
"WeI, it began like this" said Flor
ence; and she described her adven-
lures. emitting, to be sure, Braine's
part in it,
She had reached that Part where
they had been rescued by Captain Ban
mock when a laundering, grinding
crash struck the words from her lips.
The three of them were flung violent
ly to one side of the car amid splinter-
ing wood ,tinkling glass, and the Shrek
Of steel against steel A low vail of
horror rose and died away as the car
careened over on it's side. The three
were rendered unconscious and were
huddled together on the floor. under
the uprooted chairs
Vroon had escaped with only slight
cut on the hand from flying glass. He
climbed over the chairs and passen-
gers with a single object I'm view He
saw that all three he was interested
in were insonsible. He quickly exam
ined them and saw that they had not
received serious injuries lie had but
little time The princess and Norton
would have to take their chance with
the other passengers. Resolutely he
ooped and lifted Florence in his
arms and crawled out Of the car with
her 1t was a difficult task but he
managed It. Outside, in the confusion.
no one paid any attention to him. So
he threw the unconscious girl over
his shoulder and staggered on toward
the road
It was fortunate that the accident
had occurred where it did Five miie1
beyond was the station marked for tho
arrest of Norton as an abductor and
the taking I'm charge Of Florence as %
rcbellious girl who had run away from
her parents If he could reach the
swede's hut, where his confederate5
were in waiting, the game was his.
After struggling along for half an
hour a carriage was spied by Vroon.
and he hailed it when it reached hi3
side.
What's the trouble, mister?" asked
the farmer.
"A wreck on the railroad. My daugh-
ter is badly hurt. ! must take her to
the nearest village. How far is it2'
About three milea"