The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1914-01-16

head while the girl said her goodbys
to the racer she loved and upon whose
successful performance at Newmarket
depended so much.
"Goodby." she whispered to the horse
softly. You're to run your first great
race. Win it; win it. for you're carry
ing my heart.
Almost it seemed as though The Whip
understood. for she caressed with her
muzzle the hand of the girl
Then Lady Diana turned to the
jockey.
"Goodby Harry she said. go and
win-for the honor of the stable for
the honor of our coors and for me!
God bless you both and good luck
And then she stood aside. Rapidly
Harry and the porters led The Whip
into the car which had already been
bedded down. Then while Harry wav-
ed his hand and Lady Diana and the
rest on the platform responded. the |
train which had backed down bore off |
the car and it's own load of passengers.
Harry, who knew that the succeed
ing days would be of great activity.
went to bed in his bunk in the COM
partment in one end of the little odd
English car. while the train attained
high rate of speed and entered Fal-
conhurst tunnel.
| He promised himself that he would
keep one eye on the horse, even while
the train was in motion and but little
danger was to be apprehended from
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try and harm The Whip. but he soon
dozed.
They were in the tunnel when Cap
tain Sartoris opened door of car
rage which he had quite to himself.
He had joined the train further to the
north of Falconhurst and none of the
Falconhurst people had known that he
was in the train.
Now in the blackness of the tunnel
he crept along the foot plate which
ran just below the side doors and
which had given opportunity for many
a crime.
While the passengers were absolute
ly unconscious Of his lurching progress
past them he crept along the train.
clinging and swaying. In this fashion
he passed by the door of compart-
ment in which the morose Werner Has
lam was thinking of him at that very
moment and lamenting to himself
weakly that he had been dra wn into a
path whose issue he could not see.
Perhaps the presence of the man.
who had become in a sense his master.
was realized subconsciously by the
clergyman for at the moment that Sar-
toris passed by his compartment the
shoulders of the substitute vicar were
, drawn up into shrug and shudder
But to his conscious mind there came
: no warning.
Sartoris, while not a crack. was new
. ertheless something of an athlete. and
4 the passage on the footplate gave him
e no particular concern. once he haC
: accustomed himself to the swayine
t and the exact counterpoise it was nee
1 essary to impart to his own body.
: Now he stood at the very end Of
the footplate which was on the car
r Rage next the horse box. Soon he hat
? passed to the end of the horse box
Quickly he raised the tail light ant
o swung it in circle for a few seconds
d Hs wished to hurl it in such a wa,
d that the flame would surely be extin
guished. as he wanted no warning t
,r be given to the train behind whic
ct was to complete his project
n He realized that if he merely droppe
the lantern to the line there was
ar bare possibility that it would continu
I'd to burn.
His semicircular swings We're just
?" fed a moment later. when he flung tn
lamp to the line, for there was a sue
FL den impact. and then no light showet
With one foot resting upon the ca
. rage and one upon the horse box. b
70 pulled the slip cord and had the il
ID slant pleasure of seeing the horse DO
ho and it's freight drop behind.
=, The Whip would not run. The rae
no would be lost. He would be save
n. from Kelly's clutches. Brancast'
would be impoverished and the ma
a rage of Lady Diana and Brancast
IN put far off.
- Quietly he slipped along the foe
W plate and regained his own carrias
20 and compartment without his absen
-. having been noted.
~ With a speed that gradually fe
~ away the horse box. with The VIII
inside and Harry fast asleep. rumble
:" through the tunnel and came to ST.
40 on the main line directly in the pa
:, of the first train which should con
H. along. near Manifold junction.
The whistle and the sounds of t
Il rapid approach through the tunnel
.or the down express came very plain
IN through the darkness. just as mot
hu containing two men and Mrs. Bea
ish dashed around a bend in the TO
on and came to a palpitating. panti
or. stop near the horse box and at one 81
my of the line.
to Mrs. Beamish and her two escol
lgs from the establishment below stairs