The log cabin Democrat., 1914-11-20

Lucille looked about her. Paper she had. She tore the blank strip off the top of the newspaper page. tore 1t 90 that the headline regarding Lieutenant Gibson appeared beneath 1t. She star. ed helplessly in the mirror, her teeth fastened viciously in her lower lip. so vicfously that when she withdrew them a tiny drop of red blood appeared upon the delicate skin. If only she had a pencil or pen, something to write with
 The blood drop fell upon the paper, carmining it. Lucille gasped delight edly. Her hand seized pin from the writing table and dabbled at the blot It had dried up. Nerving herself sne lightly jabbed the pin into the ball of her thumb feverishly writing upon the blank paper How painful it was! How swiftly the blood dried. But she must-she must
 Prisoner of Loubeque-Here-He Read head
 She swayed slightly. She could en. dure the torture no longer. It was sufficient He could piece together what he read. what she had told him aboard the ship. But how to reach him with the fraGmentary strip of paper? Tearing the necklace from about her throat she detached q jewel swiftly and wrapped the strip of pa per about 1t In one leap she had reached the window The captain was still there.
 For moment Lucille hesitated. She must break the window pane. Swiftly she took slipper from her foot. drew back and brought the tiny heel crash ing against the glass At the sound of smashing glass she heard rustling without her door. The captain looked filllped the round missile toward him. watched him eagerly as he stopped to pick it up and then thrust 1t hurriediy in his pocket, passing on. She saw Thompson. the butler. slip hurriedly out of the door and take after him. Then slight crea king. as of rusty hinges. and she stared about her In mute horror. She was moving down and walls were advancing forward. She was moving down and the room was moving with her.
 Came a little groan. tremor run ning through the walls Of the room. Looking up she could see solid steel walls passing into place where the room she was in had been. Merely a cage-an elevator had been the bou. doir where she was captive The machinery stopped working abruptly. She peored over the edge of the room. for she was merely standing on flat surface so far as one side was con. rerned To her ears came the insist. ent ringing of a bell. A hnddled. black mass showed almost beneath her Crouchlng upon the floor she leaned over and gingerly groped at it wi0 her fingers. drawing them sharply back as they encountered human flesh
 For just secoud she faltered before Investigating her discovery. LoubeQue must have come from her room in this fashion. It might be that in some way Loubeque had fallen and injured the machinery. To stoop down. take the papers from bis pocket and hide them between the crack of the floor of the room and the bottom of the elevator was the work Of an instant
 As the room glidrd gently into place without SD much a~ a treinor she leap ed down and lifted the grooming Inan's head to her lap She had come barely Tn time, for the spy was struggling feebly tO get to njs feet He smiled ruefully as he lighted match and scanned the features ot his companion. For second he appeared dazed. then swift consteilation crossed his face as his hand shot toward the place where ne had placed the stolen papers. : Come. he said quietly. his tones silky. yet dry and cold and hard, cone, young Indy. Of course you un! derstand the papers will be found. and this k merely deiayius the inevitable" ". lie did not wait for her to speak, merely touched her arm and assisted her to the platform He stirred slight y' Came the Whir of machinery. ai- most immediately shut out. Once more the room was in motion. going upward this time She closed her eyes ihstihcuvely before the mystery of 1t all When she opened them once more she was ln the place she had left everything was as 1t had been save TOT broken window pane and the presence of LOubeque.
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