The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-11-18

Into ;.lat car-ais:-.' DC quick about it
and gag him."
IF you do her father foamed, I'll
have your life
A flourish of her weapons gained
instant obedience.
She stepped up on the running board
and shot a quick, searching glance
at the face of the chauffeur.
Straight ahead, my mani" she said.
Make for the nearest pass through
those hills yonder, and don't delay
unless YOU are anxious for trouble. Off
| you CO."
The car began to move. She swept
the three men in the desert hooking
bow. jumped into the body Of the car
ard slammed the door.
They made no effort to plead their
cause ard secure passage even as far
as the edge of the desert; doubtless
they knew too well the futility Of that.
| she thought as she settled back in a
seat. chuckling with tire memory OF
| those three masks Of disrlay uamiti.
gated.
II was not until five minutes later.
w.e,. si.a s;rGightened IN from making
| Alan com:7r4na ,n that sL, realized
What lad mada ten! SC content to
5ida ~ her will
Then s''l h>aH.. ;Eeir Voices lifted
| ass;.!eru. los. 2!lri!i hoNl that wa
quickly answered by fainter yells from
a distant quarter of the desert, then
by pistols popping and flashing some
two miles away. then by a growing
rumble of galloping boots.
The night glasses in the car afforded
her flashes of a body OF several horse.
men-some six or seven she Judged
making at top speed toward the spot
where Marrophat, Hicks and Jimmy
waited beside beacon which they
had built and lighted.
Half a dozen sentences exchanged
with the chauffeur advised her that
these were horsemen from the town
| of Mesa who had charged themselves
with the duty of avenging the death
of Holi Jim Slade.
| A sardonic chuckle from within
Trine's gag goaded the girl into sui
len fury.
Exacting his utmost speed from the
chauffeur, under penalty of her dis
pleasure, she set herself to revive
Alan.
With the aid Of such stores Of food
and drink as the car carried. this was
| quickly enough accomplished.
| Strangling with an overdose Of
| brandy too little diluted with water
| Alan sat up, grasped the conditions
| in a flash, and gained further informa
ton as he devoured sandwiches anG
emptied canteen.
The mountain pass was now, he
| judged, mile distant. The light or
the hillside, according to the chauf
feur, was that of a prospector who
had camped there temporarily. There
was nothing, then, to be feared from
that quarter, but solely from the real
where the horsemen. having picked
up Marrophat and his companions
had instituted hot pursuit. and were
now strung out in long. struggling
line. three horses carrying double the
arthermost-perhaps a mile and
half away-one with single ridel
the nearest, we'll within three.quar
tiers of mile.
Nobly mounted. this last came or
| like the wind. gaining on the motor
car with every stride: for his horse
was trained to such going, wherea:
the car at best could only labor heav
lily in dust aud sand.
None the less, it had won to poin
within a quarter of q mile from the
| pass before the horseman got within
what he esteemed the proper range
| AMI opened fire.
| He fred thrice His first shot winged
wide, his second by ill-chance ripped
| through a rear tire of the car, thus
placing upon it an additional handi
| cap, While his third sought the zenith
as his hands flew up and he dropped
from the saddle, drilled through the
body. by. .Alan's only shot.
A long.range pistol duel was IL
progress before the car had covered
half the remaining distance to tht
pass.
BY the time it entered this last
which proved to be a narrow ravine
with towering side of crumbly eartt
and shale and broken rock, the pur
suit was not hundred yards behind
while the firing was well-nigh contin
uous.
Two hundred feet above the trai
| two men were working with desperate
| haste at some mysterious business
though none noticed them.
Only the chauffeur was aware of {
woman running down the hillside al
an angle. to intercept the car severa
i