The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-12-28
HAPPIER Fifty-Two Continued)

Somehow, blindly, she stumbled out
Eof The cabin into the open, possessed
lby a thought whose temptation was
istronger than her powers of resist
ance What Rose had failed to &C.
! Judith's problem. None, she told
inerself, bitterly, would seek to hinder
ker. But she meant so to arrange the
er that none should see or sus-
Lct and be moved to interfere.
Round the shoulder of the noun
tain, on the road along the edge of the
cliff, she was sure of freedom from
} observation.
b. And yet, such is the inconsistency
of the human animal, the instinct for
seIf-preseryation was stronger than
her purpose: when a touring car swung
round the mountain and shot toward
her, she checked herself hastily and
Bumped aside in ample time to escape
Being run down.
The next instant the machine was
y lurching3 to halt and the sonorous
/ accents of Seneca Urine were saluting
her:
Judith, You here! What the devil!
Where've We been? Where are Mario
phat cnd jimmy"
Digging the nails of her fingers pain
ly into her palms, she breathed
ep, fighting down hysteria, reassert-
& her self-control in so short a space
time that her father failed to ap-
freciate that there was anything I'M
common in the mind of the girl.
p"Where?" he demanded angrily as
she approached the car, where,
want to know, are 1larrophat and jim
my? Haven't you seen or heard any
thing of them? They left me at six
o'clock this morning, to 60 after"
Dead" the girl interrupted, SEN
aentious, cycling him strangely.
u II don't believe it," the old man
screamed, aghast. Il won't believe it.
You're lying to me, you jade! You're
lying"
IL Il am not" she broke in coldly. Il
am telling you the plain truth q.
They followed us all morning in that
red racer, firing at us all the while.
Finally they caught up with us here,
about noon-came up this road shoot
ing over the windshield. 1t was our
nltyes or theirs. We turned the hydrau-
lie stream on them and washed the car
over the Cliff If you don't believe
me, get somebody to show you their
aces"
She indicated with a gesture two
rms that lay at a little distance
ok from the roadside, motionless
peath sheet Of canvas-the bodies
Trine's creatures, recovered by the
ing gang and brought up for a
stan burial
It Urine required no more confirm
Of Judith's word. The light
nd died in his evil old eyes;
-s99 III teaapce- assumed q
of pallor even more intense than
normal with it; broken curse
Issued from his trembling, thin, old
lips: and his chin sagged to his chest.
heavy-weighted with despair that fol-
lowed realization of the fact that he
no longer owned even one friend or
creature upon whose conscienceless
loyalty he might depend.
3 The last bitter drop that brimmed
his cup of misery was added when
Alan Law himself appeared, leaving
the miners cabin in company with
his observation-disclosures now soothed and
comforted, smiling through the traces
of her recent tears as she chung to
her lover, nesting in the hollow of
his arm.
To Alan, on the other hand, this
rencontre seemed to afford nothing
but the pleasantest surprise imagin-
able.
! "Well!" he cried, releasing Rose
and running down to the car. Here's
luck! And at the very moment when
I was calling my lucky star hard
names! How can ever reward your
thoughtfulness, Mr.. Urine? 1t beats
me how you do keep track of me this