The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-03-24
Full Eliuht.

Full Flight.
"Oh what can it mean?" Rose wins
pered brokenly, clinging to her lovers
arm. Surely you don't think i
Surely, it must be accidental Il
Surely it can't mean"
I'm afraid it does" Alan Law re-
sponded gravely, cycling the front OF
the Mountain house. Our luck hoios
consistently-that's all. 1t WOULDN'T
be us if we didn't pick out the one
| place where Marrophat and Jimmy
| chose to stop over night. Fortunate
| ". it's early; | doubt they're up.
| With half show we ought to be able
to find some way of putting a good
distance between US and this town
before they waken Toni"
But Mr.. Barcus was already at his
elbow, in thorough sympathy win
Alan's Interpretation Of the s1gnln-
canoe to be attached TO the card that
trembled in Roses hand.
"Sharp's the wordi" he agreed.
"And there's a motor car over there
in front of the blacksmith's. Prob
ably we can hire her"
"Trine's carl" Alan calculated.
swinging round and recognizing the
automobile at glance. Then he's
here. as WE'LL"
Looks like IT," Farcus admitted.
"But so much the better. Wen just
naturally take the darn thing OFF his
hands, and I'll bet dollar there isn't
another car within a radius of fifty
miles, Well be well out of these
giddy mountains loEg before he flnds
anything to chase US with"
But his confidence was demon.
strated to be premature nv the dis
covery. which rewarded the first cur
sorry examination, that the car was
very thoroughly ont CT commission.
Two minutes later. however, their
earnest inquiries elected the fact
that. although Rareus was justified In
his surmise that the neighboring
country was poverty-stricken in re-
spect of motor cars, Mesquite itself
boasted two motorcycles whose own
ers were not indifferent to chance
, to sell them secondhand at a con-
siderable advance on the retail list
price of the machines, when new.
And thus it was that. within ten
minutes from Roses discovery of that
chance-fung warning in the dust, the
{ party was again in rapid motion.
. His beauty sleep disturbed by the
i departure of the machine bearing
3 Barcus and Judith, Seneca Urine
5 reused on an elbow and looked out OF
: the window just in time to see the
! second motorcycle gathering momen
tum, Alan steering, Rose in the seal
D behind.
a Sixty seconds later Haunting ban
d ner of dust was all that remained tt
9 remind Mesquite that romance hac
@ passed that way-that. and serle:
@ of passionate screams emanat1ns
from the bedchamber of Senec;
g Urine, where the cripple lay posses
d sed by seven devils of insensate rage
9 His screams brought attendance
t. but it was a matter of many preclou
d minutes before his, demands could b.
70 met and Marrophat and Jimmy rouse'
st from their crapulous slumbers in &C
joining chambers: and half an hou
/ elapsed before the chauffeur, rouse
| from his own wel1-earned rest, sue
| ceeded in convincing the pair tina
| pursuit with the motor car was ou
| of the question.
| But the devil takes care of his own
| within another half hour what SCENE
| to be sheer bull-headed, dumb luc
brought a casual automobile to Me:
quite-a two-seated, high-poWe
| racing machine of the latest an
speediest pattern, driven by two lrr'
| sponsible wayfarers who proved onl
too susceptible to Marrophat's offer
double the cost of the car-f. o.
Detroit-for it's immediate surrende
| The two piled out promptly enough
Il Marrophat and Jimmy jumped in
NJ Urine from his bedroom window spe
III them on their murderous mission wit
II blast of blasphemy.
i It must have been an hour late
III when Alan, checking his motorcyc
= as it surmounted the summit OF
long upgrade, looked back and di
covered, several miles distant on tt
he far-flung windings OF, the mountai
ad road, small crimson shape that "a
IT like a mad thing tirelessly pursue
by cloud of tawny dust like gol
ad en- ghost
let A motor car, beyond all questfo
lin and one of uncommon road-devourir
on quality; it might or might not co
tain Marrophat and Jimmy, once mo-
vn, in pursuit. Whether or not, bitt
ito experience had long since educate
en-, Alan in the gentle art Of taking /