The Raymer enterprise., 1915-11-04

OF steel and managed to get his ria.
gers about the chauffeur's throat As
An added insurance against q cry for
help
He choked him literally into tnsensi.
biiity Then. with a strength that he
did not seem to possess. he picked up
the limp. blue.faced body and carried
1t OF the road and around the car.
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In the baggage car, the baggage
man was smoking surreptitious pipe :
Of powerful tobacco between stations
and contemplating the scenery
thoughtfully through the open door
As the engine slowed up to take a
curve and grade. Bailey. who had
now and then taken peep out Of
little grated window above him. crept
out from his hiding place Already he
had slipped dark silk mask over his
| face.
As he made his way among the
trunks and boxes. the train lurched
and the baggage man, who had his back
to Bailey, heard him catch himself. He
turned and leaped to his feet. Bailey
closed with him instantly.
Over and over they rolled. Bailey
had already drawn his revolver before
he left his hiding place. A shot. how.
ever would have been fatal to his part
In the plans and was only last resort.
for II would have brought the train.
| men.
Finally Bailey rolled his man over
and getting his right arm free. dealt
the baggage man fierce blow with
the butt OF the gun.
The train VAS now pulling slowly up
the grade. More time had been spent
in overcoming the baggage man than
he expected ard Bailey had to work
quickly. He dragged the trunk marked
e Dodge" from the pile to the door
and glanced out
Just around the curve in the rail.
road Del Mar was waiting. straining
his eyes down the track
There was the train, pulling up the
grade As ii approached he rose and
waved his arms. 1t was the signal
and he waited anxiously. Had his
plans been carried out?
The train passed From the baggage
car came a trunk catapulted out by
strong arm II hurtled through the
air and landed with its own and the
trains momentum.
Over 1t rolled in the bushes. then
stopped-unbroken for Elaine had hsl
it designed to resist even the most
violent baggage smasher.
Del Mar ran to 1t. As the tail light
Of the train disappeared he turned
around In the direction from which he
had come, placed his two hands to his
mouth and shouted.
From the side Of the road by Del
Mars car the bearded motorcyclist had
just emerged buttoning the chauf-
feur's clothes and adjusting his cog.
giles TO bis own face.
As he approached the car. he heard
a shout. Quickly he tore off the black
beard which had been his disguise and
tossed 1t into the grass. Then he drew
the coat high up about his neck.
"All right" he shouted back. start
ing along the road
Together he and Del Mar managed
to scramble up the embankment to the
road and, one at each handle of the
trunk, they carried 1t back to the car.
piling it in the back.
The improyised chauffeur started to
take his place at the wheel and Del
Mar had his foot on the running board
to get beside him. when the now un-
bearded stranger suddenly swung
about and struck Del Mar full in the
face II sent him reeling back into
the dust.
The engine of the car had been run
ming and before Del Mar could recover
consciousness the stranger had shot
the car ahead, leaving Del Mar props
in the roadway.
The train. with Bailey on it, had not
gained much speed. yet it was peril.
GUS undertaking to leap. Still. 1t was
more so now to remain. The baggage
man stirred. IL was now a case ~
murder or a getaway.
Bailey jumped.
Scratched and bruised and shaken
he scrambled to his feet in the briers
along the track. He staggered up the
road, pulled himself together, then
hurried back as fast as his barked
shns would let him.
He came TO the spot which he recog-
nized as that where he had thrown of
the trunk. He saw the tramped and
broken bushes and made for the road.
He had not gone far when he saw,
far down. Del Mar suddenly attacked
and thrown down, apparently by his
own chauffeur Bailey ran forward.
but II was too late. The car was gone.
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