The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-05-06
CHAPTER xLviIt.
Full Flight.

Surely II cant mean"
I'm afraid II does" Alan Law re-
gponded gravely, cycling the front OF
the Mountain house. Our luck hoias
consistently that's all, 1t wouldh
be us II we didn't pick out the one
place where Marrophat and fanny
chose to stop over night. Fortunate
~ it's early, | doubt they're up
With half a show we ought to be able
to find some way Of putting a good
distance between us and this town
before they waken TORI
but Mr.. Barcus was already at his
elbow. In thorough sympathy win
Alan's Interpretation OF the signih'
canoe to be attached to the card that
trombled In Roses hand.
"sharp'a the word!" he agreed
And there's a motor car over there
In front OF the blacksmith's, Prob
ably we can hire her"
"Trine'a cart" Alan calculated.
swinging round and recognizing the
automobile at glance. Then he's
here, as Well"
Looks like IT," narcus admitted
but 40 much the better. Wen Just
naturally take the darn thing off his
hands. and I'll bet "a dollar there isn't
another car within a radius OF nifty
miles Wen be well out of these
giddy mountains long before he finds
anything TO chase us with"
| But his confidence was demon
| atrated to be premature by the dis.
| covery, which rewarded the first cur
/ sorry examination that the car was
very thoroughly out OF commission.
Two minutes later, however, their
earnest inquiries ELECTED the fact
that. although narcus was justified In
/ his Harmse that the neighborlng
country was poverty stricken In re-
spect OF motor cars. Mesquite itself
boa8ted two motorcycles whose own.
ers we're not Indifferent to chance
TO sell them secondhand at con.
siderable advance on the retail list
price OF the machines, when new.
And thus II was that. within ten
minutes from Roses discovery OF that
chauce.aung warning In the dust, the
party was again In rapid motion.
His beauty sleep disturbed by the
departure of the machine bearing
nareus and Judith, Seneca Urine
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 tho seal
behind
sixty seconds later Haunting ban
uor Of dust was all that remained &c
remind Mesquite that romance had
passed that way-~that, and series
OF passionate screams emanatint
from the hedchamber of SeueeS
Urine, whore tho cripple lay posses
Sod by sewn devils OF insensate rage
Ills screams brought attendance
} but II was a matter OF many precious
minutes before his demands could b.
met and Marrephat and Jimmy rouse,
from their crapuloua slumhers In ad
Joining chambers and half an hou
elapsed before tho chauffeur. rousel
| from his own weilearned rest, sue
oeeded In convincing the pair tina
, pursuit with the motor car was on
! Of tho question
! Hut tho devil takes care Of his own
. within another half hour what seeme
r 10 be sheer. hnllheaded. dumb luc
brought a casual automobile TO Mes
, aulte~-a two-seated. high.powe
! racing machine OF tho latest an
I speedlest pattern. driven by two trr,
. sponsthie wayfarers who proved oul
, too susceptible TO Marrophat's offer c
, double the cost uf the ear~f o,
Detroit for It's Immediate surrender
> Tho two piled out promptly enough
Z Nsrrophst and Jimmy jumped In
. TFine from his bedroom window spe
!. them on their murderuus mission wit
4 blast u hlssphemy
. Il must have bcen an hour lats
1 when Alan. checking his motoreyel
. as It surmcunted the summit Of
4 long upgrade. looked back and at
: covered. several mites distant on n
far flung W'adinEs OF tho mountal
q rad. small crimson shape that "a
I ike mad thinE tirclcssly pursue
a BY a cloud Of tawuy dust like kol
u en- ghost
A motor car. heyond all ques,io
B. and enc ~ uncommon road.devourir
o quality; II might or might net CO
a, tain Marruphat and Jimmy once mo
a, In pursuit Whether or not hltt
a experience had long since educat'
10 Alan IN the gentle art Of taking
chances
- Though n Was his life that IN
= sought SO pert,nactcusly. no later hi
u yesterday land then by no means {
a. the frst timel. they had proved IN
" II Rose we're with Alan they Wou
sselude her ruthiessly In wLatsoey