The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-01-27

prayers, based on the telegram to
Digby, sign OF motor car.
Still, not much of the street was
revealed. The docks on either hand
were walled and rooted, cutting off the
view
If they ran for it, they must surely
be overhaufed Something must be
done to hinder the crew Of the
schooner from landing.
"Here!" he cried sharply to Barcus.
you take Rose and hurry to the
street and find that motor-car. !
know she's there. Digby never failed
me YETI
"But you"
Don't waste time worrying about
me. I'll be with you in three shakes
I'm only going to put spoke in Jul
diths wheel. I've got scheme!"
AS for his scheme-he had none
other than to give them battle, to sac
rifice himself If need be, to make sure
the escape Of Rose.
Sheer luck smiled on him to this
extent, that in turning his eye lighted
IN four-foot length of stout, three
.'ooh scantling, an excellently for
q club.
But soon, disarmed, his case was
desperate-and there were two al
ready safe upon the dock and others
madly scrambling up to reinforce
them.
he CT oh f0y. s11h
stitute weapon, he leaped toward a
small pyramid of little but heavy kegs,
| and Selling one, swung it overhead
and cast it full force into the midriff
of his nearest enemy; so that this one
| doubled up convulsiyely, with sick
ish grunt, and vanished in turn over
| the end Of the wharf.
His fellow followed with less injury.
| But Alan had no time to wonder
| whether the man had tripped and
| thrown himself in his effort to escape
| a second hurting key, or had turned
coward and fed. 1t was enough that
he had returned, precipitately and
| heavily, to the schooner.
The key. meeting with no resistance
pursued lin even to the deck, where
the force Of it's impact split its seams
/ None Of the combatants, however
Alan least Of all, noticed that the pow
| der that filtered out was black and
coarse. Alan, indeed, had only the
haziest notion that they were powder.
| kegs he used as ammunition. That
they were heavy and hurt when they
| collided with human flesh and bone
was all that interested him.
In the same breath he heard q
| friendly voice shout warning far UP
the COCK, and knew that Barcus was
coming to his aid.
| A glance over-shoulder, too, discov.
| cred the cause of the warming; two
men who had thus far escaped his
| attentions were maneuvering to fall
| upon him from behind. The bound
required to evade them brought him
| face to face with Judith as she landed
on the dock.
| "Oh," she cried, II hate you, ! hate
| you
| So you've said, my dear, but"
| His final words were not audible
even to himself. In his confidence
| (now that Barcus was taking care OF
the others) and his Impotence with
the woman, and In his perhaps un'
| worthy wish to demonstrate conclu.
| sively how cheap he held her, Alan
had tossed the pistol over the end OF
| the wharf
1t was an old-fashioned weapon, and
| the force with which it struck the
| deck released the hammer.
Instantly the IA cartridge blazed
into the open head of broken powder
key.
And with roar like the trump of
doom and a mighty gust of flame and
smoke the decks of the schooner were
riven and shattered; her masts tot
tered and fell