The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-02-18
CHAPTER xLVlII.
Full Flight.

run Fu9nI'
oh what can it mean?" Rose whis-
pered brokenly, clinging to her lovers
arm. Surely you don't think .
Surely, it must be accidental q.
Surely 1t can't mean"
I'm afraid it does," Alan Law re-
sponded gravely, cycling the front OF
the Mountain house. Our luck holds
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
ly, it's early; I 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 Toni!
But Mr.. Barcus was already at his
elbow, in thorough sympathy with
Alan's Interpretation of the signifl'
canoe to be attached to the card that
trembled in Roses hand.
"Sharp's the world" he agreed
And there's a motor car over there
in front of the blacksmith's. Prob
ably we can hire her"
"Trine's cart" Alan calculated.
swinging round and recognizing the
automobile at glance. Then he's
here as WE'LL"
Looks like it," Barcus admitted
But so much the better. Well 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 we'll out Of these
giddy mountains long before he finds
anything to chase us with"
But his confidence was demon
strated 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 Barcus was justified in
his surmise that the neighborine
, 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-flung warning in the dust, the
party was again in rapid motion.
His beauty sleep disturbed by the
departure of the machine bearing
Barcus and Judith, Seneca Trine
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 seat
| behind.
Sixty seconds later a Haunting ban
ner of dust was all that remained tC
remind Mesquite that romance had
passed that way-that and a series
Of passionate screams emanatinf
from the bedchamber of Seneca
Trine, where the cripple lay posses
sed by seven devils Of insensate rage
His screams brought attendance;
but It was matter Of many precious
minutes before his demands could bt
met and Marrophat and Jimmy reused
from their crapulous slumbers in ad
joining chambers; and half an houl
elapsed before the chauffeur, reused
from his own well-earned rest, sue
| ceeded in convincing the pair thai
pursuit with the motor car was out
of the question until he had spent al
least half the day overhauling the mo
tor and mending the mischief that
had developed in IT,
! But the devil takes care of his own
within another half hour what seemed
J to be sheer, bull-headed, dumb luck
brought a casual automobile to Mes
! quite-a two-seated, high-poweI
racing machine of the latest and
| speediest pattern. driven by two ire
sponsible wayfarers who proved only
too susceptible to Marrophat's offer oi
double the cost Of the car-f. o. b
Detroit-for it's immediate surrender
The two piled out promptly enough
Marrophat and Jimmy jumped in;
Trine from his bedroom window sped
them on their murderous mission with
blast of blasphemy which was des
tined to keep his memory green IL
Mesquite for many a weary veal
after he had been duly consigned t.
his grave.
Like some prudish jackrabbit, un
speakably shocked by that envenomet
valediction, the racing car leape,