The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-02-10
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unceremoniously down the wharf.
Come! Come!" he rallied Alan.
pull yourself together and keep
stir upper lip. Rose 10 waiting IN
the car, and II you don't want to be
arrested you'll stir your stumps. my
! son! That explosion 10 going to bring
the worthy burghers Of New BEDFORD
buzzing round our ears like . swarm
Of hornets!'
His prediction was justified even
before it was made; already the near
| by dwellings were vomiting half
clothed humanity; already q score OF
people were galloping down toward
the head Of the wharf; and in their
number a policeman appeared as If by
magic.
| And while the man hesitated Alan
grabbed him by the shoulder. threw
him bodily from the car. dropped into
his seat, cried a warning to Rose. and
J threw in the clutch. The machine re-
sponded without jar; they were a
hundred feet distant from the scene
of the accident before Alan was fairly
settled in his place.
AS he grew more and more calm, he
congratulated himself on having drawn
an excellent car in the lottery Of
chance. 1t was light, but the motor
/ ran famously, and II not capable Of
a racing pace it would serve his ends
as speedily as was consistent with
reasonable care for the life Of the
woman he loved.
Yet his congratulations we're prema-
ture; they were not ten minutes out
of the environs of the city when Rose
left her seat and knelt behind his, to
communicate the intelligence that
they were already being pursued.
A heavy touring car, she said 1t was,
driven by a man, a woman In the
seat by his side-Judith the latter, the
man an old employe Of her fathers
by the name of Marrophat.
Marrophat!
Alan remembered that one.
He could only trust in his skill as
q driver, and skill is the lesser factor
In such race.
They could overtake the fugitives
practically when they would.
But for some weird Incompetent.
sible reason they chose to hang GER
tain distance in the rear, a distance
that could readily be bridged by two
minutes Of furious driving.
Why?
To-, hA linz ~ hnV
calmness of fatalism became Alan's.
They we're biding their time for some
secret and fatal purpose. The blow
was predestined to fall, but cruelty de-
:, ferred
For his own part, he drove like an
exceptionally cunning mailman.
And then, quite clearly. he recog.
ni.ed the tirle and the place and the
character of the road that lay before
), him as the car sped like dragon-dy
= down slight grade.
From the bottom of the grade II
swung away in wide, graceful curve
:, bordered for some distance by railroad
:. tracks on a slightly lover level.
4 AAC huu 6uCooCu NhC hChAioh pan VI
- the other driver only too truly.
= AS they approached at express
= speed the stretch where the road par
: alleled the tracks Alan sought to hus
the left-hand side of the road, but IL
vain.
- Roaring, with its mufiler cut out, thu
pursuing car swept up and bafi,ed him
- bringing its right forward wheel VI
beside the left rear wheel OF his car
:, then more slowly forging up until
- with its weight, bulk and superio
- power. It forced him inch by inch t
the right. toward the tracks, until hi
- right-hand wheels left the road an
ran on uneven turf, until the left-han
:. - wheels as we'll lost grip on the roa
- metal. until the car began to dip o
', the slope to the tracks.
~ He heard the far hoot-toot Of
freight locomotive
-, There followed q maniac momen
-, when the world was upside dow
~ Alan's car slipped and skidded, swun
" sideways with frightful momentum
toward the railroad tracks, caught II
wheels against the ties, and
~ The sun swung in the heavens like
ball on q string. There was crash,
roar There was nothing-o
a. The car had turned turtle, pinnir
III Rose and Alan beneath II.
"a "Alan!" she gasped. "You are n
nv killed."
ad "No-not even much hurt. fancy
he replied. And you?"
mot much"
The deep-throated roar Of the loo
motive believing danger silenced hi
=, He closed his eyes.
90 Then abruptly the weight was lift,
from his chest. He saw a man drs
~ cling Rose from under the machir
- and saw that the man was Marroph;
n, And almost Immediately someone II
.n ed his head and shoulders, caught h
=, with two hands beneath his arm o.
and drew him clear Of the machine
49,, And the face of his rescuer was I
~ face Of Judith Urine.
The crash he had expected, of I
,ed car being crumpled up by the onco
,sr ing locomotive, did not follow.
As he scrambled TO his feet, his III
of