Bisbee daily review., 1916-06-18


 Iieien ana Seagrue. In the garden, Ward and Adams, watching intently, saw his silhouetted figure on the low cred curtain.
 And Storms trifiing act of hospital ity was to prove his salvation and Seagrue's undoing. Having seen that the punch bowl was nearly empty he excused himself and stepped into the next room to summon a maid to refill #. The door of this room-a break fast room-opening on the garden. stood, for the evening. lajar The maid. reaching up on the ssdeboard for Q napkin. when Storm spoke to her, let it fall from her hand as she turned. The white square of linen. partly un- folded, fiuttered to the ground.
 Where she stood. the maid could not be seen from Wards hiding place in the garden. Only the figure of Storm beside her was visible and the highwayman mistook his figure for Seagrue's. When the napkin fiuttered to the floor. Ward. ristaking it for the handkerchief. watched intentiy the two silhouetted figures in the con servatory. s"
 Seagrue, at Helen's side, rose to his feet. Two shots rang through the night air. Seagrue. stricken, clutched his heart With g ghastly expression he looked at Helen. And as she screamed. he clutched at his heart again and fell headlong to the floor.
 Helen's frantic cries brought a crowd to the conservatory doors Storm, nearest at hand, held back the others and entered lhe room first. He turned. lifted Seagrue from the floor and asked for a doctor. Helen. half hysterical. told where the shots had come and storm, followed by her, ran out into the garden.
 The nurderers had made good their escape. Hurrying 70 where their ma chine was hidden. they jumped into 1t and started at breakneck speed for Oceanside. It was Spikes keen ear that detected the faint Lum os their motor. They're making thei- getaway in car" he cried. If we are to get them. we've got to work quick
 Communicating the first car parked in the driveway and accompanied by Helen and storm. Spike drove rapidly down the highway after the fleeing taxicab. No lights were visible on it. but some moonlight made it possibls to follow the murderers accurately.
 Below the bridge at Signal. the high way. turning sharply. crossed the rail- road. It is a bell crossing and the sig nals were ringing for the Oceanside express when Ward and Adams. look ing behind at the headlights of Spikes car, saw they were hotly pursued. They opened fire with their revolvers on the pursuing car. but Helen. Storm and Spike. keeping under cover as best they could. did not slacilen speed. The criminals thus pressed. saw there was a chance to put the railroad crossing between them and their pur- suers. The express was close upon them. but desperate men cannot be choosers. Ward took a chance Crowd ing his machine to the limit. he tried for the crossing ahead of the train The engineer seeing a collision un- avoidable. checked his train heavily. It was too late The engine was al most on the taxicab and the next in stant the pilot. striking it squarely in the middle. threw the heavy limousine fifty feet in the air. When Helen. Storm and Spike reached the spot. tho engineer was backing down to iLves- tigate the catastrophe. =
 Lanterns and searchlights were brought into play where the moon left the landscape in shadow. Adams body was found in borrow pit The shock had killed him Ward, flung against a tree. lay, at the foot of it. mutilated beyond recognition.
 In Helen's conservatory. a doctor bent over Seagrue, but tho wretched victim of his own criminal intent lay quito dead.
 The sun rose happily after the events of that tragic night. It rose on two people more grate- Gl for their escape from assassiaa ton than Helen and Storm. Within the following week the guests of that night. had they been gifted with VI sion, might have seen Spike seated. book in hand. in the garden. reading m account of a marriage ceremony. m t, surrounded by her friends and given away by her foster uncle. Amos 2hinelan5er. Helen had become the wife e George storm.
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