Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-07
CHAPTER x.

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berth, baffled and frantic and raging.
With hands thai fumbled because of
their very eagerness he sought to get
into his garments, and find his shoes
from h melee of blankets and other
articles in the berth, all the time keep
ing n eye out OF the window, for he
must not let his prey get away from
him now. He must watch and see
what they We're going to do. How for
for thut. At least he would have a
clue. Where was this? A station?
He stopped operations once more to
gaze off at the landscape, a desolate
country scene to his city hardened
eyes. Not a house in sight, nor a sta
ton. The spires of the distant village
seemed like a mirage to him. This
couldn't be a station. What were those
two doing down there anyway? Dared
he risk calling the conductor anG hav-
ing him hold them? No, this affair
must be kept absolutely quiet. Mr..
Holman had said that il a breath of
the matter came out 1t was worse than
death for all concerned. He must Just
get off this train as fast as he could
n follow them IL they We're getting
away. 1t might be he could get the
man in Z lonely place-it would be
easy Q TO watch his chance and
a the lady--he had don such things
before. He felt far more at home in
such an affair hat he had the night
before at the Holman dinner table.
What a pity one Of the others lac not
come along. 1t would be mere child's
play for two to handle those two. who
looked as II they would IL frightened
at the first threat. However, he felt
confident that he could manage the at
fair alone.
He painted with haste and succeeded
In getting the wrong legs into his
trousers ard having to begin all over
again, his efforts greatly hampered by
the necessity for watching out the
window.
Then came the distant rumble of an
oncoming train. and an answering
scream from his own engine. The
two on h ground had crossed quickly
over the second track and. were looking
down the steep embankment. Were
they going down there? What fate
that he was not ready to follow them
at nee The train that was coming
would pass-their own would start
and he could not get out. His oppor-
tunity was going from him n he
could not find his hoes!
Well. what OF it?4 He would go with
out! What were shoes In a time like
this? Surely he could get along, bare
foot, n beg a pair at some farm
house. OF buy g pair at q country
shoes or no shoes. Grasping his coat,
which contained his money and valu-.
ables. he sprang from his berth.
straight into the arms of the porter,
who was hurrying back to his car after
having been ont 70 gossip with q
Whats de mattah, sab 2. asked the
astonished porter, rallying quickly
from the shock and assuming his ha-
bitual courtesy.
My shoesl' roared the irate travel
cr. What have Q done with. my
..Qu1et. sab, please sab, you,l wake
de whole cyah.' said the porter. Il
put yoh shoes under de berth. sab,
right whar 4 allns puts EN- aftah
hlackin', sab.
The porter stopped and extracted the.
shoes from beneath the curtain and
the traveller, whose experience in Pull
mans was small, grabbed them furious
~ and nad forg#the door, shoes In
hand. tor with s. snort and a. lurch and
aYpreliminary Tar the train had taken
up Its motion, and q loud rushing out
was pass
TheAporter, feeling that III had been
treated ~with.in3Nstice. stood gazing re-
p~roachfuMy after the man for 4 .fulf
minute before he followed him 10 tell
him that the wash room WAS at the
/ 0thersend of the car and not down past
i the drawing room u he evidently sup
Hssfound Ms maj standing II .tnck.
sings feet on the cold iron Platform. Ills
\ head out Of the opening left il the
IIca1Me IN he had drawn shut the outer
Observation-Disclosures down the moyablS
IplAtform. making At Impossible for anyv
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