Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-05

Iir VIII not,- avowed the Laughing Mask, with decision. Hell have more than help before thls night is over, and better job and a clear con- | icience before another one comes! But tell me first where you left this girl you brought out from the city2
 Inside the door O the sluiceroom there.
 Good God!" gasped the man Tn the mask. Then he caught the spindle legged Peggy O'Mara Dy the hand and started for the shadowy pile of the fac tory on the run Quick" he said as he ran, show me the door,"
 The halt-breathless girl pointed it out 10 him. But as ne ran up to it he found 1t locked. He stopped and fran tically caught up a piece of timber al- most as long and heavy as his own body. Peggy OMara, seeing that it's weight seemed more than he could manage, promptly ran to his assist ance.
 Now. come together" he said. flor we've got to knock that door in"
 Twice. three times. they charged the docr before it gave way. But the mo- ment it's panels crashed in the Laugh ing Mask leaped through the opening. As he did so he caught sight Of the two struggling figures on the brink of the blackened runway. As he saw the figure of the woman flung headlong into the open sluiceway he leaped with shout towards the one-armed man who stood on its brink. But that one armed man. with a lightningiike move ment, whipped a revolver from his pocket. swung round on the intruder. and fired.
 The Laughing Mask wheeled half way about, staggered a step or two. and then fell forward on his face.
 The vide-eyed Peggy O'Maro. fol- lowing at his heels. saw both that fau and the fact that the Iron Claw had al- ready leaped towards the control beard of the water maRgIe. Peggy screamed aloud, shrilly and belligerent- y, as she leaped for the man already before the control board. She caught at him, clawing at his upraised arm. fought him with every jot of her thin blooded girlish body.
 But she was no match for that de- termined and malignant opponent. The most she could do was to distract and harry him for precious moment or two Then, realizing she was a factor to be eliminated without scruDle. he caught her bodily up from the floor. raised her above his head. and with a sickening thud. sent her body against the solid masonry of the factory wall.
 She lay there stunned. without nov ing. moaning brokenly with pain. as Legar darted back to the control lever of the mangle drums and shifted that lever to the spot marked start" The next moment he had thrown over the switch Of the sluioegate control
 He ventured one triumphant glance in the direction of the whirring mangle knives and the slowly ascend ing gate. Then. with a grinnace of sat- isfaction. he leaped over the inert body of the Laughing Mask. ran to the door. and disappeared in the darkness.
 Had that flight been less hurried leEar might have observed that the eyes Of the Laughing Mask were open. and the inert body. weak as it was from the loss of blood from a flesh wound m the hip. Was already pain- fully gathering itself together for some predetermined movement. That move melt, wavering and unsteady as if was. took the crawling man directly to the control board of the water mangle-
 There by supreme eTort. he raised himself to his feet. groped about with an unsteady hand. and swung back the lever.
 The next moment the roar of the machinery stopped. the threshing knives stood poised. But it had been only in the nick of time For Mar sery Golden. who had clung to the sluicegate until it's withdrawing bars had compelled her to relaA he. last desperate clutch on it's bars and drop back into the black tid carrying her -"''Ni anu NioStA lO tAOSt udliu| blades of death. now caught and clung o graphitecovered driving chain lit- ile more han a yard from the fore most nangle drum which lowered 'bOve her like an open Jaw. And as she clung there. renewing wave of nope swept through her body. for from he siuiceway wal above her she could near a re .ssuring # somewhat un- steady voice calling down to her. And hat voice. she knew. was the voice # the Laughing Mask,
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