Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-02


Train lying close beside his wrecked
car. with the blood trickling from his
wrist and staining his whip-cord uni
form. She remembered seeing other
figures, even more helpless looking
But most OF all she remembered how
one Of these figures, pulling himself
together had slowly risen 20 bis feet.
As be did SO he turned halfsupidly
about and stared down at her. And the
moment she saw that pallid yet tri-
umuhant face she knew that ii was Lee
gar. She knew that ne was confronting
her that he was slowly but determin-
eddy making his way towards her. And
she knew that in another moment she
would have been their prisoner again
had not a sudden and unlocked for in
terrurtion taken place.
This Interruption came in the form
% a flying roadster. with a masked
figure leaning low out from its run
ming board as it swept down on them.
She remembered the sudden shout OF
the men. the sudden clutch of the
strong hand as It caught at her while
the roadster swept by, the equally sud
den pain through her bruised body as
she Syas swung safely Up into the seat
of the onward swerving car. She re
membcred too. the arm close about
her as she lay back, weak and pant
ing. as they danced and speeded on
along that lonely road She remem-
hered turning in through a stone gate,
winding along an orderly gravel drive
way. stopping before a vine-bowered
bungalow She remembered. as the
masked man at her side helped her in
through an ivory-white door, turning
dazedly 10 him and asking who he was.
And she remembered the smile that
showed just beneath the fringe of the
yellow domino as be shook his head
and the sense OF deprivation that
swept through her as she found her
self once more alone Then from The
same door through which the Laugh
ing Mask had stepped she rem an
hered she had seen a quietovcd won
an come out, quioteyed woman Who
had crept up TO her, with tears VOL
ing from her eyes and a smile Of pity.
i'S Ien'ei ness """"' h0' Ai'9'
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