Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-01
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can't intimidate me-" he Numbered
out
He turned to his daughter. Until
this Calabrian brigand farce is played
out. I'm going TO send you into the
country"
But where are you sending me?
asked the girl
I'm going to send YOU out to your
Aunt Agathas on Long lsland!' was
his curt response as he swung about
to his secretary. And while Mar
gery's getting her things together,
Marley, you send Train, the chauf-
feur. here TO me Tor his instructions.
Marley. promptly crossing to the
door. was startled to find the figure OF
the new footman standing close beside
it as il was swung open.
Ten minutes later, when Manley re-
turned TO the library with Train at his
heels. he-found Enoch Golden staring
down at sheet of paper lying on his
desk AT the center OF this paper
stood a large black blot.
It's the Spotted Warning" said
Golden. his heavy face furrowed with
a trouble deeper than he was willing
TO admit. But how, moods name,
did it get here?"
Marley, after staring at the strange
ly-spotted sheet, stared even more in
tently at the ceiling directly above the
point where the paper lay on the desk
top. A momentary look OF satisfac-
ton fitted across his face as Golden
turned to him with a crisp command
TO precede Margery TO Cedarton and
there explain both the reasons for her
visit and the precautions to be eXer-
cised during that visit
and as for you, Train continued
the grim-eyed old millionaire, turning
TO his chauffeur. q want you to take
my daughter out TO Cedarton as quick
~ as your car and the speed laws win
let you carry her. There are special
reasons for this, remember. And from
the moment you leave this house. don't
let anything or anybody stop you."
Thirty minutes later Nargery Cold
en-, surrounded by her bags, sat back
in the swaying automobile, puzzled
over this new and unexpected turn
in the tide of events. And as mile by
mile swan by beneath the hurrying
wheels, the keen-eyed man in the driv-
ing seat found a load lifted from mis-
own shoulders.
Yet at the next turn in the road MIS-
Iightheartedness suddenly departed
from that kcen-eyed driver For as he
took this turn and speeded up along
a dustless stretch of open highway,
he saw a figure run out to the middle
of the road It was not the fact that
this figure stood directly in his path
that most disturbed him 1t vas the
discovery. as he drew down on it.
that This figure wore a raIlow band OF
cloth across the ewes. with moon
shaped apron falling almost TO the end
ct the nose, that brought the rcdoubt-
able Train heart suddenly -r fin his
mouth. But even while that figure
remained stubbonly and directly N
his path, motioning for him to stoD.
he remembered mr. riders. Instead Cf
slackcning his speed, in fact. he in
creased u increased it TO the limit
of the engine Power Aud he ouid
surely have ridacn down that would
be lnterccnlor rae NOT the iaUcU 1t
the last moncut la1rea quickly aside.
Margery Go3ov aa nS dld so. half
rose in her sent for she. too had
caught sirat Of aai mysteriously-
shadowou leoe
but thc rs 1ughing Mask!
she criea roaaer as they
swept en-
a Mite ,' IS 3
quick cry Of warning bursting from the
drivers throat Staring ahead she
saw that still another effort was being
made to intercept them. This time it
was a man with a red flag. Instead of
stopping, the car swept past the man
so close that its fender-end slapped
against the flagstick itself as he re.
peated his lusty shout of command
But that command was more or less
lost on Train, little dizzy now with
the sheer drunkenness of speed.
"Stop?' Knocked the driver as he
raced on. I'm going to stop for moth
ing this side of hell"
Yet that valiant boast was little
more than the articulation of mortal
pride so often preluding mortal disas-
ter. For, bearing down on them along
that lonely stretch of roadway they
could already see a second car. The
point about this car that worried Train
was that it was not approaching them
as a well-behaved car should approach
a comrade vehicle, but vermiculated
drunkenly from one side OF the road to
the other. Even Margery, as she
leaned forward, puzzling over these
strange movements, realized that peril
was involved in passing a vihicle so
uncertain of its course. At the same
time, too, she could hear from far be-
hind her the prolonged and warning
cry of an auto horn, wailing disturb
ingly through the quiet air OF the late
afternoon.
The next moment the two cars had
met, head-on.
There was a crash OF metal and
glass, a rending OF honey-comb radia,
tors and coppered tenders.
Ito Be Continued.)
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