Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-08-31
AUTHOR OF THE OCCASIONAL OFFENDER"
THE WIRE TAPPERS. ~"GUN RUNNERS" ETC.
NovElzEp FROM THE PATHE

goes to the police for protection. Wher
a crook has made a haul, and is shaky
about losing his swag, he beats 1t tc
his Malina, to his fence, the same as
! your friend the Laughing Mask has
| done! And the sooner we get the
wheels moving and root that masked
grounding out of his dugout the bet
teri"
I'm ready" announced Enoch Col.
den.
With a gasp of sudden resolution
Margery rang the bell, called for her
roadster, and struggled into her hat
and coat, as she ran down the sand
stone steps to the street.
She sped off through the city at a
rate that was an open and obvious
violation of all the speed laws. She
laughed rebelliously as, once free of
the congested ferry traffic, she swung
lightly past the car in which she be-
held her own astonished father decor
ously seated, giving him her dust as
she mounted to the crest of the Jersey
hills and struck the road leading north
ward along the wind-bosomed river.
Then as she swung past still an
other hurrying car the smile sudden
ly died from her face. For she felt
sure that one of the faces in that car
was the face Of Jules Legar himself.
She went on, from that moment,
crowding every inch of speed out of
ner car, exulting in the fact of its
power, ignoring the shouts of onlook-
srs as she swept up through Coleman's
village, took the turn in smother of
lust, and brought the steaming road
,ter up sharp against cedar-hedge
browning the topmost ridge of the
liver cliffs. She leaped boldly through
he hedge and ran to the outermost
ip of the Palisades. There, cupping
ler hands to her lips, she called out
single name again and again.
From crevice in the broken rock
ACE below her figure wearing a yell
ow mask looked cautiously out and
waved up to her with an equally eau
.ious signal. The next moment she
was clambering nimbly yet carefully
Town the ledge of broken rock.
A pair of stalwart young arms were
waiting to hold her up. But she quick
~ broke away from their clasp.
Quick, they are coming to capture
you'll"
who are?"
"The police. They have found out
you are hiding here. And Legar also
las found out!"
The man in the mask darted back to
/ small table on which stood shaded
amp. He bent quickly over and blew
put the flame. This left the back OF
he cave in darkness. Then he ran
back to where the girl still waited.
DO you trust me?" he asked.
II trust you in everything" was her
-eply.
Then listen! The water at the foot
If this cliff is deep. 1t Is drop of
hundred feet. But it may beNUur only
chance Are you willing to take that
cap with me?"
Il trust you-in everything" she
old him, as she drew herself up. He
leld her there for a moment and then
slipped to the back of the cave. When
ie reappeared he carried a rough pine
able in his arms. This he placed
IN end close to the entrance Of the
ave.
The next moment a shadow dark
,ned the mouth of the cave. Silhouet-
ed clear against the outer light they
Gould see the STOPPING figure Of the
ron Claw.
AS he stood there, peering cautious
y about the ledge of the bookshelf,
le was stealthily joined by his fol-
overs.
They're coming" the Laughing
Mask whispered to Margery Golden,
IS he drew her closer in beside the
'ocky wall of the tunnel. Then, using
he up-ended table as a screen, he
Idvanced with her toward the cave
mouth, slowly, silent, foot by foot.
They were within six feet of the
opening when Legar turned about to
Five word or two of command to his
ollowers. Two figures, those of a
masked man holding a slender girl
irmly by the hand, came running out
II the cave.
So suddenly did they come that they
scattered Legar's men as they adj
Ianced. And before those astounded
men could recover either their foot
ng or their wits, The man in the mask,
lolding the girl close to his side, had
crossed to the cliff-edge and had taken
} flying leap out into space.
An involuntary gasp of consterna-
ion burst from that startled group of
as they stood watching the
clasped figures hurtlo through the
air, strike the surface of the water
clean, and go down into its blue
depths. Then, after what seemed an
wait, a second shout,
as involuntary, apparently, as the first,
burst from the watchers as they be-
held tho two figures reappear, SWIM
ming RtrOnp1v aldo NV oide along tho