Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-08-03

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= Use of either active or passive int
E. ference with these duly appointed mo-
d tuary exercises until the city itsel
k had been left well behind. Ther
a awakening to the fact that they wer
4 traversing desirably sequestere
: stretch of road, he watched intentl
for certain prearranged signals iron
! his one-armed accomplice. Immediate
ly after the discovery of those looked
for signs the spirited team driven b,
, One-Lamp Louie showed unexpected
yet unmistakable evidences of FESTIVE
ness.
But there was limit to what tha
team OF spirited blacks would endure
And they suddenly, to all intents ant
purposes, determined to follow theil
own line of travel at their own rate
of speed, for, as the driver sat on the
box apparently saving on the reins
that exasperated team plunged sud
denly forward, swerved across the
road, and went galloping down tree
screened bypath which was little more
than cart trail winding in and out
through slopes of greensward and
shrubbery.
Half mile deeper in that shrub
have reached the spot where black
\ limousine stood hidden away in the
shadow Of laurel-copse, had not still
another and an equally unheralded fac
tor entered into the situation. This
factor took the form of high-power
roadster in which was seated a man
wearing a yellow mask. His irrup-
ton into that orderly little procession,
indeed. proved as abrupt as One-Lamp
Louie's eruption from 1t. And he
seemed plainly suspicious of both
Louie's motives and movements, for
he lost no time In swinging from the
highway and plunging recklessly after
the runaway carriage.
AS his car approached the runaway
cab that mysterious stranger, known
as the Laughing Mask, stepped to the
running-board of his roadster, leaning
far out as the two swerving vehicles
drew together. One-Lamp Louie, what
ever he may have thought of that APP
proach, had little means of evading
1t. To swing off what narrow road re-
manned before him seemed frankly
suicidal. To lash his team to greater
effort was already out of the question.
To take his hands from the reins,
even, along that uncertain road, was
equally foolhardy. So the strange race
went on, the swaying and bounding
cab with white-faced girl tossed
about under its hood, the leaping and
lurching roadster, every second draw
Ing closer down on its quarry yet |
every second threatening to turn tur-
tie over one Of the grassy embank-
ments above which it shuddered and |
slowed
1t was the Laughing Mask, leaning |
far out from his running-board, who
threw open the cab-door and called
sharply to the startled girl.
Quick" he commanded.
For one moment she hesitated.
Then she reached out for the unsteady
hand cropping for her.
The next moment she found herself
sitting back, little breathless, in the
seat of the road
tier and the man in the Laughing
Mask smiling down at her.
Tho Black Watch.
A number of things had happened
nd were happening to discomfort, IL
lot to discourage, the redoubtable Lee
ar. That astute young adventures,
'etsy LIE Marsh, alias Williamsburg
llsie, who. with the aid of divers
orged recommendations, had Installed
erself in the Golden household, re-
eatedly and stubbornly reported that
avid Manley was dead.
Williamsburg Elsie also expressed .
strong desire to migrate from the
ouse In which she found herself SO ,
lquisitiye a maid, since that house, 6
he declared, was too full of queer |
iings" for her comfort.
When, at. Legar's suggestion, she n
ad tried to pump a needleful o. o
ope" into her altogether unsuspecting !
distress, dead mans face had sud- r
emily appeared between her and the h
edroom door. And on two different Z
,casions, after midnight, when she o
i'd ventured down to the housekeep- II
IS telephone to send in a secret mes ii
Ige to Legar himself, she had found !,
srself confronted by ghost in white. g
Nor was Betsy LIE Marsh the only g
alcontent. Even Red Egan himself, h
ie OF the best "cold-steel" men in
| the group that clustered about the =,
wis Nest, had of late shown unmis- :,
kable signs OF mental disturbance. h
dead mans ghost, he declared. had h
oked in through one OF the head .,
larters' windows. Red Egan, 1t is a.
ne, had promptly emptied his six % p,
looter at that phantasmal intruder, =,
1t with nothing more to show for It =,
an shattered window-sash and six -
ines of broken glass.
When thu master-criminal, to put :.
A end to all such absurdities, had by :,