The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-03-02

which threatened every moment to
give way under the fierce assaults
got Spike to the cutoff track. Helen
had reached the engine cab and was
ready to pull out the cars. Together
the two men threw Spike bodily into
the open door Of the last car. Climb
ing aboard after Rhinelander, Storm
signaled to Helen In the cab. She
opened the throttle, and just as
Seagrue's angry men reached the car,
Storm slammed the door shut and
Helen moved the string hastily down
the track.
The incident would have been
closed, with the hind outfit car max
ing rapidly towards safety, had not
the wholly unexpected happened to
upset Storms plan. That very day
Rhinelander's hnemen had set in half
dozen telegraph poles and the an
Choir wire of one of these placed near
the track, caught, as the second last
car sped past, on the step. The pole
swayed violently. For moment
Rhinelander's men, watching, hoped it
might clear. But crashing suddenly
forward, it fell between the last two
cars, struck the coupling heavily and
sprung the knuckle.
Helen, watching from the cab, saw
what happened. She hastily applied
the air and feeling they were now far
enough away to be safe from the an
CRY men. did not worry about the &C
ctdent until she perceived as she
brought the train to a stop that the
outfit car, last in the string, had be-
come detached from the train and was
running away.
Inside this Rhinelander and Storm
were working on Spike. He opened
his eyes after time and they told
him he was safe, not suspecting them
selves that their car was now
running wild and down a long
grade, to the main line. Indeed, |
they felt SO relieved at Spikes |
return to consciousness that several |
moments passed before signs or the T
accident recorded themselves to
Storms experienced ear. The car was
running too far and too fast and
springing to the door he pulled 1t open
to see what Helen was doing in the
cab. A glance told him the story.
We're running away" he cried to
Rhinelander, who Joined him. Storm
sprang for the side ladder
Helen was alive to the new danger
to her friends. But how to help them
taxed, for an instant, her ingenuity.
TO chase them with the engine, as
they were headed for the main line,
might end in more serious disaster
han now seemed imminent. The main
Inc passenger train was almost due
1t Baird and the thought of this fact
vas first in Helen's mind. Near where
the stood was Seagrue's motor car.
he one her abductors had used only
! few days before. She ran to this
md springing int the seat, turned
'ver the engine, accelerated as fast as ,
he dare, and was off in pursuit of the !
runaway.
She was sure she must pass Arden :
tation before she possibly could {
atch the wild car and pulling the :
ushion from the seat beside her, ;
cribbed hastily across il with q piece :
f chalk: =
Runaway car from cutoff on :
main line. Stop passenger at =
Baird.
With this in her hands as she tore
asst Arden station, she rose to her =
set, balanced herself with an effort
nd flung the cushion with all the /,
orce she could summon through the
perator's window.
On the deck Of the runaway car a
torn had seized the brake. With -
violent twist he brought the chain =,
p taut and mindful of the energy =,
eeded to check the disastrous momen- 81
I'M they we're attaining, threw his >,
hole strength against the wheel. =,
He might have saved his compan- Il,
ms and himself even then, had not al
10 chain, weakened by rust, snapped ~
lder the tremendous strain put ON it. in
he deck became impossible ard to n
1oid being shot or it, Storm cliLpbed r.
'wn the swaying ladder again into
@ car. Alone, Storm would not have &C
ven his peril thought. He GOULD in
op off car step or from a cab gung- tn
~ with either moving twice as fast, nj
tn entire safety to himself. But tr
like, though conscious, was desrer- hi
ely groggy; in fact helpless. E{e ST
d proved his reckless skill more he
an once and unhurt could have fol- tn
we'd Storm in any leap the railroad ri
IN dare venture. He lay now as tn
tie able to help himself as a baby. wi
sting all this up in his mind, the H.
ung railroader decided there was of
t one mans thing for him to do and la,
1t was to stay with his companions to
lether all lost their lives or not. or
At Arden station the astonished op- en-
ator had just time to dodge Helen's tn,
ing motor car cushion as 1t sts
ashed through the window. It land be
on the floor The chalk scrawl on