Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-22
Continued from previous issue

III worked ana IoundereG ABOUT tm-
I'll he vas in a sitting position. Then
ne worked his way closer to the
enamel bathtub leaning painting and
helpless over its edge. for q moment
or two, as a drunken man leans over
cell cot. Then energy again revived
"a him. he slowly and painfully edged
further and further over icto the bath
tub. like cut worm rounding a leaf
edee. until with his Ho~ehead he was
able to push and hunt the loose drain
ping into its socket. Then. once more
withdrawing from the bathtub. he d.
rected his attention to the nearer Of
The two taps that stood at its head.
He had the use OF neither hand nor
foot. TO turn that tap But by the
pressure OF his owl skull against the
furnished brass tap handle he was
finally able to throw the faucet open
Then he sank YEARLY back TO the
floor. FOR his hea' was swimming diz-
zilv and bands of steel seemed con
etricting his chest
from the Overlooking tub trickled 20
the floor, pooled in the worn undala-
tions of the boards. and crawled on
again, in search of some avenue Of es-
cape. And he watched ii as it moved
FIR on its sinuous back, he remem-
bered, il carried his message of deliv-
erance, his hope of life. Finding an
,,nucad vap+iIator Ana tho wafpr fO-tr.
tanned joyously down on the head of 2
long-haired artist hard at work on a
canvas.
That artist, after speechlessly con
templating the deluge, ran shouting TO
the hallway, where he was joined by
his model and by fellow artists from
neighboring studios
When they found their investiga-
tions barred by locked door, they
broke it in. While they were shifting
suspiciously about the outer room,
however, their efforts to reach the
source of that deluge were being an
ticipated by a more stealthy figure,
which, clambering monkeylike UP the
narrow iron fire escape, climbed still
higher to the small window and
promptly broke it in.
Manley, rousing himself at the
sharp sound of the breaking glass,
turned about to behold the face of q
narrow-eyed and dark skinned stranger
in the square OF light about him. Even
as he stared up at this exotic face
with it's uncanny fringe of jet black
hair he saw the unknown intruder
draw a slender tube from under his
coat. To this tube the stranger fitted
a small arrow scarcely longer than a
darning needle. Then, placing the tube
to his mouth, he sent the slender dart
whistling down through the air, where
it fixed itself in the wooden flooring
not three inches from Margery Gold
ems head.
Instinctively as Manley witnessed
that incomprehensible attack, as he
! vaguely awoke to the meaning of the
/ strange performance, he crawled e
the girls side. There he tried Il
shield her helpless body with his own
But after that he remembered little
He awakened later to the sound o.
a woman's soft sobs close beside his
aching head And he knew, even be
( fore she spoke, that it was Margery
I Golden.
Its no use, Doctor" she was for
lornly CRYING out to the figure nearer
/ the foot of the bed. Il saw that man
! soon as saw him ] knew Legar haC
/ sent him, had sent him with the same
/ poisoned arrows that once killed al
informer in the Owls Nest"
But this man isn't dead" profess
/ ed the doctor
mo, but he will die"
"Now, young lady, this won't do. 70
I know" the man of medicine tried t
! reassure the quietly weeping CIR
I "And if you leave me with him for
j few minutes I'll make another exam
| nation And then we1l know tn
I worst"
I'D rather stay with him-to tn
/ last" said the white-faced girl.
I But if you'll come back, in ten mir
/ utes!" quietly announced the man VIII
[ was not used to having his sugge'
| tions crossed And he held the doc
/ for the unhappy girl as she passed III
| steadily out
Marley, the next minute, lifted hi
/ head from the pillow
Say, doctor, what's this about m
dying?" he demanded.
I THAT all depends on one point.
was the doctors reply as he gingerl
! longer than a darning needle. An
the point is whether or not we ca
find an antidote for the poison tina
was smeared on those outlandish blow
gun darts. But the next point is, hoy
! do you feel?"
81 might feel worsei"
The man of medicine looked pui
z1ad