Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-15

was In waiting. and the three were
taken swiftly to the HOSPITAL. Blan he
vas the first to alight, and was con-
| sequently lust in time to see Jake be-
| ng helped into an automobile drawn
up by the curb at some distance from
the main building.
She recognized the man with him
Is n particularly brutal and dangerous
member Of the Hell Cats gang, and
ere she could frame startled en-
| PLANTATION which would convey the
truth to Graces ears, while conceal
ing il from the hapless mother. the
other vehicle was vanishing down the
road in swirl Of dust
Follow that car" she said instantly
| to the chauffeur.
Leaping inside, she tried to make
clear a distictly perplexing situation
1t should be borne in m nd that no
other course was reasonably poss. bic
/ Blanche was justified in assuming
that Jake had been liberated from the
hospital on the urgent representations
of his friends, and, bad character
though he was. he could not be de-
tanned, since no charge had been
edged against him. The quiCkw tied
| girl decided at once that Nc ther
! y ltIul6uU anu lIlt SallE IttuNu II III
Where they were 1t WAS quite certain
that Burton could not he far d slant
md, although there was absolutely ne
the millionaire, she WAS convinced that
no other cause would account for his
strange disappearance.
Any delay-even in such a small
thing as leaving a warnin" message
with the hospital 5anitor--would have
meant the vanishing of the flying car,
and that consequence must be
avoided, no matter what the cost,
Poor Mrs. Evans, of course. existed
| like one in drum. She could neither
understand why these two young
women should be so disconsolate, yet
so fiercely determined on some mys-
| terious undertaking. nor why she her
self should be suddenly whisked along
suburban roads in a fast-travellng au-
tomobile, a car so luxuriously ap-
pointed that she had never even
imagined such moving splendor was
attainable.
Grace and her adviser acted with
discretion. 1t would have been fatal
to their design If they were detected,
so Grace gave the chauffeur general
instructions, and allowed him to con-
duct the chase as he listed. The man
soon took the measure of the car In
front, and knew that he could over
haul 1t when he chose, so, by running
| past crossroads, and turning aglin
| speedily he succeeded in keeping the
line unbroken while giving impression
to anyone who might be looking back
casually along the road that he was
| speeding in different direction.
Thus the pursuit continued until
the gunmen's automobile turned int
an almost disused track leading to
the house which held the prisoners.
| Luckily, Grace Goes driver detected
the maneuver and contrived to pull
up his own car behind clump of
! trees. Hence Jake's companions
there were two of them. together with
the chauffeur-saw nothing alarm ng
when they looked around before en-
| tering the house.
Without the slightest hesitation the
two younger women led Mrs. Evans
towards the building. screening Their
advance as best they might by taking
cover behind a ragged hedge. The
chauffeur was very unwilling to let
| his mistress go unattended, but Grace
wiser than he, pointed out that IL he
remained at the distance and kept
his engine in motion no one could pre-
vent him from racing off to summon
assistance should any suspicious cir