El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-29
around the revolutIonists knees an

around the revolutionists knees and
lifted
In another moment, Dalguez was car
ried, limp and helpless, back to the car,
senseless from the fumes Of the chlOro-
form. They deposited him on the seat
and Sayville and the corporal followed
and closed the door Andy, with one
turn Of the crank, started the engine,
ieaped into the seat and the grinding
gears sent them into motion with a jolt
Five minutes later, they had passed
the well ordered rows Of tree bordered
suburban streets and we're out in the
open country. In half an hour, even
the farm houses had scattered so widely
as to accentuate the utter loneliness Of
the scene Yet still the taxi jolted on
NJ. Jacques Porter regained conscious
ness in the bracing fresh air. but it did
him little good. His senses returned
only to apprise him of the unpleasant
fact that his jaws were painfully
stretched and his mouth stuffed. full Of
an exceedingly well applied gag, that
his hands were securely bound behind
him and that two silent, hefty-feeling
men We're riding, one on each side of
him.
Twice he essayed TO attract their at
tention with the obvious idea of i'm
pressing upon them the fact that HIS
treatment did not meet with his ap
prevail, but they sat as stone images,
arms folded across their breasts. heads
bent low in the shadows and the silence
of the grave sealing their lips.
In time, the taxi stopped with a Jolt
and the driver opened the door for
them. It was a mystic trio in whose
charge the swarthy little firebrand
found himself. They were, for all he
could discover, deaf mutes, for they
said never word nor did they so much
as exchange a nod. The two men got
out of the machine with him, each with,
it felt. steel claws gripping into the
bruised flesh of his pinioned arms The
driver closed the door after them,
mounted his seat, turned his car and
disappeared in the darkness. The, steel
claws fairly lifted the prisoner from
his feet carried him up an embank-
Thent and over a fence and then dragged
him through the inky darkness, over
the soft turf of a field until they
stopped before a queer looking tangle
Of lines and shadows. Finally these
lines and shadows resolved themselves
into form as his eyes became accus-
toned 10 the darkness and he fairly
jumped with terror as he realized what
it was. It was an aeroplane.
NJ. Poriers teeth tried their SAVAGE
best TO bite through the gag that made
speech impossible. His eyes blazed so
fiercely that it seemed as II the two
miscreants must see thesvery fire that
flashed from tkem. Yet they paid him
not the slightest attention.
NJ. Porter was seized unceremoni-
ously, lifted into the hull Of the boat-
body, strapped flat on his back despite
his frenzied kicks and squirms and,
thus secured. seemed to occupy the at
tentiOn Of the two men no further.
There was a humming sound in the
night air, the boat vibrated and trem-
bled under him, the trembling grew into
positive and painful jolting and then
ceased suddenly, being succeeded by the
easy purring of a perfectly working
machine. practically without friction
and without sound.
NJ. Porter uttered fervent prayer to
all Of his saints for protection In this
crisis He knew what It meant. They
had run for a time along the ground to
gather speed; then they had mounted
and were now in the air, climbing up
far, only the mailman at
the controls could tell
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