Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-03

steel-faced lady and Jean. and the lady .oid
And then that other car turned around and
started to follow. and something .old me I'd
the taiboard.
Down the road we vent. The Big War
riors car following Jeans and me hanging
membering that losing my job wasn't 4
good .cs-o way TO- to work up and win Jean.
across the road other one could pass
and the Big Warrior and the blind man
and the chauffeur got out and looked around
the back Of curve we'd made and there
comes the car we'd stopped following All
Of a sudden.
And it drew up and the chauffeur came
and asked US what was the trouble: Md
Warrior hit him over the head with a wrench
he had in his hand. And then they dragged
road and the steel-faced lady gets out OF
their car and comes along carrying Jean.
my girls mouth.
And they put her in the Big Warriors
climb on the taiiboard. because was just
little boy. and they we've all great big
And then we went driving along until
We met you like We did-and now / don't
TSss oKs to os the.
think they're going to hurt ms lean. oh,
Miss Fairfax. do YOU think can save her.
suddenly realized that Jeans need was
rather desperate | remembered :, note Jim
my had dropped on my desk carly in the
Sing Sing. Get after him .ind ! rernem-
bered Jimmys ejaculation
Say. Miss Fairfa1. there's more to this
story than Just the regular cmt-and- dried
escape of a convict. I'll bet that. when
was doing pretty daring thing. Raven
wouldn't want to be in the District .,ttor-
ney's boots to,day-not II Peter Raven Is
child-,hat knew eould there be any
connection between the kidnapping which
Sod "a nd he \, cb
the convict had sworn to take?
The thought frightened me-tor ] knew
what was Ravens reputation for despera
ton and how implacable like that
might be If he felt that another man was
little girl? II. SO, wha, was his game? was
ne so.nS 10 force Morton to pay an enor-
suddenly the car drew up at a dilapida,ed
stopped behind some shrubbery around a
little turn of the road. Then Billy and /
cautiously to what would happen.
The three men and the woman whom
Who Knew must be little Jeans leans s gov" s
got out and went up 10 the house. carrying
through the grounds aaS,,ou nd S'e'' up
The man ma whom Billy called the Big War
This must be his attempt AT revenge on
Richard Morton. The governess evidently
something dark and sinister about their plot
ung-something ugly and menacing in the
grim. diiapidated house to which they had
carried the little bound and gagged figure OF
Jean Morton.
We crept up the paths and stole at last
into the dark and musty hall OF the river
house. The house seemed as completely de-
serted as il we had not with our own eyes
beheld FIVE human beings enter II but
Night had followed the long twilight, and
all about us lay black darkness. Cautious
~ we crept up the stairway and came
last to door through whose casing a beam
of light wandered almost timidly. crept
DOORWAY listened.
At one side OF the room sat Jean firmly
terror s,rcken rhronsh an op .afe w%do@
at the further end Of the hall could hear
the :, sound ,nns OF oars and the crsak of boat
Within the room there were voices. Then
the man took to be Peter Raven crossed
and. threw it wide
Outside the moonlight shone on the river
whose hungry waters Tapped close to tho
Wy What hat are you going 70 do with the kid
glasses in ugly. rasping voice. Going
to stick her father for about 5.ooo?"
Raven pointed TO the river and spoke saw
agely:
There won't be any ransom" said he.
There won't he any ransom" muttered
pain shoot through my heart if he had
caught it in his gnarled fingers and was
Here We we're in a deserted out Of theway
corner OK Westchester-and New York and
the only OF the %fs
should perish at the hands Of miserable
ruffian like Peter Raven almost unbe-
lievabiy cruel; that ner poor little body
should be fung to grave in the Hudson
within actual view OF writer for the most
powerful newspaper system in America was
so grimly iron,cal that 1t simply couldn't be
true.
Billy caught my hand In the darkness.
q They're not going to hurt my jean said
athe little boy quietly.
He had the heart of man. But Jean
needed the mind OF a ] did not
guess then of what sublime bravery the
little lad, whose romance had accepted com
| was more agreeable and sympathetic than
most Erown-ups would be, was capable
Suddenly there was climax Of horror
Strong arms seized us from behind The
door opened and we were dragged from the
cool darkness of the hall into the threaten
ing room where Jean lay.
youth tnstinctively reacted to danger.
forced myself to be quite calm and cool. /
had no energy--no mental force OF any sort
to waste on this situation. Whatever power
OF clear thought possessed must be saved
now to meet the final moment Of terror
soa,, kept wishing Billy would not fight so
Dear little hot biooded lad-he was only
lad after all. and no one could expect him
to think with mans efficiency!
Peter Raven eyed savageIy 7 have
never seen face on which there was an
uglter look OF menace and hostility 1t was
almost as II he said This is my moment
and nothing is going to stop me-"
Il found myself longing desperately for
Jimmy Barton. He would have known a
way out. Why couldn't kindly fate move
the pieces on the chessboard in such fashion
that Jimmy would suddenly drop down from
divnely guided aeropIane?
1t can't bet just can't be. This is nine
or civilization pretty little girl isn't
going to be murdered just to slut a horrible
criminals desire for revenge" was the re-
But a great things which REASON