The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-03-16

Head.
shut Chairs we're overturned, and
the hallway became a bedlam of noise
and fury.
Sam managed to wrench his knife
hand free. He lunged murderously
at Lamar's throat Max was too late
to guard the blow. But he shifted his
1.-the body to one side. The blade
flashed past it and was buried, half
to the hilt, in the wood of the door.
Sam now turned his full attention to
the task of crushing his opponent
with his bare hands.
Max merely defended himself, as
best he could At last he was able to
draw his pistol.
But, as he did so, Sam seized the
crime specialists right wrist with
both his own huge hands, and exc!
ing all his brute strength and weigh
twisted Max's hand outward and III
ward.
No human power could withstand
that pressure, so suddenly and skill
fully exerted. The pistol leaped from
Lamar's opened fingers and fell to the
floor.
Mrs Travis, at first sound of the
battle, darted into the nearest room,
snatched up a telephone and sum-
moned police headquarters.
1t took her some moments to get the
connection, because police headquar-
tiers Central was just then listen
ing to a patrolman's thrilling account
of the way Attorney Charles Gordon
had come to the chief of police, a lit
tie while before, and given himself up
to justice-laughing as he did so.
But presently Mrs. Travis was
switched from headquarters to the
precinct station phone. And in less
than a minute two policemen were
their way to the Travis house.
Meantime, the fight in the hall hs
reached a new and mora vital stage
fallen pistol.
1t was Sam Eagan WHO at last
seized the pistol. Despite his enemy's
efforts he gradually worked it's muz-
zle toward Lamar's writing body.
The muzzle at last touched Max's
side. Sans finger frightened on the
trigger. In the same momeut the pis-
toll spun out of his hand, exploding
harmlessly, the heavy-calib9r bullet
burying itself in the woodwork of the
wainscoting.
June had seen the newest peril OF
the man she loved, and with her riding
crop had struck his would-be murderer
heavily across the knuckles.
Sam whirled about to face her. AS
he did so Lamar snatched up Q heavy
vase from a pedestal and brought it
down with all his remaining force
upon Eagan's head.
Smiling Sam dropped to tn floor
like stricken bull.
Max bent over him and snapped
pair of handouts on the senGelee"
mans thick wrists. Then, weal.
dizzy and painting. Lamar rose ag%
his feet, swaying as he tried to i
upright
He must have broken in here j. :
night" he gasped. Miss Travis, l eve
you my life. L"
Your hand is cut!" cried June. "sse,
it's bleeding! Let me bind it up "
YOU
The tramp of feet sounded on tEe
stairs below them. TIE two policemen,
escorted by the chatsering and shuo-
dering Yama, assembled to the upper
hallway. At a word frAn1 Lamar they
picked up the unconscious Eagan and
logged him away between them.
Max, still Keeling with sxhausjC~
turned abruptly to June.
Miss Travis he said. a nufd
you one or two questions.
cut off my right arm sooner tes
them. But I must. Everythirl
Ponds on your answers"
June forced smile to her a.
lips. She knew the moment had cor
The moment of reckoning, which she
SO long had dreaded
(END OF 18TH INSTALLMENT)
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