The Carlisle independent., 1917-10-04

That's the fellow. Friend of yours ?''
 No" said Ravengar decisiveiy. T know him, that's all Did you happen to notice whether he was holding any thing in his hand?'
 "I guess not" said the policeman. Wait a bit. Now I come to think of it, I did notice that he had one of his hands clenched tight, as if he wanted to hold on to it. But I guess there wasn't nothing in it-there couldn't have been, because his fingers was so close together he couldn't have had a pea or a penny inside"
 Tt mightn't have been a medicine bottle?" Ravengar persisted
 The policeman shook his head, and Rayengar went back to Leontine, who had been unable to push toward him.
 Tt was Sebastian" he said. "and they've taken him to St. Luke's. It seems as if he's got rid of the pellets, hut they may be in his clothes. We'll have to see him"
 Rayengar shouted to passing taxi, which drew up to the sidewalk "St Luke'sr' he shouted. and, helping Le- oRtine in, he followed her.
 
 Sebastian. alone in the motorboat, put on all speed.
 He crossed the river put in at little private dock, left the boat there, and hurried along the waterfront. He entered a shop where sailors clothing woe caId ayfd v,rrobocad n ooy, orJ n long overcoat, which hid his dripping 1 garments.
 Then. feeling safer from scrutiny, he made his way along the river front, and worked back toward his home.
 He was approaching the house when i he saw Leontine and Ravengar leave and hail taxicab. He followed the vehicle, which went slowly through the traffic until it reached the street on which Rayengar's laboratory was situ- ated. Here it quickeEed it's pace Se- bastian began to run. He panted along, the taxicab drawing farther and far | ther away from him, until. just as he began to despair of catching it, it drew up at the house in which the laboratory was situated.
 Sebastian watched them enter. He wondered whose house it was, and why | they were g ing there. He erept up to reeonnoiter and perceived that an alley ran between this house and the next. Entering this, he heard Raven gar and Leontine enter a room on an upper floor.
 Sebastian was good climber He l shinned up pipe like monkey. until he was clinging to the window sill op- posite Rayengar's laboratory. yet lit- tie below the direct line of vision.
 Hanging there, Sebastian heard Ray engar begin to explain his secret to Leontine. He gathered enough to real ize what power lay in his grasp.
 Rayengar set the bottle down on the table with the cloth and turned away. Sebastian could hardly believe his eyes. What a fool the man wasi He stretched his arm out, clinging with the other hand to the window ledge. The hand stretched out toward the laboratory window crept quickly for ward. It passed through the open win dow, grasped the bottle and the cloth, and disappeared
 Sebastian balanced himself for an instant upon the window ledge and then swung back into the room of the house adjoining.
 Sebastian ran through the room, along the passage, down the stairs, and made his escape by the back door into the street. Still clutching the cloth and the pellets, he ran on bIindly,
 He looked up as he heard an auto horn. He heard the shouts of the chauffeur Then the car containing the joy riders drove down on him, catching him and f1inging him beneath the wheels, one of which passed over his chest.
 A policeman came up. The body was lifted from under the car A doe tor. who happened to be passing, was summoned. After brief examination, he announced that Sebastian was not badly hurt, but advised that he be taken to hospital.
 The car with the policeman drove OH, at his directions, toward St. Luke's, and Sebastian was put to bed in the ward.
 There he opened his eyes few min utes after his arrival, to find himself alone, except for sick man in the opposite corner. The nurse had gone out of the ward.
 Sebastian tried to remember what had happened. He wondered why his fist was tightly clenched and why he was conscious of a strong impulse not to open it.
 Then he knew why. So powerful had been his exercise of will power that all through the period of his un- consciousness he had elutehed hard to the filmy mantle, the entire bulk of which could be held in one hand. +1, 1,