The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-15

She Jumped From the Top of the Spike could make moved the desk ser geant in any degree He had directed the officers to take the two to sepa- rate cells when a commotion was heard in the hallway and Rhineland- e. dashed into the room. In the twinkling of an eye the aspect of everything changed. In Rhinelander, the conscientious watchman recog- nized the president of his own safe deposit company, and when the great transportation magnate rushed up to Helen to extend his sympathy and nodded, as an old acquaintance, to Spike, the humble watch dog of the safe deposit vault gasped. He wait ed just a minute, and in an suspicious luli in the conversation between Rhinelander and Helen. Spike stand ing at attention, the watchman pushed into the group to ask whether he had made mistake.
 No mistake at all," said Rhineland- CT heartily and reassuringly, and to the watehman's great relief. You did exactly right. You didn't know these people. They had no business in there. But they were there not only to get my securities out of a box, but to get me cut of a box!" The watch man stared. "So"-Rhinelander turned to the sergeant in explanation there's really nobody to blame, ser geant, except that your men and you have box of cigars coming from somebody and it might as well be me as anybody else
 The sergeant scratched his head. This is the queerest mix-up 1 ever struck" he muttered, perplexed.
 At Rhinelander's suggestion he sent for the chief. The moment the latter appeared everything was made right.
 Within his own room the chief had a knOtted problem. He had been try ing in every way to extract some dam aging admission from Ward and Adams, but unable to do so, had re- luctantly dismissed the pair, satisfied that if justice had her due the two would be behind the bars.
 Just outside the police station, Helen and Rhinelander-Spike lis tening-were conferring as to what should be done in the awkward emer- gency facing them. How could they now save their property from Seagrue eager clutches? They moved away together slowly, just as Ward and Adams, having got the real handbag from the sergeant, walked out of the station. The two men encountered the halting and perplexed trio. Rhine lander's rowing eye fell on the bag as Ward passed him. He cried out and pointed. Ward and Adams turned nervously. Stop thief" yelled Rhine lander, making for them.
 Seagrue's men recognized their VIC tim. Away they dashed, Helen and the two men after them at top speed. Across a city street a block away the hind end of long freight train was rapidly pulling. Ward and Adams headed for it.
 Farther down the line, at a Santa Fe crossing, a Tidewater passenger train had slowed, and for this Helen, Rhinelander and Spike made. But the excitement and speed were telling on Rhinelander, who was not in the class and training of his companions He weakened. Spike stopped to help him along. In that brief interval Helen made the side of a coach as the Tidewater passenger train picked up speed. Her companions could not overtake her, but Rhinelander hastily chartered passing automobile, and away he went with Spike after the two trains. It was triangular race, but the passenger train, on parallel track, gained rapidly on the freight.
 Helen had already climbed to the coach roof. and. with both trains run ming. she watched the gap lessening i between the passenger and the freight that bore the two thieves on the adjoining track. As she found her own train rapidly overhauling the oth- CT. she made up her mind what to do. The moment hes coach pulled abreast Of the last box car in the long drag she jumped from the top of the coach to the top of the freight car landed safely, regained her feet, and 1 looked over the side of the train for the men she was after.
 Within the box car where they had taken refuge, Ward and Adams were trying to open Rhinelander's bag They had succeeded in negotiating the 1 lock when, to their consternation 1 Helen, through the open sidedoor swung down and ill on them from the roof. The thieves jumped to their feet. But before Adams was up Helen had knocked him over again and as Ward jumped at her, she man aged to shoot out her foot at the hand bag. By fortunate chance she kicked it cleanly out of the car. Freeing her self from Wards clutches with an en ergetic blow, she sprang to the door herself and jumped after the bag from