Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-01-13

bargain with him, he could not be sure
of his ground. He shook his head.
Then" said kayengar quietly
there is no more to be said"
At that moment the sound of an ap.
proacMng automobile was heard. Sc,
baSlian, who had risen, looked out OF
the window, to see a police auto draw.
ing up to the house In it sat two
policemen and Leontine.
Waltz yelled Sebastian, as Raven
gar was nearing the door. "If | write
that confession, do you swear you will
call off the police?"
Ravengar nodded, and Sebastian
rushed TO his writing table and, taking
a sheet OF notapaper, began to write
with trembling fingers. Ravengar
watched him for moment. There
came a ring at the door. Ravengar
left the library aud went to the aper-
ture in it, Which Sebastian had had
made in order that he might scrutinize
unWelcome visitors before admitting
them. Leont ue, upon the doorstep
with the policemen, saw Ravengars
face.
you have got him?" she cried.
Sebastian, writing furiously at his
desk, saw Leontine through the win
dow. She was talking 10 Ravengar,
and she seemed ri Il loss 10 understand
why he did not open the door. Sebas-
tian threw the pen down. and Il
crafty look came over his face.
He reflected for a moment; then he
deliberately tore up the confession
which he had written and threw the
scraps away. He crept toward the
door. Near this WAS standing a heavy
lockwood chair, which he had brought
with him fl n the Argentine. 1t was
very Old, ana the wood was almost as
strong and solid as if it We're steel.
Sebastian picked it up and nOiselesslS
opened the door.
He crept into the hall. His feet made
no sound on the thickscarpet He saw
Ravcngar, talking to Lcontine and the
policeman through the door. He raised
the chair and brought it crashing
down on Ravengar'S head
Ravengar dropped like a log, with
out sound. The fragments of the
broken chair fell all about him.
Sebastian turned and fled up the
stairs. He dashed into a room which
overlooked a neighboring garden. II
was his plan to leap from the window,
thus to avoid the police.
In front of it stretched a line of
telegraph wires. 1t was a desperate
spring, almost an impossible one.
He heard the front door splinter, and
the police rush into the house They
We're searching the library they were
coming up the stairs A hand was at
the door Sebastian poised himself |
upon the window sill, and rendered |
desperate, leaped as the police entered |
the room.
Sebastian eau hit the yielding tele-
graph wires with one hand, hung there |
a moment reached up the other hand,
and made his way to the pole. He
climbed down, and had just reached |
the bottom when shout from the win
dow above him indicated that he was
discovered.
He heard a warning cry. A bullet
past his head; but Sebastian
was running swiftly for the garden
gate. 1t was unlocked. He darted
through and found himself in the
street.
His versatile brain was working fast
He knew exactly what he was going
% do. His garage stood near. In this
ne kept, besides his autos, a motor
cycle, a hobby of his. Sebastian
it, mounted it, and whirled
away.
He rode with all his might, for he
vas bent on making this supreme eff
Ort and shaking his pursuers off the
rack. But now fortune ceased to IA
,or him. The police auto had been
brought round to the back of the
lOuSt uS ptudSlldiI uuNlltl along lllt |
Dad he was seen. The hue and cry
vas un In moment the police auto
vas after him.
Sebastian headed toward the nils,
tut a glance showed him that there
ie would be caught, He could not
Ope to best an auto on an ascent.
lie turned and headed toward the har-
or. And now he became panic
tricken. He headed toward a wharf.
1t was the last wharf up the river.
was little private dock once used !
or sailing ships but now practically y
bandOned In the distance, toward /
he river mouth, fisherman sat in a
lOtorboat J
Sebastian saw him and his scheme .
'as formed He drove straight for the /
cad of the wharf Without checking [
imself, he let the motorcycle plunge
ito the river and. disentangling him I
elf began to strike out toward the
lOtorbOlt. q
The police chauffeur threw on the
rakes just in time to prevent the
uto from following the motorcycle t
ito the water. r
The police watched the swimmer t
10 was foo far away now for a re-