The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-01-26

ulate the pursuit. She had great fur
calling down the tube to the engineer
to go as fast as possible and then still
too, but he explained that he could mo-
increase the speed by turning his
wheel. Gloria asked him ~numberless
questions and made him teach her how
to steer the yacht. At first he helped
but soon she could throw the wheel
over to the queens taste.
Gradually the barge grew larger and
larger and its ugliness more distinct.
The men on the tug paid no heed to
the yacht following closely. But Gloria
saw a gaunt figure on the barge watch
ing a%nxiously. Soon he was distin-
guishable as Trask. Gloria left the
pilot house and went forward to make
sure. She recognized him as he rec
ognized her. She called to him to sur
render. He laughed. Then she saw
that he had a rife in his hand.
Trask had been mystified beyond en-
durance by the whole transaction. He
had left FreHeau's body in the moon
lit SHOWS in front of the Soldiers and
Sailors monument on Riverside drive.
He had watched the papers for days,
expecting to read in each one an &C.
count Of the finding Of the body.
He had been driven frantic with
anxiety by the silence of the journals.
He had begun almost to wonder If he
had really killed his man or only
dreamed it, when suddenly the head
lines had 1ared out with the state
ment that Freneau's body had been
found in the lower bay, miles below
the spot on Riverside drive where he
had left 1t empty of soul.
He had cudgeled his brain trying to
conceive who could have disposed OF
the evidence of his crime and with
what motive. The papers said that
Freneau had committed suicide, and
nobody disputed 1t.
Trask had begun to grow used to
the hope that his crime was to go I'M
discovered, to remain another Of the
many instances that disprove the old
fallacy, Murder will out" 1t seemed
safe for him to return to his business
as bargeman, yet he had no sooner en-
tered his own cabin than a strange girl
appeared, unexplained, and charged
him with the murder. She avowed, in
fact, that she had seen him do the
deed.
Then she escaped, but after that
nothing occurred to hamper Trask's
northward voyage in his canal boat.
His night was sleepless, however. He
up dozens of times, seeing
Iloria's little white finger pointing at
lin, hearing her cry out again:
You killed him! l saw you'll"
The daybreak found him stretched
tut at the stern of the canal boat, look
ng south for some possible avenger.
lie saw the yacht swoOping up the
itream long before Gloria made him
tut. He seemed to feel hat the I'M
amy speed of the boat meant bust
less. So he hunted out his old rifle
nd kept his eyes on the yacht. as it 7
Oined with relentless persistence.
he made ont Gloria on the
row, pointing at him.
Now Trask felt assured that Gloria
a witch. She had appeared in his
abin, then vanished, only to reappear
nth a posse of yachtsmen. He felt 1
hat he had been a fool to let her dupe
i'm when lie was alone. Now she had
little army and navy of her own. But =
he got rid of her he would be rid OF +
only witness against him. So he
sasoned with a madman's logic. He
.veled his rifle at Gloria. He took
lreful aim. He fired =
(TO BE CONTINUED.)