The Carlisle independent., 1917-03-01

Helen and Seagrue In the garden, | Ward and Adams watching intently, saw his silhouetted figure on the low cred curtain.
 And Storms trifiing act of hospital ity was to prove his salvation and Seagrue's undoing. Having seen that the punch bowl was nearly empty he excused himself and stepped into the next room to summon maid to refill 1t. The door of this room-a break fast room-opening on the garden, stood, for the evening, ajar The maid, reaching up on the sideboard for napkin, when Storm spoke to her. let it fall from her hand as she turned. The white square of linen, partly un- folded. futtered to the ground. :
 Where she stood, the maid could not be seen from Wards hiding place in the garden Only the figure of Storm beside her was visible and the highwayman mistook his figure for Seagrue's. When the napkin fluttered to the floor, Ward. mistaking 1t for the handkerchief, watched intently the two silhouetted figures in the con- servatory.
 Seagrue, at Helens side, rose to his feet. Two shots rang through the night air. Seagrue, stricken, clutched his heart. With a ghastly expression he looked at Helen. And as she screamed, he clutched at his heart again and fell headlong to the floor.
 Helen's frantic cries brought crowd to the conservatory doors. Storm. nearest at hand, held back the others and entered the room first He turned, lifted Seagrue from the floor and asked for a doctor. Helen, half hysterical, told where the shots had come and Storm, followed by her, ran out into the garden.
 The murderers had made good their escape. Hurrying to where their ma chine was hidden, they jumped into it and started at breakneck speed for Oceanside. It was Spikes keen ear that detected the faint Lum of their motor. They're making thei- getaway in car" he cried. If we are to get them. we've got to work quick" Communicating the first car parked in the driveway and accompanied by Helen and Storm. Spike drove rapidly down the highway after the fleeing taxicab. No lights were visible on 1t, but some moonlight made it possible to follow the murderers accurately.
 Below the bridge at Signal, the high. way, turning sharply, crossed the rail- road. It is bell crossing and the sig. nals were ringing for the Oceanside express when Ward and Adams. look. ing behind at the headlights of Spikes car, saw they were hotly pursued. They opened fire with their revolvers on the pursuing car, but Helen. Storm and Spike, keeping under cover as best they could, did not slacken speed. The criminals thus pressed, saw there was a chance to put the railroad crossing between them and their pur. suers. The express was close upon them, but desperate men cannot be choosers. Ward took a chance. Crowd. ing his machine to the limit, he tried for the crossing ahead of the train. The engineer seeing collision un, avoidable, checked his train heavily It was too late. The engine was al most on the taxicab and the next in stant the pilot, striking it squarely in the middle, threw the heavy limousine fifty feet in the air. When Helen, Storm and Spike reached the spot, the engineer was backing down to inven tigate the catastrophe.
 Lanterns and searchlights wer brought into play where the moon lef the landscape in shadow. Adams body was found in 8 borrow pit. Int shock had killed him. Ward. funs against tree, lay at the foot of it mutilated beyond recognition. In Helen's conservatory, doctor bent over Seagrue, but the wretche< victim of his own criminal intent lag quite dead.
 The sun rose happily after ths events of that tragic night. It ros( nowhere on two people more grate full for their escape from assassinA ton than Helen and Storm. Within the following week the guests of tha night. had they been gifted with VI sion, might have seen Spike seated book in hand. in the garden. readint an account of a marriage ceremony Tn it, surrounded by her friends ant given away by her foster uncle, Amok Rhinelander, Helen had become pA wife of George Storm
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