The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-04-06

NOT ITOlu lIle DTHlH, 1nereIOT6 Ills
brain may be seething with q thousand
frenzies, but he will shove out clutch.
and brake feet in an emergency, and
hold them out.
SO it happened. The mans hands
left the wheel, but he stopped his car.
Not too soon, Not before it had struck
the cliff, and then taken sckenlng
curve out toward the edge of the
| prccipice. But stop it did, on the very
edge of eternity, and the chauffeur
held it there.
''Set the hand brake" Milky said.
! The lamps were near enough the edge
to make him dizzy.
| The chauffeur ceased struggling, and
set the hand brake His head was stir
! covered. But having done that. he
! commenced a struggle more furious
than forceful, for both Of them were
handicapped.
| And now Milky was forced to an
unsOdierlke thing tina! he afterward
| tried 70 forget. For the driver de-
velopod unexpected strength. refused
to submit, got the tunic % his head.
and, seeing himself attacked by one
man only, took courage and fell to.
| He picked up n wrench from the seat
! beside him, and made Il furious pass
ut Nikky'S head. Milky duckcd and.
after struggle secured the weapOn.
! All this in the ear, over the seat back.
It was then that Milky raised the
wrench and stunned his man with 1t.
It was hateful, The very dull thud
! # ii was Sickening And there was Il
bad minute or two when he thought
! ," he'd Killed his opponent. The man
i had sunk down in his seat, n sodden
! lump Of Illuminate human flesh. And
! Milky. whose business. in q way, was
| Killing, was Mortified.
TIE chauffeur wakcnnd, ten minutes
! later TO find himself securely tied with
| his own towing rope and lying ex-
! tremely close to the edge of death.
! Beside him on the ground sat steady
! eyed young man with cut lip The
young man had lighted cigarette, and
was placing it carefully in the unin-
jured side Of his mouth.
"IuSt as soon as you are UP to it."
said Milky, 1--WE shall have a little
talk"
| The chauffeur muttered something in
the peasant patos of Karnia.
| Come, comet" Milky observed.
Speak up. No hiding behind strange
tongues. But first, / have the letter.
That saves your worrying about 1t.
You can clear your mind for action"
Suddenly Milky dropped his hooking
tone. He was In earnest, grim and
deadly earnest.
| Il have fancy, my friend" he said,
"to take that letter Of yours on to its
destination. But what that destination
| is, you are to tell me-"
The man on the ground grinnetf
sardonically. you know better than
to ask that" he said. II will never
| tell you"
Milky had thought things out fairly
we'll, for him, in that ten minutes. In
a businesslike fashion he turned the
PROSTATE prisoner on his side, so that
he faced toward the chasm. A late
moon showed its depth. and the valley
In which the air flowed swiftly. And
having thus faced him toward the next
world, Milky, throwing away his
cigarette because it hurt his lip, put
stone or two from the roadway behind
his prisoner, and anchored him there.
Then he sat down and waited.
"Any news?" he asked, at the end
of ten minutes unbroken silence.
His prisoner said nothing. He was
thinking, doubtless. Weighing things.
to0-perhaps life against betrayal,
family against separation.
Milky examined the letter again. Il
was addressed to a border town In
LivOnia. But the town lay far behind
them. The address, then, was a false
one. He whiStled softly.
Half an hour.
Come. come" said Milky fercely.
I'VE are losing time" He looked
fierce, too. His swollen lip did that.
And he was nervous. It occurred to
him that his prisoner in desperation,
might roll over the edge himself, which
would be most uncomfortable.
But the precipice, and Nikky's fierce
lip, and other things. had got In their
work. The man on the ground stopped
muttering In his patois, and turned ON
Milky eyes full Of hate. =,
Il will tell YOU" he said. "A-,,nJJi!,,
will free me. And after that, Oh. i.
Certainly" Milky replied 49,, ~
you will follow me TO IT,, "oh'
the earth-although that way !" Dec
necessary, because I don't 49, MUn
there-and finish me off" 'onday in Ju
ly: 'NOw, where does tbs
I have q fancy for
self"
"If tell you, what them
This: If you tell me prS the rood a
all goes well, will return
you. If l do not return, aAnen's Oh soe
will not be released. Ant'rS and the
you mediate a treachery. L. University
you and leave you, not here bl,re the 1t
a short distance, in the wood we'T Scot,
passed. And, because you are bravist O
man, and this thing may be less serb b.
GUS than I think it is, / give you rad a,
word Of honor that if you advise ..n
correctly, l shall return and lib .;..,-
YOU" :.