The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-10-31
THE
TEETH OF THE TIGER
MAURICE LEBLANC
TRANSLATED
ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS

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change single word. Before
him Perenna saw Davanne S
broad back and powerful neck
and shoulders. But, by bending
his head little, he saw the
boundless space beneath him; and
nothing interested him but the
white ribbon Of road that rap
from town to town and from vii
lage to village, at times quite
straight, as though a hand had
stretched it, and at others lazily
winding, broken by a river or a
church.
On this ribbon, at some place
always closer and closer, were
Florence and her abductor!
lie never doubted it! The yell
low taxi was continuing its pa
tient and plucky little effort. Mile
after mile, through plains and vii
lagos, fields and forests, it was
making Anglers, with Les Points
de-Drive after, and, right at the
end Of the ribbon, the unattain-
able goal: Nantes, Saint-Nazaire,
the steamer ready to start, and
victory for the scoundrel.
He laughed at the idea. AS if
there could be question Of any
victory, the victory of the falcon
over its prey, the victory Of the
flying bird over the game that
runs afoot! Not for a second did
he entertain the thought that the
enemy might have skunk away by
taking another road.
There are some certainties that
are equivalent to facts. And this
one was SO great that it seemed
to him that his adversaries were
obliged to comply with it. The car
was travelling along the road to
Nantes. 1t would cover an aver
age of 20 miles an hour. And
as he himself was travelling at the
rate of 60 miles, the encounter
would take place at the spot
named, Les Ponts-de-Drive and
the hour named, II o clock.
A cluster Of houses, huge
castle, towers, steeples: Anglers.
Don Luis asked Davanne the
time. 1t was 10 minutes to IL.
Already Anglers was vanished
vision. Once more the open coun-
try, broken up with many colored
fields. Through it all, road.
And, on that road, a yellow
motor.
The yellow motor! The brute Is
lmotor The motor with Florence
Levasseur!
Don Luis's JOY contained ne
surprise. He knew so well that
this was bound to happen!
Davanne turned round and
cried:
That the one, isn't ita''l3
Yes, go straight for Them,
The airship dipped through
|space and canght up the car al.
most at once. Then Davanne
slowed his engine and kept at sia
hundred feet above the ear and
little way behind.
1 From here they made out all
/ the details. The driver was seateo
on the left. He wore a gray car
with black peak. It was one 81
the deep yellow taxis Of the Com
lpagnies DIES Cometes. It was The
taxi which they were pursuing
And Florence was inside with hel
| abductor.
AT last, thought Don Luis
1T have them &
They flew for some time, keep
ing the same distance. 4.
4 Davanne waited for q sigma,
(which Don Luis was in no hIrr,
Ito give. He was revealing III The
sensation Of his power, with. !
4 force made up Of mingled pride
hatred, and cruelty. He was IN
deed the eagle lowering overhead
with its talons itching to rend Iivs
3, flesh. Escaped from the cape ii
which he had been imprisoned
released from the bonds thai
i fastened him, he had come all thu
i way at full flight and was read,
4 Ito sWoop upon the helpless prey
4 He lifted himself in his sea-
\ and gave Davanne his instruc
Hons
A Be careful &, He said, ssnot Il
brush too close BY them. The,
might put q bui9t into us.
st5 Another niante passed.
Suddcnly they saw that, Hal
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