Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-04-05

brain may be seething with thousand
frenzies. but he will shove out clutehI
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 sickening
curve out toward the edge of the
precipice. But stop it did, on the very
edge of eternity, and the chauffeur
held it there.
"Set the nand brake!" Milky said.
The lamps We're near enough the edge
to make him dizzy.
The chauffeur ceased struggling, and
set the hand brake. His head was stiY
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
unsoldierlike thing that he afterward
tried TO forget. For the driver de-
veloned unexpected strength, refused
to submit. got the tunic on his head,
and. seeing himself attacked by one
man only, took courage and fell to.
He picked Up wrench from the seat
beside him, and made furious pass
at Nikky's head. Milky ducked and.
| after a struggle secured the weapon.
All this In the car, over the seat bach.
1t was then that Milky raised tha
wrench and stunned his man with ii.
/ II was hateful. The very dull thud
Of II was sickening. And there was a
bad minute or two when he thought
he had killed his opponent. The man
had sunk down in his seat sodden
lump Of lnanimate human flesh And
Milky, whose business, In way, was
killing, was Mortified.
The chauffeur Weakened. 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 a steady
eyed young man with a cut lip. The
young man had lighted n cigarette. and
was placing 1t carefully in the unin-
jured side of his mouth.
"Just as soon as you are up to e."
said Milky, 1--WE shall have a little
talk"
The chauffeur muttered something In
the peasant patois of Karnia.
Come. Gomez Milky observed.
Speak up. No hiding behind strange
tongues. But first, l have the letter.
That saves your worrying about II.
You can clear your mind for action"
Suddenly Milky dropped his knocking
tone. He was in earnest, grim and
deadly earnest.
II have a fancy my friend" he said.
ito take that letter of yours on to Its
destination. But what that destination
Ia, you are to tell me-"
The man on the ground grlnned
sardonically. "You know better than
to ask that" he said. Il viii never
tell You"
Milky had thought things out fairly
well, for him, in that ten minutes. Id
a businesslike fashion he turned thu
PROSTATE prisoner on his side, so thai
he faced toward the chasm. A lats
moon showed its depth, and the valley
in which the air flowed swiftly. And
having thus faced him toward the nexs
world, Milky, throwing away hll
cigarette because 1t hurt his lip put Il
stone or two from the roadway behind
/ his prisoner, and anchored him there:
! Then he sat down and waited.
ANY news2" he asked, at the end
of ten minutes unbroken silence.
His prisoner said nothing. He waA
thinking, doubtless. Weighing things
to0-perhaps life against betrayal. d
family against separation.
Milky examined the letter again. II
was addressed to border town In
Livonia. But the town lay far behind
them. The address, then, was falsd
one. He whistled softly.
Half an hour
"Come, come" said Milky fiercely.
eve are losing time" He looked
fierce too. His swollen lip did that
And he was nervous. It occurred co
him that his prisoner, in desperation,
might ron over the edge himself, which
would be most uncomfortable.
But the precipice. and Nlkky's fierce
lip. and other things. had got ir their
work. The man on the ground stopped
muttering In his patois, and turned on
Milky eyes full Of hate
Il win tell you" he said. "And you
viii free me. And after that"
Certainly" Milky replied equally.
''You will follow me to the ends of
the earth--although that win not be
necessary, because / don't inteid to go
there-and finish me of, Then, stern
ly: "Now, where does the letter go7
have a fancy for delivering it my
self"
IF tell you, what then?s
'"This: If you tell me properly, and
all goes well, will return and release
You. If do not return, naturally you
win not be released. And, for fear
you mediate treachery, / shall gag
you and leave you, not here, but back