Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-06-14

driver acts from the spfnuE cord, and
not from the brain. Therefore his
brain may be seething with a thousand
frenzies, but he will shove out clutchI
and brake feet in an emergency, andI
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 a sickeningI
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 hand brakei" 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 stin'
covered. But having done that, he
commenced 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-
veloped unexpected strength, refused
to submit, got the tunic off his head
and, seeing himself attacked by one,
man only, took courage and fell to.
He picked up a wrench from the seat
beside him, and made furious pass
at Nikky's head. Milky ducked and.
after struggle secured the weapon.
All this in the car, over the seat back
1t was then that Milky raised the
wrench and stunned his man with it.
It was hateful. The very dull thuA
of it 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 inanimate human flesh. And
| Milky, whose business, in way, was
killing, was Mortified.
| The chauffeur wakened, 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 a cut lip. The
young man had lighted a cigarette, and
was placing it carefully in the unin-
! iured side of his mouth.
"Just as soon as you are up to it,"
said Milky, 1--WE shall have little
/ talk"
The chauffeur muttered something In
the peasant patois of Karnia.
"Come, come !" 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.
II have fancy, my friend" he said.
ito take that letter of yours on to its
destination. But what that destinatiog
is, you are to tell me-"
The man on the ground grinned
sardonically. "You know better thar
to ask that" he said. ST will nevel
| tell you"
Milky had thought things out fairly
well, for him, in that ten minutes. II
a businesslike fashion he turned the
PROSTATE prisoner on his side, so that
he faced toward the chasm. A latd
moon showed it's depth, and the valleN
| 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 d
stone Or two from the roadway behind
his prisoner, and anchored him there
Then he sat down and waited.
sAny news?" he asked, at the end
| Of ten minutes unbroken silence.
His prisoner said nothing, He wal
thinking, doubtless. Weighing things
too-perhaps life against betrayal, d
| family against separation.
Milky examined the letter again. II
was addressed to q border town IN
Livonia. But the town lay far behind
them. The address, then, was false
one. He whistled softly. +
Half an hour.
"Come, come" said Milky fiercely,
1--WE are losing time" He looked
i 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.
81 will tell you," he said. "And you
/ will free me. And after that"
/ Certainly" Milky replied equally.
'You will follow me to the ends Of
the earth-although that will not be
necessary, because don't intend to ga
there land finish me off" Then, stern.
| ~: "Now, where does the letter go7
I have fancy for delivering it my.
SELF
eff tell you, what thenY
'This: IF you tell me properly, and
all goes well, will return and release
/ Won. In do not return. naturally you