Charlevoix county herald., 1919-06-06
we will start for home"

we will start for home"
Outside the store looked carefully
around and espied Leroux almost i'm
mediately. lighting cigar In the door
way of shop. hit upon rather
daring plan to escape him.
Carson's offices were I'm large mod
ern building, with many elevators and
entrances. / walked toward 1t with
Jacqueline. being satisfied that Leroux
was following us; entered about
twenty-five yards before him, and
assembled to the elevator, getting off,
however, on the floor above that on
which the offices were.
/ was satisfied that Leroux would
follow me a minute later, under the
impression that we had gone to Car
sons office, and so, after waiting
minute or two. took Jacqueline down
I'm another elevator, and we escaped
through the front entrance and jumped
into taxicab.
/ was satisfied that had thrown
Leroux off the scent butaI took the
precautiOn to stop at gunsmith's
shop and purchase pair of automatic
pistols and hundred cartridges.
But ! was very uneasy until we
found ourselves I'm the train. At last
everything was accomplished-our bag
gage upon the seats beside us and our
berths secured. And then, at the very
moment when the wheels began to re-
volve, Leroux stepped down from
neighbOring train. AS he passed our
window he espied us.
He started and glared, and then he
came racing back toward Us. shaking
his fists and yelling vile explosives.
He tried to swing himself aboard In
his fury, despite the fact that the doors
were all shut. A porter pushed him
back, and the last I saw of him he
was still pursuing us, screaming with
rage.
| knew that he would follow on the
next train, reaching Quebec about five
the following afternoon. That gave MS
five hours grace.
j turned toward Jaequeline, fearful
that she had recognized the man and
realized the situation. But she was
smiling happily at my side, and was
confident then that by virtue of that
same mental inhibition, she had nei-
ther seen nor heard the fellow.
New York was slipping away. All
my old life was slipping away like
this--and evil following us. slipped
one of the automatics out of my suit
case into my pocket and swore that I
would guard Jacqueline from any
shadow of harm.
| opened one of the newspapers
that had bought at the station book
stand, dreading to find In fiaring let
tiers the headlines announcing the dis
covery Of the body.
| found the announcement-but in
small type. The murder was ascribed
to gang battle-the man could not be
identified, and apparently both police
and public considered the affair mere
ly one Of those daily slayings that
occur in that city.
Another newspaper devoted about
the same amount of space to the ac-
count, but it published a photograph
| of the dead man, taken in the alley
where, 1t appeared, the reporter had
viewed the body before it had been
removed. The photograph looked hor.
| ribly lifelike. / cut it out and placed
it in my pocketbook.
l turned toward Jacqueline. She
was asleep at my side and her head
dropped on my shoulder. We sat thus
| all the afternoon, while the city dis.
appeared behind us, and we passed
through Connecticut and approached
the Vermont hills.
Then we had gay little supper In
the dining car. Afterward l walked
TO the car entrance and flung the bro
ken dog collar away-across the fields
| That was the last link that bound us
to the past.