The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-13
THE LONG LANES TURNING
Halle Erminie Rives
Copyright 1917. by Dodd Mead a Co
Halle Erminie Rives


Continued From Our Last IxsucJ
There was no answer from behind
the mask. and Echo again addressed
the governor:
"Thl. man must have heard my
pleading ard pltied me. He thought
~ me before be though, 81 his own
escape. lle took the letter I had
come for from the safe and gave 1t
to me. then dragged me to the door
and told mo 20 run. so I'll got
away"
wistfutn-ss and pain had creps in
To her voice now.
Next day tn. newspapers said
that the man who had fired the shot
had b.en arrested. believed this 20
DO true Again she paused and her
eyes shifted to the masked figure.
You must have known my name.
Yet you never told DO you think.
whatever II might mean TO rne-after
, what you did--that I could keep
silent. II the truth may help you
now
SEWER had no answer. The gov.
ernor was looking at' her with intent.
ness You mean that he "a no, the
ono who did the shooung7"
'Tiers not"
Craig suecrcd she nays wha,
she has been told to say" he said
with dry lips You win understand
why. presently"
"Pcrhapa.~ returned the governor.
coidly. Il shall" Then. turning TO
Echo
How do you know this IL not the
man7"
This man IL tall: tho man who did
the shooting was short"
'But---his face. You saw 1t that
night distinctly Would you know
IL II you saw Il sgain7
AS well as I know yours."
The governor spoke. quietly and
evenly;
detail I should like to picture tho
scene that night n little more dis.
tinctly. Where were YOU standing
when the shot was fred"
She changed her position slightly.
Here. nearly In tho center OF the
room"
And the man who shot from the
alcovef"
There" She pointed one side. to
the bay.window. before which now
stood Paddy the Brick.
To Echo the illusion wus consider.
able. for the room was not unlike
that other library In which had oc'
CURED the scene she was 40 pain.
fully rcslrawing.
what was the man who shot
likeg" he asked
He was middls-sIzed and thick set.
with light hair that sprang In a COW.
lick from his forehead He ."
She had stopped abruptly She
was staring with wide. Mortified eyes
at the man who stood In the bay.
window-at the up-thrust. sand.coL
ored hair, the rounded shoulders, the
red.rimmed cyes which now held a
trapped look OF animal fear.
She stiffened. She pointed at him.
you" she cried You are the
man who fired that shotv'
On the startled silence. already so
intense with conflicting forces. the
attbHaAs'U ith WIN iit' htbb'iinfos
Of an electric shock.
It effect on Paddy the Brick was
instantaneous. IL ever guilt and the
dread that IN confession showed upon
a face. IL was written upon his, In
lines unmistakable that he who ran
might read.
Craig started from his seat. You
fooli" he snaried at him.
But Paddy the Brick gave him no
glance. The fear of the hunted was
upon him. He turned. and with one
desperate jerk, tore the hangings
aside. and with arms before his face,
plunged bodily thru the shattering
glass Of the bsy.window to the
garden.
SO abrupt and fatefui had been the
crash Of his headlong flight. that for
a breath II seemed as II all there
had been turned to stone. Craig first
found voice.
Enough OF this farcew he cried.
Governor Eveland. this man In an
escaped convict, and I coll upon you
to do your dutyr'
The governor turned swiftly on
him.
You coward and blackamilerr' he