Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-02
tt,ontinued from our last issuel
EPISODE TEN
The Twilight of Mike
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CHAPTER /

The Twilight of Mike
CHAPTER 1
When Quintana turned like ar
nraged snake on Sard and drove
tim to his destruction, he would
ave killed and robbed the fright
ned diamond broker had he dared
fsk the shot. He had intended to
h&ith the noise of the hunting dogs
Tlling the forest, Quintana was
frfraid to fire.
About an hour later Quintana
HAAS seen. challenged, chased and
hhot at by State Trooper Lannis.
be Quintana ran. And what with
he dense growth of seeding beech
lind oak and the heavily falling
frch and poplar leaves, Lannis lost
6uintana and then his trail.
The State Trooper had left his
sorse at the crossroads near the
@ene of Darragh's masked exploit,
there he had stopped and robbed
ard-and now Lannis FASTENED
tack to find and mount his horse,
End gallop straight into the first
'roxth timber.
There was no sound of dogs when
.annis rode in on the narrow,
ported trail whence he had flushed
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Efaplings that bordered it.
lis Once, very, very far away west
Hfard in the direction of Star Pond
BE fancied he heard a faint vibra-
ION in the air hat might have been
lounds baying.
He was right. And at that very
aoment Sard was dying, horribly,
h,mong two trapped offers as big
fsnd fierce as the dogs that had
hsriven them into the drain.
~ Somewhere among the birches,
|613etween him and Star Pond, was
zHarrod Place. And the idea oc-
n mrred to him that Quintana might
|75ave ventured to ask food and shell
|ssSr there. Yet. that was not likely
because Trooper Stormont had
|3ophone from the Hatchery Lodge.
~ However, to reassure himself,
sannis rode as far as Harrod Place
nd found game wardens on duty
dong the line.
~ Then he turned west and trotted
ss3is mount down to the hatchery,
5ahere he saw Ralph Wier, the
superintendent, standing outside
sAae lodge talking to his assistant,
feorge Fry.
When Lannis rode up on the OPP
,9osite side of the brook, he called
sscross to Wier:
"You haven't seen anything of
tiny crooked outfit around here,
ave you, Ralph? I'm looking for
hat kind"
See here" said the superin-
iendent, II don't know but George
ISry may have seen n of your
lsuys. Come over and he'll tell you
What happened an hour ago."
Fry's boyish face seemed agitat-
ID; he looked up at the State
trooper with the flush of tears in
Ais gaze and pointed at the rife
lsannis carried:
ii I'd had that" he said excited
y, I'D have brought in a crook,
sou bet!"
Where did you see him?" in
5uired Lannis.
: "Jest west of the Scaur, about an
flour and a half ago. I was stockin'
The head of Scaur Brook with fin
iser1ings. . . You know how it is
~ h woods. l kinda felt
near. And. by cracky!-
here stood a man with a big. black
sutomatic pistol, and he had a bead
IN my belly.
" Well said I, whats troubling
lou and your gun. my friend?'-I
fas that astonished.
HE vas a slim-built, powerful
;uy with a foreign face and voice
nd way. He wanted to know if he
the honor-as he put ito in
roduce himself to a detective or
tame constable, or a friend of Mike
rlinch.
told him I wasn't any of these,
T worked in a private
iatchery,~andshe called me a liar"
Young Fry's face flushed and his
toice began to culver:
That's the way he misused me,
md he backed me into the shanty
md I had to sit down with both
lands up. Then he filed my pack
with grub, and took my ak,
ind strapped my kit onto his back.
And talking all the time in
lis mean. sneery, foreign way-and
II guess he thought he was funny, |
Tor he laughed at his W jokes.
He told me his name was Quin- |
Jana, and that he ought to shoot me
Tor a rat, but wouldn't because of
The stink. Then he said he was