Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-25
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For the third time that day beau
EVE sTRAYER faced death as an
innocent victim in the battle for
possession of the priceless gem,
the Flaming Jewel.
First stolen from the refugee
COUNTESS OF ESTHONIA by the
great international thief,
QUINTANA, and then stolen from
Qu~intana by
MIKE CLINCH, who boarded it in
his disreputable hunting camp in
the Adirondacks as the sole
Of giving his beloved Eve the
"education of a lady" the jewel
was now in Ewes possession.
Facing her a Quintana n his
gang. A prisoner with her was
STATE TROOPER STORMONT, the
man she Owed.
In the surrounding forest Clinch
and his men were man-hunting,
savagely intent on killing Quintana
and his gang. Under the window
was
JAMES DARRAGH, who under the
name of
HAL SMITH had earned Clinch's
friendship, but whose secret in
tent was to restore the gem to the
beggared countess. Smith had
just hAIicu
EALZAR, one of Quintana's men, in
a fight and now. dressed in Sal
zar's clothes. awaited an oppor-
+ tunity to aid Eve and Stormont.
Go On With the Story
CHAPTER "
Outside in the rag-weed patch
Hal Smith rose, stole across the
grass to the kitchen door and slip
ped inside.
Nov, senorita," said Quintana
gaily. my packet. If you please
and we cave you to the caresses
OF your faithful gendarme-who
possesses two good hands to fondle
you! Atoms! Come theni My
packeti'
One Of the masked men said:
Take her downstairs and lock her
UP somewhere or she'll shoot us
from her window"
Lead out that gendarme. tool"
added Quintana, grasping Eve by
the arm.
Down the stairs tramped the men,
forcing their prisoners with them.
In the big kitchen the glare from
the burning clubhouse fell dimly; |
the place was full of shadows.
Now said Quintana. st take my
property and my leave. Where is
the packet hidden"
She stood for a moment with
dropping head, amid the somber
shadows, then. slowly, she drew the
emblazoned morocco case from her
breast pocket.
What followed occurred in the
twinkling TO an eye; for, as Quin-
tana extended his arm to grasp the
case, a hand snatched 1t, a masked
figure sprang through the doorway,
and ran toward the barn.
Somebody recognized the hat and
red bandanna:
"salzar!" he yelled. Mick Sal
zar."
"a traitor, by Cod" shouted
reached the door his pistol flashed
twice. deafening all in the semi
darkness, choking them with sitting
fumes.
A masked man turned on Stor-
mont. forcing him back into the
pantry at pistol-point. Another man
pushed Eve after him, slammed the
pantry door and bolted it.
Through the iron bars of the pan
try window Stormont saw a man,
wearing a red bandanna tied under
and fling himself astride under a
shower of bullets.
AS he wheeled the horse and
syang him into the clearing toward
the foot OF Star Pond, his seat and
horsemanship were not to be mis-
taken.
He was gone, now, the gallop
stretching into a dead run; and
Quintana's men still following,
shooting. h~allooing in the starlight
like a pack Of leaping shapes from
hell.
But Quintana had not followed
far. When he had emptied his au-
tomato he halted.
Something about the transaction
suddenly checked his fury, stilled
it, summoned his brain into action.
For a full minute he stood IN
stirring. every atom of intelligence
in terrible concentration.
Presently he put his left hand into
his pocket, fitted another clip to his
pistol, turned or his heel and walk