Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-09-27
.Ceusinusd From Our last Issusl

A glimpse Of startled faces was
ell thsy had. Juiss touched the head
light switch and opened the exhaust.
Above the roaring OF the latter Ian.
yard fancisd he could hear q fRint
rafting sound. He looked back and
sraiisd grimfy. Sharp. short flames
Of orange and scarlet were stabblng
the darkness. Somebody had opened
fire with an automatic pistol Z.
Sheer waste OF ammunition
The pace wAxed terrific on = road.
like % many roads of France. ap.
parentiy interminable and straight
And yet. long before the road turned.
Lanyard. staring astern ~ he knelt
on the rear seat with arms crossed
on the folded top. saw the two white
eyes Of the gray car swing into
view and start In pursuit. Quick
work. he called H.
lie crawied forward and communi.
rated his news.
. Don't ease up unless you have
TO-" he counseied: don't think We
dare give them an inch."
Back at his post Of observation.
he watched. hoping against hope.
while the car iunged and tore like
q mad thing through the night.
snoring up grades. screaming down
them. drumming across the levels.
gathering wildly through villages
ana hamlets. His heart sank -
minute succeeded minute. mile fol.
lowed mile. and ever the lights Of
the pursuing car. lost 10 sight from
time 10 time. rsappeared with .
brighter. hsrcer glow. and conviction
forced itself homo that they were
being gradually but surely over
hauled.
lie took this intelligence 20 the
ear Of Jules. The chauffeur an.
svsred only with . worried shake Of
his head that said too plainly he was
doing his best extracting every
ounce Of power from the engine.
Less than three hundred yards
separated pursued and pursuer a.
they raced out through open fields
once more. And foot by foot this
lead was being inexorsbly cut down.
In the seat beside the driver Of
the gray car . man rose and. steady.
Ing himself BY holding onto the
Windshield. poured out the contents
Of an automatic. presumably hoping
70 puncturs the tires Of the quarry.
A bullet bored . neat hole through
the windshield between the heads
Of Lane Delorms and Jules. The
woman slipped down upon the floor
ana Jules crouched over the wheel.
LANYARD fingered his automatic but
held lis IRE.
Instead. he turned 10 the lunch
hamper and opened Il. In the bottom
Of the basket lay sig pint bottles
Of champagne. four Of them un.
opened. Lanyard took thsm 10 the
rear ssst-snd found the gray ca
had drawn up 10 within City yards
Of IL prey. Making q pace better
than seventy miles per hour. u
would not dare swerve.
The frs. empty bottle broke "a
one side. the second squarely be
tween the front wheels. He graspet
the FIRST fun bottle b. the neck and
felt that its weight promised more
accuracy. but ducked before attempt
ing 20 throw u as 4 voiley OF shot'
sought 70 discourage him. A. th'
FIRST iuli he rose and cast the bot
lie with the overland action en-
pioyed In grenade throwing. u
crashed fairly beneath the nsafe'
forward wheel Of the gray car. bu
without effect. The lead had beer
sbridged 10 thirty yards: In two min
u,es more u would be nothing.
The fourth bottis went Wild. bv
the NTH exploded sir inches In from
os the onslds wheel and its jagget
fragments ripped out the heart o.
the tire. On the instant OF the &C
compsnying blowout the gray oal
SHE'D like q frightened horse ans
swerved on the road. hurting bead
iong into Q ciump OF trees. TIT
subsequent crash was like the Dc
tonasion Of q great bomb Deel
shadsvs MASKED that tragedy b