The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-27
By
WilliamM MAJ
Edwin Balmer

killed her cousin but as those who had
threatened Eaton.
"What do / care what happens to
me, If we catch them?" she cried
Harriet !" he repeated her name
again.
Phillip"
She felt him shrink and change as
she called the name. 1t had been clear
to her. of course, that, since she had
known him, the name he had been
using was not his own. Often she had
wondered what his name was; now
she had to know. "What should / call
your" she demanded of him.
"My name" he said, 'fs Hugh"
Hugh! % she called it.
EYES,"
Hugh" She waited for the rest +;
but he told no more. "Hugh!' she
whispered to herself again his name
now. Hugh"
Her eyes, which had watched the
road for the guiding of the car, had
followed his gesture from time to time
pointing out the tracks made by the
machine they were pursuing. These
tracks still ran IN ahead; as she
gazed down the road, a red glow be-
yond the bare trees was lighting the
sky. A glance at Hugh told that he
also had seen it.
"a fire?" she referred to him.
Looks like it,"
Thav cold No moro nc thav r1chpd
on; but the red glow was spreading,
and yellow flames soon were in sight
shooting higher and higher; these
were clouded off for an instant only
to appear f1aring higher again. and
the breeze brought the smell of sea.
soned wood burning.
It's right across the road!" Hugh
announced as they neared 1t.
Its the bridge over the next IA.
vine" Harriet said. Her foot already
was bearing upon the brake, and the
power was shut off the car coasted
that the wooden span was blazing
from end to end; 1t was old wood
swift to burn and going like finder
There was no possible chance for the
car to cross 1t. The girl brought the
machine to a stop fifty feet from the
edge of the ravine; the fire was SC
hot that the gasoline tank would moi
be safe nearer She gazed down al
the tire-marks on the road.
"They crossed with their machine,
she said to Hugh.
"And fired the bridge behind. They
must have poured gasoline over i
and lighted it at both ends"
She sat with n hand still strain
Ing at the driving wheel, the Other
playing with the gear lever.
There's no other way across tina
~ravine, / suppose" Hugh questioned
her.
1.-The other roads back more thar
q mile, and two miles about" Sh,
threw In the reverse and started t
turn. Hugh shook his head. That
no use."
NO." she agreed, and stopped thu
a again. Hugh stepped down Oh
the ground.
The double glare from the head
lights of a motor shOne through tn
tree-trunks as the car topped an,
came swiftly down a rise three quar-
tiers Of a mile away and around tn
last turn back on the road; anothe
pair of binding lights followed. Their
was no doubt that this must be tn
pursuit from Santoine'c house. Eatol
stood beside Harriet, who had stage
in the driving-seat of the car.
I'm going just beside the roa'
here" he said to her, quietly. "TI
armed, of course. If those are you
people, you'd better go back wit
them. I'm sure they are; but I'll wal
and see."
She caught his hand. mo; MOI" sh
cried. "You must get as far ava
as you can before they come! II
going back to meet and hold them.
She threw the car into the reverse
backed and turned it and brought
again INTO the road. He came besid
her again. putting out his hand sh
seized 1t. Her hands for an instan
chung to 1t, his to hers.
"You must go-quick !" she urged
"but how am l to know what become
of you-where you are? Shall I hea
from you-shall l ever see you?"
mo news will re good news" b
said, until"
until what?"
Until" And again that unknow
something which a thousand times
it seemed to her-had checked HI
word and action toward her made hil
pause; but nothing could completed
bar them from one another now. "Ul
til they catch and destroy me, or
until I come to you as-as you hay
never known me yeti"
An instant more she chung to hin
The double headlights f1ared int
sight again upon the road, muc
nearer now and coming fast. She r.
leased him; he plunged into til