San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-19
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Colonel Hollis, soldier and advcn
turer, returns to England, his nativ
land, when war with Holland is dc
clared. 1t is dangerous for HOLES T.
secure commission in the Englisi
army because the name of Randa
HOLES, father of the colonel. appears
on the warrant for the execution o
the late king. A friend of the colonel
named Tucker. is arrested for plottin:
against the government. Because Hol
les has been seen in fuckers com
pany. warrant is also out for hi,
arrest.
| His Grace of Buckingham hire,
HOLES to abduct the actress. Sylvia
Marquharson. HOLES waits for Syl
via to leave the theater, then, with
the help of hired rogues, he carrie,
off the actress. When passers-
by hear the girls screams Holes tells
them that she is stricken delirious
with the plague. Now go on with the
story.
| That checked their swift advance.
| Miss Farduharson, who had over
heard the colonel s warning and per-
ceived its paralyZing effect upon those
rescuers whom she had been regarding
as Heaven-sent. leaned forward, ir
frenzied fear that the trap was about
to close upon her.
He lies. He lies. !" she shrieked in
her terror. 1T is false! l have not
the plague / have not the plague!
swear it. Do not heed him. sirs /. Do
not heed him /! Deliver me from these
villains. Oh. of your charity, sirs
|. in Gods name =.
do not abandon me, or / am lost
woman else!"
They stood at gaze. moved by her
piteous cries. yet hesitating what to
believe. Hollis addressing them,
speaking sadly:
"She is distraught, poor soul. De
mented. l am her husband, sirs, and
she fancies me an enemy. | am told
1T is common enough state in those
upon whom this terrible disease has
fastened" 1t was u truth of which
all London was aware by now that
the onslaught of the PLACE was com
monty attended by arrangement Of the
mind and odd decisions. "And for
your goverance. sirs, i should tell
you that l greatly fear ! am, myself,
already infected. l beg you, then.
not to detain me. but TO stand aside
SO that we may regain our home be-
fore my strength is spent"
Behind him Miss Farquharson
continued to scream her furious de-
mails and her piteous entreaties that
they should deliver her.
If they still doubted, yet they
dared not to put their doubts to the
test.
Aghast, spent by her effort. Miss
Farquharson sank back with moan.
feeling herself exhausted and ADAM
doned. But when one of the chair
men, in obedience TO an order from
the colonel. pulled the apron open,
she at once leapt up and out, and
would have gone speeding thence
but that the other bearer caught her
about her slender body, and held her
firmly whilst his fellow wound now
about her head long scarf which
HOLES had tossed him for the pur-
pose. That done. they made fast her
hands behind her with handker-
chief, thrust her back into the chair,
and shut he- in.
On it went. then away TO the left,
and IN the steep gradient of Paurs
Chains, and lastly to the right into
Knight Ryder street. Before a sub
stantial house on the north side of
this, between Paul's Chains and Ser
mon Lane, the chair came to q final
standstill and was set down. The
roof was raised and the apron pulled
open, and her hands seized upon her to
draw her forth. She hung back, a
dead weight, in last futile attempt
at resistance. Then she felt herself
bodily lifted in strong arms and
swung to a mans shoulder.
Thus HOLES bore her into the
house. wherein the chair. the poles
having been removed, was also pres
entity bestowed. The colonel turned
to the right of the roomy hall in
which two silent figures stood ut at
Observation-Disclosures other two
French lackeys-and entered mode
rate-sized square chamber. sombcrly
furnished and somberly wainscoted
from bare floor to whitened ceiling.
In the middle of the room a table
with massive corkscrcw legs was laid
for supper, and on its polished surface