New Britain herald., 1925-01-26

when you called me dad 1t used to make things worth while. But knew that before the end came. I had to tell you the truth. And that took the salt out of life. Now come to the final roundup and I'm glad of it."
 She bowed her head.
 Say so-long to me, Joan. And say it with a smile. I'm aching to see you smile. dear"
 If I could live 1t over again." she breathed fiercely. "Oh. If I had an- other chance, I'd make you happy. dad, If 1t took the last drop of blood in my >body!"
 Things can't be changed. Joan" he said. What happens Is what's planned. The older I get, the more I see it. There was time when I loved Kate Cumberland and had a hope that I might make her love me some day. That day never came There was a time when I tried to kill Dan Barry.
 But when the wind-up comes, what have I been? Just a tool, Joan. Something else took hold of me and used me to work for Dan and Kate and then used me to work for you. ain't regretting. But that's been my life. And you'll do the same way not what you try to make out of yourself, but what's been planned for you away back in the beginning. Goodby. dear"
 Somehow, she WAS able to raise her fallen head, she was able to smile into his face, and then he was gone. She saw Dud Rainey before her.
 Wish me bon voyage" he said, cheerfully.
 Good luck, Good luck!" she whispered. She caught one~ot his hands. Nothing can happen to you. I know It - know it."
 He laughed and stepped away. And there was the towering form of Harry Gloster.
 She tried to cry out to stop him, but she could not speak. She tried to run after him, but her feet were weighed down with lead. And with all her mind and heart turned to ice, she watched the final prepara- tions.
 They went about their work calm ", methodically, as men should do. There was no delay, no trembling, no vain regrets. The three saddle horses were brought into the center of the group of stable animals. Then Dud Rainey, with gun in either hand, went to the back of the stable, and they heard him kick open a. door and being to blaze away into the outer night.
 There was an answering oar Of guns which quite drowned 1ls. Then came a yelling of hundred T'n, swarming back to meet the rear at- tack. That was the moment for which they had waited.
 Rainey came racing back ana loaped into his saddle. And ak three, yelling like wild Indians, turned the stable horses loose. Out they thun- dered! The din of their hoofs turn cd the stable into pandemonium, open a door and begin to blaze of revolvers and rifles.
 Yet 1t was not third of the vol ume which it would have been little before. Many score of good men had run toward ;he back of the stable when it appeared that the attempt would be ma fc in that direction. Those who remained were enough 10 have riddled .cn times as many fugitives with bullets.
 But they had no fair mark. Out from the stable rushed a mass ot horses, their heads streached out with the fury of their speed. And it was hard indeed to mark the cnes which actually carried riders on their backs, for those riders were fattened across the pommels of their saddles. showing almost nothing 10 the eye.
 Men who stood on the level Of the street could do nothing. Only those who were posted in the win dows had a half chance, and these, although they turned loose plung- ing fire, were shouting wildly. They had expected. at the most, four horses. Here was a herd of wild animals plunging down the street And, indeed, 1t seemed to the ex' cited imagination of more than on' man that there was a rider on tn back of every animal - and the the four had been transformed h black magic into a host.
 CHAPTER XXXVI Compassionate shadows The room in which Joe Macar- | thur lay was filles with silence and ! the stir of great shadows.