Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
Strangers n the o. Penalty
Combta tCGmaxof EunO fNaV nlntin Annakof


| abiding citizen. Taylor, young and
sleek. and dapr r, led the hilarious
ceremonies, smiling insolently. Murray,
older and heavier, shone with q lesser
brilliance. Taylor'S girl queened 1t, as
blond can. At an hour before mid
night the two hosts left the party and
the place, and did not return until It
was a few minutes of the time for the
whistles to blow, the bells to ring, for
shouts and a raucous din of noise-mak-
! ing toys and for deep drinking of the
current bootleg anbrosia. The blond
waited with q manifest impotence for
their return.
They we're gone for 80 minutes or so,
and in that time committed the robbery
| OF the lunch room and murder of the
| policeman.
Noisy greetings as the two men re-
| joined their party at the night club.
Then the stroke Of midnight. The two
! assassins, with blood fresh upon them,
saluted the New Year with jovial toasts
and joking shouts and laughter, while
the glowing blond, with radiant mouth
and rosy hLshed cheeks, sent glances to
| her love.
I With these events of New Year dis
closed, the two detectives, Martin and
DOnohue, continued on the vengeful
hunt. Taylor and Murray had van
1shed, were not to be found at their
Residences or usual haunts. Nor was
Taylor's girl to be found. Her apart
| ment was closed and she was away.
The avengers, though, cleaned sundry
bits Of information about their quarry
and came upon the tender lights of
romance.
TN the Adirondacks stands a pleasant
lodge, snug cabin fit for any one
who wants the open. There the young
woman who was to become Taylor'S
enamorata disported herself in the
green months Of Summer The cottage
was hers. She was married and pro-
yided for in good style. In the solitude
bandit, who also was vacationing. They
walked the meadows together and
plunged through the leafy thickets.
Gentle sentiment, which fiourishes
among the base as fell as among the
good. sprang up between the bandit and
the well placed wife. Quickly they were
crook and mol, quite in the style of
the familiar underworld tradition. They
returned to New York and were in
separable, and at times returned to the
cottage in the mountains where first
they had seen each other.
Was it not likely. quoth the aven-
| gers Of Martin and Donohue, that now,
while in hiding, they had betaken
| themselves to the hilly solitude. both
to keep out Of sight and for sentiment2
A few days later at the first light
OF dawn an automobile drew up before
the cottage In the Adirondacks. State
| troopers got out and took posts to guard
the getaway. Martin and Donohue
stole quietly onto the porch. A sudden
crash and they had shouldered the door
open. In an instant they were in a
dark bedroom. A man started up from
sleep. A woman shrieked. Two forms
hurled themselves on the bed. Martin
thrust the muzzle Of his pistol into his
prisoners mouth. The man was the
one known as Taylor. The beam OF
Donohue's fiashlight revealed pistol
hanging on the wall at the bedside
ready for quick use. A glance told him
1t was policeman's revolver. It was
indeed the weapon snatched from the
dying lMasterson the night of the
murder
| A trooper took the manacled robber
Donohue started into another bedroom
AS his hand reached to open the portiere
i a shot rang out, The detective clutched