New Britain herald., 1928-02-08

ment or so later they whizzed pas
 her home at 8 speed of 60 miles al
 hour.
 Scenes like those she had witness.
 cd in motion picture plays fitted be.
 fore her minds eye with grotesque
 eNaggeration. Newspaper account,
 Of bodies found in lonely spots =,
 stores she had read of mutilated vic.
 tlms-all seemed to pass in frag.
 mentary patches through her mud
 oled brain. Again she heard the dull thud of the blackjack as it descend
 ed on poor Tonys head-saw once
 more the still form of the man ly- ing at the side of the road. If she
 could only just coneentrate-confin
 her thoughts
 Listen, little grill"
 The man at her side his left arm l laid across her shoulders to prevent
 her, presumably, from leaping out of the car, was speaking She
 turned at the sound of his voice
 and tried to distinguish his fea- | lures in the moonlight. But the visor of his cap hid his face effectually. He leaned closer.
 Listen, kid, to whut I'm a-tellin'
 yuE," he went on, speaking fast but distinctly. You needn't be afraid
 We ain't gonna hurt yuh. We jest
 took ye along wit us sos yuh , couldn't squeal to tn cops about tn
 stick-up yl1h saw We'll turn yuh
 loose in a little while, if yer good maybe. And now if you'll promise me not to try to jump I'll let go of yuh. Do yuh promiso?"
 II w-wont j-jump." stuttered Jill. fearfully, and doubting his avowal about letting her go free soon. From what she had seen and heard she was certain these men had no intention of giving her the freedom fe had promised. What did he mean couldn't squeal to tn cops? Was it because of the man she had seen ly- ing by the side of the road?
 Gradually something like an un- derstanding the situation began to form in her mind. These two men, she told herself, must have held up the driver of this roadster. They had shot him and 1t was his body she had seen. Now they were taking his car and kidnapping her to keep her from telling the police.
 Jill's constructive findings were essentially correct-insofar as they carried. But they lacked one very important detail. It was true that her captors were taking the car be- longing to the man she had seen her findings failed to encompass was the very pertinent fact that while the men were taking their victims car the cars rear end was taking the victim himself
 And so while the poor man elings to hts precarious perch on the end farthest from those enemies, hangs within the encircled space of his two spare balloon tires, let us intro- duce him. Please. everybody, meet MT. Jack Milton Stuart. recently of Hiilsdale, ky, and-until recently en route to New York City to seek his fortune.
 At the moment of his introduction, Jack, it may be inferred, is deeply engaged in trying 10 adjust his thinking apparatus to the rather as situation in which he has suddenly found himself.
 This adjustment process started on the instant he opened his eyes and found himself lying at the side of the road. What he saw cradicated for the moment, every Nestige Of dizziness and pain caused by the bullet that had ploughed a furrow across his skull just a minute or so before. The sight not only dissi- patcd the pain, but stirred him into action. Hence it came about that when his car began once more to get under way, it carried an extra passenger in the person of it's owner. concealed from the sight | of those in front
 It was fortunate for this passen- | ger that his two balloon tires were boltcd to the cars rear deck, on a l slant Of some 45 degrees. Thus the | tires not only provided him d seat 1 a full foot in width, but the angle i 1t which they hung held him from | being bounced out when the car [ began hitting only the high spots" This cute little seat had furnished a | place for hobos and small | ,oys on divers occasions, but never mad he appreciated until this mo- nent the rare possibilities of his spare balloons"
 NOW, I wonder" unused Jack Stuart, and he began cautiously to sea rch himself. A moment later the 'calizatior struck him that his lunch had been only too true, They ,ad relieved him of his bankroll, over a thousand dollars, md his watch, which had cost him
 hundred. They had even taken his igaret case. Oh, well
 With careful consideration of the