Show CHAPTER X ashton lind followed malloroy Al alloro part way across the waiting room a little nervous I 1 think nt at tile the idea of letting the girl out of his sight so he had not heard hear what the lie clerk lind find just told doctor Mr mcalister AlIster through the ticket window well lie he said that hut Is all right it we ve dont willit want to go to oak it idge if the lie train too took started only ten tell minutes ngo ago theres ample time to fr arrange to have film arrested before lie sets foot on the platform nt lit oal oak blidge wheres the lie telegraph office in tills station it wont do you tiny any good said doctor mcalister there will be no telegraphic tele communication with will oak ridge tonight ashton glanced thoughtfully about the room that possibility occurred to me lie said at last it occurred to wilkins said the doctor why he went lies hes the lie one man of us its who really grasped the situation lie knew just what that sleet mount meant that over oer a territory fifteen or twenty miles square electricity was going out of tile the business of serving sen ing civilization for a few hours that one vital fact turns the world topsy and makes some difficult filings easy and some coalmon commonplace mon place lilace things impossible for just tonight our thoughts cant moe any quicker than our bodies can so 80 if kins has set out for oak ridge and we cint hend head him olt off tile the only tiling thing we can in do ito follow him film ohp ill ques tion Is shall we try to do that I 1 followed Asli Ash lons glance just then and siaw mallory coming back with the girl site she seemed unconscious of his presence pip tence und anil ninde straight across the room to where the dodor doctor was standing in conversation comers atlon with us she halted beside hlin without a word tier her milliner manner perfectly quiet though e ex she was merely walting waiting for him to tell lin her what lie he wati wanted teof done nett n ex t por the moment lie he paid no atten alien ion to tier lier lid did riot not even glance e side bide was at her lie us site she came up tile question lie he repeated to tile lie nt toine oriley shall we try to go out to oak bidge tonight llight to you roil spoke of hiving ving two nien nian on oil watch natch there nil all the lie time can call you ou leave the lie mutter of with to ashton WHY away H I 1 few blives ahm whir w hilled whirgel lel gilld caime hack back ills his I 1 ook look W was its troubled disquieted 1 11 I wish you iu were I 1 here millor mallory he self said areen and batison arent ally alii loo lo 10 wie wide awake they 11 have a man too to willi fill who 10 lo lias ills jut just outwitted us lib there uit two courses of action open to ill us i the doctor one Is to 11 go homp hollie abil go to tied liefl tile the elior other Is to get hold of tin an automobile end and t arv ry to get out to to oak gilld ge tonight our gt eliere alic re tit at ill all Is teal with the roads in the present condition 1111 foll ashton round fill and 1 I spoke to mallory go io and id telephone to the nearest garage for an quick I 1 lie he said then ad addressing us he wont went on there Is no necessity for your going doctor mcalister or mr elps either nut lilt mallory and I 1 tilt 1 to waste I 1 u minute youve wasted one already 11 sold said the doctor telling ory to go luto into tillit booth Asli tini heartily ills own stillI Illy on off otter after lili ills illson gel en 1 I 1 think ill go along with then mild lid 1 0 o tile lie doctor just on oil the chive of ili 1111 being of some service he 1 I Illig lim glied hed are you iou thinking aull leave me file behind coule aine phelps elps voll ou know tile nn helft ir than that hut no well nil ill go ills hit gesture et sture included the lie strange ent figure thui that lind had neon been standing al il ills his till nil tile thile line do P ion mean to take dike liei iler I 1 tines honed klies brought hiou ht us so fur far ashes shel given U us ii ill to tills point every cory mate rini fact that has ninde it possible for us to li holnes alnes ll identity entity and get gp on oil his troll trail it just then that my lily byc were on tip tile girl irl I 1 saw nor ncr shiver saw a look of human intelligence and appear for tile the time in ili that strange face of liers hers I 1 tried with will a non noa to direct my chiefs clile fB attention to tier her but before lie he cluid get my menning ashton At liton came hurrying hur buck back theres a garage only two io or three blocks away lie he salol and mallory ought to tie be baal with a car in 11 very cry few ini ther lie he held out his liand to the doctor 1 I cant begin to tell you ou set sald lie he how grateful I 1 am for the help youve glen given us nor inor for your bour patience with my no now said tile the doctor interrupting youre not going to he rid of us its so 0 o easily were nil fill go ing with you goedl sold ashton 1 I 1 limped you iu would though I 1 felt I 1 any right to ask it of you iou comet tile the motor lets lose tin no mile imp my memory of the next net two hours Is one ot of unrelieved discomfort and constantly increasing apprehension we skidded across street car tracks and had a dozen of what in normal times we should have hae called narrow escapes in the first dozen doen minutes after that we stopp stopped PI counting the excitement of the chase was mounting in our veins lie ile must be there by tills time soft said ashton at last with a shudder 1 I wish I 1 knew that green and ben son were still alive 1 I all it you ou lie he wont kill sald said tile the doctor not it if lie an help it hell do it it if they succeed in forcing tile his hand annd that I 1 admit hut but his own alov el elness einess ness Is the greatest safeguard those two to men could have his cleverness cle ernes and their stupidity 1 I wish I 1 shared your lour confidence suld said As aptton liton think a minute what the situation lq Is said ill the doo doctor tor suppose we tied had him now safety safely in our hands we e know what lie Is we know filet lie he Is morally mo rilly responsible for the murder ot of henry morgan but suppose you were not the district attorney suppose flint helnes came to you and retained you in ili his dof defense ense you tell him that with the criminal law in its pres ell cut t state and the lie methods of prosecute prose cut ut ing criminals what hat they nrc lare today you would have tin an excellent chonce of rid diang any cuse that we could muke make you iou tell him film that never in n tin tile world could he IP bp convicted of in the die first degree by any court or tiny jury yes sald said aliton ruefully nio fully 1 I 1 sup pose th 1 is t true rue you ina may v he be sure tile the doctor con allt tinned aled eliat wilkins realizes that ali and realizing it you may ma bp be certain also that lie will not commit an in first degree murder if he can help it murder the word made us ull all start it wass was uttered hardly above a whisper b bi tile die wild half human creature through whose instrumentality we had find been aide to get on tile the true murderers troll trail and yet in some subtle way she had bed spoken in a new voice olce nt the lie scitt throated guttural speech of the maori girl nor yet in lane jane Per hins new zee yea land fund modification of cockney TO do BE CONTINUED |