Show The BLACK CiANCi By CYRIL SAPPER Coq Copyright by bv to H. H DOMN CO V. V H. H SonIc CHAPTER XI Continued XI-Continued Continued 17 17 lie laughed again even more gently and leaned Ironed across octo the lie table towards the man who sat lIat motionless In tn the time chair He lie seemed to be lit striving rivIng to 10 tee see tome Home sign of ot tear rear In Drummonds Drummond's ejes ees some dome appeal for mercy Hut BuIlt If there thre was any expression of nt all nil It was only a faint taint mocking boredom such audi flit ni Drummond hari hail been wont to Infuriate In ln furiate hIm hlin with durin during their first encounter encounter en counter a year he before tore Then he lie had It In words nords and actions now only his hIli eyes eyl's were left len to him hut but It was there all nil the same And after a ft while Peterson snarled at hIm Mm viciously No r I be tie In at the death I Drummond hut but I 1 will explain to you OU the till exact program You 1011 ss will lii III he be driven out of ot on I London Jon In your own car ar hut but Alien hen the final accident occurs you ou will he tie alone It I Is a most t excellent pi place pInel nee for tor nn an accident most ex ex- ex One or two tl have hll already taken place there anti and the tie bodies are generally recovered some two or three days Inter more Inter more or I less II attic able Then when the time news comes out In the e evening papers tomorrow I he lie able to tell th the police the whole slid end story tory How jou Oll look took compassion com passion on an nn old clergyman and risked asked him to then theo went Int out of ot London after your our charming young wife only wIfe only to meet with this dreadful end I think Ill I'll even en offer to take part In the tUn funeral service Anti Ami yet yet yet- no th that t Is a pleasure I shall have to deny myself Having done what I 1 came over to do rather more more expeditiously than I thought likely I shall return to my starving children In Vienna Vienne Anti And do you know what I came caine over to do Drummond I came caine over tr to smash th fh the Black lung Gang and and I came over to kill you you though though the latter could have waited d. Peterson's Petersons e eyes ejes ell were tere hard and merciless mer mtr ciless elless hut the expression of ot faint taint ho boredom edom II still III pr l In 1 Only did he realize now t that t lire lie had played straight Into his emmy's enemy's ene em- mys my's hands but hut he was a gambler 1 though and through und not by liy tl tIe the e quiver of ot an eyelid did he show what he lie felt relt Peterson glanced at nt his hIs watch at h and androse androse androse rose to his feet teet I i 1 tear fear th that hint lt that hat Is nil all the spiritual consolation that I can give itye you tall this Ibis evening e my dear t fellow he remarked re marked benignly t nu will understand under under- stand Im I'm sure surp that th there re are sunny many i calls call on my lilY limet my my love love lovelie he lie raised his lila our olce olce our young joung it l lis II Is leaving us III now nosY I feel sure Hire you'd oud like Uke to su say euy hy good to him She came Caine Int Into the lie room walking a little slowly and for tor a n while she stared In silence lit ut Hugh And Anti I l seemed to tim hint him that In tn tier her eyes el there sro was a ft gleam glenni of or genuine pity Once again he made a n frantic effort Tort to speak to to beg beseech antI and Implore them not to hurt Ih Phyllis hut hut lIls but It II was use Ulle- less And then he saw her turn to Peterson 1 suppose site she said regret regretfully tully that It Is absolutely necessary Absolutely he he red answered curtly He lie knows too much und and he lue worries us too much She Site shrugged tier her and came callie over tr to In Well good good goodby by mon mill until site she remarked re rs- marked gently I 1 really am anu sorry that I shan't shant tree If you rou You Tout are one mane of ot the few tew people tutu thai make tills this atrocious country bearable She patted him on his hll cheek and again In I the he feeling ing t thai hun t he was mis ti ellenm ream ream- I ing hug cut imme over o I t I. I I It I t could couldn't uit be tie real real t this his monstrous nigh nl t inn ruA ru- ru A I tI- tI I. I It I. I h n n L M n wU the passage rd he tIme lift hit hitI I the Ito I I 1 I lus lIl I mis I wal walked l I id i'd si lid I It beside hi him III in murmuring mur mm affect tv In hl his l tar 1111 lood-hy lood by III my ins ilear friend I amo h liy by he after the bite haIr chair had been en wheeled Into Inlo the lift It is of ot oton roil Pal to come Il He direful tofu I. I I liftman I ft muan wont won't you you lie lip waved a kindly h hand hatmil I a nj time I h last must son I hitch had of nt It him I iii lit lie fore the doors closed was of lit II 11 lent old ohl clergyman beaming Qt mit solicitously from behind ii i pair of or i. i And now ensue came his hili only 1111 chimes chance Surely Sure Sure- ure- ure I ly there would he be someone who would I recognize him below helow surely sturdy the hall huh porter si who In Itis he past hint received I mutiny many u II tip from roun hirv hm m i must 1111 t realize who lie he was Willi In n spite of ot th III thui hat pulled I do down don n o over lila his eyes elIS nut Hut fl I hope hOlle failed The t Jirl party In the Invalids Invalid's chair who had come Ollie halt half a ao nil I hour ago lIro was was now going and anti there lice I Ct was 55 1111 no flO why the hull porter pond should suspect anything lie He gave ga the tW two wo men l it a hand lifting the chair Into Inlo I a 8 big tig and very tery roomy limousine eat cur which Drummond knew w was u nut nUl ii uno me II iney we rt were off He lit could liE see nothing the nothing the list hat yut Wn too fur far 01 over er his hll e eyes ejes ls For u II time he liE tried t tl Id follow where 1 they were going by hy noting the turns hut but he lie soon noon gave gate that up lip as us hopeless And AntI I then lien driving for tor or half an nfl hour the car Kt stopped mind and the two men got ot out I lent Ing 1 1111 tm 11 alone lie could t hear a mm alot lot of t talking going on hut butt he lie try Mry try to listen lie He was resigned by liy I ihl ihU time his ble es 5 only feeling was a mild curiosity Isto as Is asto to what was going to happen next The voices came ame nearer and he found himself being lifted out of the tbt car In doing so 10 lui his hat list was WOI pulled back bock a little tittle so 80 that he hue could see and ond the first thing he noticed was OS his hula own new Holls They couldn't have brought It to the Ritz he reflected where It might ha have VI been recognized recognized- and an unwilling admiration for tor the master laster brain bruIn that had lund thought out every lvery detail and the wonderful organization or or- organization that allowed of at them being carried out took look hold of ot hl his mind The men wheeled hIm him alongside hi his nis own ear car then lien they thy lifted lined him out of ot othIs his chair and deposited de him on the time back Inck feat Then Thien the tue Italian and anti the oilier man who had hind bf been ln at ut the Ritz nuz sat down one one each side of ot him while a I third man took look he tise wheel heel Look Rill Hill lII saul said the big man beside him Rims A boot boat will be he coming corning through h about past halt nine A boat bont I What hat was as that hunt about a abORt boat bORt I Were they going to send Rend him out to sea then and let him drown If It so what was the time object of ot gf getting Isis his his' own car enri The Time hat h-at slipped forward forward for for- ward again but he guessed by some of ot the lime OarIng flaring lights he be could dimly see that they were ere going through slums The rhe headlights were fre on on and Hugh judged that they were going about thirty five miles an hour And he also guessed that It U was about forty five minutes before they pulled pulle 1 up and the engine and lights were switched off The men beside him got out and he promptly rolled roiled over ovet- Into a a cor corner er where they left lett him lying This Is 19 the place to wait walt he heard the Italian say suy You go on Franz to the lie corner orner and when Its It's ready flash your torch You'll have to stand i C Well Good By Mon Ami Ami She Remarked Remarked Re marked Gently on the running hoard Hill Bill and und steer steel till hes he's round the corner Into the p ht Then jump off no oft no one will I Isee see you OU behind time the headlights Im I'm I going back buck to 10 Maybrick brick Tower ower And Anti then he lie heard which a It sentence I drove lule ln e him hums Impotent with fury tury an and I tart set him struggling madly to IC S move The girls girl's there Well We'll get orders order I about her In tin thit morning lucre was silence for tOI u II while then her i h he lue heard lien nI Hills Hill's ole e. Lets ets get on with It There's Theres I Franx signaling Well We'll have hale to 10 pros prop IS S him hint up til on the tilL hireling wheel some ovine hll how they pulled Drummond out nest of ot the thi hut Ik of cot tf the limp tar car und anti put him tutu In tb the r UT'S sent seat 1 mutter If It be tue does full fall oter tr r rII II ill III I I the lilt ii e iii iI lii moment intent I II I tn will I I look as asIf a ahi If Ir hed he'd fainted and make the accident I mme a mid ull tIme the Italian I II 1111 n. n und I Hill l. I 11 t. t Seems u II he Ime muttered to tt tm up lilt this h of or u mm cur He lie I the engine anil a switched s on II time the headlights then he Ime slipped her r straight Into Inlo speed and lind started starlet I. I lie He on in the tIme running running-board running board health beside the time wheel tt heel steering Ip with one an uiO 4 I holding on tin to In Drummond with the tima other oth oth- er tr And III us its they rOIl l I 1 roe fill nor tv he lIe d thO r r or r up anti and opened the HII n I f men nen he lie jumped oft off and UllI realized the game lit at t last A- A river was In front front o a river rl spanned by hy II u a bridge which swung open to let hoots boats go through And It was open now He tie hud had hudI a ii dim diU vision of ot a U Ulion man lion waving w wildly he heard the crush crash as the tho cur took the guarding gate gule and then he lie saw BIl till this bonnet dip suddenly I there was a n rending scraping scrap scrap- ing big nolte noite underneath him hint as the tr framework ork hit bit the edge an appalling splash sh-lInd sh silence CHAPTER XII In Which Hugh Drummond Arrives at Maybrick Hon Hall two Two things timIngs sa saved e l from ti what hilt wits was practically certain death death- be hue hII heavy Out coat he was smas u wi um mun the tue fit that lu h he rolled tild J III clemi I 4 TW of ot the wheel steering as soon H U the thenan I hand Had lied nan man let go 0 of ot him with his he remained behind the time wheel he must Infallibly have gone gOlle to 10 the bottom with the car and at that point where the river narrowed to come through the time piers of the bridge the time water was over twenty t feet deep He lie had hod sufficient sum suB dent presence of ot mind to take lake a deep breath as RS the tIme car shot downward then he hue felt the water close over oter his head And If It before his struggles to move had been fierce now fierce now that the end ead seemed at hand they became des dee The Tho desire to get clear clear to to give one kick with his bis legs and come cometo to the surface roused him to one superhuman superhuman su su- U- U effort He lie felt as It If the huge heave hea he gave e with his Isis legs against the time floor boards must send him flying to the time top tOil afterwards he realized real realized that this lists vast Mist effort had bath been teen purely tIme the the actual physical result result re re- sult suit lund had been practically negligible Hut nut not quite It had mad done something and the coat did the time rest With WiLls that one last supreme throw for life lite his mind had lied overcome o the effects of ot the the- poison polson to the extent of ot forcing his legs les to give one spasmodic little kick He lie floated clear of at the car and slowly slowly how how slowly only his bursting lungs could testify the testify the big coat cont brought him to the surface For Fora a moment or two he could do nothing save Rave draw In of ot air then he Ime realized that the danger was rot yet et past For he couldn't shout be he could do nothing save sn float and drift and the time current had carried him clear of ot the bridge out of ot sight of 01 those an on top And his lila mind was quite clear enough Dough to realize that the time coat which lund hud sa saved ved him once It became sodden would Just as surely surdy drown him He III could see men with lanterns on ou the bridge he could hear henr theta them shoutIng shout shout- l Ing ug and talking And then be lie saw a about bunt bout come back from from tIme the ship that had bad passed through just before he went over o the edge In his IsIs car Surely they'd pull down stream to look for I Him be lie e thought In an agony of or futile anger unger surely they couldn't be such luch such tools fools as us to go on pulling about Just by the bridge when It was obvious he be wasn't there Hut But since they thought that he was at the bottom In his car and blasphemous language was already al at ready being wafted at nt them by the skipper of at the vessel essel for tor the useless delay with a sinking heart Drummond saw the boat bont turn around and disappear disappear pear pear up-stream up Into Inlo the darkness Men Alen with lanterns still stood on the bridge but he be was far beyond the tue range of ot their lights and he was Vas drifting farther every minute It was Just a I question of time now now and It couldn't be beery very ery long either He lIe could see that his legs hind had gone down well below the tIme surface antI and only the air that still remained remaIned re re- lu tu the up buttoned-up part port of Ms Isis overcoat kept bis hll head heat out and his hla shoulders near the top And when that was wua gone the gone the end He III had hind doneall done doneall all nil he could there was nothing for tor It now but wait walt for tor the inevitable finish Then n I sudden change In his Imme mime diate surroundings begun began to take place At first he could not realize what had happened then theu little by little It began to dawn on him what had occurred Up to date dute time the water wilier In which he be hunted flouted hud had seemed motionless to him Islam he had hud beets been drifting In it at exactly the hue same velocity as 88 the time current And ADd now suddenly he saw BOW that thai the time water was going past him For or a mm moment or t two vo he Ime failed to understand the sIgnificance of the fact then wild hope surged up In tn hi hU lilt mind For a U time lime he stared fixedly at lit the bridge and the hope became a certainty IJ lie liew w s not drifting any tart farther her from It lie hue was stationary he lie was aground lie He c could uld feel teel nothing lie hue could auld see bee nothing but nothing but the time one stupendous fact adt remained thal he was aground Life Lite took tonk on h another r l leuie luse anything might happen huppen now If It only he could remain lin there till time the morning they would 11 see st's from the tIme bridge und there timers seemed no reason why he The water uler still flowed sluggishly past him broken with wilts the tIme faintest ripple close to his hell bend II So o he be reasoned that It must he be betry very try shallow where he Ime was and being an Incurable optimist he lie tOn eon his hits next meeting with Peterson TO tTO UE me CONTINUED COSTIN |