Show afo A l M 6 0 0 it I 1 I 1 1 4 B t cehe B LA pi MIAmo iff irv janle by CYRIL mcneile SAPPER copyright by CaE ORCal H DORM CO U V it IL service sams 0 ToTt ft 0 CHAPTER XI continued 17 1 lip lie again even more gently ond ani leanea across i the able towards who fiat motionless in the tit the imin lh choir t dr ill he led to bp striving to see bee some soine sin of t rear in n dri eyes colne for mervy merry hut at if there 1114 tiny liny expression tit nt nil aill it vils only it a faint mocking boredom coredo III suell such ns as huri had been wont to in hill tilt during their first villie counter it fl year becore 1 1 I I lien hen and it in words and ad ions now ilow only aly lili 1114 p es s wie were left to to liim tout it vois ahrn nil the same anil after it 1 while son snarled nt lit hill ailin viciously no nil I 1 sli tint lip in nt lit ill alie v lenth death Druin ninni lint but I 1 to to you ahn exact program you ua lie he driven alit of london it in your own OMI cair nr but it when lian tile final accident vou ou viii he be alcile it li 19 it most lit williep rr nil ati knost ox cc one or to t have all effly tillou place thorp and the godles uro tire generally lvov rad botne two or three anys later inore or less then when ln the ile ws c comes out tit in tile evening emiling ini I 1 liall lio ile able to tell tile police tile vac slid sad story how you vou took tonk enin coin lins ins slon on tin nn old nil auld asked hini in 0 o Ifil ivI then wint went out if london after your charming young dlf only to meet with tills this dread dreadful rul I 1 think ill even offer to tn take part inart in the lie funeral service al and 11 I 1 j yet e t no that lint Is I 1 a pleasure I 1 shall litia linvs e t to 0 deny myself lieving lone done what eliat I 1 anine over to to ilo drummond rather corp morp expeditiously than I 1 thought likely I 1 shall rhall return to my illy starving children in vienna Vlen nii and to do you on know what wt I 1 came over to to do drummond I 1 came over oer to smash the ulick gang lynnr and I 1 cattle over to 0 o mil kill you yon though hoi iRli the latter hitter could lieve waited Peters tins e yes were hard anti nur nier ciless but bill the lie of faint rodom still linggi alln eceil ed in only too well f tild ito he realize now that nip lind had straight into ills eno ene nays hands lint but lie wits a gambler liroi ih alid und anti not by tle kiil r of if tin hn eells lid did lie show vital eliut lie ito reit felt erson nt at tits lila and rose to ills feet 1 I fear that thit that Is nil all the lie spiritual that I 1 enn rive give you this iny fear fillow fellow lie it re rc benignly you will stand im sure that athert tire nrc ninny calls oil iny illy thile janet my illy love lie raised tits ills volet our youns voting friend 8 IP 11 g 1114 11 1 1 J IL kulu like to say goodby good nod by liy to in ailin she came into the lie room villani it little slowly and for it she stilled in lillon ve nt fit blugh A anil n 1 1 tr to blin thit that lit in her byci inere ivas it gleam of genuina int pity once again lie made it i frantic effort to speak ik to beg beseech find implore thein not to lo hurt 11 hyllis but it wa wiit waa A usei P s s and then lie ll 11 tier her turn to Il eterson I 1 suppose site said regretfully tj lint lit it Is absolutely necessary absolutely ho he lin curtly ne lie knows too loo much and lie worries us ua too slip alir shrugged tier shoulders and cattle over to it well goodby good by nion aikin anti slie she ro ril gently 1 I 1 raully am sorry that I 1 shant sr nee you von agalli yott vuu tire antof tile few people that make tills this intro atrocious clous country bearable slie she putted him on in his cheek and again thu ile that lie was alre adreani iiii ing came over it be real this monstrous anti anil then top tip uns as awing wheel led along the pas sage toward to ward the hf lift t while chife tho the reverend Iongi noor walked bitle him fiur nn in ills car goodby good by my illy dear friend goodby good rood by he remarked utter after tile the chair lind had been wheeled into info ohp lift it was rood goof of you rot to collie coine no ito direful careful lif wont you ile he it a anti and last vision drummond had of hlin before the doors closed was of if n tent old clergyman bet it him from behind sk a 1 of born spectacles and now come hla his only chance surely there would lie ile someone who would recognize hlin him below surely the hull hall porter who ali in the past had received many funny a tip from him must realize who lie was in ili spite of lint hat pulled doan over tits eyes hut hat hope balled the e jerly party in rno ine invalids chair who had find come cattle half no nc hinr ago was now going and there was no redon reason red on why the hall porter should suspect anything ile he gave the two men inen a hand lifting the chair into it a bic ant and very roomy limousine car which Ir drummond ummond knew was not tits and the next instant they were off lie ile rould out see nothing the lint hat wag too for far over oer hill eyes for it time he tried to follow where they were going coing by noting the turns bill lie soon guve gave up us as hopeless and then after driving for without halt half tin an hour the can egr stopped und the two mm inen rot got out leaving him mane alone lie ile could henr hear a abc ot of talking kolne going on hut but hi he try to t listen lie wits ans resigned by othir hitt bitterly his hi only feeling was a mild curiosity as to what was going to halpen next rhe voices cattle came nearer anti and lip found himself being lifted out alit of tile the car ar in doing so lila ills lint flat was pulled illick it 11 little so that tie lie could see and tile first tiling thing lie noticed ana its ills own new atolls koyce they have brought it to tile the lie reflect reflected eti where here it might have been recognized I 1 ind tin nn unwilling admiration for the master iiii ister bruin that hail had thought out nut every detail und and tile the wonderful or that allowed of them being carried out took hold of tits ills mind the nien wheeled filin alongside ills own 0 it ear then they hin out alit of ids his chair anti deposited joint him on tit ahr haele then tile italian bild the lie other toan who lind till liven nt lit the lie itley sit sat down one one OIK vach tilde aide of hani while it 11 third man tool took tile look Ell dill baill tin till big beside him A boat will le ile cou coming illig through th miili about hair past p bat nine A boat I 1 what was w i that nebout a boat I 1 wore were they going to send liliu hill out to sen sea then own and let ailin drown it f so what wits tile object of gotting ills his a own n cur car rhe lint hat slipped forward ard again but lie he by some of tile the lin illig lighta lie he could dimly sec ge that they were going through slums hie file headlights were nero on and hugh judged that they thiry were going about thirty five ellea an hour anil lie also guessed that it was nebout forty five in before they pulled up and tile the engine and lights wore were switched olt off the men beside film got K out and lie promptly rolled over into a corner where they left film librn lying IT this ills la Is tile he place to wait lie he heard the italian you go BO on krenz to the corner tind and when its really flash your torch have to stand I 1 well goodby good by mon ami she no he marked gantly on oil the running board and steer till lios hes round the corne into tile the straight strul Klit then jump olt off no one will all soo hou you iou behind tile lip headlights dead lights im ill going linck back to maybrick mill brick tower and hen lie heard a sentence wl 1 11 drove idin impotent avith uli fury aind 1 again set aft him struggling t to 1 I move 11 the ll givis gill there well get orders about her lic r in tin tilt morning there ais vos silence for or it while vl ille then thell lio lie heard isella allu voice lifs lets get on fill it there s franz signaling sign illig well lime have to prop him up on oil the steering wheel lical some flow lio they 1 I hey pulled drummond out of or tilt alic block of the fir car and put litin liliu in tile dr dairs irs rs seat mit Ii Lint matter if lie doea full fall over tit lit the lust ins A it will all look us its if lied hed fainted und anti make tile tie accident more inore buld tile italian and grunted seems 11 crime lie he muttered to up tills pencil peach of a cur car ile he started the engine und and switched on tile the headlights then lie slipped her straight into third speed find and ile he was on tile running board beside the wheel steering with alth one ofie hail it an 11 3 holding on to ond with the other and na as they 4 tile fic ciner ci cy ner cor lie he straightened ohp ap car ar up unit und opened tho tl aben lie he jumped juni lied oft off ond and drummond realized the game at last A river was in front a river spanned by a bridge which swung open to let boats go through and it artus its open now ile he find it a jim dint vision of a bunn waving wittily wildly he ili heard tile crash as the cur car took the guarding gate and then lie he saw the he bonnet lip dip suddenly fud iud denly there was it rending korap ini ina dolse underneath hlin as the frat nework tilt hlf the edge an appalling ii plash und and silence CHAPTER XII in which hugh drummond arrives at maybrick hall hail two things saved Iru nimond froin hut was practically certain death the heavy coat he was wearing nn ant the fact that he rolled clew clem of the he steering ing wheel as soon as an t the he mno inan let go of film with ills his hand liand had lie he remained behind the wheel he must 1 infallibly ibave gone to the bottom with the car imd find at that point where the river narrowed to conle come through tile filers of the tie bridge tile the water unter was over twenty went fiet feet deep lie ile had elent pres presence enve of menil to take it a deep breath ns its the cur car shot downward then lie he felt tho the water close over ills i hend and if before 1119 hi struggles to move e flit hal boon been nerve lei re now that tile lie end did ut fit hall they became des tr the desire to get clar cl ar to give one kick with lili legs und and comp come I 1 to ill ilic sal hill race face roused filin to one sit livili uman effort lie he felt tit if it alip illge huge heave lie gave with will ills his less legs the floorboards floor li boards onda munt stid 1111 living to td the toll op ts lie real that tills vast effort lind had been purely the ik lun physic til re milt lind had aven practically ible hilt but not lot quite it lind find done und lid the tout coal lid did ohp rest dt that otie one list tite throw lor life ieli ilind imd had overcome oMri file of the polon to the extent of boreing for liin tits legs to give one oae little rick kick ile he floated elemir of titi the var anti slowly slova how slowly only tits bursting aings could testify the atie big out coal brought him to the surface for po r it a moment or two to lie he could do nothing save draw lit in deep gulps of air then lie realized that the danger was vis riot not yet past por for lie he shout lie could do nothing not liln save bue hunt float and drift and the current find curried carried idin hlin clear of the bridge out of sight of those on an top and ills his mind wai quite clear enough to realize rei ille that the coat which lind had saved him blin once it bedaine sodden would just ib as surely drown ham it he could see men with lanterns lun terni on oil tile the bridge lie he could henr hear them shouting and talking and then lie saw si a boat come coine bick back from froin the still ship tint that had biad passed through just before lie ho went ent over the edge in ili liia his cur car surely el pull down stream to look for bilm lie he thought in tin nn agony of futile finger anger surely they t be such fools us its to go on oil putting pulling about just by tile the bridge when hen it was ua obvious lie there luit but since they thought that lie he was tit at tile bottom in liia ills cur car and blasphemous language was al really ready being wafred rafted lit at then by the skipper of tile the vessel for tile the useless delay with alth a sinking inking beart saw the alio boat turn around and skip pear up into the darkness dir kniss men tn with lanterns still stood on tile the bridge but lie he was lar ar beyond tile the of their lights rind anti hu he wits drifting further farthier fart lier every it was just u question of time tillie now and it ile be very cai long either ile he could see W iain lens legs bad gone golle town doun bielow the 0 sr y tile ile air clr that still remained in ili the up tip pirt part of tits ills overcoat kept ills hla hend out anti tits ills shoulders deis near mar the top and alit mien t h I 1 t was gone thc jhc end he had done dolle fill all he could there wits was nothing for foi it lit now abut but walt wait for tile inevitable I 1 alien a 11 sudden change in ill ills his hume little surroundings lean began to lu pl it at first hu he could not realize what had happe happened then little b 1 little it began t to 0 dawn on oil liliu idin what luul had occurred up to date the water in which lie had eliud motionless to him lie had been drifting in it tit at exactly the saine velocity us its the current and ito now suddenly lie saw s iw that tile water was going past ailin for it 0 or r two lio lie failed balled to understand tile sig lice of tit alio filet fact then wild hope surged up in ills fo bor r a time lie stared fixedly lit the baluca find the impo hope bedaine a certainty ile he wits not drifting any farther froni from it lip lie wits was stationary lie was aground lie ho could feel nothing lit could see nothing not liln but tile one oin stupendous fuel filet remained that ile ho was aground life 11 fe tool took on oll adluther least lease tillight lin happen lipen now if only lie could rein remain tin mere till the morning they would see him from tile the bridge anti and there beamed see ineil no reason why lie he tile water broken with the faintest ripple close to ills head so so lie ile reasoned that it must be very sli shallow allow whore where lie was and being un tin Itic incurable umble optimist lie he contemplated tem plated ills hla next meeting with peterson TO UK BIC CONTINUED |