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Show THE RIH rOITVTV RANHOTPH. I.TAH SERIAL FICTION ER r-BANN- Starving Was One Thing Webster Couldnt Stand . A stony. of louc awl UiUigue . . . by EtHrJI7QKIlI O Dorniord Yataa CHAPTER IX Continued -1- 9- 7R7ES WNU Service me, so far as I could hear, drawing keep my hands behind me and use was far too dense. And so, at least, 1 knew that 1 had not been seen. regular breath. my brain. 1 I can never, describe the magic I suddenly realized that I was At once saw that the first thing But I knew where he was, for I that bung in her steady gaze. Be- streaming with sweat . . . for me to do was to free myself heard him using my name. fore it, the rabble melted, the mob The dressing-cas- e was set at our from the cord which put my lady in The, er, cemetery, Mr. Exon dispersed, and my plight became feet and Virgil and Elgar got in. peril whenever 1 moved. . . . its better known as Palfrey. an adventure, which I was sharing For a moment the With my eyes upon Virgil and El- Nobody ever comes here, because it with her a very insignificant busi- whirred . . . Then all was silence gar, I1 felt for the knot at my waist. is said to be cursed. But, blessed or ness. because that we were together again, except for the purr of an en- This found and untied. Then 1 cursed, it has a magnificent well was so much more important than gine in excellent trim. Virgil sat made a bow-knin its stead, which . . . Ninety feet deep, Mr. Exon back in his seat and let in his clutch. 1 could undo in a flash whenever And 52 feet of water I measured it anything else. I tried my best to tell her that all It was as he did and we I pleased. yesterday . . . And its parapet is was well. And I think that she un- moved, that my Angersthis, encountered Then 1 saw that, for better or of white marble at least, it used to derstood, for the rarest smile stole something which did not belong to worse, 1 must not launch my at- be white and it has three statues into her lovely eyes ... . . And then the seat. In an instant, they had tack until the car was at rest, for about it . . . statues of men in armI came back to earth, like a giant it fast: and the moment I knew what if, in the the car were to or, leaning upon their swords. Hows struggle, - ' refreshed. , it was, the hope which Virgil had leave the road, ; Elizabeth, bound that for a sepulchre? I wish you She was gagged and bound, as 1 murdered came back to life. could see it, Mr. Exon. Im standhand and foot, might fare very ill. was. But her ankles were tied toIt was a small screwdriver . . . And then 1 remembered that Per- ing beside it now. Elgar, you see, has gone to borrow some stones . . . gether, as well as her delicate which Elgar or some mechanic had cy Virgil was armed. wrists. Cord had been used to do left in the back of the car . . . As anto go into the dressing-case- . This showed me that, come what this sacrilege. She was clad in a some eight inches long, over all . . . chors wasnt it go, quite heavy 1 deal with him first: blue cloth dress that 1 did not know with a fine enough blade. For all might, must enough . . . 1 was Elwhilst with dealing else, no doubt to bear out the suggesi know, it may have been there for By now my door was open, and 1 tion of sudden flight. Her beautiful weeks, for, the seat being tilted up, gar, he might very well put me out. was half out of the car, with Elizawithout any warning, hair was tumbled, but that was all. it had lodged between the seat and ourAnd there, in my arms. beth Virlights were "dipped and the padding on the back of the car; Virgil was speaking again. You . . . his reduced see, we shall lower that speed ' "You will have observed, Mr. Ex- and 1 should never have found it gil and first: that will be attached to enI now Till too been had much on, perhaps with hope, that while or known it was there, if my wrists feet. And then we shall cousins my now to our observe and not had been behind fastened way, gaged my we have bound my cousins, we as shes already ather: and lower to next could see I nothing from have not bound your feet. I will tell back. will that 1 sat: 1 have tached, bring us directly to was but the road where as wrists Now, said, my you why. Because she is light to were you. strapped together not bound rough and winding, and though carry, but you are not. And so you with cord. I was on the cobbles now and was And every strap has a there were trees on the right, there will walk to the car. Now, lest Wheresonone on left. were the way we had come. I and the a buckle buckle, prong. stealing every you should abuse this freedom, Im When a man or a beast is re- ever we might be bound for, I never found it so hard to turn my on to lead. a He put you going I back on a man: but Elizabeth had One end this strained by a leather strap, it is judged we were nearly there, and held up his cord. end will be fastened about your waist: and the other about my cousins most excellent neck. You see? . . . the I have made a slip-knknot that they hang people with. So that any irregular movement ' which you may see fit to make will put to inconvenience your, er, hearts desire. In fact, if I were you, I should emulate Marys lamb. Not that it matters if you like to choke her yourself. But Ive really made other arrangements a shade less exacting, I think. But Ill leave it to you to judge. With that, he stepped across me and set the loop he had made about Elizabeths neck. Before my horrified eyes, he drew this tight not tight enough to choke her, but so tight that the loop could not lie,, as a necklace does, but stayed where he had put it against her throat. ' Then he and Elgar, between them, got her on Elgars back. ' 1 Somehow got to my knees and so to my feet, and without a word he fastened the end of the cord about my waist. 1 saw Elsa standing above, with in her hand . . . a dressing-cas- e Then Elgar began to go down, and d I turned in behind hjm, for fear of stumbling and coming down and being unable to rise because my hands were tied. Not that it mattered, perhaps. But I I did not want to choke my dar1 Was on the Cobbles Now and Was Stealing the Way We Had Come. ling myself. upon the prong of the buckle that held myself all ready to strike the to be saved before anything else. And so, you see, Mr. Exon . . . As we went down to the terrace, such restraint must depend. Dis- instant we stopped. And there I saw Elgar approachI reflected on the truth of what Vir- engage the prong from its hole, and I have said that the night was gil had said The way to win this the stoutest strap will be loosed dark, and since we were sunk in ing, against the dusk prevailing world is to go all lengths. The man and all restraint be at an end. some valley which ran north and without the court. For a second I hesitated. Then 1 was right. It was manifestly simI could If were free. south, we were denied the glow My fingers pler and swifter: direct action al- contrive to thread the blade of the which heralds the rising moon.' Still, laid Elizabeth down and twitched ways is. But it was safer, too be- screw driver over the frame of the I could see some six feet and that the cord from my waist. And then I went to meet Elgar, cause it was the way of a monster, buckle and under the prong . . . was more than I needed to do what could not see me . . . And, who and we believe in monsters no more to had be done. It was a difficult business. I was 1 went, I ripped the gag from as than we do in giants. the in and And as had blind reply, though there, my fingers working Virgil was playing the monster: not fair play, and though I soon car passed over some rise and then my mouth. He must have found the case and that, as calmly as though he found the buckle, I could not reach swept into surroundings of which I were but playing bridge. In other this with my fingers and so could shall always think as the mouth of heavy, for when 1 was almost upon him, he laid it down for a moment, words, he was doing the incredible not guide the blade, while the move- Hell. In a flash the world was trans- to rest his arm. thing. If I had not seen and beard ment of the car was distracting the As he straightened his back, I what 1 saw and heard that night, aim which I tried to make. figured. took the man by the throat . . . had I would not have believed the truth been which The sweet, on and I was the air, again Again It was a curious business and though one rose from the dead. And edge of success, and then the car became the breath of corruption-reek- ed so no one else would believe it of decay: the sudden chill seemed to belong to the stage or the would lurch and I would lose prong that Elizabeth Virgil and Exon had and buckle and sometimes my bal- of a morgue displaced the pleasant cinemas screen, for whilst we two been haled out of the castle and ance, too. And once the blade was cool of the summer night: the steady stood silent, Virgil, a little way off, put to death by a man who, six before 1 could drive it purr of the engine changed to a was addressing allthe empty car. I ' hours later, was taking his early in place,a but, he said, but his wheel dropped into a pot- snarl: and the darkness became so could not hear home, was as ever and careless as tone not seen tea with a cigarette. could have thick I that my hole and shook it out. I could have he But once laughed. Elgar could I cannot clearly remember our screamed with the rage of a thwart- hand in front of my face. Then I He never struck me. not laugh. on knew we were and, that cobbles, leaving the staircase turret and ed child to last his hands were first From the saw I when I into lifted for the cord the blade head, slid And at air, my passing last, the then, at mine. They might as lines of three ridge-pole- s was none too long and I could think under the prong . . . against the tearing well have torn at the cobbles beof court We in were the of nothing but keeping it slack, but I do not know, for sky. What happened great neath our feet. So for, perhaps, a I know that the moon was not up, 1 "never examined the strap, but. some mansion, long uninhabited. full minute . . . Then his knees do to Now behind was what that Virgil me, know I was trying to lever the prong possessed Elgar moving his arms fell down by sagged, that Elgar turned to the right and from its place and the buckle was it, I do not know; but, as the car his sides.and . entrance-driveI rose to to rest and my feet, stepped out for the turning with it and spoiling my came Still gripping his throat, I lowered Perhaps ten minutes went by it game, when, all of a sudden, the the man slewed round in his seat his weight to the ground. Then I Elizmay have been less, but I know we strap went slack on my wrists and and dropped down a hand for his skull on the cobbles and As he heaved cracked abeths dressing-cashad passed the point from which I knew I was free. him go. let Now my impulse was to do mur- this up, it struck me under the Herrick and I had surveyed the casThe sound was slight enough, but tle at dawn, when I saw in the shad- der, and do it at once: break El- knees and, because I was rising Percy Virgil heard it and found it ows ahead the shape of a car. gars neck and then choke Virgil to and was neither up nor down, the etrfliHfA This was open and low it proved death: and but for Elizabeths pres- blow made me lose my balance and (TO BE CONTINUED ) into the seat I to be Virgils own car now under ence, I think that I should have sent me backwards Mention of Calvary in Bible that and as like as not lost had left. ' Since this was low and repair and Elgar discharged his done own Although Calvary .is? one of the life, when the car, which tilted, I as good as fell on to my back burden directly over its side. It my will be understood that 1 did not was traveling fast, crashed into a and before I could rise again, Per- most sacred and important sites in have to be told to enter myself, and tree. But Elizabeth had to be saved. cy Virgil was out of the car, on the Christendom, says Colliers Weekly, it is mentioned only once in the an instant later I was upon the back And so I did nothing at all but opposite side. entire Bible in St. Luke 23:33. him Not I darkness saw the and that the shake wrists from beside Elizabeth with my . strap Virgil seat, self-start- er ot -- . . Daniel Webster once was sued by his butcher for a bill of long standing. While the suit was still in court, he 'met the butcher on the street, and to that worthys embarrassment said: Why have you not sent around for my order? 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