Antlers News-Record. (Antlers, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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Th S O’ Heart I the “death -employed
by Seneca Trine ln t Prtvat
1 'erar o t vengeance which through trie
agehcy pt hi daughter Judith a woman
of violent paaslona like hi
: against Alan Lawon of the roan (now
' dead) who wa unintentionally vejnei
' We for th accident which rendered Tnne
a helple cripple Alan toX?aJ$s
and la in turn loved by Bom
twin and double but In -IJ'e
Ite Judith vow to comp Aiw
death ‘ but under dramatic circumstance
aave her life and ao unwllllngy
love Thereafter Judith J
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(' '- her
at Providence with the Midnight Ex-
press for New York pulled out of New
Bedford beating a transformed Barcua
'Not until a soupd night's Bleep had
topped off the beginning of his rest in
Jail did Barctfa come' down to earth
' He demonitrated his return to com
mon aenee by making a round breaks
fast la Grand Central station before
looking up the residence of Dlgby In
the telephone directory
The Information he gathered from
the voice that answered the name of
1 wiVid'by'th oldhtrd thenew lov
1 Ur' kj’dnad bjr hlr fithM' ’order Mr Dlgby over the telephone shook
tynd conveyed to A low dive I1 th
! t’yndconveyedto A Uw dive Intheium only tnomenUrlly Barcua' Innate cpn-
Nw Jerey from whij:h Alnhrcue 7cjjon intimate acquaintance
with battle murder and sudden death
v li'Vw rforMj'1 arvsai w ItBC1
1 Vhr after accidentally sotting the
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CHAPTER XXIX
r
Jailbird'
tras the Inevitable reward of assoclv
Mon with this friend of hla heart
"Alan being married to Rose Trine
la Jersey City at this very minute ’’
The period of restraint In I he breathed skeptically as he emerged
tile Buffered by one Thomas from the booth memorizing the ak
a J4 nlttAltO lin I -
In consequence of conduct riotous un-
seemly and in general prejudiced to
tbe public peace of the New Bedford
waterfront at half-past four to
morning proved In the upshot far
more brief than: had been fondly
hoped not only by hlsJuBt Judge but
-singularly enough by the mlsdemean-
ant himself - 1 v ’ : - -
' Taking everything gravely into eon-
gideratlon including a person ’ any
thing ' but prepoesesslng' the Judge
reckoned that In default of a fine of
one hundred dollars a ten-day layup
for repairs and repentance was not too
much to mete but to Uie i ’prisoner at
-V the bar- V
- He was sentenced at 10 a m end It
aa little short of 10 p m when his
V oost-nrandial repose was disturbed by remark witness the fact that on land-
' the rattle of a key In the lock of the J ing he disked Jhe delay required to
r V door to bis cell' v ' J V
' -''j : Conducted with every evidence of
’ v' dteesteera on the part ofvhls Jailers to
’'"the office of the warden he was ao-
tiuainted with the fact that his fine
: had been paid by no one less than theJ were momentarily threatening to go
VZ judge himself: then present in portly by the time Barcua arrived on the
quad of polloe apparently aa grimly
beat on oompaialBg th destruction of
their quarry a was th mob
1 And 1 they swarmed up the figging
after him without a moment’t heslta-
tlon ' v I--' :
Hotly pressed' the fugitive climbed
higher and still higher until at length
he gained the topmost - yard with
three policemen’ not half a dozen feet
below blm’ and popping away for dear
life i If happily with the notoriously
poor marksmanship of policemen gem
erally ' -
None the less there was no telling
when some accident might wing a bul-
let Into the young man and it waa
evident that he so decided -:
For Inching out to the end of the
yard hq waved his hand toward his
persecutor with a gesture of light-
hearted - derision that unmistakably
Identified him as Alan Law to Mr Bar-
cue and forthwith dropped to the w
ter feet foremost -Alan
later took the water neatly
came up uninjured and clearheaded
and without an Instant's hesitation
struck away toward the middle of the
Hudson ’"' '
As this happened the police ran to
the stern of the square-rigger un-
moored a dory that was riding there
and threw themselves Into It
During the (to Barcua at least)
breathless suspense of that chase- the
ferryboat drew ' stolidly farther and
still farther away from the scene Bar-
cus 1 could not tell whether as It
seemed the pellce-laden dory was real-
ly overhauling Alan or whether the
illusion of perspective deceived him
' At all eventB It seemed a frightfully
near thlhg when the Interruption be-
fell which alone could have saved
Alan
Out of the very sky dropped a hydro-
aeroplane cutting the water with a
long graceful curve that brought It
almost at a standstill directly to the
head of the swimmer and at the Bame
time forced the police boat to sheer
widely off in order to escape collision
' Immediately the swimmer - caught
was busy being a bold bad kidnaper
Rose was In his power as we say In
such cases - His Intentions however
were nothing more blameworthy than
to return her to the arms of her doting
parent I knofT because I sleuthed
after 'em even to tbe house of Seneca
Trine Later I sleuthed some morp
following a furtive young maa from
the house of Trine to the office of the
general manager of the New York Cen-
tral where he made arrangements for
a special to convey the said Trine and
retinae to Chicago and points -West
It leaves at three this afternoon I
waa unable to ascertain whether or
not Rose ls tO participate In this
hegira but I know I shall -On the off-
chance of being useful I have bribed
the train- crew to let me Impersonate
the porter So should you be moved
to follow and succeed In catching up
with us and observe anybody who
looks rather off-color in the party—
don’t shoot: the said party will be me
' "Tours for the quiet life -
i v “TOM BARCU8'
The second note yielded a Communi-
cation written on notepaper of the sim-
plest elegance In ia woman's hand—
hurried scrawl: -1' ' ' : '
“They are taking me West by spe
clal train— I don’t know where or why
A servant has promised to see that
this reaches you Save me!” -Over
this Alaa wrinkled an Incred-
ulous nose The hand was the hand of
Rose but the phraseology was not In
her spirit He examined It more close-
ly and thought to detect beneath its
semblance of haste a deliberate and
carefully guided pen - He picked up
the envelope to compare the handwrit-
ing of the address with that of the en
closure— and shook out a trey of
hearts
- This last was covered as to Its face
with a plainly-written message
! “With the compliments of Seneca
Trine to Alan Law We are due In
Chicago at eleven tomorrow morning
and leave Immediately for the Pacific
coast via Santa Fe route”
Comparison between this and the
turn aside and have a look at the fire
It proved to be situated In the heart I
of a squalid slum — a wretched tene- j
ment of the poorest claas whose roof
had already fallen In and whose walls
r-i-
' and solicitous person
"If -only you had told me you were
n friend of Mr j Digby’s" the Judge
hastened to eay as soon as the two
‘-were ensconsed In the privacy of the
i‘ Judicial limousine ' "I would have
' known better how to guide myself to
this unfortunate ' affair
amt if you will be good enough to
: Indicate how else I may serve you
-i
V “Dlgby didn’t offer any suggestions
In hla wire I gather?" -!
- "One moment: -1 have It here”
- (“Naturally I’d like a bath and A
change of cldthes” Barcua pursued
while the Judicial breast-pocket was
being explored "and I could do with
transportation to New Tork by- the
first train -out of this God-forsaken
bole and—” V - '
"This is what Mr Dlgby says” tbe
Judge interrupted: laboriously dei
ciphering the message by the light of
scene v o - y
-At a considerable distance from him I
a small disturbance bad broken out —
a clamor of protesting voices lifting
about tbe rumor of the mob — as a
numbei' of men case-hardened roughs
one and all began to force their way
in a -V-shaped wedge through the
throng making toward lie very heart
the point on the fire-lines nearest the
burning building
What this meant Mr Barcus had
not the slightest idea But his atten-
tion was first distracted by the maneu-
ver then fixed by the face of & man
who was following in the hollow of
the V— an evil white face that seemed
somewhat vaguely familiar somehow
reminiscent of something strange that
had happened in the history of Mr
Barcus
At the same time at the point yrhere
the V had paused a wild uproar lifted
up and coincidentally a wilder confu-
sion became noticeable ' A cry waa
audible— "Firebug! Lynch him! Lynch
him! Lynch ' the firebug!" — and at
this the mob turned as on man and
for a single lighted window In the up-
per tier (but not he noted the window
to Rose’s bedchamber) and one or two
lights which he found burning dim' In
the kitchen offices and other servants’
quarters on the lower floor he would
have thought the house empty?' -He
negotiated that last flight of
steps which led to the topmost floor
with ! extraordinary stealth advised
thereto by a sound or rather a series
of sustained sounds which had there-
tofore been inaudible to him Possibly
they had not fill then existed possibly
the man servant whom he found snor-
ing la a chair outside a closed door
had not fallen asleep and begun to
nore until the mpment -when Alan set
foot upon the lower step of that final
ascent -! ‘ ' :
No sound warned him of the door
that opened at bis back as he stood
watching the sleeping guard A pierc-
ing shriek was the first Intimation he
received that ’ his - presence had been
discovered It served as well to move
him Instantly into ' action: - a - single
glance overshoulder- showed him the
figure of a maid-servant In cap and
gown her mouth still wide and full of
sound— and Alan fell upon the guard
like: a thunderbolt' The man had
barely time to Jump up and recognize
the alarm: then a fist caught him on
the point of his Jaw and he returned
promptly to deep unconsciousness
No time now for qualms of com-
punction on account of the savage
ruthleBsness of that blow: no time
even to search the fellow for a key to
the closed door: already the maid was
taking the stairs in full flight and cry
four steps and'a howl like a warlock’s
to every jump ’ '
Backing off Alan took a short run
cleared the prostrate body of the guard
with a leap and flung himself full
force against the door his shoulder
striking a point nearest the lock With
a splintering crash It broke Inward
Without dignity ' or decorum he
sprawled on all fours Into the presence
of Judith Trine
’’Poor Mr Law!” she cried wlth a
mocking Dod “always disappointed!
I’m bo Borry—truly lam!’’4
“Oh spare me your sarcasm” be
begged “resentfully “It’s ridiculous
enough this whole mad business — ”
“But 1 am not sarcastic” she Insist-
ed with such sincerity that he opened
his eyes in wonder
landscape Only at the third cast did
they succeed In picking up the line of -the
Santa Fe And It was some boars
later though still daylight when they
picked up the special train flying like -
a bunting across the level' ' V -
- There w scant room for ' doubt -that
It was th train they sought Bps- ’
olals are not common Moreover Alanl -
contrived with considerable difficulty
to fpeus binoculars upon the rear plati w
form of tbe car and caught a fugitive! -glimpse
of a white-coated figure with at
black face that waa watching the bl-i
plane In the tame manner that Is:
with glasses V -V-'
The man In the white coat Alan as
sured himself was positively Barcus
And hahlly had he comforted him- '
self with this assurance when his sar-i
donlc destiny struck the motor dumbj
In' response to his look of dashed j
inquiry the aviator merely shook a
weary head and muttered the words
“Engine trouble” ' f
Swiftly the earth rose to receive the
volplaning mechanism : Under Coast'A ''
admirable handling It settled down al-i
I-"
5
am sorry for once It Is 1 land not Rose
whom you find locked up here! For
you see I am locked up by way of
punishment— thanks to my having had
pity on you once too often — while pay
father decamps mysteriously for parts !
unknown — ’’ :
Escape of Alan and Judith
most without a Jar on the outskirts of
a city whose name Alan never learned
: For the biplane ' was barely at ‘
standstill before he was out and peel-
lng with the giddiness that affects men
after long flights making his way a
“Believe me 1 best he might toward the manager's
office connected with a tralnyard Im-
mediately adjacent to the spot where
they had come to earth
Lavish disbursements of money won
him his way against official protest
that what he demanded was an impos-
sibility Within twenty minutes leav
“You don’t know where he’s gone jng coast to follow on when and as
then?’
“Do you?’ ehe asked sharply
"In a general way By special train
to the West — ”
"Taking Rose?”
“So I’m told”
The woman choked upon her anger
but quickly mastered it
“He Bhall pay for this!" she assever-
ated “Your father? I wieh him nothing
more nor less than your enmity" Alan
assured her civilly “But since It
seems that he has gone and Rose with
him if you’ll forgive me 1 think I’ll
be going—”
"Alone?” 1
“Why— yes” !
“You wouldn’t care for a companion
du voyage?” she 'suggested -“Oh
— reallyl" he protested
the pontoon of the hydroaeroplane
streamed away In pursuit of an In-1 pulled himself up out of the water
visible quarry who chose to attempt and clambered to the aeat beside the
his escape - by a route directly oppo- aviator
site to that which would have led him
within view of Mr Barcus
Startled and of a sudden persuaded
that there might have been -more In
Before he was fairly seated the plane
was swinging back Into it fastest
With the ease of a wild goose It left
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his “hunch” than was sanely to be the water mounted the long grade of
credited Barcus started up and was I an air lane described a wide circle
on the point of stepping out of his I above tbe bluffs of Weehawken and
cab If with a rather aimless purpose swept away southward
when he waa stayed by eight of that
evil white face returning the way It
had come — still In the hollow of the
flying V which now made faster prog-
ress thanks to the disorganization pf
the mob by thq chase of the alleged In-
cendiary V
CHAPTER XXX
Blrdman
About eight o’clock in the evening of
the same day a motorcar deposited at
the Hotel Monolith a gentleman whose
And now Barcus saw the man of weather-beaten and oil-stained motor-
the white face was not alone v There I lng-cap and duster -covered little clotn-
w&s someone - with him— someone I lng mpre than shirt and trousers and
Th
Hydroaeroplane
Land'
match: “Please see to Immediate
release of one Thomas Barcus prob-
whose head was bent and face con- r assorted oddly In the ey6s of the desk
cealed hut who seemed to be feml I clerk with the rather meticulously
nine turned-out guest known to him as Mr
And so Barcus argued why might Arthur Lawrence and to the manage-
lt not be Rose Trine euffering new I ment of the Hotel as Mr Alan Law In-
is Forced to I persecution at the hands of her unnat- cognito ' v
ural father's creatures? v I Eventually persuaded the clerk
He was too far away to make sure yielded up the key to Mr Lawrence s
and attempt any Interference but be suite of rooms together
with two
notes superscribed with the same nom
pointed White Face out to his chauf-
nbly In Jail In you? jurisdiction for riot-1 t(ar as the V reached a touring car
(lng on waterfront this morning Fay I oa the edge of the mob and the woman —
ihis fine and instruct him to report to VKB lifted In (unresisting and appnr-lbe could hardly wait to examine these
me In New York at earliest feasible entiy in dead faint) and when the communication until he was quit of
touring car swung round and picked the public eye - -
up lta heels th taxicab of Mr Barcus The first proved to be a character-
trailed It as unostentatiously as If It Istle communication: -
waa a pertinacious shadow I “Dear Ulysses Thanks for the Jail
Ten minutes later from the rear delivery I got in this morning Just In
deck of a ferryboat In midstream — a I time to motor over to Jersey In hopes
boat bearing back to New York not of seeing your finish as a bachelor
only the touring car of White Face Instead I was favored by being made
but the cab of Mr Barcus— the latter Ian Involuntary witness to your spec-
-wouia pi - gentleman formed one of a small but t&cular ascent following your almost
-1 u it stands" Barcua observed Interested I audience witnessing an in-1 equally spectacular nign-nve
‘ 1 cident of uncommon character "But to business: my time Is 11m-
Hs saw a young man hatless coat- tied in half an hour more I am to
Ins almost shlrtless tear down to double In black-face for the purposes
the edge of one of the Jersey wharves of the author of thla melodramatic
hla heels snapped at by a ravening farce which yon no doubt call the
rabble Jump aboard a square-rigged history of yourtgrande passion
vessel which lay moored there and I ' "1 mean to say well several things
one ow juw execute a maneuver of despair by to-wlt: When I saw you snatched out
And this phase of incredulity psjv climbing np the rigging in a hopeless of the North I was
la coloring the complexion ot attempt to escape bis persecutor trailing a rale-faced -rillain In a niotor-
hU mlnd Ina the menrom They were too many for bha and what car concerning whom you probrtly
bur wSaSe were t 'l ky a know far mors than U ts ca his pnt
ihour - Give him all the money be
-wants and took to ma for remunera-
tion—’ “
“Eh?” Barcus Interrupted sitting up
'smartly “"what's that last again?”
Patiently the Judge repeated the
aentenc from the message
“Thanks Please don’t read farther
Yon might come to something' that
would spoil 1L It's almost too beauti
Shook Out a Tray of Hearts
message purporting to be from Rose
distilled the conviction that the same
hand was responsible for both
Alan shrtigged So he was to be
lured away from New York end Rose
by this transparent trick was he? No
fear!
With plenty of time on his hands
he gave the matter serious considera-
tion and concluded to take no chances:
It was just poseible that Trine had
taken Rose with him on his western
trip aftpr all L In such case the only
poseible way of overtaking the special
would be by air line
'Promptly Alan caliedi up the avia-
tion fields at Hempstead Plains and
got Into communication with a gentle-
man answering to the surname of
Coast the same blrdman who had
come to Alan’s rescue with his hydro-
aeroplane Their arrangements were quickly
consummated Coast agreeing to wait
for Alan with bis biplane In Van Cort-
landt park from midnight till daybreak
prepared if need be to undertake
transcontinental flight -
Thereafter Mr Law proceeded to re-
habilitate himself In decent clothing
and his own esteem after bathing he
dined alone In his rooms from a tray
after dining he slept soundly for three
hoars — and may be thought to have
earned at least that much rest through
having been for four hours a passen-
ger In a hydroaeroplane lost In fogs
that wrapped Long Island and all the
adjacent territory In an Impenetrable
shroud
Nor had this been all Leaving aside
all that had led up to Alan’s rescue by
Coast: the forced landing ot the hydro-
aeroplane for lack of fuel had taken
place on the south shore of the Great
South bay a search of hours had fol
lowed before a boat was found to con-
vey Alan and the aviator to the main-
land jand a motor run of several hours
had followed that' conveying Coast- to
his Hempstead hangars and Alan on
to his hotel in New York
At midnight he committed an act of
burglary calmly and with determina-
tion breaking his way Into the house
of Seneca Trine through the area win-
dows and basement
In this nefarious business nothing
hindered and non opposed him But
ten!” she begged
From the street below came the un-
mistakable rattle of a 'policeman’s lo-
cust on the Bidewalk
“That damned maid” Alan divined
“The same” Judith agreed with
ominous calm "Has It struck you that figure Indistinctly silhouetted against
you may have some trouble getting the light through the door and beside
away without my permission?” fier a man In a white coat clinging for
"I’m not so Btupldas not tp have dear life to the knob of the door-
thought of that” he countered holding it against the frantic efforts of
“Then he advised — apd take me aome persons inside to tear It open '
with you” ’ I Another hour of suspense dragged
In what capacity please? As out— or such was the effect— -while the
enemy or— ally?" ' ' light engine with Intolerable slowneea
As ally— you’re right: we can’t he I bridged those four scant feet
friends— until we overtake that spe-1 Afcrtength It waa feasible to attempt
clal train After that by your leave the thing Rose (he could see hr
best he might Alan and Judith were
spinning through open country in the
cab of an engine running light wlth(
only clear track between it and the
special ' t
The several honrs that ensued be-
fore the rear lights of the special were -brought
to view were none too many
for the taBk Imposed upon Alan otl
overcoming the scruples of the en-
gineer and fireman '
Another minute and less than fifty
feet' separated the ' two— the speciall
ttaln and the light engine both hur-
tling through the light at top speed
With a word to the engineer Alanl
crept out along the side of the boiler
with only a greasy handrail and a naw
row foothold between himself ’ and
what meant death or something close
ly resembling It Should he be shaken
v :i
She held up an arresting hand “Lis- 0ff by the tearing wind and the sway-i
lng of the locomotive
It seemed an hour before he worked
himself up to the cowcatcher— now
within four feet at the rear platform
of the special
On this last he could see a woman’s
I’ll sliift for myself”
“It’s not such a had notion” he re-
flected: "with you under my eye you
can’t do much to Interfere — ”
“If I promise — ” she suggested
"I’ll take your word”- be agreed sim-
ply "But you’re In for a lot of hard-
strained white face quite plainly now)
was half over the rail of the car ahead
ready to Jump
Hla heart failed him It waa too
hazardous a risk He dared not let her
take it
Something very like a shot sounded
shin I’m afraid The one way to catch from the train and something very llko
p I 1 j via ahnnlr anil
up with your father is by aeroplane—
and I’ve got one waiting”
She nodded Intently "Don’t con-
sider me as a woman when it comes
to hardship” she hinted obliquely
a bullet whistled past his cheek and!
proved the Bignal for several more
Strangely that knowledge steadledl
Straining forward and
bar bo hot that It
his nerves
holding on to
Tve no reason to going on what 1 1 scorched his palm he offered a hand
know of you" to the girl on the rail
“Give me one minute to find my coat Her hand fell confidently Into it one
and hat” Jumped His arm wound round heraa
In less than that time she was at his she landed on the platform of the cow-
side in the hallway catcher He her
The police entered by the front door name then hurriedly psea her he-
r 1
as the two crept out of the area window
CHAPTER XXXI
tween himself and the boiler to the
footway at the side The fireman waa
waiting there to help her Alan turned!
his attention to Barcua
To hi dismay ha found that the eo-’
ine waa losing ground The apac
was widening rapidly aa Barca re-
leased the knob and threw himself!
over the rail
By a miraculous flying leais the
Via Air Line
Not once In the coarse of the next I
sixteen hours hut a thousand times
Ain questioned (and it will readily
be allowed with all excuses) his san-1 -
ity in permitting Mmself to be In- man accomplished that Incredible feat
flnenced to humor Judith’s Insistence and gained th platform
and make her a party to this wild I An instant later ten feet separated!
aerial cross-country dash I the engine from the special aa the en-
Between whiles the plane flew fast I gineer applied the brakes -and
high cutting a direct line as the I And this he did none too soon: for
crow Men athwart the eastern and I at the same time Marrophat and ani
western state other appeared on th rear platforml
Chicago they raised as a smndge on and opened a hot hut thank to the
the northern horizon about one o’clock I widening distance Ineffectual fire
in the afternoon thereafter some lit-1 The engine ground slowly to a halt
tie time waa lost In descents to ascer-1 as tha rear lights of the tpeolal train
tain the Identity of th many railroad sweftt from sight round a head
Une that crisscrossed tha swimming (TO n COWTIXCXDJ
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