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moN DAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1922.
Alias the Lone Wolf
By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
(Copyright, 1921, Intenational Magazine Co,
from our last issue.) I
(h AFTER XVII
Ibc Chnmppp.n'- Bombardment
~ .. n i<>rning Lanyard lay
7:,, ‘■■ bedded and with a single .
ojleta to nu ■ - •
h:,J < -■ t'ill.’W it,lVlSeti Lla ‘ W
0
oriiic ■
am| ■> abL to surprise |
D! Utiout ceremony that she
"Y,/1 Yim at length.
>">■ s i a l d I
. she bedside, do
able to travel. _
. | •.>1 \rd made a lace .
■’ 7 v-.‘ VOU then in such >
fcnia.'- •
7 l 0 1., rid, of me, Inane .
‘•Kot at all- ;
found herself a cl. or and i
-wd a lignret.
, A , ui "|,.,e do We go, made- I
■‘r , ( rboiii’g, there to take a
1 \e W York."
fc-umau >it fmnyard s cue (
Hioek.
J. frieini, why Amort-
:. Vnll Hie credit for having
iMlc j*fiuei • ■ in this world of
B ,y | u-.ed it- what I have
, a ,-;;ed enable-, me to assure you
I, th< Vlontalai jewels are on
eir wav to America."
if [ am t- sail for America .
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•■Tomorrow, from Cherbourg, at
o-ht in the morning.
■■How am I to gel my passport ■
=edr
■1 haw I ato that. Aou are no :
r.utr I’aiii .Martin alias Andre
uAfiiii", bat Paul Delorme, my .
. , offering from
■onoruii '. wooed - sustained in the
Y.ai.
la-.v*. p'-i-e’ terew away her
■ivret ■id ri . "V.;i understand,
■■r kuw e- oon a you are
feed?"
;i p. r'l-i;I!;, what 'rain?"
■J',v -1,, t-w . We motor to < lie)'-
lOUl’g.” O
She ’.'a- ;i’. door when Lan
rard cd b: ■ Avitli, "One moment.
Liantl about Dupont?"
S :| >iA. :.■■■: ti'i > of tire man was i
•W tv t' ... • the v. -mian wine:
irul cuior.
'Vt..i' *: Vvhal us him?”
■IL'.. ye;; -wC -tc--.i that, sin.-e
’!'•;■ : :: aft- you < ame heme, i
f '■ 1 ■ : .'•'.••• household is I
noct li'wii-iy mi- ~f thme who were ’
Ilf ?:at Lum. Who were they?” •
» h ' I >;■ footman, Leon
-Marthe, y
Hr door!"
J sharp with ;-ueh authority
L.:.i'" Delorme instinctively •
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had seen that morning coming down
the stairs with the lighted candle
entered rather precipitately.
"Pardon, madame," she murmur
ed, and paused. " 1 was about to
knock.”
Marthe hinted at rather than exe
cuted a courtesy and withdrew.
Liane shut the door behind her, and
reapproached the bed. trembling with
anger.
"You mean to take her with you';
"1 did, until this happened.”
“And now will you tell me that
Dupont knows nothing of your in
tention to motor to Cherbourg- to
day?”
“No .. .” Disconsolate, Liam,
sank down into the chair. "Now 1 i
dare not go,” she mused aloud. “Y et
I must! . . . What am 1 to do?"
"Courage, little sister! It is I
who have an idea.” Liane lifted a
gaze of mute inquiry.
"What automobile are you using
for our trip this afternoon?”
“My limousine for you and me."
"And Marthe: how is she to .
make the journey?"
“In the. touring car which fol
lows us with our luggage.”
“Who drives the limousine?”
The woman hesitated, looked aside,
bit her lip.
"As a matter of fact, monsieur,”
she said hastily, "it is the boy who
drove us through the Cevennes. Mon
i sieur Monk asked me to keep him
pending his return to France.
Lanyard had the grace to keep a
- straight face. He nodded gravely.
“You make it all perfectly clear,
i little sister.”
"Here is the plan. At the last
moment you will decide to take Leon
with you.
“Toward evening we will let the
touring car catch up. We will ex
change cars with Marthe and Leon,
: leaving th® latter to bring on the
limousine while Jules drives for us.
Whatever happens then, we may fee!
sure the touring car will get off
lightly." i
It was four o’clock.when the ex- :
; peditidn for Cherbourg left the door '
of Liane’s town-house. The limou- !
, sine was leading with Jules at its i
i wheel; the touring car trailing, with 1
the footman, Leon, as driver.
In St. Germain-en-Laye Lanyard ’
first noticed the gray touring car. I
It stood incongruously round the ■
i corner, at the door of a wine shop; ;
the fat-faced man of Lyons was '
lounging in the door, sucking at a I
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i\. ret and watching the traffic.
Lanyard said notning at the time,
but later, when a long stretch of
straight road gave him the chance,
verified his suspicions by looking
back to see the gray car lurking not •
less than a mile and a half astern; ■
the Delorme touring car driven by '
Leon keeping a quarter of a mile
in the rear of the limousine.
These relative positions remained |
approximately unchanged during ;
most of the light hours of that long ;
evening, despite the terrible pace
which Jules set in the open country.
At about seven they dined fron.
the hamper which, with Liane’s i
jewel case in its leather disguise of
a simple traveling bag, constituted
all the limousine's load of luggage.
Lanyard passed sandwiches through
the front window to Jules, -who
munched them while driving like a
speed manmc, and with the same
apalling nt-nchalance washed them
down with a tumbler of champagne.
A luminous liiac twilight view with.
I he street lamps of Caen when the
l mnousine relied through the city.
. Lanyard conferred with Jules
through the window.
‘'Beyond the town." he -.aid, "you ■
i uid stop. | think it would be ad- :
I ''-sable to have a little engine trou-
I ble.
i “Vety good, mr," said Jules with
out looking round. Then he added
. m a voice of complete respect:
! Quite so, sir. What's the idea?”
I presume you set some value -
on your skin?”
“Plumb crazy about it."
"Mademoiselle Delorme ami I are I
afflicted with the same idiosyncrasy. ;
We want to save your lives, and we I
don t mind saving yours at the same |
lime. In a gray car which has been
following us ever since we left St.
Germain, is the man who—l believe ■
- murdered Monsieur le Comte de '
' 1-orgnes on the Lyons express, ami 1
who—-I know—tried last night to !
murder Mademoiselle Delorme.”
“And 1 suppose that, in his big- i
hearted, wholesaler’s way, 1■ i
wouldn’t mind making a bag of the
lot -df us tonight.”
“I’m afraid you are right. Our
plan is to change cars with Leon '
and Marthe; the gray car will pas: '
i and go on ahead before we make the i
i shift; then you, madi/moiselle and li
; follow in the touring car. the other
j in the limousine."
■ "Ah-b!” Jules ued the tone of :
i one who perceives enlightenment as ■
' a blinding flush. “Marthe and Leon
' are in, on the dirty work, too, eh? [
, T shan’t shied a solitary tear if some- ■
' thing sad happens to them in this
■• 'bus tonight.”
The plan was carried out in a '
i suburb ol Caen; •’a" gray touring
, car tore by in a cloud of dust as i
I Lanyard and Liane shifted to the '
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touring car with Jules as driver.
Lanyard established himself in the
tonneau.
“How lon, Jules, will Leun
need—?”
“Five minutes, madame, if he
takes his time about it.”
They drew away from the limou
sine so quickly that in thirty sec
onds its headlights were all that
marked its stand.
A bend in the road blotted out
these lights. There was no tail- I
light visible on the road before them. ■
Lanyard touched Jules on the shoui- i
der.
"Switch off your lights,” he said
- "all of them. Then find a place ;
»
where we can turn otf and wait til: i
Leon ami Marthe pass us.”
Jules picked out the mouth of <a'
narrow lane, stopped and backed
into it.
In four minutes by Lanyard’s
watch, a blue-white glare leapt quiv- \
ering past the bend, and lay horizon- I
tai with the road as the car bored 1
past.
"Shoot, Jules —follow his rear ■
lamp," cried Lanyard.
The ear swung out into the main I
. highway. Far ahead the red sar
donie eye in the rear of the limou
sine leered as if mocking their hopes
of keeping it in sight.
They were swooping down a long
grade with a sharp turn at the bot
tom, when somewhere on ahead,
there sounded a grinding crash, the
i noise of a stout fabric rent and ■
| crushed with the clash and clatter
I of shivered glass.
j "Easy,” Lanyard cautioned—"and
■‘ready with the lights!”
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Below, at the foot of the hill, tl ■ ‘
headlights of another car, standing
at some distance ami to the right of
the road furnished lurid illumm.i
tion to the theater of disaster.
Something, its nature just then
mysterious, had apparently caused
Leon to lose control of the h avy
car, so that it had skidded into a
ditch and capslied. Four men were
swarming round the wreck. Iwo
were helping- the driver out, two
others having their gallantry in per
forming like service for the maid
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rewarded by a torrent of vitupera- (
five denunciation, half hysterical
and wholly infuriated.
By the freedom of her gestures, .
which was rivaled only by that of
her language, the disheveled, storm
ing figure ot Maitl * was manifestly
uninjured. And in another moment I
Leon found Ills feet and limped i
j toward the others.
Lanyard drew attention to a dark
serpentine line that lay like a dead !
snake upon the lighted surface of i
the road. Liane Delorme breathless-i
PAGE FIVE
, ly demanded; 'What is it?”
“An old trick,” Lanyard explain
ed: “A wire cable stretched across
; the road, about as high as the middle
1 of the windshield.”
He fondled the pistol which Jules
had handed him: “Now before they
| wake up, Jules—give her all she’s
i got!”’
Jules released the brakes. They
were making forty miles an hour
when they struck the level and
j thundered past the group.
1 (Continued in our next issue.)