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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-05-16, Page 2THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1910 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE c by Eardley Beswick Hi I!£ the an­ al- to come from outside some- Slie learned back in hei' seat suddenly faint. ‘“Could we . • the window open?” ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii As they sat on he talked opti­ mistically from time to time about his plans, she returning him not so much as a monosyllable, while the night wore on outside, and the un­ seen dawn doubtless turned frpm grey to pink and from pink to blue of an awakened sky. Mr, Mench prepared and lit other cigar, He had smoked most continuously, and the little compartment was acrid with smoke. As the matchlight curled about the glowing end an idea struggled ir­ resistibly in the girl’s mind. “You want air. You want air," it seemed to insist. It was a natural enough eoncepton, for she did want air, though, of their volition, her tired senses would have seemed hardly capably of suggesting it, and it did seem how. as if have Mr. Mench said that-, since it was doubtless near daylight outside, he did not see why not. He was afraid he had been showing himself less ■considerate than he wanted to be. She must try and forgive him. He had been a man living alone for so long that he had grown unused to a woman’s company. He rose and, pulling the curtain slightly to one side, opened the little lattice win­ dow. “I’m afraid we must have t.he light out,” he said and, after blowing out the hanging lamp, he drew the curtain completely and exposed the dim greyness of early morning. “Except for my selfish pleasxfre,” said Mr. Mench, “I hardly see why I should be keeping you up like this. If you care to retire, there is a comfortable berth in the next compartment, and I will undertake that you shall not be disturbed.” “I have no wish to sleep.” she said, though all her body belied that statement. In her mind she knew that remorse and worry would between them suffice to banish sleep, however weary she might be. and asleep she could not hope to outwit the triumphant little man who sat opposite her, the red tip of his cigar glowing in the faint light. It was fresher since the opening of the window. A little cool breeze was ruffling the curtain, that and something dimly white that crept over the ledge from without like the pale and insubstantial hand of a ghost. She stared at the white intrusion fascinated, and felt an irrational gladness that, in the dim light where they sat, she might continue to stare without the direc­ tion of her glance being obvious. Rescue There was a scraping, clamber­ ing sound and a quick rustle above the little bureau desk. The white instrusive thing jerked forward and one of the tubes disappeared from the spot on which it had lain. Back came the white thing, but Mr. Mench had been alarmed. His fat hand shot out simultaneously to grasp the other tube, and for a mo­ ment it seemed to wrestle with that of the ghost. She sprang to hinder him, all her weight swinging against him just as from his other hand there came a report and a spurt of flame. The ghostly hand relaxed its grip and vanished. Mr. Mench, standing fired five more times through the open window so that instead of with cigar smoke the air became oppressive with an acrid, stinging scent. iFrom outside there came cries and a rush of feet plodding over the grass. Dropping his revol­ ver Mr. Mench made a dive for the other compartment and through it rushed out into the dawn, expos­ tulating, shouting commands, dir­ ecting, From the window she could make out a running figure swiftly and obviously outdistanc­ ing a group of pursuers that tailed off like a spent jack already. “We’d better hurry out of this while the coast’s clear,” said a voice at which her heart leapt, and she was hurried towards the open door All Tired Out Before Day Half Over Women who should be strong and healthy become weak, run down, and worn out, and are unable to attend to their household duties. They get up in the morning dreading the day’s work ahead of them. Some disease or constitutional dis­ turbance has left its mark in the form of shattered nerves, impover­ ished blood, and an exhausted con­ dition of the entire system. Women will find in Milburn’s Health and NerVe Pills the remedy they need to supply food for the exhausted nerve force, and one that will help them back to sound, perfect health again, The T. Milburn Oo„ Ltd., Toronto, Ont 0 a an arm came out and swung her down the steps. Now Hendringham said: “Run now, as far as you can,” and she was running with him to­ wards a dark hedge. They were running across the wide field unmolested, but she could not reach the hedge. Her breath began to come in hard sobs, her legs to refuse unto stumbling. “Can’t keep it up,” she gasped. “Into the ditch then,” he told her, and together they flung them­ selves through a barrier* of nettles and briars to land crouching in a prickly obscurity on a deeply mud­ dy floor. “We’ll be all right here for a bit,” he said. “I only hope Johnny’s wind holds out long enough for him to get clear. He used to be a crack quarter-miler but he hasn't exactly kept himself in training of late years. He got off the mark like a hare though, as soon as the shoot­ ing was over. Did you see whether he got both tubes?” “Only one,” she said. “Hell!” he answered. “One’s no use. If they still have the other one we’ve failed. We’ll have to make contact with Johnny somehow and find out what he means to do. He won’t stay away from here if there’s a tube still in their posses­ sion.” A droning sound that had been growing all this time now became so near that its explanation was obvious. It ceased and the first clear rays of the sun, too high as yet to brighten the grass, lit up the white body of an aeroplane. The droning cessation and the banking of the plane had an was unmistakable. “By jove.” said “he’s landing!” They watched the a great bird until its wheels touch­ ed earth and, bouncing, wind to whistle caravan Men ch hurrying, but at : roundness, towards the and presently one or two men ap­ peared, following him. Under his arm was the unmistakable sacking parcel. “He’s going to get away with it,” said Hendringham. “He’s got to be stopped somehow. Let’s try to get round to the machine by the back of the hedge. There’s bound to be a gap and they’re too excited to see us.” Together they scrambled out and, skirting the ditch, found an old gap roughly made up with brushwood. He leapt at it and his -weight crash­ ed through. Then he leaned back and catching her hands drew her after him. There was no sign they had been noticed. Now hand in hand but each unconscious of that, they hurried along behind the hedge un­ til, bursting through another hedge at the corner, they almost stumbled over a long, dark-clothed man, who was worming his wray almost liter­ ally ventre-a-terre in the opposite direction. “Johnny!” said Hendringham. Johnny all up if intention that Hendringham, it taxied up- a stop. There was a shrill from the corner -where the stood and presently Mr. appeared in that quarter. He ambled uncouthly, a fair speed despite his towards the machine “Shurrup!” murmured Cope, “and keep low. It’s they catch sight of us.” Obediently and a little they crouched. ; whispering now, the move?” “I’m going to get in their path. They’re bound to take off against the wind. You two had better stay here.” “Can’t I help?” “One’s enough if it comes off. It it doesn’t two ference. time.” “But . “Damn flat as you can, and crouching, moved along the hedge towards the gap through which the two had just burst. As he turned to leave tnem they saw he had one of the samples, appear- ently the battered one, under his arm. The two moved back to the’ gap and obediently laid flat on the dew­ wet nettles that covered the slight rise of the bank. From here they could see Cope making his sin­ uous way along the line by which they had arrived. “I’ve been a mug as usual,” whis­ pered Hendringham. “Trust Johnny to think out the obvious tactics be­ fore he makes a move. Did you see what he’s got under his arm?”' She nodded and her hand squeez­ ed his as if in sympathy for his self-abasement. She might have been telling him not to be too hard on himself. Mark 1702 Boes Its Work The group about the 'plane were ’busy wheeling her about. They got her into position and two figures climbed aboard. There they stood back as the engine roared into life, and the graceful thing began to shamedly and Hendringham, , asked: ’’What’s won’t make any dif­ all or nothing this you!Stay here and lie as the other snapped Clinton Resident Killed GET SET FOR HAPPY MOTORING WITH GOODYEARS Cope arm of a They her ■was held man saw con- the slip bent from like gust. crawl- * taxi lightly across the level surface Faster and faster she moved, until her wheels began to leave the ground. “Hell, he can't stop her now,” said Hendringham, “not if she clears the hedge, he can’t.” She rose a few feet, a few feet more, until it was clear that she would skim easily the line of nut trees that crested the hedge. Johnny Cope, rising, ran swiftly to inter­ cept her, “She’s beaten him,” said Hendringham bitterly. They saw the machine swoop up­ wards towards the hedge, as, gather­ ing speed, hei* pilot increased lift, and they saw that now standing with one backwards, like the arm about to throw a weight, his thin body swing about with centrated effort, saw something fly from his outstretched arm, saw him drop like a stone behind the hedge. The heavy body of the sample lobbed gently over the hedge and struck.the ground an instant before the ’plane swooped above it. There was a puff of pale flame from the ground where the thrown thing had landed, and, high overhead, ’plane tilted, and began to backwards. The hazel trees absurdly and then went flying their roothold in the hedge, trees uptorn by some terrific Quickly the ’plane slipped back­ wards, almost vertical now, then it sat heavily on its tail and crump­ led, collapsed. Now the noise of the explosion was borne to them as if on a fierce hot wind, that scattered leaver and grass. The men who had been standing to watch the take-off fell flat at its approach. “Come on,” cried Hendringham, “She’s catching fire!” He ran swiftly, in advance of his skirt hampered companion, but be­ fore he had gone many steps, he saw Johnny Cope dash from the hedge and with a wild heave, drag the fat, inert body of Mr. Pandolfius Mench from the cockpit. “Dead,” thought Hendringham as he ran. “Get that' tube out of liis pocket, said Cope a moment later, as Hend^ ringham reached the scene. “I’ve got the sample. I’ll just see if it's any use salvaging the pilot.” But the pilot was already ing from the danger of the flames, a weak-looking man, one of whose legs trailed helplessly. “Don’t faint, for God’s sake!” Cope told Miss Silvane as, reaching them, she wrung her hands in hor­ ror. It sufficed. She was immediately herself again and “I don’t faint,” she snapped. “Right. Make for that far gate. “You’ll find my car on the other side if someone hasn’t made off with it. Geoff and I will cover the retreat.” There was however, little need to cover their retreat. The men who had been blown over were sitting or standing about now, leaderless. One of two of them had recovered enough to move towards the now blazing machine, but they moved as if dazed and certainly had no interest in the fugitives. “The pilot’ll be all right with them once they’ve got their senses back. Mench won’t need help this side of the Judgment Day,” said Johnny Cope as he passed the gate, behind -which in a little rough lane were the big ear and Miss Silvane. Hi * * * “How did you manage it, John­ ny? . I thought that projectile car­ ried a time fuse.” Hendringham was leaning forward from the rear seat, where he sat beside a girl, his left hand held behind him so as not to leave hold of hers. The big car was making some sixty miles per hour Londonwards. “Altered the fuse while you were trying to break my neck last night. I’d been thinking out how to do it for a long time. Had a hunch a per­ cussion effect’d come in useful somehow.” He jerked round for an instant to say to Claire Silvane: “My worst moments were when I was outside that abominable cara­ van willing that you should want a window open. I knew I could get a clairvoyant sight of you at any time, but I didn't know how far I could put ideas Into your head.” “If you can do .1 shall him. “I’ll at any There is an idea I am very anxious should be acted on by both of you,” “And what is that?” asked Hend­ ringham. “That I should be best man and not wait too long for the pleasure either,” said Johnny Cope and with that he settled down once more to his driving. THE END be afraid never try rate not that sort of you,” of thing she told promise,again, I more than ^once.i (The characters In this story are entirely imaginary and no reference to any living person is intended.) aXx IF TIRE^WISE MOToIm e When P Up ON SMOOTH? wobSHECK' „ To most f W°RN tires £ 24th of May is motorists the THM’ a!£ «•’ but pjjggTf ® WORN ’HRE2HEGK?UP Am r? THEM W/twEnt^ND EE- jB'ly Suaran'teS-’ Get goft'g •="’ Goodyears. Drive in m?Pey"8avlnfi tires you need frJmand c,h?ose the today—and, dorp?1? OUr big stock Goodyear tubes r>r£?r^ec’ ^°w-cost •q Instantly When Hit by Car - Thomas Wiggington, Clinton, age G9, was killed instantly at 10.30 Thursday, May 9 when he was cross­ ing Albert street north, which is King’s highway No. 4. He was struck by the front bumper of a car driven by Norman Griffiths, Lon- desboro and suffered broken legs and neck, causing instant death. Wiggington was deaf and evi­ dently failed to hear the horn. Cor­ oner Dr. J. W. 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