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THE JOURNAL-PAIRTOT. NORTH N. C.’ », »»»•».» »»♦ I e* tSi- 'rf; ■■'-6''''^ Fr-iSrir . - XZ Senfng a death tight, the »wd pressed in. They forgot Ma table scaffold and the man vko stood there with a noose It his neck. Only Lefty had s sUmpse of the bound boot aadUes wrenching fiercely against ttbe rope . . . The craning spectators saw that Vallon had sunk his fingers in tta youngster’s throat. The srowd grunted and turned rigid as Maitland suddenly sagged, Mling backward with Fallon’s weight clamping his neck to the flaor, and the man's great flat ■tedging his face and head. The Mar's destruction looked certain tor one desperate minute. His Hands caught his assailant in a gripping hold at the waist and with a lift and a heave of one Hne« he twisted free. Streaming blood, Maitland weled to his feet. He swung with a mortal concentration, one ■mash after another, back and ■tOl back to the flimsy side wall •f boarded canvas, which gave with a terrific crash as their •ombined. weight struck the wood. Some of his men started ■cross the floor to his aid, while Ae crowd still hovered, mute xnd still, with its eyes on that ■eemingly lifeless form of Mait- toBd. Out of that silence, a sudden, toiping voice cut the air like a whip crack. “Back away from him. you tomards, and stay clear of my Ixaek! I’m a-headin’ through ttos pack and I sure come load- adl” Every eye froze in gaping, aaralyzed consternation at the TO»Ti on the gibbet table. The ■oose was gone from his neck; feet were tree; a six-shoot- asr gleamed in each hand and un- ifer one arm something burned with a sizzling baleful sputter, dynamite i “Crash!”—roared a gun. and ome of Soapy'.« hanging lamp.s fell in splinters. Speed shifted the stick with burning fuse to his mouth, ad gripped it between his teeth jcr a second and third gun blast at the lamps plunging tlie room rw half-darkness. Then with his fuafp lit by the flare of the short- airtng fuse he leaped to the floor. The crowd jumped as if dyna mite iUelf had lifted them. They smashed their own exits ^.nier.ged places. The pull of a hangout ther’re used to lasts longer than their fear of a man they don’t like. Specially Slwash dogs. We comld maybe have landed any where around the Stewart and followed Rusty to Dalton’s camp by his own route.’* Pete had fallen 'asleep with her head on the meal sack. She had seemed to feel a peculiar uneasiness about the outcome of their journey, which deepened and darkened Maitland’s sense cif Dalton’s mystery. The mouth of the creek which the dog led them to choose was so screened with brush that in te dark they might easily have passed it unnoticed. Speed hitched a line from the prow of the boat to the mala- mute and allowed it to run along the shore. Delighted to be afooon again. Rusty started up stream, drawing the boat with him. All they had to do was use an oar occasionally to clear arock or shoal. The dog had come to a bend in the creek. The canyon was narrowing, and it was plain that they w'ere reaching the limit of the boat's draught. They now looked around for a covered mooring place. With strange providence, it was Rusty again who found the place to cache the boat. He halt ed at the foot of a mountain ra vine. down which a thick growth of brush fell into the creek. Be tween the outer fringe of vegeta tion and the bank, a concealed tunnel flowed under the brush. The space would have been large enough for two canoes, and it neatly harbored their boat when they had unmasted it. This discovery did not look like accident. The place appear ed to have been used before. It was possible that they were pick ing up a hidden trail, which oth ers had searched tor and puzzled over through a whole winter. Their interest in what they were about to do was taking on a tense precision. ‘Tve said the magic was simple.’’ ob.served Speed. “Now we’re goin’ to see whether it’s true.’’ The dog scrambled up the cleft of the ravine under tangled briKsh. Their range of view was painfully restricted, and they knew how invisible Dalton’s trail could be. At the head of the ravine they frti a blind, steep-wall- ■i- dkrough the side-walls in a freu xSed rush for the outer air. Maitland lay alone by the break fa the wall. Fallon had dragged Himself away. Returning one gun to his belt. Speed pulled Mait land’s body across the smooth floor to the front entrance. He amerged on the empty lauding, a step above the lighted street, -which was the scene of a wildly aeattering stampede. There he fansed, framing his next move. It was now' his turn to see a aiiracle, or what he would have called a "natural.’’ A rider with two frightened pinto horses in to-w, came clear of the mob. Pete, •riding the black mare with a a>aming rein, was shouldering and backing the broncos into the aiatform. It was a superb feat of horsemanship. Speed took the “break” as readily as if he had expected it. He dropped his partner across its back, and fas- nened him there. lu another in stant he detached the halter line of the second bronco. .Mounting. Ae curbed its plunging cIo.se to Pete’s stirrup, while he held the dynamite stick away from the mare's head. The fuse was fuming close. “t'p the river canyon, Pete,’’ ae said, "and don’t pull in till 1 lafl ye.*' A quirt bit the broncos’s flanks: its flying start matclied the mare’s leap as Pete leaned close to the black neck, holding the pinto’s head and riding both Horses as one. They flashed through the chequered street Bghts and vanished in a drum- aring of hooves. Speed checked his own rearing mount, wheeled it sidelong on its Hind legs, to block any throat of pursuit. Then, with a measured ;lance at the crowd, he tossed the sputtering explosive down the center of the street into trampled vacant snow. Almost as it struck,, the camp was rocked by a thundering de tonation. The bronco gave a bound like a stag’s and tore after its team mate, stung to a soaring gallop by the rocketing blasts, nt fipeed’s gun on either side. ed gnlch. Here Rusty stopped and look ed at them expectantly as if it were now their move. “Doggone.” Speed muttered, and frowned at the blasted pine which Rusty seemed to have re garded with a little more inten tion than the atone. The dead tree spread its limbs close to the cliff: one of the high branches almost touched the rock face. Uncoiling a rope from his belt, Speed made a careful throw at the pine limb—and tightening the rope on it securely, hauled himself up the trunk. He climb ed till he reached the limb that touched the wall, crawled out ou it to the end. and dropped to a ledge. There he gave a shout of discovery. Hi.s partner swung up the rope he had left dangling, stepped out along the high limb, and joined him. (Continued Nex.xl Week) Adult Class Group Meeting At Milers Creek May 10, 7:30 .\n entertainment program to be .given at Millers Creek school On May lb by an adult class group will be at 7:.‘>0 in the evening instead of 1:30 in the afternoon a.s previously an nounced. The public is cordial ly invited to be present. ADULT TEACHERS IN MEETING ON FRIDAY C. C. Sorrels, of Rutherford- ton. district supervisor of emer- j gency relief education,, met with the adult teachers of Wilkes county in a meeting held in Wilkesboro Friday. Twenty-four were present and a number of matters pertaining to the adult schools were discussed. Rusty was shifting nervously. His nose, searching the inshore diadows, had a more constant Action. 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