The Trey O' Hearts
A Noraliud Ycrmioa of tt Motraa Pietm Drmm. of tha StM Nme
Produced by Ik Uoivaraal Film Co.
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By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
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CopTrigU. 1814. hj Ul Joatpk Tim
CHAPTER LI I.
! The Old Adam.
, A long ninute elapsed before either
woman moved or spoke.
Transfixed beside Alan chair,
steadying herself with a hand upon lta
back. Jud'ta stared at the figure In
the doorway, tn a temper at once dis
comfited and defiant. With this she
suffered a phase of Incredulity, was
scarce able to persuade herself that
this was truly Rose who confronted
her Rose whose sweet and gentle
nature had ever served as the butt
of Judith's contempt and ruthless
ridicule.
Here was revolution with a venge
ance, when Rose threatened and
Judith shrank?
It was as if the women had ex
changed natures while they slept.
The countenance that Rose showed
her sister was a thundercloud rent
by the lurid lightnlug of her angry
eyes. Her pose was tense and alt'rt.
ilke the pose of an animal set to
spring. In her hand hung a revolver,
the same (Judith's hand sought the
holster at In r hip and found it empty!
that her sister had worn and for
otteu to remove when she droned,
half dead with fatigue, upon the bed.
And slowly, toward the end of that
long, mute minute, the girl's grasp
tightened urcn the grip of the weapon
and Its muzzle lifted.
Remarking this, a flash of her one
time temper quickened Judith. Of a
sudden, with a start, she crossed the
floor In a single, noiseless stride, and
threw herself before her sister.
"Well?" she demanded hotly. "What
are you waiting for? Nobody's stop
ping you: why don't you shoot?"
The upward movement of the hand
was checked: the weapon hung level
to Judith's breast as level and un
equivocal as the glance that probed
her eyes and the tone of Rose's voice
as she demanded:
"What were you doing there?"
"If you must know from mo what
you already know on the evidence of
your eyes I was bidding good by to
the man I love kissing him without
his knowledge or consent before leav
ing him to you for pood and all:"
"What do you mean?''
"That I'm going away that I can't
stand this situation nnv longer. Marro
phat and Jimmy are dead, my father's
helpless and I mean to see that he
'remains so. Nothing, then, stands in
the way of your marrying Alan but
Into. And such being the case and
because he's as deer to me as he is
to you I'm going to take myself off
tnd keep out of the way."
1 "For fear lest he find out that you
love him?"
Judith's Hp curled. "Do you think
i:m so witless he doesn't know that
t'ready?"
I "And so you leave him to me out of
your charity: Is that it?"
i "Any way you like. Hut If It's so
Intolerable to you to think that I dare
'love him and confess it to you If
you begrudge me the humiliation of
rtooping to kiss a man who doesn't
want my kisses if you are so afraid
tt losing him while I live and love
Urn very well, then!"
With a passionate gesture Judith
tore open the bosom of her waist,
i..Terinj her flesh to the muzzle of the
revolver.
A cry broke from the Hps of Rose
that w as like the cry of a forlorn child
punished with cruelty that passes its
understanding. She fell back against
the wall. The revolver swept up
through the air but its mark was
her own head rather than Judith's
bosom.
Cut before her finger found strength
to pull the trigger the man at the rencontre seemed to afford nothing
table, startled from his sleep oy me but the pioasantest surprise lmagin-
sound of angry voices, leaped from aDe
his chair with a violence that sent it 'Well!" he cried, releasing Rose
flattering to the floor, and hurled him- and runnmg do t the car. "Here's
telf headlong across the room, Im- luck; And at the very moment when
prisoning the wrist of his betrothed i ma8 caning my lucky star hard
with one hand while the other wrested namM; uow can ever reward your
the weapon way end paBsed It to thoughtfulness, Mr. Trine? It beati
Judith. me how you do keep track of me this
t" "TtoSe!" he cried thickly, "what does
this mean? Are you mad? Judith" way happening along like this every
' Dragging the bosom of her waist time I need a car the worst way In
together, Judith thrust the weapon the .world!
.
into its holster and turned away.
"Be kind to her, Alan," she said in
an uncertain voice: "She didn't under
stand and and I goaded her beyond
endurance. I'm afraid. Forgive me
but be kind to her always!"
Somehow, blindly, she stumbled out
of the cabin into the open, possessed
by a thought whose temptation was
stronger titan her powers of resist
ance. What Rose had failed, to ac
complish might now serve to resolve
Judith's problem. . . . None, she told
herself, bitterly, would seek to hinder
her. Rut she meant so to arrange the
matter that one should see or sus
pect and be moved to Interfere.
Round the shoulder of the moun
tain, on the road along the edge of the
cliff, she was sure of freedom from
observation.
And yet, such Is the inconsistency
of the human animal, the instinct for
self preservation w as stronger than
her purpose: w hen a touring car swung
round the mountain and shot toward
her. she checked herself hastily and
Jumped aside in ample time to escape
being run down.
The next instant the machine was
lurching to 'a halt and the sonorous
accents of Seneca Trine were saluting
her:
"Judith: You here: What the devil:
Wfcero've ye been? Where axe Marro
hat and Jimmy?"
Digging the nails of her fingers pain
fully into her palms, she breathed
deep, fighting down hysteria, reassert
ing her self-control In so short a space
of time that her father failed to ap
preciate that there was anything un
common in the mind of the girl.
"Where?" he demanded angrily as
she approached the car, "where, I
want to know, are Marrophat and Jim
my? Haven't you seen or heard any
thing of them? They left me at six
o'clock this mcrnlr.g, to go after "
"Dead!" the girl interrupted, sen
tentious, eyeing him strangely.
"I don't believe It!" the old man
se amed, aghast. "I won't believe it.
You're lying to me, you Jade: You're
lying"
"I am not." she broke In coldly. "I
p.m telling you the plain truth . . .
They followed us all morning In that
red rarer, firing at us all the while.
Finally they caught up with us here,
about noon came up this nad rhoot
lng over the windshield. It was our
lives or theirs. We turned the hydrau
lic stream on them and washed the car
over the cliff. If you don't believe
me. get somebody to show you their
faces."
She Indicated with a gesture two
forms that lay at a little distance
back from the roadside, motionless
beneath a sheet of canvas the bodies
of Trlne's creatures, recovered by the
mining gang and brought up for a
Christian burial.
Rut Trine required no more confirm
ation of Judith's word. The light
flickered and died in his evil old eyes;
his stricken countenance assumed a
hue of pallor even more Intense than
was normal with It; a broken cure
Issued from his trembling, thin, old
Hps; and his chin sagged to his chest,
heavy-weighted with despair that fol
lowed realization of the fact that he
no longer owned even one friend or
creature upon whose conscienceless
loyalty he might depend.
The last bitter drop that brimmed
his cup of misery was added when
Alan Law himself appeared, leaving
the miners' cabin In company with
his betrothed Rose now soothed and
comforted, smiling through the traces
of her recent tears as she clung to
her lover, nestling In the hollow of
his arm.
To Alan, on the other hand, this
ISA ,Jlit I
S ' lip
"Drive on!" Trine screamed to tne
chauffeur. "Drive on. do you hear?"
Cut Judith had stepped op on the
running board and was eyeing the
driver coldly, with one hand signifi
cantly resting on the butt of the
weapon at her side. The car remained
at a standstill
Sulphurous profanity followed, a
pungent stream of vituperation that
was checked only by Judith's Inter
ruption: "We've had to gag you once
before, you know. If you want another
taste of that keep on!"
"Rut where's Rarcus?" Judith de
manded when, after helping Rose into
the car and running off to thank their
hosts, Alan returned alone to the car.
"Goodness only knows," the young
man answered cheerfully. "He would
insist on rambling off down the can
yon In search of an alleged town
where we could hire a motor ear
somewhere down there. I tried to
make him understand that we had
plenty of time, but he was mulish as
he generally is when he gets a foolish
notion into his head. So I daresay
well meet him on his way back or
else asleep somewhere by the road
side!"
Taking the seat next to the chauf
feur, he gave the word to drive on;
and they slipped away from the loca
tion of the mining camp, saluted by
cheers from the miners.
The road dipped sharply down the
mountainside to the bed of the canyon.
The car moved smoothly and swiftly,
coasting: only now- and then was !t
necessary to call upon the engine for
power with which to negotiate an up
grade or some uncommonly long
stretch of level road.
Half an hour passed without a word
spoken by any member of the party.
Each was deep in his or her own es
pecial preoccupation: Alan turning
over plans lor an early wedding; Kp?p
liufiiing the contentment regained
through her lover's protestations;
Judith los in profoundest melancholy;
Trine nursing his rage, working him
self up into a silent fury whose conse
quences were to be more far-reaching
than even he dreamed in his wildest
moments.
Its first development, for all that,
was desperate enough.
The aged monomaniac occupied the
right-hand corner of the rear seat.
Thus his one able hand was next to
Judith, in close Juxtaposition to the
revolver in the bolster on her hip.
Without the least warning his left
hand closed upon the weapon, with
drew It and leveled it at the back of
Alan's head.
As he pulled the trigger Judith flunj
herself bodily upon the arm.
Even so. the bullet found a goal,
though In fino'.her than the1 Intended
victim. The muscular forearm of the
chauffeur reived it.
With a shriek of p.iln the man re
leased the wheel and grasped hia
arm.
I'efore Alan could move to prevent
the disaster the car. running without
a guidiitg hand, caromed off a low
embankment to tho left and shot full
tilt into a shallow ditch on the right,
shelling its passengers like peas from
a broken pod.
Alan catapulted a good twenty feet
through the air and alighted with
such force that be lay stunned for
several moments.
When he came to, he found Rarcus
helping him to his feet; a heavy seven-passenger
touring car halted In the
roudway Indicated the manner in which
his friend had arrived on the scene
of the accident.
When damages were assessed It
was found that none of the party had
suffered seriously but the chauffeur
and Seneca Trine himself. The former
had only his wound to show however,
while Trine lay still and senseless at
a very considerable distance from the
wrecked automobile.
Nothing but a barely perceptible
respiration and Intermittently flutter
ing pulse persuaded them that the
flame of life was not extinct In that
poor, old, pain-racked body.
(Continued In next Issue.)
Lightning Kills Trine and Strikes Down Alan and Rocs.
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