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"You get the snow. I want the
girl—alive. But there's to be no
killing of Graber, understand?
Not unless it's self defense."
Worriedly, Dan watched the
repetition of farms. He berated
himself for bungling back there
in his office. Over-confidence had
ruined the whole game. A swelled
head! Otto had certainly been
swept off his feet by the news
that Irita, known to him as Helen
Pane, and Colwell, were Customs
Special Agency operatives! It
naturally had never occurred to
Graber that a Graber-Vael Agen
cy sleuth might also be a repre
sentative of Uncle Sam.
Admiration rose in Colwell's
blue-grey eyes. Irita had taken
chances, insinuating herself with
those fellows! It was like walk
ing a tight-rope over Niagara
Falls. By astute means known
only to her clever, resourceful
self, she had prevented the ras
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cals quarreling over her. Yet she
had won and maintained their
confidence.
That hectic ride lasted five min
utes less than an hour. But Ewing,
Pennsylvania, a country town of
perhaps a thousand souls, was not
their goal. As they careened down
the main street Dan tinned to
Lefty.
"Now which way? It's up to you
to find the camp!"
Quillen nodded. "Straight
ahead, buddy," he told the driver.
"The second road outside town,
turn left. Hit it up!"
Another thirty minutes dragged
past. Despite his efforts at calm,
Colwell's tension heightened.
They tinned off the main road,
went two miles down a muddy
country lane, and halted when
Quillen ordered the driver to do
so. .
The two men piled out. "Guess
you earned the ten-spot." Dan
paid the fare and handed It to
him. "Suppose you roll back in
three hours?"
They waited until the rattly
cab was gone. "Come on," Quillen
snapped, and led the way into
the towering foresf. it was rap
idy growing dark; in fifteen min
utes it would be like night. But
the killer of McDonald and Cat
terby seemed to know the way.
Another mile they traversed
afoot before Lefty stopped and
touched Dan's arm. It's up there
See that cabin?"
Colwell could not at first make
it out. Going nearer they found
it dark. The two men exchanged
questioning looks at this. Dan felt
his heartbeat slow, then go faster.
Suppose their guess was wrong?
Suppose Graber still was back in
the city?
Cautiously they approached the
square log structure with the
slanting roof extended over a
front porch. There was no light
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in it, no car nearby, no sign of
habitation. Quillen seemed con
cerned. He walked to a side win
dow and peered in. Then both
men went to the front door which
they found locked. . Again they
peered sCt each was dark
now—and again were in wordless
agreement. They put their shoul
ders to the door and after several
efforts of their combined power,
burst the cheap hinge lock.
Dan struck a match. "We won't
light that lamp—we dont need
It. Just want to see if their things
are gone."
Several matches flickered and
died before they convinced them
selves that the hunting party had
not abandoned the shack for good.
Two deer rifles were there, one of
them identified as Graber's. A
supply of canned food, oeffee, and
bacon, was found. \
"They're coming back," Colwell
stated.
He walked to the door and
stared at the black sky. Suddenly
almost a mile of the countryside
flared alight, and at the same
time he became conscious of the
whine of a motor. "Lefty! There's
a plane!"
Quillen followed at his heels
onto the porch. It was a flare the
ship had dropped, used when a
pilot seeks an emergency landing
field. The motor roared loudly
now and In the slow-burning three
hundred candle power magnetism
they found the ship itself circling.
It was quite low. A cabin job of
the Monogram make with a pow
erful Whirlwind motor.
By mutual consent when the
flare died at the end of its ap
pointed three minutes, Quillen
and Colwell rushed to the fringe
of woods. They Judged that Grab
er—if it was he—intended landing
somewhere to the south. Both men
ran fast as they could over hard,
uneven ground. Until, two min
utes later, they burst suddenly
from the copse of trees onta a
wide, flat clearing.
"Sure! I remember this. But I
never thought Otto could use It
for landin'," Lefty panted.
Colwell determined the direction
of the wind and knew which way
Graber must face to land. As the
ship banked, coming lower, She
started at a dead run for the spot
it was due to touch. But he had
forgotten Graber's second flare.
It burst alive suddenly, illumi
nating the two men who raced
across the cleared space. "Down!"
Colwell yelled, and hurled him
self flat. With a searing curse
Quillen followed suit.
But they had been seen .. . The
motor, which had been cut out,
picked up with a roar. The ship's
nose lifted as Graber put her in
to a climb. Dan's heart stuttered
and seemed leaden In his breast.
They had given themselves away!
Vengefully, Quillen raised his
automatic. He, too, could utilize
the still burning flare that swung
lower on its small parachute. He
fired, twice, three times. Prolish,
of course. It seemed useless.
Or was it? The monoplane was
only two hundred feet up. Sud
denly the motor sputtered. It
died and the plane rode without a
sound. The white magnesium still
made the field almoist bright
enough to read a newspaper. The
motor picked and Graber increas
ed his revs anxiously. It sputtered,
choked—went completely dead.
"He's got to come down!"
The words were scarcely out of
Colwell's mouth before he and
Quillen rose full height with a
jerk. Lefty gave an ejaculation.
Dan's jaw sagged; he was speech
less. His' eyes like agates followed
the sharp swoop of the aircraft,
nose formost but side-slipping
badly.
There was a splintering crash.
That was the undercarriage and
the wing tip. Yet the monoplane
like a wounded bird bumped and
floundered along with diminishing
speed, pushed by her momentum.
Another yell from Quillen trees
looming up close before the ship
—and a louder rending of metal
and wood and fabric.
Quicker of wit, Colwell was
dashing for the ship before that
final catastrophe. It was a hun
dred yards that seemed never
ending. His great fear was of a
sheet of flame that would burn
them all to a crisp and prevent
any interference, any saving of
life.
It did not come. In the dying
light of thp flare which had
struck ground somewhere, Colwell
saw a form crawl out. "Stick
'em up!" he shouted.
The man did—but with a gun
in his hand. It lanced fire. Col
well's hat left his head as though
wiped off by some invisible hand.
The next Instant he realized that
this chap was not the first to
alight. The first fellow was hid
den behind the crumpled wing
.and had opened fire.
Lefty Quillen's forty-four roar
ed. He was closing in an fast as
he could. As he struck ground Dan
realized that Irita Doran was on
the floor of the partially demolish'
ed cabin of the monoplane—help
less though she squirmed and
battled her bonds.
Dan groped on his knees, shoot
ing. The second man to alight
gave a yell wad toppleu. Dan saw
Quillen locked with the other
qhap; Vael. He rushed for his own
i quarry. The fellow lay still . . .
j but when Colwell got within ten
ifeet, his figure dim in the half
bSni SWS gIOUnd llghta stiU
They struck. Both heavy, the
I terrific impact merely Jarred
ithem. Neither gave way. Graber's
square face was contorted into
hate and rage that Dan never
had seen there before. Perhaps
also there was desperation at
knowing they had outguessed him
to arrive here first and that now
he totted the last time, to win or
lose.
His stubble of hair felt hard as
the bristles of a brush to Dan's
hand. They mauled and punched
and grappled for the guns. Cbl
well's twirled from his grasp. It
; hit wing fabric with a ping. Otto
Graber got in a murderous left
hook that grazed Dan's jaw. Had
lit lknded all would have been
over, p 5
But it didn't land, and Colwell
put new savagery into his attack.
Graber's gun exploded upward
and again. In the^darkness they
could scarcely see each other;
i there was only feeble light from
ithe wing lamps. They stumbled
I back against the metal stirrup at
the open cabin door. Dan's lucky
i right flattened Graber's big Ger
man nose. Blood spurted from it
;as water from a fire hydrant.
Otto howled. Colwell tried to
wrap both arms around him to
bend him back out of control* on
the floor of the cabin. Graber
side-stepped, and his terrific blow
to the temple stunned Dan. He
;was aware of shots a distance off
and of Lefty Quillen's scream.
> And that he himself was weaken
ing, that Graber was more pow
erful than he ever had estimated.
He punched again with both
fists and sudenly grabbed for the
gun as it swung nearer a line
with his face. Their hands struck;
the weapon slipped; it was gone.
Graber, panting, jammed Colwell
back. His head hit an iron sup
port just inside the cabin. Things
got foggy. . . .
Something cold came into his
hand. "Dan! Dan!"
It was a scream uttered close
to his ear. Venomously he swung
Graber's skull. And it landed with
that cold thing, swung It at
a low. hollow sound that thrilled
one clear to the pit of the stom
ach.
Otto crumpled. He twisted and
wriggled on the ground while Col
well slowly collected himself and
stood swayink groggily, forced to
cling to the open cabin door or
fall. Graber's writhing hand
paused there oh the dark ground.
He raised his arm suddenly—
"Look out!"
Graber grasped it just as Lefty
Quillen limped up. Dan reached
out and with a kick at Graber's
arm tried to dislodge the gun.
And the first shot did go wild.
But the second took effect.
Lefty Quillen, knifer of two men
Dan knew about, gave way at the
knees. A dot blackened his fore
head and an expression of bitter
surprise stamped his face. He
uttered a low moan—then folded
in a heap. Dead.
Dan straddled Otto Graber. He
clouted him with his own auto
matic until Graber slumped un
conscious. Then Colwell, very un
steady and with warm blood trick
ling down his shoulder went un
certainly to the fellow Lefty had
tussled with. Horace Vael was
badly mauled and weeping drunk
enly with the rage that was In
his helpless body.
Dan lurched back to the cabin.
He had Irita free in a matter of
seconds. "We've got to tie them!"
He nodded. "Their belts—will
do. Until we—can get rope from
the cabin. You—all right?" he
panted.
"Yes. Oh Dan, Dan, I—" Shud
ering, she shook her head. "How
did you know? How did you guess
they'd fly here? How did you
come so fast? We were stalled —
motor trouble.
"He meant to kill me. Vael was
a little afraid, but he was for it,
too. Graber said he'd do it because
you—"
"What?" he asked wearily. Col
well folded the girl in his arms
.and inhaled the fragrance of her
hair. "The snow's in there, eh? All
of It? Good. Graber said he'd kill
you because I what?"
She nestled closer to him. "Lov
ed me!"
Colwell considered a moment.
[He was growing faint and weak
jer. "Sure/' he said, and with a
[great effort chuckled. "I do. You
know that! I—there hasn't been
much chance to say it. But—"
He struggled for breath to go on.
"There will be, lots of chance.
Prom now on!"
THE END
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