Henderson daily dispatch., August 24, 1933, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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PAGE SIX
V\GATI6i F .CsCAPADE
CHAPTER
THE CAR GAINED speed as
Sally and Ted drove down the
sloping, curved road away from the
old mansion where the girl.had been
a prisoner. As the slope grew
eteeper, Ted cut off the motor and
turned out the lights.
“Just light enough to see," he said,
“and this way we won t be so darned
noisy and conspicuous. Somehow I
have a feeling that that Vitelii cit
teen may be hanging around to am
bush us.“
They had gone hardly a hundred
yards farther when a light came cut
ting through the brush from around
the bend in the road.
“Look!” Sally whispered.
Ted did not reply. He looked
quickly to the left and right, then
swung the car off the road on the
right side and with a sickening jolt
It bounced over the little ditch and
Into the brush with a squeaking and
rasping of sharp branches on the
radiator and fenders.
Ted pulled at her arm and opened
the door. She followed him out
They ran a few feet away and threw
themselves behind a clump of pal
mettos. Ted drew the revolver and
cocked It.
They could hoar the approaching
purr of a powerful motor and In
a moment the car swept around the
curve at a speed that was high and
dangerous for such a narrow road
The car was a big. black sedan,
heavily curtained, and of a familiar
make. They held their breath as it
passed, but it did pass and in an
other moment was lost around the
next curve as it sped toward the
house.
“1 wenld!” Ted exclaimed dis
gustedly as he hauled Sally back to
her feet and raced toward their car.
"Now if we can get this hack out
of here.'*
He backed the little sedan into the
road with a terrific thump. For a
moment the rear wheels spun in the
ditch and they looked at each other
hopelessly, but finally the wheels
found traction and the car shot up
onto solid ground and Ted threw it
Into second and raced down the road.
Into high and around the corner.
From the corner they could see the
highway.
“Now. if Gussy isn’t laying for us,"
Ted said as they sped down the drive.
Two minutes later they vvere well
down the lonely road, driving as fast
as the little sedan would travel. Ted
kept looking behind to see if the big
car had turned to follow them.
“Don’t worry.” he said, “when they
come, they’ll come! It won’t take
that guy long to get the lay of the
land up there at the house and they’ll
be after our blood ”
“That must have been ‘the boss’,”
Sally said.
Ted nodded grimly. “And I would.
I would forget to cut the phone
wires. Our friend you cracked on
the head probably staggered over and
put in the alarm. Did you see the
way that bus was traveling when it
came up that drive? Lucky for us.
I guess, because we weren’t so
darned invisible where we were. The
hind end of this hack was sticking
out like a welcome sign.”
“Ted" Sally said, “that big car
looked familiar.”
He nodded. “So you noticed it.
too.”
“Whose was It. Ted? Do you
know? Who’s responsible for all this i
mess?”
“That’s hard to tell, baby.” He i
cut himself short and looked back j
again “Listen.” he said, “there’s j
just one thing we’ve got to do to
get out of their way. and that’s get
off this highway and into the back !
country where we can switch from i
one little cow trail to another and i
come out someiv here away from j
here. I’m going to turn off up here.' I
He slowed down and turned to the '
right onto a narrow sand road over- I
hung bv trees. The tnnd led thrmish I
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Clara jungie country tor a wntie,
then past a trail leading to what
seemed to be a house back through
the brush, thtn on into another,
wider sand road Ted turned onto
this road, then off it. still bearing to
the right, at he first sign of an
other trail. Thus, by threading a
route always to the right from coun
try trail to country trail, past sleep
ing little farms they made their way
somewhere, somewhere west, Ted ex
plained.
. After an hour’s hard driving, they
arrived sleepy, sore, but still safe, on
a narrow asphalt highway. Ted
turned south and drove back In the
general direction of the mansion they
had fled. “This way,” he explained,
“we can double back and head for
home. We’ve been going northwest.
That’s away from Daytona. Did you
know that?”
“Just where are w«, Ted?" Sally
asked. ‘T’ve had no idea where that
horrible house was."
“Out west of St. Augustine," Ted
said. "About 50 miles northwest of
Daytona. But if we go like the
devil and this hack holds together
and nobody stops us. we'll get there
before dawn and that’s the main
thing—unless I’m badly mistaken.”
"Why mistaken. Ted?”
“Well, I don’t know who ptilled
this gag, but I have my suspicion
that it was Proctor himself."
“Tod! That hlg car back there—
the ’boss’—that’s what I thought
when I saw it. It looked to me like
his sedan.”
“Me, too.” he agreed solemnly.
“And Gus Vitelii—it all tits to
gether.”
“Sure, and who else would have
known where we were last night
when we went to Casa del Rio. We
were trailed, baby, and that stunt was
pulled there either because it looked
easy or because that louse. Constan
tine. is one of Proctor’s men.”
“Constantine?”
Ted described the cadaverous road
house proprietor.
“Now.” he demanded, “what hap
pened to you. exactly? Did you get
a look at the birds that kidnaped
you ?’’
“I oniy saw one of them real well.”
She described her squat captor. “But
he’s one of the men you shot. . . .
I wonder whether you killed those
men, Ted?"
“I’m not worrying. I didn’t try
to. of course. Wasn’t any time to
think.”
“Who was that man that came
with you? The one I hit?"
“That was a gent called Goldie
Slattery. Nice boy. He’s the oyster
that got me away from the table so
they could pick you off.”
“A big blond man with a scar on
his neck?” she asked breathlessly.
Ted nodded.
“He’s the one who told me you
wanted to see me—when the other
one was waiting to kidnap me.” She
launched into her story and Ted lis
tened, nodding, as he drove steadily
south. Already the sky was begin
ning to lighten and he glanced ap
prehensively at his wrist watch.
When Sally had finished he told
his own story. When Slattery had
grabbed his wrist there in back of
the road house, he had kicked the
rnan as hard as he could in back of
his knee, crumpling him to the
ground. But Slattery kept his hold
and carried Ted down with him. Ted
chuckled as he told Sally how he
broke that hold. “I just chewed his
ear." lie said. “Unless I'm mistaken,
it’s lying back there in the sand
half of it anyway."
Slattery had yelled for help, but
Ted had worked his gun hand loose
and walloped the man behind the ear.
knocking him senseless. Then he
had another problem on his hands—
how to get the limp,' heavy body over
the fence, through the woods and
into his car without being seen. He
heard someone running from the far
side of the road house and his first 1
thought was to throw Slatterv over
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, ms shoulder ana run by the shortest
route to bis car. taking a chance on
cowing any pursuer with the gun.
but a better plan came to him. Ho
picked Slattery up bodily, held him
up level with his shoulders add
pitched him over the fence, vaulted
after him and crouched behind tho
man’s body, revolver ready for action.
Concealed by the brush ha had a
fair chance of escaping detection.
The man wlio came around the
corner of the road house was the big
bouncer in tho bursting dinner
jacket. He looked about vaguely,
prowled around, looked under tho
kitchen, scratched his head and wan
dered off In the direction from whteh
he had come.
So Ted had dragged Slattery
through the brush, a little at a time,
stopping to rest and listen, until he
came to the parked Cars. Then ha
hauled him over the fence and
walked out boldly among the auto
mobiles. himself staggering arid
grinning as if dragging a drunken
companion. A couple who passed
.them smiled and the girl giggled. At
tho road and out of sight Ted put
Slattery down and dragged him by
the collar down to his car, loaded
him in and drove away.
Down the road far enough to r»e
safe, he set about reviving his pris
oner. He loosened Slattery’s collar
and worked over him. Gradually
signs of life began to appear. Ted
had an inspiration. He reached into
his coat pocket and too,k out the
flask he had taken from the man's
hip. Forcing Slattery’s mouth open,
he poured a gushing stream of the
fiery liquor down his throat. There
was a bubbring, a wheezing, a cough
ing and Slattery’s head jerked up.
fell back and his eyes opened.
When he finally had the man able
to talk he tied his hands behind him
with a belt and shoved his gun un
der his nose. *
“Slattery." Ted said coolly, “you*r%
going to spill your guts or God help
you I’ll blow your brains out in two
minutes by my watch.” He raised
his wrist and glanced at the dial.
"Okay,” he said. “Two minutes from
now and I’m not playing games,
Slattery. I’d get a kick out of kill
ing you.”
Slattery balked, but as the watch
ticked on grew uneasy. Then he
talked.
He admitted that Constantine had
given him his orders. Where Con
stantine got his own he had no Idea,
so he said. Another guy, a stubby
bird whose name he professed not to
know, had pulled the actual job and
had taken Sally to the Abel house.
Slattery denied vehemently knowing
who might be the power behind the
move. All he knew was that he had
done a little job for Constantine now’
and then and that Constantine
owned this old house in the woods
near St. Augustine where the girl
had been taken.
That was enough for Ted. He
knew that Slattery had told only a
third or a fourth of the truth, but
the thing now was to get Sally;
questions could come later. So he
forced Slattery to guide him to the
Abel house and when they arrived he
sent him forward as a decoy, keep
ing him covered with the gun in his
coat pocket.
As the two men at the house
stepped forward to greet Slattery.
Ted brought out the gun. That was
why Sally never heard the answer
to one’s question. “Boss come?” And
then the other had flashed out a
gun. Ted shot without time for care
ful aim and the man dropped to his
knees. The other one whipped out
his own gun and fired. The bullet
sang past Ted’s ear. His own
crashed through the man’s body,
dropping him. Then Slattery had
worked his ruse of toppling over to
distract Ted’s vigilance. Sally had
burst forth with the rock and prob
ably had saved Ted’s life. He slipped
his arm around her and drew he*-
close to him.
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