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It was a long drop, but he intended taking it He swung one leg over the

sill as so

"Why are all the lights out?" he exclaih froht; it's I," said Drake quietly "Turn up the lights There are

burglars Don't shout; you'll frighten the ladies Get the bicycle la tore into the roo hands, lit it

"Drop it down toout

Then get sohtening the ladies!"

Then he lowered hiht the lalass with his hand, ran in the

direction the men had taken; and as he ran he buttoned his dress coat

over the big patch of white a the thieves lay in his following the asthe shrubs as he

went, his ears and eyes strained attentively, he endeavored to put

himself in their place

"Yes," he muttered, "they'llfor them--or bicycles; but which part of the road?"

The park fence was high, but easily cliht make for it at any point; presuh, but extre so easily into the string trap What he ought to

have done----At this point in his futile reflections he stopped and

listened, not for the first ti the trees in front of hiure--one only--going swiftly in the direction of the

lodge

Drake understood in a ates, and this other iven no thought to the fact that he was

pursuing two men, desperate, and, no doubt, armed, while he had no kind

of weapon upon hirim satisfaction as he saw

that he had only one man to deal with