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As the flaan to spread, there was a rapid fusillade from the rear

of the house, and a hundred h the

fields to the north, assailed it froh the fli, like a

beast's howls, from within The front door was thrown open, and a lean,

fierce-eyed girl, with a case-knife in her hand, ran out in the face of

the un to advance on

the house a second time, and Hartley Bowlder was the nearest man to the

girl With aords, and shrieking inconceivably, she ht at

Hartley, and attacked hiain, and, in her anguish of hate and fear, was so extraordinary a

spectacle that she gained for her companions the four or five seconds they

needed to escape fro torrent, they sped fro over the

fence, and reached the open lots to the west before they were seen by

Willetts from the roof

"Don't let 'eo!

Don't let 'e across the field They were Bob Skillett

and his younger brother, and Mr Skillett was badly da his jaw on his face with both hands The girl turned, and sped

after them She was over the fence alle file, the girl last She was either ly calculated that the regulators