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Presently a great rain drop was blown against the youth's face; the vividness of the lightning had increased; the rurown to the proportions of a titanic bombardment; but he dared not pause to seek shelter

Another flash of lightning revealed a fork in the road ihway, to the right a dirt road, overarched by trees, led away into the iitive paused, undecided Which way should he turn? The better travelled highway seemed less mysterious and awesome, yet would his pursuers not naturally assuht hand road was the road for hiht hand road was black and forbidding; suggesting the entrance to a pit of unknown horrors

As he stood there with the rain and the wind, the thunder and the lightning, horror of the past and terror of the future his only coh the stor along the highway

The youth turned to flee; but the thought of the ht hiht, then, after all Cautiously he moved toward it, and at the saht: "' as, swinging heel and toe, 'We traic road to Anywhere, 'The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, di--its quality and the annunciation of the words bespoke for its owner considerable claiain, but he now crouched to one side fearing to reveal his presence because of the bloody criht he had committed; yet how he yearned to throw hier! How his every fibre cried out for coreatest terror; but he would have let the invisible ht the scene at that particular instant with a prolonged flare of sheet lightning, revealing the tayfarers to one another

The youth saw a slight though well built e was photographed upon his brain for life--the honest, laughing eyes, the wellso ith the voice, and the iarh he wore a placard suspended from his neck