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They passed car after car, and Ruth scanned the occupants keenly So theht after all to have gone down that hilly way and made sure they were not there She was not quite sure where that short road caht run up a little way from this further end
The to their eyes ahead They had said hardly a word since the first greeting Each seeht of the other without words For the present they had but one common object, to find John Cameron
Suddenly, as far ahead as they could see, a car darted out of the wooded roadside, swung into their road and plunged ahead at a trelimpse of khaki uniforuish faces or forms Nevertheless, both woht Ruth put on ed ahead, thankful that she was not within city lines yet, and that there was no one about to re told her that thewas in that car ahead
It was a thrilling race Ruth said no word, but she knew that her co that car Mrs Caht and tense as if it had been a race of life and death, her cheeks glowing and her eyes shining Ruth was grateful that she did not talk Some woo in to Chester proper at all, but veered away into a branch road and Ruth followed, leaping over the road as if it had been a gray velvet ribbon She did not see that they could keep it still in sight Then there ca along now at a treirl had cast caution to the winds She was hearing the coht as he boasted how they would get John Ca as enlisted to frustrate his plans
It was growing dusk, and lights leaped out on the hts flashed and flickered in the whiteof it all She was straining her eyes for the little black speck of a car which she had been following and which now see She had not relaxed her speed, and theconsciousness that shethe object of her chase at anyit Presently they came to a junction of three roads, and she paused On ahead the road was broad and eht was a desolate way leading to a little cemetery Down to the left a sn boards up Ruth leaned out and flashed a pocket torch on the board "TO PINE TREE INN, 7 Miles" it read Did she fancy it or was it really true that she could hear the distant sound of a car a the pines?