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"Hold! Hold!" Saunders shouted

"Hold--hell!" rippled back on the ht "Bother me an' I'll put a ball in you Back, I tell you!"

"Stop, Drake!" Saunders cried, without lessening his speed

The only reply the pursuedof his horse An ominous sound now fell on Saunders's ears It was the whistle of a locomotive in the deep cut across the fields

An oath of disappointment from Drake showed he had divined its full portent It was now merely a question of speed The race went on The houses on the outer edge of the village flew past as if blown by a hurricane Children in the yards looked up and cheered what they took for sport on the part of rollicking ed his horse to even greater speed He drew so close that the nose of his mount was lashed by the tail of Drake's horse

"Stop a minute--just a minute!" Saunders pleaded "I ait, Drake turned half round in his saddle and pointed his revolver Saunders heard the click of the hamht had the greenish luster of a corpse--a corpse waking to life and grim purpose "Fall back or I'll kill you!" he swore fro lips "I knohat you want; you want to take up for that dirty son of a--"

"No, no; you arethe open space between the station and the hotel The train, with grinding brakes and escaping stea up Drake took aim over his shoulder He fired Saunders kneas not hit Frightened by the flash in his eyes, his horse reared up and almost threw hialloped on till he was close to the last car of the train Saunders saw hi down The next instant Saunders was by his side and also on the ground Again Drake raised his revolver, but Saunders was too quick for hirasp It spun and flashed in the ht and fell in the weeds several yards away Then Drake began to fuain the younger e With the bound of a panther he had eonist to his sides Back and forth they swung and pounded, Drake swearing, spitting, and trying even to bite The loco himself free and made a break for the end car, but Saunders was at his heels; and, throwing out his hand, he grasped the runner's arain they were face to face Again Saunders pinioned his arth, but it was unequal to that of his determined captor