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the delusion that those warnings were Intended for his own ear. It was not t until the huge and slatternly figure t tang Itself upon bis still crouching t ■boulders that he awakened to the fact a that he was being attacked, the c startled eavesdropper found himBelf 1 flung bodily through the suddenly t ! opened door, even before be could « draw his revolver. For he knew now i . ' beyond doubt that he was In the terri- t F tory of the enemy. He knew that still 1 ft another trap had been set for the un- e wary. He knew it, even before he R caught sight of Legar himself and t V Margery Golden shrinking close to the t a 'wall at his side. 1 f It was on Legar that he fixed his i 1 eye as he whipped out his firearm and steadied himself with one hand t against the broken wall. 1 Legar saw that revolver leveled at i his body. He saw the look on Man 1 ley's colorless face. He knew what i was coming. t He did not stop to argue; he did i not even turn to flee. But as he stood i L there, with his deep-eet eyes Med on 1 | Kanley's face, his long right arm that : j > terminated In Its claw of iron shot out and caught at the aim of the girl i ■till crouching so close to the wall bo 1 side him. But even quicker was Man i ley's discovery of Legar*s Intentions : . to swing the body of the girl about i In front of his own as a human ■ Shield. And Manley, while the path 1 was still clear, leveled his gun and < bred. There was a shout, half of horror i and halt of rage, as Legar went down i In a heap, his wooden arm-end thump- i lng on the rough flooring Uke a mal- ■ let as he fell. And at the same moment that the brawny-armed amason : boldly struck Manley's right arm up . towards the celling, that startled band of Lc gar's followers united In a rush for the assailant of their leader and chief. In the first two mlnut»s of teat altogether hopeless struggle Manley had lost both his gun and his coat In the next minute he had lost his breath. In the next his liberty Itself was gone, for those worthies lost no time In tying and trussing him up as neatly as a French chef trusses a capon. As he was rudely backed away to where Margery Golden, equally corded and tied, already stood, he heard one of the men behind him speak. "Did he croak the chief!" "Naw, he's still breathlnM" "Then we gotta get him outa here. . . . Pip, you call a taxi We gotta get him back to his own 'Mallna', or there'll be hell to pay!" "How about this gun booh and the rib?" "Gag 'em and throw 'em Into that bathroom there! And If youse turn on the gas by accident, I guess It's goIn' to save us all a lot o' troublel" • •••••• The Creeping Message. David Manley, for all the predicament confronting him, tried to school himself to calmness. Close beside him. bound and gagged like himself, he could feel the Inert . body of Margery Golden. But what most disturbed him was the gas Jet that stood out from the I' green-papered wall high above his head. That had been the finishing touch at the hands of his enemies. He looked carefully about the room, '» point by point. It waa nothing but a commonplace bathroom, with a door on one aide and a small window high up In the wall on the opposite side. Ha found nothing, in that methodic Inventory of his surroundings, to rei. vive the slowly dying embers of hope. He could neither move nor c^ll out. But there was still, a wy of sending a message out to the world. He worked and floundered about un1 til he was In a sitting position. Then l- bo worked his way closer to the enamel bathtub, leaning, panting and r helpless over its edge, for a moment or two, as a drunken man leans over a cell cot Then energy again revived in him. He slowly and painfully edged further and further over Into the bathtub, like a cut worm rounding a leaf edge, until with his forehead he web able to push and bunt the loose drain \ plug Into its socket Then, once more withdrawing from the bathtub, he dl- j reeled his attention to toe nearer of the two tape that stood at Its head. He had the use of neither hand nor foot, to tun that tap. But by 'the pressure of his owr skull against the tarnished brass tap handle he was finally able to throw the faucet open. Then he sank wearily back to the

He lay there watching as the water the overflowing tub trickled to the floor, pooled In the worn undulaof the boards, and crawled on again. In search of some avenue of esAnd he watched It as It moved, on Its sinuous back, he rememIt carried his message of delivhis hope of life. Finding an unused ventilator flue, the water fountalned Joyously down on the head of a lohg4alred artist hard at work on a canvas. That artist, after speechlessly cot templatlng the deluge, ran shouting to the hallway, where he was Joined by hi 8 model and by fellow artists from neighboring studios. When they found their lnvestlga tlons barred by a locked door, they broke It In. While they were snjfflng suspiciously, about the outer" room, j tnelr efforts to reach the source of that deluge were being anticipated by a more atealthy figure, which, clambering monkeylike up the iron Are escape, climbed still higher to the small window and I promptly broke It In. Manley, rousing himself at the sharp sound of the breaking glass, turned about to behold the face of a narrow-eyed and dark-skinned stranger In the square of light about him. Even as he stared up at this exotic face with Its uncanny fringe of Jet black he saw the unknown Intruder draw a slender tube from under his coat. To this tube the stranger fitted a small arrow scarcely longer than a darning needle. Then, placing the tube to his mouth, he sent the slender dart wfciatllng down through the. air, where It fixed Itself in the -wooden flooring not three inches from Margery Golden's head. ' Instinctively, as Manley witnessed ; that Incomprehensible attack, as he ! vaguely awoke to the meaning of the strange performance, he crawled to the girl's side. There he tried to shield her helpless body with his own. But after that he remembered little. He awakened later to the sound of a woman's soft sobs close beside his aching head. And he knew, even be fore she spoke, that If was Margery i Golden. "It's no use, doctor," 6he was for lornly crying out to the figure nearer the foot of the bed. "I saw that mar and 1 know it was Maukl. And as soon as I saw him 1-knew Legar had sent him. had Bent him with the same poisoned arrows that once killed an Informer in the Owl's Neat!" "But thla man Isn't dead." protest ed the doctor. "No, hut he will die." "Now, young lady, this won't do. you know," the man of medicine tried to reassure the quietly weeping girl "And If you leave me with him for a few minutes 111 make another exam lnatlon. And then well know the worst!" *Td rather stay with him — to the last," said the white-faced girl, j "But If youll come back. In ten minutes!" quietly announced the man who was not used to having his suggesj tlons crossed. And he held the door for the unhappy girl as she passed uni steadily out MRn'ey. the next minute, lifted his : head from the pillow. "Say, doctor, what's this about me dying?" he demanded. "That all depends on one point," was the doctor's reply as he gingerly took up one of the slender arrows, no longer than a darning needle. "And : the point Is whether or not we can - find an antidote for the poison that was smeared on those outlandish blowgun darts. But the, next point Is, how : do yon feel?" "I might feel worse!" The man of medicine looked puzi tied. "Well, that seems to be the strange I part of this case. The Infection must t be a very Insidious one. Even the i wounds themselves show no signs of I to xl cation. So you watt here a mlnI ut • until I get my Instrument bag!" When that somewhat bewildered f man of medicine returned with his bag i he found David Manley sitting up In i | bed. poring frown Ingly over a sheet ) of paper which he held In his hand. "Who threw this note on my bed?" r demanded his patient, with a vigor . | that was unlooked for In the dying, r j It was the doctor's turn to frown .as s he took the sheet of paper from the s other's hand. > "I drew the fangs from Maukl's . blow gun," read the message there tni scribed, "his arrows bald no poison, - and you sre safe. . . . The Lnugfa- . lac Mask." (TO M OOMT1MUCIU -X'- ■ ! .-I'

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