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Bother li?H aaked Margery, gathering tip her iklrU aa she glanced Into the I dingy storeroom feebly lighted by lta i one dingy electric bnlb. < , Til be back In a minute, ma'am/' the : girl replied, only too glad of any rea•onable excuse for disappearing. I Margery, In the meantime, peered doubtfully about the somber building i In which she found herself so unexpectedly a visitor. Along one side of ; > the room In which she stood she could ; make out dark masses of dye wood , piled as high as her head. Beside this she saw, In the uncertain light, an ; open pit tilled with water. Into one side of this pit ran. * cement-walled , sluiceway, stained almost black, with a Watergate set In the upper part of Its channel. The opening in the far eldeW ttk p#, which' was fuarded by a hArFlipil grUl sa blj'aa a park. gatC*led'lnto' a high- Walled cavern across which stretched « number of huge steel drums Bet In these drums were rows of kn^e-edged cleavers. The polished surfaces of these great hladeeof steel shone ominously in the Ma^kT was stin staring at the gnat drums ^risUfng with cleavers whan wtth a suddenness that startled hw the Ulectrie ligjhts were thrown on across the roof of the chamber. She wheeled "about quickly to discover the cause for this. As she did so, an involuntary gasp ksckpod from her ftps. For standing beside the door, with his finger still on the switch, the Iron Claw ^ himself confrontjed has. j -Why are youafcild oftneT" he confidently purred. - TO Art gtrl 'drew Slowly away while he as slowly followed ifHfer her, step "by step. Then, with a movement that was feline In Its quickness, he flung out an arm and seised* her. Then he turned her dellb erately about until she faced the black wallop sluiceway. ' But the girl shrank **"Don't be afraid of It, my dear," be mocked aa he led her forcibly, step by step, to the lip of the- channel through which the mill watsk waA burling and eddying. "In fact. I want you tn look •i imdstjUnd H fully. It's wonderful, wonderful for many reasons. At the end of this afolca. you see, ITS TOg mangle: T ha ve seiffl those knives shred a six-Inch Umber In leu tii«B a minute's Urns/' He turned jhd stared down at the ». white-faced gft,1 dHBktnk tO"me fun the dluy wlftd of .hv turar. .wringing a volipufbua" delight out of her word- • leu gape oLhttfori "Dien the took on his face suddenly altered, aim he wheeled about, still clutching the girl clou to his side. He stood staring at the door which he hod locked but a minute before. And his face suddenly hardened aa he saw the heavy Iron latch or that door move Margery, following his glance, also ( watched that door. And when ahe / heard the thump of a heavy timber on j lta panels a new hope aped through ^ her. .That hope equipped her with 1 1 fresh strength. It prompted her to f struggle against the Iron Claw with J the utmost power of her desperate | young body. But her enemy, for all her efforts, was too much for her. Foot l by foot he forced her back towards » . the open sluiceway. Then, with a muttered gasp of finality and a sudden upward heave of his shoulders, he flung the girl headlong Into the water. As he did so the door burst open. For the heavy-hearted Peggy O'Mara, s after slipping guilUly away from the » slulceroom where she had left her ' quite unsuspecting victim, awakened for the first time to the full enormity of her offense. As sbo stood there in , the darkness, staring back at the dark ;> mass of the factory walls, the aches of j* remorse lay heavy on her young heart She was standing there, with tears of helplessness In her eyes, when a j*. figure stepped up to her. She would have fled. Incontinently, at the ap4 p roach of that Intruder. But the stranger held her with a gently ref straining hand. And as she peered up at his face she saw that It was the man In the laughing mask. "The righting of wrongs Is a part of L my business In life. Can I help yon?" The girl hesitated. "Tea," she finally confessed, with a burst of tears. And through her sobs J she brokenly recounted as much I she dared of that night's proceeding*. But she continued to weep. "And me fathsrTl be goto' to the

"He will not," avowed the Laughing with decision. "Hell have more than help before this night la over, and a better Job and a clear conscience before another one comes I But tell me first where you left this girl you brought out from the city?" "Inside the door o' the slulceroom there."" "'Good Qod!" gasped the man in the mask. Then he caught the spindlePeggy O'Mara by the hand and started for the shadowy pile of the factory on the run. "Quick!" he said as he ran, "show me the dpor!" The half-breathless girl pointed It out to him. But as be "ran up to It he found It locked. He stooped and frantically caught up a piece of timber almost as long and heavy as his own body. Peggy .OTifsra, seeing that ffii - weight seemed more than Tie cuutd manage, promptly ran to his assistance. "Mow. com* together." he said, "for weWe got to JcnoCk that door lnf" Twice, three times, they charged the door before It pave way. But the moment lta panels crashed In the Laughhag Mask leaped through the opening. As he did so he caught sight of the two struggling figures on the brink of tha blackened runway. Aa he saw the figure of the woman flung headlong Into the open sluioewaj he leaped with ft shout towards th* onearmed man Who stood on its brink. Bnt that onearmed man, wtth a lightnlngllke movemapt, whipped a revotrer from his y -fUnnd oe'dha Intruder, The Laughing Mask wheeled half way about, staggered a step or two, and then fell forward on his face. The wide-eyed Peggy O'Mara, following at his heels, saw both that fall and the fact that the Iron Claw had al- / ready leaped towards the control 1 board of the water mangle. Peggy screamed aloud, shrilly and belligerently, as she leaped for the man already 1 , before the control boMtL $he caught I at him, clawing "at "his ^praised arm, fought him with every Jot of her thinblooded girlish body. But she was no match for that dotermlned and malignant opponent The F most she could do was to distract and i harry him for a precious . moment or two. Then, realizing she waa a. factor 1 *o ®e itfligiflatef without scruple, he ! catfght Ber bodily up from the floor, - raised her above his head, and with a « sickening thud, sent her body. agaiDst I the solid masonry of the faptory wall, f She lay there stunned, without mov- I Ing, moaning brokenly with pain, as 1 Lepar darted back to the control lever I of the mangle drums npd shifted that ( levqr to the spot marked "start." The I next moment he had thrown over the I switch of the sluicegate control. I He ventured one triumphant glance ' i. In the direction of the whirring | mangle knives and the slowly ascend- - 1 Ing gate. Then, with a grimace of satisfaction, he leaped over tho Inert I body of the Laughing Mask, ran to the I door, and disappeared In the darkness fl Had that flljftt be6n less .hurried I Legar might have observed that the | eyes of the Laughing Mask were open, and the in,ert body, weak as It was ; from the loss of blood from a flesh wound in the hip, was already painfully gathering Itself together for some predetermined movement. That movement, wavering and unsteady as it was, took the crawling man directly to - the control board of the water mangle. There, by a supreme effort, he raised himself to his feet, groped about with J* an unsteady hand, and swung back Pthe lever. w The next moment the roar of the C machinery stopped, the1 threshing ti knives stood poised. But it, had been only Jn the nick of time. For Mar- _ , gery Golden, who had clung to tho — sluicegate until its withdrawing bars > had compelled her to rela» he. last i desperate clutch on itB bars and drop ! back Into the black tld' carrying her closer and closer to those flailing blades of death, now caught and clung to a graphite-covered driving chain lit tie more -hau a yard from the fore- = most mangle drum which towered above ber like an open 'aw. And as she clung there, a renewing wave of al hope swept through her body, for from- E the sluiceway wall above ber she could hear a reassuring if somewhat un- el •toady voice calling down to hw. And u that voice, she knew, waa the votoe " of the Laughing Mask! . u (TO BE OOKTOTOXa) ,

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