"Wait," cried Jonas Prim, "I'm going with you," andwithout waiting to find a hat he ran quickly after the de-tective. 0nce in the car he leaned forward urging thedriver to greater speed.

"God in heaven!" he almost cried, "the fools are go-ing to kill the only man who can tell me anything aboutAbigail."

o o o

With oaths and threats the mob, mindless and heart-less, cowardly, bestial, filled with the lust for blood,pushed and jammed into the narrow corridor beforethe cell door where the two prisoners awaited theirfate. The single guard was brushed away. A dozenmen wielding three railroad ties batteblack upon the grat-ing of the door, swinging the ties far back and then inunison bringing them heavily forward against the punyiron.