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Pauline, spurred by terror as she realized that Wrentz was again upon her trail, had sped like a wild thing through the park paths. She could hear the heavy footsteps of her pursuer close behind. She could hear also a shouting from afar off. She made toward the shouting the sound of any voice but the voices of the inhuman men who had planned her death was welcome to her ears.
Be at the Pennsylvania station with your men tonight. And, Wrentz, if the plan I gave you fails, I leave it to you to invent a new one. You understand? What? No. I don't want any return this time." Before Owen had helped Pauline into her car and bidden her goodbye, Wrentz and his men were on watch in the railroad station. "Goodbye and good luck."
"Oh, I was just here for a few days," said Wrentz. "I remember you." "Yes, sir; 24 is yours," said the clerk. "Front." Wrentz stood at the cigar counter to make a purchase. He did not wish to follow Pauline so closely that she might know he had taken the room next to hers. In spite of her excitement, Pauline slept soundly that night.
A few moments after Pauline's departure Louis Wrentz and his companions set to work. Two of the men left the room and sauntered to opposite ends of the hall where they lingered on watch. Wrentz and the other man stepped out briskly and each with a screwdriver in his hand began unfastening the number-plates over the doors of rooms 22 and 24.
But from under the overturned car there came a sound, and Pauline realized, with quick alarm, that Wrentz was still alive. She ran across the road and into the parked woods that hid the railroad from the drive. Wrentz struggled out from beneath the car. His eyes swept swiftly from the bodies of his dead comrades to the form of Pauline just vanishing in the thicket.
The men quickly unclamped the locks and lifted Pauline out. "Take off the ropes and the bandages," ordered Wrentz. "Take them off? Why, she'll scream," exclaimed one. "If she does you may choke her to death in the car," replied Wrentz. "Why not here?" asked the oldest of the men. "Didn't Mr. "Hush your mouth! You confounded rascal!" Wrentz screamed. "Are you going to mention that name here?"
"I have lost the most important documents of the Navy Department through a silly entanglement with a woman." "No, you haven't. We went and got them for you," said Harry, presenting the packet of plans. In Balthazar's band, which had failed so often do away with Pauline Marvin, there was, nevertheless, one man who had attracted the particular interest Raymond Owen Louis Wrentz.
With a sudden spring, she struck at Wrentz with her fist, and as he drew back, astonished she darted across the roadway toward the wood. It was but a futile, maneuver. She had gone but a few paces when she was gripped from behind and snatched back. "You see, Louis I told you she would do something of the kind," said the old bandit. "And I told you it would do no harm.
A low cough sounded down the corridor and they quickly desisted from their task and retired to their room while a maid passed by. In a moment they were out again. Wrentz passed the number plate of 24 to his assistant, who handed back the plate Of 22. The numbers were refastened on the wrong doors. The watchers were called back. "Now," said Wrentz, "it is only a matter of waiting."
For there beside her, towering above her in horrible strength, with wildly grinning face and cruelly outreaching claws, stood the thing that gave explanation to the hunt outside and the shouting. Pauline was in the clutches of a gorilla. She fainted as she felt herself gripped in the hairy arms. Wrentz was gloating as he stood on watch over Pauline's hiding place.
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