Part 50 (1/2)

Simultaneously P Sybarite's chauffeur set the brakes, and with the agility of a hounded rabbit seeking its burrow, dived frosters

In an instant he was underneath it

P Sybarite, on the other hand, had leaped before the accident

Staggering a pace or two--and all the tith found his feet not six feet from the limousine It had stopped broadside on In this position he co a shot through the body

His weapon roseassurance doubly sure throughout what see past his head of the infuriated gangster's bullets

But his finger never tightened upon the trigger

Nove nervously at the slide of his automatic His driver had ju madly up the street

In a breath P Sybarite realised as the , November's had choked on an empty shell

With a sob of excite hi leader

Nove at P

Sybarite's head a murderous blow This, however, the little e Nove, the two reeled and went down, P Sybarite's fingers closing on the throat of the assassin just as the latter's head struck the paverunted, and lay still

P Sybarite disengaged and got up on his feet

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In a daze, P Sybarite shook and felt himself all over, unable to credit his escape from that rain of bullets

But he was apparently unharmed

_Kismet!_

Then suddenly he quickened to the circu was finished, November stunned and helpless at his feet, Nove round, the police an imminent menace

Now if Marian were in the body of the town-car, as he believed, he et her out of it and away before the police and detectives could overtake and apprehend them both

Instant action, inspired audacity, a little luck--and the thing ht possibly be accono car--his countenance livid with gri the eye of his erin

P Sybarite seized him by the arm