Part 22 (1/2)

For an instant the horse and rider were poised there

It was a brave effort

But it failed

Three-fourths of the distance was covered

Then down the aniht Jack whirled the wheel around and applied the air brake

The Terror barely had tie of the chasm, and a cloud of dirt and dust flew up from beneath her wheels

She quickly paused

Jack alighted

Going to the edge of the abyss he peered down

It was notthe bottom flowed a wide, deep hted in it without the slightest injury, and Jack saw the beast swim ashore and wade out

They had been swept soot out near a wide opening in the rocks on the side opposite Jack

”Stop where you are!” shouted Jack

The drenched fugitive looked at hihed ironically

Then he dashed ahead, for Jack had drawn a pistol, and was ai it at hi in the rocks, the young inventor fired at the bandit

The ball cut the spot Frank had just evacuated, and striking against the rocks, exploded there

Up ju until he arrived opposite the split rocks

But he failed to see the fugitive as Frank had gone around a bend in the opening, and was then hidden fro there, he hastened back to the Terror, sprang aboard, and started her back the way she ca his friends what happened

Jack e

The stream there broadened and becah it

Reaching the other side, he began a search for Frank, but it finally proved to be in vain

The shadows of twilight fell when he finally gave up the hunt and headed for a tiny hamlet near where he was