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- ® + es. AS PER aay ee By KENNETH PERKINS Auther of ** Queen of the Night,’’ ‘‘ Sundown Café,*’ ete. CHAPTER XXI. ENTER THE AVENGER! IM HOLLOWAY?’S consternation, like the mental states of most boys ‘ of his age, was only momentary. He picked up two guns from the floor. His master was lying on the staircase landing with the bulky hunched form of McCorkle on his chest. Wing and Parson were disarmed. The negro Quintilian had crouched behind that tower of spiritual strength, his mistress. The latter had turned toward the stairs, but checked her- self, with a realization—probably inborn— that she was stepping into the path of bul- lets. She remained, still the dominant fig- ure, whose grim face had not so much as blanched at the smell of gunpowder. What stage could have been more per- fectly set than this—to kindle the heart of a boy! Tim Holloway with a gun in each hand stepped into as great a climax of drama as his imagination had ever evoked. The power to solve everything was in his two wiry little hands. For the first time in his life he was in a position to engage in a glorious and righteous combat—to shoot to kill! And what was more heroic, more enthralling than this? He found himself transformed suddenly into a two-gun man— that most dreadful of fiction characters, which had been the idol of his dreams! It must be noted—that except in his dreams—this was the first time Tim Hollo- way had ever fired a revolver at a man. It had always seemed a very simple matter. But he was greatly disillusioned. And as for firing two guns—that took a miracle of co-ordination which most fighters—includ- Thie story began in the Argosy-Alletory Weekly for October 11. 262 conmmicooolks (EO)