THE BANDIT, RAPHELE, AT WORK
A Fugitive's Story of the Christmas-Week Execution in Granadas District
TWO AMERICANS DRAW LOTS FOR LIFE
John Makepiece Tells His Story in Cida; His Fellow-Prisoner, Broxton Day, Fills One of Raphele's "Christmas Graves"
CHAPTER XVIII
"THE FLY-BY-NIGHT"
Janice Day could never have told how long she sat there, elbows on the bureau, eyes glued to those black lines on the newspaper page. The heat of the tall oil lamp almost scorched her face; but her back was freezing. There was never anything invented—not even a cold storage plant—as cold as the ordinary New England farmhouse bedchamber!
But the girl felt neither the lamp's heat, nor the deadly chill of the room. For a long time she could not even read beyond the mere headlines of the article telegraphed from Cida.