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thoughts of the baby come to torture him—to keep him from making his escape?

Slowly, as if reluctant to go, he crept to the door and laid his hand upon the knob.

"Oh, doctor! Please—please hurry!"

It was the woman's voice—sobbing—pain-filled.

The Killer hesitated a second longer. Then he turned and, hurling mittens and overcoat into a corner, he commenced heaping kindlings into the stove.

'''HEWING tobacco, while playing football recently, cost the life of Chester Mares, 23, a Cleveland semi-professional player, who died of strangulation while being taken tot a hospital at Painesville. Mares had just thrown a forward pass when he was knocked down. In falling, a wad of tobacco became lodged in his throat. Efforts of physicians to prevent death failed.'''