CHASE COMES FROM THE CLOUDS For many minutes, the watchers in the chateau stared at the burning bungalow, fascinated, petrified.

Through the mind of each man ran the sudden, sharp dread that Chase had met death at the hands of his enemies, and yet their stunned sensibilities refused at once to grasp the full horror of the tragedy.
Genevra felt her heart turn cold; then something seemed to clutch her by the throat and choke the breath out of her body.

Through her brain went whirling the recollection of his last words to her that afternoon: "They'll find me ready if they come for trouble." She wondered if he had been ready for them or if they had surprised him! She had heard the shots.

Chase could not have fired them all.

He may have fired once--perhaps twice--that was all! The fusilade came from the guns of many, not one.