THE COALITION When Lawler reached Willets' one street he saw a buckboard drawn by two gray horses.

The vehicle was headed west, away from him, and the horses were walking.

The distance between himself and the buckboard was not great, and he saw that it was occupied by two women--one of them the woman whom he had met at the foot of the stairs leading to Warden's office.

The other was elderly, and was looking straight ahead, but the young woman's head was turned toward Lawler at the instant Lawler caught sight of the buckboard.

It seemed to him that the young woman must have been watching him, before he became aware of the buckboard, for there was a smile on her face as she looked at him; and when she seemed sure that he was looking she gayly waved a white handkerchief.
Lawler did not answer the signal.