incidents that convince Rudel and Macquart that they must escape from prison or die at the hands of their fellow-prisoners.

They make a hurriedly-planned escape, leaving dead guards in their wake. . . and forcibly procuring a small panel truck, they lead pursuing police a wild, hair-raising chase.

To throw their pursuers off their track, they send the truck over a cliff and set out on foot, through dangerous marshes that more than once threaten to take the lives they have thus far saved from their fellow-convicts.

After a long, desperate flight, during which they suffer much hardship, they come to the isolated cabin occupied by Eva and her lover.

The film flashes back to the present as Macquart concludes his account of the escape. Eva feigns sympathy and assumes a passive existence with the two convicts that belies the scheming in her tortured mind.

Nerves rubbed raw from fear of apprehension and constant vigil.. . and tormented by the presence of Eva, whose physical attributes and sultry manner are enough to drive them mad, Rudel and Macquart acquire distrust for one another. In time they openly display their competition for Eva's charms and a growing hatred for each other.

Eva, revenge bitter in her heart, openly invites the attentions of first one, then the other, of the fugitives. . . hoping thereby to create a dissension that will cause them to kill each other . . . . .