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THE STORY SO FAR
Hugh Drummond and Peter Darrell
have become interested in Drum
mond’s nearest neighbor, Mr.
Granger, who lives in a house with
strong fortifications all around.
One night as Drummond "was sitt
ing, at the window, Smoking a last
cigarette before retiring, he saw
it series of red -and blue flashes
- -coming from the direction of
’s' Farm in the middle of
Romney Marsh. The next
Drummond happens to -meet
ger, who upon hearing of
Hashes he becomes greatly
cd. Later Drummond and
take a walk past Granger’s
.•and a small roadster stops outside
the gates occupied by a young man
and a girl. The girl, Miss Vern
ey, has accepted a position as pri
vate secretary to Granger,
against the wishes
fiance, she is going
through.
NOW GO ON WITH
“This lady,” ' said
come to do secretarial work for Mr.
Ciranger. Presumably you are ex
pecting her.”
The man made no reply, but star
ed up and down
last we heard an
the' gate opened
let, him through.
“Come quickly,” he said in a
harsh voice. ' “Mr. Granger expects
you, but we lirid forgotten your com
ing.”
“My trunk is in the car,” said the
girl. “Get it, please. Don’t touch
the typewriter: I will carry that ray
self,”
“Pat**. I don't like it,”
made one final, despairing
“Can’t you possibly get out
“I can’t Shy that I like
much myself’ '.Tom,” she said quiet
ly, “but I’m going through with it
lor all that.”
The man, with the trunk on his
shoulder, stood in the open gateway
beckoning to her urgently.
“Sb long, old son,” she said with
a smile. - And then turning to Hugh
she held out* her hand, “Between,
two and three:; I’ll, remember.”
iShe took lien/maphine -out of the
-car, and the irorHbari* clanged to in-
“Damn it,” began Freckles, “she
ailightn’t to have gone. She------”
He .paused suddenly, and at the
same time I felt the flesh at the back
of the scalp begin to tingle. For in
side the wall there came the deep-
aioted baying of/a hound. It I'ose
and fell, in a snarling roar of in
credible ferocity: then as suddenly
as it had begun it ceased, and only
tlie. faint noise of rattling bars could
3)6* heard.
T looked at the boy: he was as
white 'Us a sheet. And the next
moment\he had sprung forward and
was pouncing with his fists on the
gate.
“Pat,”’he shouted, “Pat. Are you
all Tight?”
Came her answer, faint and a little
tremulous. “It’s all right, Tom. It’s
locked up.”
•For a while we stood there look-
anfeJat one another, whilst the colour
slowly came back to his cheeks.
“By'Jove! that gave me a shock,”
lie said at length. “I ought never to
have let her take this filthy job,” he
“from
'Coming
Spragge’;
^•’■sside.
day
Gran-
these
excit-
Peter
house
much
of Tom Scott,
to see the job
THE STORY
Hugh, “has
the road. Then at
iron bar clang and
just sufficiently to
Freckles
attempt,
of it?”
it very
Eczema or
Salt Rheum
A Blood Disease
added saveagejy.
On Hugh Drummond’s face there
appeared his habitual cheery smile.
“My dear fellow,” he cried,
the little I know of the adorable sex,
the question, as they say in Parlia-
, meat, did not arise. Miss Verney
; had determined to take the job, and
that was that. Don’t you worry:
we’ll look after her.”
; “I suppose you're right,” sriid the
boy gloomily, “Anyway, I'm going
to put up at the pub here till I’m
certain she’s all right.”
For a moment Hugh hesitated, and
I could see he was summing the boy
up.
“Look here,” he said after a while,
“don’t bother about a pub, Come
and put up with me.”
“Do you really mean it?” He star
ed at Hugh doubtfully, “I mean—
dash it—you hardly know me. You
don’t even know my name.” '
“I’ll trust you not to steal the
spoons,” laughed Hugh. “But it
would be an adantage to know your
name.”
“Scott/’ said Freckles. “Tom
Scott. And it’s really most awfully
good of you, I’d love to stay -with
you if you don't mind.”
Shouldn’t have asked you if I did,”
said Hugh. “Let’s get into i
of yours and push back
house.”
“It may take a bit of a
start her,” said the proud
“I picked her up -cheap.”
At the end of five minutes his
prophecy had proved correct. Act
ing under instructions, I had pulled
out a wire and received a severe
electric -shock: Hugh stamped on a
butto'n, causing a loud explosion and
a discharge of grey smoke through
the radiator. But finally she com
menced to fire on at least two of the
four cylinders and we started, the
driver's face wreathed in a compla
cent smile.
“The steering is a bit dicky,” he
explained as we missed a milestone
by- an inch. “Wants knowing. Near
ly took a tramcar coming over Vaux-
hall Bridge this morning.”
“Do you mean to say,” gasped
Hugh, who was precariously clutch
ing at the sides of the dickey, “that
you drove this abom—this affair out
of'London?”
“Rather,” said Freckles. “Why
not?”
“To the left here,” muttered Hugh
feebly. “And for God’-s- sake don’t
kill the cat. She has maternal du
ties to perform at the moment.”
A frightful crash occurred in the
bowels of the car, and we came to
a halt.
“When the brakes don’t act, I put
her into reverse,” explained Freckles
and Hugh nodly weakly.
“I no longer have any fears for
Miss Verney,” he remarked. “I-Ier
perils at present are as nothing to
driving out of London in this ma
chine. However, young fellow, we’ll
have it pushed round to the garage
and then we must have a little talk.
Because there are one or two things
you’ve got to get into your head.”
He led the way into the house,
and we followed him.
“I’ll show you to your room after
wards,” he said to Scott. “But af
ter that motor drive I want a nerve
tonic. Help yourselves, you fel
lows: it’s all Oirlhe sideboard.”
We took our drinks outside and
sat down.
“Now I suppose I’m right,” began
Hugh, “in assuming that you are re
sponsible for that ring on Miss Ver-
ney’s finger?”
“That’s so,” said Freckles with a
“We fixed it a month ago, but
a bean the
that bus
to the
time to
owner.
that is the house front which the
lights have come. It therefore looks
as if there was a connection between
it and Mr. Granger’s terror, which has only arisen since the signal was
given. This afternoon Peter and I,
by a little subterfuge, got as far as
the front door, but we couldn’t get
any farther. However, it "was
enough to prove that there is .some
one else
and his
blighter
pose to
can come too if you like,
“If I like,”
ly. “Lead me to it.”
“But on one condition,” said Hugh
quietly. “There seems to me to be
every prospect of a bit of fun, and
fun is too hard to conic by to run
any risk
you come
got to do
tricks of your own or anything of
that sort—do you get me?”
“Absolutely,” answered the other.
“I'll do just what you say.”
“Good,” said Hugh. “Now come
here, and let me feel your muscle.
Not too bad. Got it cranking that
infernal contrivance of yours, I sup
pose. Anyway, don’t forget the
golden rule—if you’ve got to hit, hit
first.”
“I say you really are a .priceless
pair,” said Freckles ecstatically.
“We may get- a bit of sport,” said
Hugh casually, and then his eyes nar
rowed suddenly. “Isn’t- that a car,
at the turn off to Spragge’s Farm?”
He went to the telescope and fo
cussed it.
“A big yellow -one, Peter,” he
asid. “There’s a woman in the driv
er’s seat with a man 'beside her. And
leaning over the gate talkiin/g to
them is our Mr. Spragge himself un
less I’m much mistaken. Now I
wonder if they’ve got anything to
do with it.
around,
Rye.
gain,
ley.
“A Bentley,” sighed Freckles. “In
deed and in truth the Lord is good.
And incidently, Drummond, if it’s
any good to you at any time, I’m
used to driving the breed.”
“Good,” said Hugh. “It
come in handy.”
We fell into the car, and he let
her out. He drove, as he did every
thing else, magnificently, and in
four minutes we struck the top of
tlie hill leading down to Rye. Now
as I say, Hugh had trodden -on the
juice, and yet, roaring up the hill
towards us was a big yellow car
driven by a woman with a man sitt
ing beside her. And another in the
back seat. I had a fleeting glimpse
of a beautiful, rather scornful face
bending over the wheel, and a man
with a small pointed beard .sitting
beside her: then they flashed prist.
“See which way they go, Peter,”
sang out Hugh, braking lia'rtl.
“They’ve turned off towards your
house,” I said.
“And toward’s Granger’s” lie an
swered, swinging in'to the entrance,
of a house to turn. “By George!
they must have travelled.”
“An Isotto straight twelve,” re
marked Freckles casually. “But
you’ve got the legs of -them in this.
Oh! if -Mother only knew what her
baby boy was -doing instead of sitt-
in the house beside Spragge
wife, because we heard the
snoring. To-night we pro
investigate again, and you
cried Freckles joylui-
I
of having it spoiled. If
in with us, Scott, you have
as you are told. No fancy
Hullo! they are turning,
and going back towards
Going like I-Iell into the bar-
Come on, let’s hit the Bent-
We might spot something.”
1” '/_,'/’ sighed Freckles. '
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since neither of us has
outlook is a bit grim.”
“You’ve got plenty of
you/’ laughed Hugh,
just at the moment we’l)' leave your
’ prospects. You heard
to your
on the
time before
“However,
matrimonial
what I said
those lights
you?”
“Rather,”
the game do
“That,” said Hugh, “is exactly
what Darrell and I had decided to
find
out,
have
‘I
You heard
fiancee about
Marsh, didn't
cried the
you think?”
“is
boy. “What’s
out. We still propose to find
but now you and Miss Verney
come into, the picture.”
wish to heaven she hadn’t,” he
gloomily.
‘If she hadn’t you wouldn’t have
either,” remarked Hugh. “And we
shouldn't be sitting here drinking a
whisky and soda and having this
talk,
more to be said about it.
me say at once that I do not
she is in any danger, -so you
your mind at rest over that,
do believe that she’s in a
where some pretty funny doings are
going to' happen in the near future.
It's obvious that her boss is terrified
to death of -Something, 'though what
that something is we know no more
than you. But we propose to have
a dip at finding out to-night."
“How?” cried Scott eagerly.
“I don’t know whether you heard
mo mention Spragge’s Farm, If you
look through that telescope you’ll .find that it is foeusseJ upon it. And
But she did and there’s no
Now let
believe
can set
But I
house
ing in Prodon and Peanut’s office,
the old girl would pass right out/’
are a reprehensible young
devil," chuckled Hugh as we started
up the hill again. “But the girl at
the wheel, Peter, was undoubtedly a
pippin of the first order.”
And as trom a great distance I
heard the voices of two adorable la
dies in the Hermitage at Le Touquet
wondering how the dear lambs were
enjoying their golf,
We swung past the entrance to
Hugh’s house, and then
speed a little.
“No good looking as if
racing them,” he said,
they’ve got anything to do
By Jove! Peter, they have.”
The yellow car had stopped at the
entrance to Granger's house. The
occupants were still sitting in it, and
were apparently studying the place.
But as we passed they all stared at
us.
“Don’t look round,” said Hugh
quietly. “Though ’I’m afraid we’ve
committed a tactical bloomer. Do
you think they spotted us as the
car they met on the hill?” I
- “The chauffeur bloke at the back!
did,” said Freckles. I“Damn” said Hugh. “However it)
is done now. We’ll go back to Rye
by another route. .Now I wondei*. where that bunch come into the pic-|
ture.
lot of things.”
“Yoh
slackened
we were
“And if
with it—
place the wall consisted of a sort
of scroll-work, long siuce blackened
by the smoke. The shelves were
tilled with pewter— some valuable,
but for the most part modern stuiT.
And perhaps the most interesting
thing in the room was an old map
worked in embroidery, showing the
country in 1733. Even as late as
that the sea was very nearly up to
the outskirts of Rye, and almost the
whole of Romney Marsh was covered
with water.
“Looks a bit different, doesn’t it?’
said Hugh, studying it idly,
we dotted old man Spragge
afternoon was a bally like,
where his farm is, Scott,”
on, “And that is our
to-night. By Jove!” he
sudden interest, “that
Granger’s house, I'd no
so old. A convent:
for the wall around it.”
“Naughty girls—rthe nuns," said
Freckles. “Do you know the story
But he never head this particu
lar gem, because at. that moment two
I men came in, one of whom hailed I Hugh with a shout of joy, He wore
’ a Guards tie, and his face seemed
vaguely familiar to me.
“You old ^lighter,” he cried. ‘Just
“ fancy meeting you here.”
(To be continued.)
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CHAPTER III
In Which We Come to Spragge’s
Farm by Night
The Dolphin Inn at Rye is almost
too well know to need description.
It stands halfway up a sfeep cobbled
hill in the centre of the town, and
to its hospitable doors come all sorts,
and conditions of men. Tourists,
artists, golfers—all may be found
there—discussing everything from
the history of the Cinque Ports to
the Putt that Failed on the Last
Green. Of old, when the sea lapped
round the foothills of Rye, and in
later years too, it was a well-known
haunt
said.
many
front
search by preventive pien had failed
to .reveal. There were stories told
of secret passages, and sliding pan
els by means of which the Excise
men were outwitted; but in the
present year of grace the only slid
ing .panel in evidence is the one
through which the barman hands
out; the necessary.
■ It was half-past six when we en
tered the lounge hall, having left the
car at the bottom of the hill. Two
•old ladies were sitting in one corner
immersed in guide books, whilst an-
o'tli^r was occupied by an elderly
clergyman. There was plenty of
roo^ri for us, but Hugh went straight
tiiT^Ugh to a “small room ifrhTch led
off -the main hall.
“The ..only untouched part of the
hotel,” he remarked. “This- room is
as it was when the place was built.”
Nearly the whole of one end of it
Ivas occupied by a huge fireplace, in
which the guide book says, “it was
the custom on -. special occasions to
roast an ox whole.” The special oc
casions presumably were when a
particularly gOod haul of contraband
had successfully eluded the coast
guard men. On each side of the fire-
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