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THE STORY SO FAR
Mugh Drummond and Peter. Darrell
are interested in Mr. Granger, who
lives at Temple Tower, which he
has strongly fortified. Miss Vern
ey accepts a position as private
secretary to Mr. Granger and her
friend (Freckles) Tom Scott, is
staying with Hugh. John, an old
triend of Hugh, has the plans of
Temple Tower but someone stole
‘them out of his room. Freckles
^receives a letter from iMiss Vern
ey and before they go home Gran
ger opens the panel in the gate
and while talking to tliem he sees
a figure all in black watching him
and is greatly alarmed.
NOW GO ON ^ITH THE STORY
“And then 1 could not help it: I
Jimt had to ask him:
“ ‘Why have you got your house
barricaded like a prison?1 I said.
“ ‘I have an enemy,’ he answered;
"an unscrupulous enemy. He believes
■I did him a wrong-—years ago As
one could do such as he a wrong.
33wt I’ll beat him,, I’ll heat him.’
“He was literally" jibboring in lijs
(excitement, and for some time I
thought he was going to have' a fit.
fThen the upheaval passed.
“/A vile criminal, Miss Vernoy:
omaji debased beyond words.”
“Bearing in mind the speaker,
thouglft that a bit rich.
“ ‘Do not be, alaityned,’ he contin
ued, /if you hear ’things at night,
. «out in the grounds. You will be
quite safe. Well, well, we wjll fin
ish our talk to-morrow. A letter
*pr two, and your outings. We must
Miscuss them: we must certainly dis-
(Ciiss them.’
"“And ■jyith that I left him. I-Ion-
•tesily I do not thiflk the man is quite'
a
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THE KJOTR TIMES-APVOCATE
the morning sunshine*, popped ipto | “’He might want to know how
the sucred room dt twenty to ten in- you got it.’ lie explained. 'And the
stead of ten. Not, you would have‘one important thing, Miss Verney, is
thought, a yery frightful erlme, but tl'"+ ......~ — —-1
you should have seen the result. His
lordship was kneeling by the side i’o
tlm fireplace, holding something in
his hand. As soon as he heard’ the
door open he thrust whatever it was
back into q. recess, which he closed.
he scrambled to his, feet in a
fire, clisni
tectcd aga
Pointed \
4< seven ribs
lay. -Mad
severe wen
and secure,
all there,' and as for his remarks
about the criminal outside, the man
is as crooked as a corkscrew himself.
However, it is past eleven now, and
I am going to bed, My dinner was
sent up to my room, and I
seen Mr, Granger again,
hour ago I heard the most
quarrel going on between
Gaspard, and it sounded to
Gaspard .was drunk,
have locked the, door, though,
give the devil his due, neither
them has given me any trouble
all. Good-night; I’ll, finish this
fusion to-morrow, though' whether I
will ever get it to you or not re
mains to bo seen.”
CHATTER VI
In Which We Come to Temple
Tower
“By Gosh! the old thing has spread
herself,” said Freckles, “There is a
>9
Then
fury.
“ T
“ ‘I
amiably,
gained/
“Then I sat
pencil, and waited for him to start
After a bit he calmed
a, seat at
“ ‘You
me, M'iss
health Is
I
to
of
at
ef-
further vast instalment.1
“Get on with it,” cried Hugh, “It
strikes
head screwed on in exactly the right
way.” /
“.She is not too dusty,” conceded
her fiance graciously. “Now this
Avhack of stuff is headed Mid-day.”
“Had a perfectly good night,” she
begins, “though I woke up once with
that beastly dog baying at something
outside. However, I soon tell asleep
again, and did not wake till after
eight. AU of which matters not:
I'll get. On with it, I received his
majesty’s command to wait on him
at ten o’clock. Now you know -my
watch has never been quite itself
again since it fell in the river at
Henley, and sure enough it had ap
parently gained about twenty min
utes this morning. The result was
that little Patricia, with pencil and
paper complete, fresh and radiant in
me (Miss Verney has her
his desk,
must make
Verney,’ ho
not very good.’
“ ‘That’s all right,’ I said. ‘It
my fault for coming too soon.’
“And once more I waited for
to begin. .............. '
and dictated three short letters-
of them business, and all
trivial to a degreo. Then
ped.
“ ‘Is. that all?’ I asked.
“ ‘All for this morning,’
wered. ‘As a matter of fact,
Verney, my correspondence is
shmll. Being the reeluse I am, I
know but few people.’
“ ‘If this is a fair sample of a day’s
job,’ I remarked, ‘I shall certainly
shall not be overworked. I will go
and type these now, and bring them
to you to sign.’ - •
“I got up and went to the door
and just as I was opening it I heard
him muttering in his beard again:
there are times when he talks exact
ly like a man wi-th his mouth full of
fish bones. So I Availed for him to
get it off his chest, 'and if you can
explain it I
tainly can’t,
“He first
question of
At last he-got under way,
—all
of them
he
shall be
of all
outings.
he
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“I suppose he is right, though I
don’t know much about these things,
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‘when 1 first engaged you for you to
start on that side of your duties at
once, put now certain things have
occurred which render it necessary
for you to postpone it a little. So
that for a few days, my dear young
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(To be continued.)
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He mumbled
and grunted, and. repeated his warn
ing of last night about the immed
iate future^ Then without a word
of warning'he suddenly asked me if
I’d like to go to London,
at him blankly and asked
meant alone, or was he
what.'
“ ‘Alone/ he said: ‘All
nice first-class carriage/
“Honestly Tom, I don’t think the
man is all there. I hall’ expected
him to go on and say something
about the pretty puff-puff. However
I waited, and let' him.get on with it
in his own way, •_
“‘‘You see, Miss Verney/ he said
for the twenty-fourth time, ‘I am a
recluse. I . dislike intensely going
outside my own grounds. And ope
of the things that I shall wish you to
do for me will b.e-to niake frequeri-t,
trips to London bn v.ery confidential
business/ " ‘
“ ‘That seems quite clear/ I sai'd.
But what sort of business? Because
I have got no knowledge of anything
except typing and shorthand/ ?i) ,
“ ‘You won’t re,quir,e any know
ledge/ he assured me. “All I want
is a nice-looking young lady wliopi
I can trust iinplicity/
“And suddenly I remembered a
thing which Miss> Mudge had said
when she told me of my being en
gaged. At the time I didn’t think
about it, but now it came back. One
absolute proviso was that I must look
a lady..
“ ‘You see, Miss Verney/ he went
one h°W through my
life has been acquiring beautiful
things. And recently a relative of
mine died, and left me a wonderful
collection of old jewellery. Now this
big place, as you will understand,
costs a lot of money to keep up, and
I fear that, much as I regret it, I
shall have to sell some of my things.^
And that is where I want you to.help,
me.’
“ ‘You mean/ I said, ..‘that you
want me to take them up to London
and sell them for you?”
“ ‘That’s it/ he cried. ‘That is
just what I want/
“ ‘But why not send for a good
man from Christies/ I said, ‘or a
first-class jeweller’ to come here? I
should probably be badly swindled.’
“He shook his head cunningly.
“ ‘No, you won’t/ fie said. ‘Not
if you do it the way I say. You see/
ho went on confidentially, ‘it’s like
this. If I send for a first-class jew
eller to come to me here, 'and kb
sees all my collection or even half
of it, it stands to reason that he
won’t give me as good a price as if
I sold each article separately. At the
same time I obviously cannot ask a
man to make fifty different trips
down here and show him the things
one at a time.
make the fifty different trips up to
London. There are scores of first-
class jewellers either there or in the
big town.like Birmingham and Man
chester, and if you go to a different
one each time you will get the maxi
mum price for each article. Look for
instance, at that/
“He produced from his desk a
small box, and opened it. Inside
was the most lovely pearl and dia
mond pondant I have ever seen
setting was old-fashioned, but
I could realise how valuable it
“ ‘Now/ lie went on, ‘if you
I stared
him if he
going, or
alone in a
So I want you to
The
even
was,'
took
that to h good man, and told him it
had been left you by your mother or
a relative, I am .sure he would give
you a thousand pounds for it.’
“ ‘I should think it more than
likely,’ I said. ‘But why bring in
the bit about it having been left
me? Why not simply say that I
want to sell it?’’
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