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The Siege
of the
Seven Suitors
By
MEREDITH NICHOLSON
Copyright, 1910. by Meredith Nicholson
CHAPTER X.
1 Meet a Playful Ghost.
IT
was not yet 10 o'clock, and I was
dismayed at the thought of being
left tom own devices
in hi
Ythis Uig
country house, at an hour when
the talk at the Hare and Tortoise usu-
-aily became worth while. I sat down
and began to turn over the periodicals
on the library table, but 1 was in no
.mood for reading.
The butler appeared anti offered me
drink, but the thought of driuking
alone did not appeal to me. 1 repelled
the suggestion coldly, but after 1 bad
dropped my eyes to the English review
I had taken up I was couscious that he
stood his ground.
"Beg pardon, sir,"
"Well't"
"Hit's a bit hod about the chimney,
sir."
The professional man in me was at
once alert Tbe.chiwney's conduct was
inexplicable enough, but 1 was In no
humor to brook the theories of a stupid
servant. Still, be might know some-
thing, so 1 nodded for him to go on.
He glanced over his shoulder and
,came a step nearer.
"They say in the village, sir, that the
house is 'vaulted."
"Who say it, James?"
"The liveryman told the coachman,
ind the'ousemaid got hit from a seam-
stress. Hit's worry queer, sir."
"Rub'islm, ,lames. I'm amazed that
a person of your station should listen
to a liveryman's gossip. 'There's the
chimney. It's working perfectly. Some
shift of air currents causes it to puff
a little smoke into this room occasion-
ally, but those things are not related
.to the supernatural. \1'e'I1 find some
way of c'or'recting it In a day or two."
"Werry good. sir. Bat begging par-
don, the chimney hain't hall. flit
,walls, if 1 may so hex plass bit."
"Walks?" 1 exclaimed. sitting up and
4 -
"They say in the village, sir, that the
'oute is 'minted."
throwing down my review. "What
walks?"
"You 'ear hit, sir, bin the walls. Bit
goes right through the solid brick—
most hunaccountabie."
"Ton hear a mouse in the walls and
itching• Piles
For 27 Years
Often Laid V for' Days at a Tithe--
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Ointment.
POW people were ever morn en-
thusiastic in praising; Dr. Chase's
Ointment than the :writer of this Tet.
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of his case you will not wonder why.
Mr. John Johnson, Coleman, Alta.,
writes: "Three years ago I was cured
of blind, itching plies of 27 years'
standing by using Dr. Chase's Oint.
anent. I used to think that death.
would be the only relief I would ever
yet from the terrible misery of Atlee.
Often 1 was laid up for three days' ai;
.i, time, and at other times worked
when T should have been in bed.
"1)r. Chase's Ointment is worth six-
ty dollars a box instead of sixty costa.
I ata a different man since using it.
I ami farming all the time, and never
traits a day. Wert s tall to express my
gratitude ter the care this ointment
made for me. I cannot tell half as
)'nuek ,)out It as it deserves. Anyone
doubting this can write direct to me."
17r. Chaoe's Ointment, 80 cont' a
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1 PT
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rw,n gait TO their !quarters proved on -ex-
amivation.to be tightly locked.
The fourth door was only a half sto-
ry, used for storage purposes. The
roof wus gained, I metalled, by an iron
ladder and a hatchway in a trunk
room, I ran down to my room and
found a candle, to be armed against,
any further fickleness of the lights,
and set out for the fourth door. I had
changed tny coat and with a couple of
candles and a box of matches started
for the roof. My courage had risen
now, and I was ready for any further
adventure that the night might bold
for me. Miss Hollister and Cecilia
were both In their rooms, presumably
asleep. The servants doubtless bad
their doors barred against ghostly vis-
itors, and the house was mine to ex-
plore as I pleased.
I thiuk I was humming slightly as I
mounted the stair, which, in keeping
with the general luxuriousness that
characterized the furnishing of the
house, was thickly carpeted even to
the fourth floor. I was slipping my
hand along the rail and mounting, 1
dare say, a little jauntily as I screwed
guy courage to an unfamiliar notch
when suddenly, midway of the first
half and just before 1 reached the
turn where the stair broke, the lights
failed again with startling abruptness.
This was carrying the joke pretty far,
and instantly. I clapped my hand to
my pocket for the box of safety
matches d it out and then in my
$E, A
trans it's a gnost: 'But you forge
James, that this is a new house, only
a year or so old, and spooks don't fre-
quent such places. If it were an old
place it might be possible that the
creaking of floors and.the settling ot
walls would cause uneasiness in nerv-
ous people. The ghost tradition usual-
ly rests on some ugly fact. But here
nothing of the kind is present."
"Flit was one of 'is majesty's horlfi-
cers, sir," he answered hoarsely.
It flashed over tne that this big stol-
id fellow was out of his bead; but.
sane or mad he was clearly greatly dis-
turbed. It was best, I thought, on
either hypothesis to speak to him per-
emptorily, and I rose, the better to
deal with the situation.
"What nonsense is this you have in
your bead? You're in the United
States, and there aren't any majesty's
soldiers to deal with. You forget that
you're not in England now."
"But this 'ere country used to be
Henglish, you may recall, sir. The
story the coachman got bin the village
goes back to the hold times, sir, when
the colonies was lain rebellion, if I may
so call hit, sir, and 'is majesty's troops
was puttin' down the rebellion bin
these parts. Some American rebels
chased a British soldier from hover
near White Plains to these 'ere woods
as they was then, and they 'anged 'im,
sir, right where this 'ere 'ouse stands,
if I may make so free."
"You'd better go to bed, James. And
don't encourage talk among the other
servants about this ghost. I know
something about the building of houses,
and l'll give these walls a good looking
over. Good night."
I made myself comfortable for an
hour, smoking a cigar over an article
on English politics, and while I read a
big log placidly burned itself to ashes.
I found the switch and snapped out
the library lights. When I had gained
the second floor I turned off the lights
in the hall below, and, as I looked
down the well to make sure I had
turned the right key, the third floor
lights suddenly died and I was left in
darkness. This was the least bit dis-
concerting. I was quite sure that the
upper lights had remained burning
brightly after the darkening of the
lower hall, so that it was hardly pos-
sible that the one switch bad cut off
both lights.
Standing by the rail that guarded the
well, I peered upward, thinking that
some one above me was manipulating
another switch, but the silence was as
complete as the blackness. I was
about to turn from the rail to the wall
to find the switch, but at this moment,
as my face was still lifted in the in-
tentness with which I was listening,
something brushed my cheek—some-
thing soft of touch and swift of move-
ment As I gripped the rail I felt this
touch once, twice. thrice. '!'hen my
hand sought the wall madly, and with
so bid an aim that it was quite a min-
ute before 1 found the switch plate
and snapped all the keys The stair
and the hatls above and below me
sprang into being again, and i stood
blinking stupidly' upward
Though I was in a modern horse
thoroughly, lighted by electricity 1 can.
not deny that this incident, following
so quickly upon the butler's etory, oc-
caSioned a Moment's :torte hair raising.
accompanied by nn nnromtortalle
tremor of the legs. As already hinted
I lal no Claim to great valor As for
ghosts I am half persuaded of their
existence, and, after witnessing :t Pres•
entatidn of Hamlet, nlwoys feel tlint
Shakespeare Is as safe a guide in such
Matters as the destrut•tive scieulifir
critics.
'There were various plansi'te expta-
nsttions of file failure of the !infra.
Some Switch that t did not knew of.
perhaps In the third {loot' 1tall, might
!tare been tna',1. or the ppin•er h"1151'
In the village might have been shift
ing, dymitnos. I' 1111er solilloo •,t the
riddle was credible. But the ghostly
tome) 011 my fare roup not be ne
counted for se readily'. Leaving the
lights on, 1 ecnitlnned to the thing
door:ind examined the SWitch and
sought 111 other ways to expiate those
phenmena' My rompusure returned
more slowly than 1 4.11,v to confess.
and 1 think 11 tea. probably Ui tn;t
mind that the ghost of ling lieorge'R
dead soldier might he lying In wnit tot
me, but 1 saW amt fievntl nuthing, wiThe
boors of the unused ebatubers n the
third fiver were closed, anal 1 did not
r*eel instilled in trying them. The
-.y ,; ` mere housed oil this tloor at
" w house, and a door that
, du
haste dropped the lid essential to igni-
tion and stooped to find it.
The stair had narrowed on this
flight, and as I sought with futile
eagerness to regain the bol lid I could
have sworn that some one passed me.
Still half stooping, I stretched out my
arms and clasped empty air, and so
suddenly had 1 thrown myself for-
ward that I lost my balance and roll-
ed downward the space of half a
dozen treads before I recovered my-
self. I was badly seared and hardly
less angry at having missed through
my own clumsiness the joy of grap-
pling with the ghost of one of King
George's soldiers. But the matches
having been lost in the pitch darkness
'of the stair, I could get my bearings
again only by clinging to the stair rail
until I found the second floor switch.
I should say that two full minutes had
passed between the loss of the matches
and my flashing on of the lamps.
From top to bottom the lights shone
brightly. But no one was visible, and
I heard no sound in any part of the
house.
As I began to analyze my sensations
during the temporary eclipse of the
lights I was conscious of two things. I
The being, human or other, that had
passed me had been light of step and
fleet of motion. There had been some-
thing uncanny in the ease and speed
of that passing. I was without con-
viction as to its direction, whether up
or down, though I inclined to the for-
mer notion for the reason that the em-
ployment of a concealed switch above
seemed the more reasonable argument,
And a faint, an almost imperceptible
scent, as of a flower, had seemed to
be a part of the passing. Mine is a
sensitive nostril, and I was confident
that it did not betray me in this.
I gathered up my matches and start-
ed again for the roof. The trunk room
door opened readily, as on my morn-
ing
orning inspection of the chimney pots,
but as I glanced up I saw that the
hatch was open. Through the aper -
t
I Stood With Hoed and Shoulders
Thrust Through the Opening.
tare shone the heavens, a square of
stars and bright with the moon's ra-
diance. Pocketing tny matches, I ran
nimbly up the ladder.
I• I had been surprised to find the batch
•open, but it is not too much to say
that I wag greatly astonished by What
I saw on the moon flooded roof. There,
'midway of a flat area that lay between
the two Larger chimney pots, two per-
sons were intently engaged, not in
ghostly promenading or posturing or
even In audible conversation, but in st
spirited bout with foils. I stood With
head and shoulders thrust through the,
opening, staring at this ulilieliel Sonia
tnele and not sure Brit that after all my
eyes were tricking me.
"Toneher" •
it vias a Woman's voice, faint ittot*
hreathleeanese. She threw at bet
mask and dropped her fell and with
a. most human and feminine gesture:
put up her bands to adjust her hair.
ItWas Cec
f r
I lit In a thee 4rE skirt
Cecilia Minster
and fencing coati
Her opponent Was a man, and es her,
iao, fung dfic his musk i flaw that be.
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Allis it beiitletuan of years,
to withdraw when the stranger swung
round and saw me. Itis sudden ex-
clamation caused the girl to turn, and
as a reasonable frankness has always
seemed to me essential to a nice discre-
tion I crawled out on the roof.
"I beg your pardon, Miss Hoilister,
but if I had known you were here I
should not have intruded. The vaga-
ries of the library chimney have been
on my mind, and I was about to have
another peep into yonder pot."
She stood at per ease, with one hand
resting lightly against the inexplicable
chimney in question and still some-
what spent from her exercise.
"Father," she said, turning to the
stranger who stood near, "this is Mr.
Ames, who is Aunt Octavia's guest,"
The light of the gibbous moon en-
abled to discern pretty clearly the form
and features of Mr. Bassford Hollis-
ter. And 1 find, In looking over my
notes, that I accepted as a matter of
course the singular meeting with my
hostess' brother. I had grown so used
to the ways of the Hollisters I already,
knew that the meeting with another
member of the family at 11 o'clock at
night on the roof of this remarkable
house gave me no great shock of sur-
prise. Be was tall, slender and dark,
with fine eyes that suggested Cecilia's.
(lis close trimmed beard was slightly
gray, but he bore himself erect, and I
bad already seen that he was alert of
arm and eye and nimble of foot.
"Father and I have fenced together
for years," said Cecilia. "Nly sister
Hezekiah does not care for the sport.
As you have already seen that my
Aunt Octavia is an unusual woman,
given to many whims, 1 will not deny
to you that at present my father is
persona non grata in this house. 1 beg
to assure you that nothing to his dis-
credit or mine bas contributed to that
situation, nor can our meeting here to-
night be construed as detrimental to
him or to me. In meeting my father
in this way_ I have in a sense broken
faith with my Aunt Octavia, 'bet 1 as-
sure yvtt, Sar. Antes, that it is only the
natural affection for a daughter that
ks1 my father to seek me here In this
elandtstine fashion."
Ceeilla had spoken steadily, but her
voice 'woke as she concluded, and she
walked quickly toward the hatchway.
Her father stepped before me 10 give
her his hand through the opening.
I )withdrew to the edge of the roof
while a few words passed' between
them that seemed to be on bis part an
expastnlation and on hers an earnest
denial anti plea. Ile passed tier the
foils and masks. and she vanished, I
whereupon he addressed filmset(' to me,
"1 had learned from both my dangh-
gel's of your presence in my sister's
hoarse. gang! 1 had expected to meet you
sooner or later. '('his is n strange busi-
ness, a strange business."
He lu 11 dr:nvtm out 11 pipe, which he
lillcd and lighted dexterously. The
Haute of 'is mutt•' gave tee better ac-
quaintince with ti is time. Ile leaned
ag:!fust the serrated roof gi and with
the greatest composure and drew his
pipe to n glow. I had not forgotten my
encounter with the ghost on the stair, 1
and as t waited for hint tt, speak 1 was
trying to identify him with the toys-
terious agency that irad tampered with
the lights and passed so ghostly a band
across guy face in the stair well
could hardly say that thele had not
been time for either Bassford Hollister
or his daughter to have reached the
roof after guy experiences on the stair.
and yet they had been engaged su earn-
estly at the moment of my npiastre nee
at the hatehway that it was improba-
ble that either could have played ghost
nod flown to the roof before t rcactteitl
it. And, ellunimttiug the ghost altogeth-
er, 1 had yet to learn hitt' lln5stord
Hollister hid gained eta r:lime to the
house. it...seemed best to drop specula*
tions and wait l'or him to declare self.
CHAPTER Xl.
My Befuddlement Increases.
OU must understand, Mr.
wits Aines, that guy daughters,
both of theta, are very dear
to me," said Bassford Ilollis-
ter. "It is the great grief of guy life
that, owing to matters beyond my con-
trol, I have been unable to ease for
them as I should like to do. This be-
ing the case, I have been obliged to al-
low them to accept many favors from
my only sister Oetayia. This, in ordi-
nary circumstances, would not be re-
pugnant to my pride, but my sister is
a very unusual person. She must do
for my children in her own way, and
while I was prepared, in agreeing that
they should accept her bounty, for
some whimsical manifestation of her
eccentric character, I did not imagine
that she would go so far as to shut me
out from all knowledge of her plans
for them, That, Mr. Ames, is what
has happened."
His voice rose and fell mournfully.
He puffed bis pipe for a moment and
continued:
"There is now something forward
here which I do not understand. 1
have an idea that Octavia has contriv-
ed some preposterous scheme for
choosing a husband tor Cecilia that is
in keeping with her odd fashion ot
transacting all her business. 1 do not
know its nature, and by the terms ot
her agreetnent Cecilia is not to dis-
close tite method to be employed to
me—not even to me, her own father.
You must agree, Ames, that that is
rather rubbing it in,"
"Rut yon don't assume that yn:tr
daughter Is not to be a tree agent in
the matter? You don't believe that
some unworthy and improper man is
to be forced upon her?"
"That, sir, is exactly what 1 fear."
"You will 'pardon me, but I cannot
for a moment believe that miss Hol-
lister would risk her niece's happiness
even to satisfy her own peculiar hu-
mor. Your sister is a shrewd woman,
and her heart, I am convinced, is the
kindest, Among the suitors now
camped at the Prescott Arms there
must be some one whom your daugh-
ter approves, and I see no reason why
he should not ultimately be her choice.
Now that you have broached the mat-
ter, I make free to say that one of
�q
these suitors is an old friend of mine,
WITH A Hartley Wiggins by name, and that
be is a man of the highest character
ai��and a gentleman in the strictest sense."
Serious Problem. He had been listening to Inc with
,�
aboiit
Face To Vino
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and nervously clutched my arm.
"That man may be all that you say,"
he cried chokingly, "but he has acted
infamously toward both my daugh-
ters. He is a rogue and a most despic-
able fellow. He has flirted outrage-
ously with Hezekiah while at the same
time pretending to be deeply inter-
eSted in Cecilia."
"But, my dear sir, is it not possible
that you do him a great wrong? May
it not be the Other way round that
Ilezekiah is trifling with Wiggins' af-
fectioes? He's a splendid fellow, Hart-
ley
artley Wiggins, but he's a little slow,
that's all. And between two superb
young women like your daughters a
man may be pardoned for doubts and
hesitation. The thing is bound to
straighten itself out."
He tossed his bead impiefiently,
"Has it occurred to yott that O.
tavia's interest in this Hartley Wiggins
may be due to a trifling and inmates
riot fact?"
"Nothing beyond his Indubitable
eligibility."
"Then let me tell you what I sus-
pect Both hie- names contain seven
letters. My sister is slightly* craeke4
es to the number seven. 1 swear to
sou my belief that the tact that his
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times contain seven letters each is at
the bottom of all this. Incredible, my
dear sir, but wholly possible!"
"Then, such being the case, why
doesn't she show her hand openly?
You send conjecture far when once
you entertain so absurd an idea."
"You think my assumption unlike-
ly?" he asked eagerly.
"I certainly do, Mr. Hollister. You
may as well assume that, as Wiggins
is specially favored in the number of
letters in his singularly prosaic and un-
romantic name. it is ;Hiss Hollister's
plan to keep him dallying seven years."
He seized me by the arm and forced
Inc back against the battlements, then
stood off and eyed me fiercely.
"You speak of serving and of service!
Will you telt me just why you are here
and what brings you into this affair?
What are you doing in my sister's
house, where I bare to come like a
thief in the night to see one of my
own children?"
I hastened to declare my profession
and that 1 had been summoned by Miss
Hollister to examine her chimneys. I
could not, however, tell him that until
my arrival the chimneys had behaved
themselves admirably.
"You've admitted your friendship for
this Wiggins person—that's enough,"
be said when 1 bad concluded. "1 ad-
vise you to leave the house at once. I
tell you he's got to be eliminated from
the situation. Understand that I do
not threaten you with violence, but I
will not promise to abstain from visit-
ing heavy punishment upon that fel-
low. And you? A chituney doctor? I
am a man of considerable knowledge
of the world, and 1 say to you very
candidly that 1 don't believe there is
any such profession."
"Then let me tell you," I replied, not
without beat, "that I am n graduate in
architecture. I am your sister's guest,
and as she is perfectly competent to
manage her own affairs 1 shall stay
here as long as it pleases her to ask
me to remain. And now, one other
matter. How did you gain this roof
tonight, when by your own admission
yob are not on such terms with your
sister as would justify you in entering
it openly?"
The moonlight did not fall to convey
the contempt in bis face, but I thought
he grinned as be answered quietly:
"You don't seem to understand,
young man, that you are entitled to no
explanations from me. You strike me
as a singularly fresh young person. It
would be a positive grief to me to feel
that my conduct bad displeased you.
And now, as the night grows chill, I
shall beg you to precede me into the
house by the way you came."
"Bnt first," I persisted, "let me ask a
question. It is possible that you your-
self have some preference among your
daughter's several suitors, Mr. Hollis-
ter. Would you object to telling me
which one you would choose for Miss
Cecilia?"
"Beyond question the man for Ce-
cilia, if I have any voice in the matter,
is Lord Arrowood."
"Arrowoodl" I exclaimed. "You sur-
prise
ur
prise me greatly. 1 saw him at the
inn, and he seethed to me the most in-
significant and uninteresting one of the
lot."
"That proves you a person of poor
gifts of discernment, Ma Ames." And
his tone and manner were quite rem-
iniscent of his sister's ways, and his
further explanation proved him even
more Worthily the brother of his sis-
ter-
' As I was obliged," he began, "ow-
ing to au unfortutaate physical haitdi-
cep, to abandon my art, that Of a tea -
rine painter, I have given my atten-
tion tor a number of years to the
kttu1y of the Irish situation. I met
Arrowood ychane In thehighway
:Arna�n'e
by
Yesterday, and T found that he holds
Independence." This certainly bad the
true Hollister touch.
"And so," Bassford Hollister con-
cluded, "I naturally incline toward
Arrowood, though he is so poor that
be was obliged to come over in the
steerage to continue his wooing of nary
d aughter. '
Ile let himself down into the dark
trunk room, waited for me courteously
aud walked by my side to the stair-
AA ay, both of us maintaining silence.
I was deeply curious to know bow he
had entered and whether be expected
to go down the front way and out the
main door. We kept together to the
third floor ball. I could have sworn
to that. Then suddenly, just as we
reached the stairway, out went the
lights, and we were in utter darkness.
I smothered an exclamation, clutched
my matches and struck a light, and
as the stick flamed slowly I looked
about for Bassford Hollister. But he
had vanished as suddenly and com-
pletely as though a trap bad yawned
beneath us and swallowed him. I
found the third floor switch, and it
responded immediately, flooding the
stair well to the lower hall, but I nei-
ther saw nor heard anything more of
Hollister.
Astounded by this performance, I con.
tinned on to the lower floor to have a
look around, and there. calmly reading
by the library table, sat Miss Octaviai
"Late hours, Ur. Ames!" she cried.
"1 supposed you had retired long ago."
"Pardon my troubling you, but may
I inquire, Hiss tinllister, how long, you
have been sitting here?"
The clock on the stair began to strike
12, and she listened composedly to a
few of the deep toned strokes before
replying.
"Just half an hoer. I thongbt some
one knocked at my door about an hour
ago. The lights were on and 1 came
down, saw a magazine that had es-
caped my eye before and here you find
me."
"Some one knocked at your door?"
"I thought so. You tcnow, the serv-
ants have an idea that the place Is
haunted, and I thought that it I sat
here the ghost might take it upon him-
self to walk. I confess to a slight dis-
appointment that it is only you who
have appeared. I suppose it wasn't
you who knocked at my door?"
( CO BE CONTfvt l' n,
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