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By A. D. HOWDEN SMITH
BEGIN HERE TODAY
Lord James, the Crusader, was given
the secret to the Treasure of I3ueoleon
by thl Emperor Andronious; The secret
James discovers but tIleeispm5rderedord
by
a band of thugs and dies without reveal: -
1m: it to his successor to the title, Flugh
Chesby. Hugh then returns from New
York to the
o family
follow, and begins
all
aear.
areat the funeral of Hugh's uncle, the
house Is ransacked. Nikka Land Juea
war -thee friend of I•Iugh s,
Nash, who tells the story, are Hugh's
bosom companions.
GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER 'VII.
"Let nae have that torch, Nikka," I
commanded.
I turned it on the over•mentel. A
small flexible saw was fixed in the
base of the panel above the dancing
monks, where Touton had placed it.
Nikka climbed on to the shelf. The
panel had been sawed through on both
sides and part of the bottom.
'Finish it,' said Hugh. "It's ruined
anywey:'
White I held the light on the Panel
Nikka sawed away, and in fifteen min-
utes ha had it detached from its bevel-
ed frame.
An inner wooden panel was next re-
moved. Behind it was a shallow re-
cess, perhaps nine inches square; com-
pletely filled by a rusty iron box. Nilo-
ka leveled the box out, and handed it
to Hugh. in the mystery to be murdered like
The box was unlocked, and Hugh a dog! Poor old be
lifted the cover without difficulty. In- The note or record was whimsical-
• side were two papers, very brittle and ly brief and undated:
and women whose bodies had rotted
ages ago.
Half way _.round we came to an-
other shelf that held two skeletons.
The inner, obviously, a woman's,
thrust its poor bones through the Cat-
ered fabric that robed it, The man
wore an immense pot -helmet of the
early type, with eyeholes and nasals
drilled in the fashion of a cross.
On his chest, but just above the
clasped hands, was an iron box iden-
tical with the one which we had found
behind the panel of the over -mantle.
Hugh switched his torch on the base
of the shelf. In rough, angular Gothic
characters we spelt the inscription:
Hic Jaeet
Hugh Dominus Chesbiensis
et
• Edith Doming Chesbiensis
"The .first Hugh!" exclaimed laugh
with a note of awe in his voice.
Te hesitated a moment, and then
reached out reverently and removed
the iron box from the mailed breast.
Handing the torch to me, he raised
the dingy cover. Inside was a chest
of ebony, bound with silver, sound
and whole. It was unlocked. As
Hugh lifted the lid, a sheet ,of paper
fluttered out and Nikka caught it.
"It's Uncle James's record," said
Hugh. "After the exultation of plumb -
What New *York
;Nearing
lay•. 1 TALE WOR.TI-IINGTON
Illustrated Dressmaking- Lesson Fur-
nished With Every Pattern
yellow from the heat of the chimney.
The first was .a torn fragment from a
household account book. The second
paper, on being opened, was found to
be brief and to the point:
"To Hymme thatte hath Witte to
rede Mye riddel. Presse atte ye One
time ye Sfinxes headde and ye Monkes
bellie. So wil ye Flaggin drop in ye
Dexter side of ye Harth. Thatte
whych you Seke you shall Discovour
in yts proper Place. JANE CHESBY."
I flashed the electric torch on the
mantle -Piece. "Ye Sfinxes headde"
was in the very center of the row of
Turks' heads and veiled women that
was sculptured along the edge of the
stone mantle -shelf. "Ye Monkes bel -
lie" was the bit of carving that pro-
truded from the center of the bibu-
lous group that had upheld the panel
bearing Lady Jane's verse. drove his
Nikka bounded up, and
two hands, palms out, against the pro -1.I
jections. There was a muffled thud in tr
the fireplace. I sank on my knees,
and trained the electric torch inside. th
On the "dexter," or eight -hand side, in if
the rear, yawned a hole some two feet b
square.
I crawled through the ashes, and
thrust the torch over the rim. There
was a sharp drop of three or four feet,
and then the beginning of .a flight of
stairs, heavily carpeted with dust. A
damp, earthly odor smote my nostrils.
The others crawled in beside me.
On second thought we decided to
eat and dress before beginning the ex-
ploration as we were still in our Sleep-
ing garments, mine, especially, being
torn and coverer with ashes. A ser-
vant was despatched after some quick-
lime, the way now clear for the dis-
posal of the body.
Breakfast over, Watkins was left on
guard, and Nikka and I carrying the
body between us, followed Hugh with
the lime and a fiashlieht, descended
the secret passageway. Atter walking
a kilometer, Hugh's torch was reflect-
ed
eflected on rusty ironwork of a massive
door.
We deposited the dead Gypsy on the
floor, and helped Hugh to bend back
the creaking iron frame. Beyond
loomed a vast emptiness. The torch
scarcely could penetrate the heaped-
up shadows, but as our eyes became,
accustomed to the room's proportions
we realized that we stood on the thres-
hold of a mausoleum. On a stone shelf
lay a skeleton in armor. A bygone
Lord of Chesby and his lady! On
shelf after shelf lay the bones of men
ast Thursday evening, in studying,
y Jane's doggerel on the back of
instruction, I suddenly perceived
cipher. It occurred to me that the
se on the over -mantel in the Gun -
m must have some connection with
s, and after several days' examine -
n, I fell upon the secret. I say fell,
isedly. In my interest in the task,
ad shut myself up, and refused
cheon, tea and dinner, and finally,
e in the evening, I sank against the
ntle-shelf, weak and half-faintilig.
y hands, groping for support, struck
e sphinx's head and the monk's
omach. I felt them give, heard the
gstone fall. After that hunger was
rgotten. I descended the chimney
airs and found my way here, the
st Chesby to traverse the -Prior's
ent since that singular old ances-
ess of mine so effectually concealed
, and with it, the clue to the treasure.
do not se how I can fail to find the
easure, but I shall leave the missing
alf of the Instructions, together with
is note, in Lady Jane's chest, so that
I should fail, the information may
e available for Hugh.
"James Chesby."
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THE BURNING QUESTION
Professor Snodgrass had promised
to give a lecture on Burns, the famous
Scots poet. Arriving at the village
hall on the appointed night, he was
pleased to find it full tooverflowing.
The lecture started K ,h1r "Tom o'
Shanter," and Snodgrass wound up
with "Duncan Gray."
Just .as the lecture was drawing to
a close a voice called out from the
back of the hall.
"Well, what is it, my man?" asked
the lecturer impatiently.
"When are you goingto give us a
few hints?" replied the interrupter.
"Hints?" echoed Snodgrass, looking
very puzzled.
"Yes, hints," went on the other. "I
came 'ere because you were supposed
to talk about burns, and you ain't
done nothing but spout silly poetry,
while my wife, who's upset a saucepan
of boiling water over her hand, is
waiting to hear whether she should
rub it with oil or shake the flour bag
over it."
Hugh fumbled in the chest and drew
out a bundle wrapped in decaying vel-
vet cloth. Within was a wrapping of
silk, and under all a folded blank sheet
of parchment enveloping two other
documents. One was a parchment in
medieval Latin, tattered and worn,
which had evidently been much hand-
led.
The second document was a pencil-
ed translation of the first in James
Chesby's handwriting:
"The Great Palace—or as some call
it, the Palace of the Bucoleon—is over
against the Hippodrome and the
Church of St. Sophia. In the Inner
Court, which fronts upon the Bosphor-
us, there is a door under the sign of
the Bull; Beyond the door is a hall.
At the end of the hall there is a stair.
.,At the foot of the stair there is a gate.
Pass through the gate into the atrium
which is off the Garden of the Cedars.
In the Garden is the Fountain of the
Lion. From the center of the Foun-
tain take four paces west -toward the
wall of the atrium. Then iwalk 'thee
paces north,' Underfgot is a red stone
in ell square, Raise the
" farewell, my San, and for-
get -not the monks of Crowden Priory
and. the plight of Jerusalem,
"Thine in the love of Christ and the
Sainted Cuthbert,
"Hugh.".
Beneath this:. Lord Chesby' had
scrawled:
'The missing portion is not essen-
tial, aielow the stone is the erasure.
That seems certain."
We looked at one another, hardly
able te,believe our'senses. The thing
had appeared so difficult, so unattain-
able. And now it was almost Within
our grasp—or so we reasoned in the
first flush of confident anticipation.
A wild shout bellowed • from the
mouth of the passage, roared and
clanged like a trumpet -blast and was
shattered by the echoes.
'Your lud'—MisMck! Mis' Nikka!
Hugh slipped the penciled transla-
tion in his pocket and we hurried back
to the gunroom. Watkins was'great-
ly excited. Our guest of last evening,
Countess Ile1ep, de,Aspecles, it seems,' !rem in on
io moo
o past xu stater, Ulric;
had entered the room during our ex- each `unease, „cvenln a
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Beat one egg until light, and add
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The Tiny Speckled Things
By Willa Hoey
I went a"fishing yesterda,
And caught some little trout,
I bad them for my dinner,
' With parsley round about;
They really were delicious
An dish e'en fit for Dings,
When served with fried potatoes,
The tiny, speckled things.
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Two eggs, and their weight in but-
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Nut and Cherry Pie
Last eight I lay a'dreaming,
And fol a fish was I,
A sportsman had just caught me,
His hook had pierced my eye;
Wriggling in pain, I ,heard him say—
"A dish e'en fit for Kings,
When served -:vith fried potatoes, -
The tiny, speckled things."
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