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THE
KESTREL HOUSE
IVINSTE*Y
By T. C. H. JACOBS
I. 61
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SYNOPSIS., tion of the house became visible. Pre-
sently Eyecroft and Flack reached the
edge of the plantation and halted in.
the shadows to survey the scene. A
ragged lawn fringed the front of the
house, a large, study -looking struc-
ture, built in the local granite, but
with a neglected, depressing appear-
ance, enhanced by the heavy, dark cur-
tains which covered the lower win-
dows. The massive oak door was
closed, and a lorig strand of ivy hung
down from the porch, almost reaching
to the steps.
Flack was on the point of expressing
bis opinion that the place was desert-
ed, when a light shone out from the
room on the ground floor facing them.
Henry Holt and his ward, Muriel
Mainwg ring, are staying at a Dartmoor
Varna. Holt has a friend at Kestrel
House, Moineau. who has a nephew, and
Holt is anxious that Muriel marry this
neplaew, Hayden Mercer. Percival Pye-
croft comes to the farm where Holt Is
living; he takes a walk on the moor and
is murderously assaulted. Later he finds
Muriel and, Hayden Mercer in an alter-
cation and intervenes. Several Perseus
have mysteriously disappeared, and Chief
Inspector Barnard is investigating. Pye-
croft's chauffeur and valet, Flack, comes
down from London and Pyecroft tells
him he is going to turn a locket which
he found on the moor and which evidenv-
ly belonged to Mona Page, one of the
missing persons, over to Barnard.
CHAPTER VII.—(Cont'd.)
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"Blinley!" he muttered, ‘,,electr me of satisfaction escaped him, it
light!"
a '' a& just what he had hoped
Caatiously, he moved along a fe .0r but scarcely dared to expect.
l'
paees until he was able to see late th
rcorn, but before he had time, to dVIII
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tinguish the oce.ipant the 1444w * . CHAPTER .
switched off. • alai* cm his hands and knees ne-
Pyecroft beekoned to him, al1 :side bin), had seen it also,
"We'll make a circuit, of the bu' ' ''truthi" he shuddered, crawling
ing before it gets too lark," he w p. back into a position less precarious,
pered. "Wet a (elmet:I hole!"
Keeping well into the pla n, rYecroit pocketed his torch and
they waked their way aro * , e joined liim under the wall,
lower side until they were abl ,,„, J. "Think •you can lear that ditch?"
tain a view of the back premises. e he asked,
the !rant, they presented a peeul ly "Wot, jump acrost ,here, climean,
deserted appearance. Flea ey it gov'nor?" •
with professional interest not in aa "Yes, it looks wore than it really
ed with contempt. is, X think,"
"Ain't much to stop us here, a Flea% measured the distance with
nor," lie murmured. hi poised himself and a moment
Pyecroft did not aalSwer; he A later ; ad dropped lightly on the oppo-
listening intently. Presently he e site bank.
down and placed his ear to e "It ain't any too firm over here," he
ground, Glancing up he motifA celled across in a stage whisper,
a
Flack to do likewise. " - , "There'e some loose stuff along the
"Well?" he demanded, as they a edge you gotta look out for."
up again. "All' eight, I'm coming," returned
rie7nbhaet'sproniliaecuhnieneedr.y working, g - Pyecroft, and leaped.
He 1 ncled heavily and immediately
"Dynamo?" felt the ground giving beneath lear.
Flack loolced doubtful.' rgleaele grabbed his coat collar and
"There'l more than a dynamo we ,1,,letauledlhim to safety as a large stone
ing," he said, at last, "but it's li flied iteelf from .the side and went
stuff. Queer, ain't a-, to have mac). 'easei ling into the gorge carrying un
ery working underground in a siI, avalapph of emaller stones and earth
house like this?" •. , ‘-a with. i -Dismal echoes came up from
"So queer, my dear Flack," resp -' anal blackness.
ed Pyecroft, "that I feel a most. , glaesnor, you was near:y
erful urge to inspect it, *le ,darethecl Flack, -Wiping his
&lad, hosv, that's the rub. As you, * NV .'611 an extremely soiled hand -
aptly put it, there ain't much to s ehief.
us here, but once in, would we ' '
below?" „ e 'aft flicked ,he dirt from his
smiled:
"Sure, gov'nor, why not? We a you, old scout, I'm still
met a oor wot' beat es yet." , get on with the good
Pyecroft smiled. Ho shared with the e got to find the way
other a pride in that compact li tunnel and it must be
bag of tools, but it wasn't of Jocks the car is parked some -
bolts that he was thinking. Presen entrance."
he voiced some of his thoughts. big idea in keeping a
It's that damned car that's troti; udder secret?" asked
le
ing me. There ought to be a gar ea Wide muss see the thing
here, and there is not. What is meet, zometimes."
there is not a single trace of wla4 ' ?'d& true," agreed Pyecroft.
marks anywhere." Tastable Ford has probably seen it
Flack looked surpeised, but Iii.ea
.ra' ,
number of times. The idea, as 1
no comment. He failed to undereten ndeestand it, is to conceal the Men-
the significance or the connection with tity of the owners."
the matter in hand. "Some of the gang up at the house
being known in -the village and some
ain't, eh, gov'nor? The ones wot ain't
known do dale body snatching and if
ee
Pyecroft turned' on his heel,d'alid
commenced to walk slowly througli tie
plantation towards the river. EVery
few yards he knelt; down. and plada the car by a. bit of bad luck is recog-
r
his ear to the grouna. , Understands razed, well eten, there's no connection
ing began to dawn in' Flack's mind with the heAse, nobody up there own -
He followed after himitlistening Va. ,, ing a car teaever had one on the pram -
"Get the idea?" asked layeerbtnia ises, as cartaeasily be proved."
a whisper. . . • "That's about the size of it, some-
.
"Sure, gov'nor,
here, there's a back
them cellars."
"Good lad. It remains now bit
find it."
Five minutes later they reached the7
edge of the plantation, climbed ti'
wall and found themselves on the bang.
allow uffaeei ,thing of the sort, anyway."
'taance 'intp,, "But wot's the body snatching for,
gov'nor? If it was all women it would
be pretty easy to get, but they got a
fancy for men z..s well."
. Pyecroft shrugged his shoulders
"At the moment I haven't the re-
'niotest metier.," he said, "It's up to
of a deep gorge through 'which the. Xs to fiatt out, and the quickest way
river swirled in an angry torrent rft..fip do it is to take a stab at finding
hundred feet. or more below. So n the secret entrance,"
'ow was it ,that the „teeCee'-'itbaaletla, rucek nodded. Past experience had
was' less than eight feet. - In the 'that the gov'nor e had a
time in the dim ages the river must very good reason for everything ae
have been of considerable volume, for
the walls of the ravine overhung to
form a lofty arch. Pyecroft, lying
ADVIS-NTUM-S of
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eiridhk Dog SCOTTIE-
camefore; After many adven-
tures flying over the war zone in China.
Captain Jimmy and Scottie get lost in
the dark and land inenemy territory. A.
freight train leaves SUPPlies at a siding,
and they are cautiously approaehing,
When iraterrUpted.....—:-.
Quietly we approached the freight
train. The food and gasoline which
we needed so badly would soon be
ours, Then, right out of the ground
leapeci a dark form. A heavy blow
landed on my 'head, and I knew no
more. •
Gradually I 'became conscious. Jolt
— jolt ee jolt! I
tried to put my
hands to my head
but they were
securely bound.
Someone had tied
me on the back ot
bnrvo, and just
ahead the Colonel
and Fu Hsu were
securely bound on two more. Num-
berless other donkeys loaded with
bundles and boxes moved in single
file along a narrow rocky path, and
leading each, strode a Wicked look-
ing ruffian, armed to the teeth.
Chinese bandits had captured us.
Jolt—jolt—jolt! Through the hills
we went, while a great blazing sun
scorched us with stifling heat, The
bandits had plenty of water, but for
never a drop. Between drinks
they would grin at us, and pat their
stomachs, seeming to enjoy our
misery. Of Scottie I knew nothing,
and became very anxious as to his
fate.
Everything must end sometime.
Toward nightfall we came in sight
of a rift in the, mountains, where the
sheer cliffs rose for hundreds of feet
into the air. Here, indeed, was an
ideal spot for a bandit camp. A few
men could hold the defile rgainst an
army. Below stretched a beautiful
valley, green and fresh as a moun-
tain paradise.
The burros, scenting the sweet
grass, rushed down toward the bandit
camp in a regular stampede. As we
approached, a miserable looking mob
of men; women and children, swarm-
ed out of the tents.
They were a hard-bitten crowd,
every one of them. They jeered at
did, and he had never regretted the
day when he had joined forces with
him. But the other was still as big
flat, peered into the dark shadows, but, a puzzle to him as ever; he could not
though the roar of the water filled his
ears he could not see, it. From his
pocket he took a powerful% 'eleetric
torch; carefully directing its -beam
into the gorge he swept the walls,
Immediately he perceived a large ap-
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understand his game, though he fol-
lowed h:indly where his master led
and asked no questions. He knew he
was no ordinary crook andesuspected
that he was a master -mind for the
most part playing a lone hand. That
he reaped a rich harvest was clear
f.170111 the standard of living and the
generot' treatment of those 'ho
served him. Flack knew, that he was
in' his confidence to a limited extent
only, but the knowledge roused in him
no ill -feeling, indeed, be would have
been surprised had it been otherwise :
thoroughly approved of the lone,
and owed his liberty at the pres-
Moment to the fact that ee had
never taken another into his confi-;
„lence. And the gov'nor had no nse .
for women, that was another point on '
which Flack was in the most hearty
agreement. Womer in the crook game
meant ruin, he knew, he'd been very
nearly bitten himself, and had no in-
t 1.1 of repeating the experiment. '
croft's voice broke in upon his
We'll walk down towards the
idge; the area is restricted, and it
ht _dot to take us long."
• aIn which he proved to be correat,
for some ten minutes later they des-
cended into the bed of a gully and dis-
eeed wheei-marks in a patch of
marshy ground. As they progressed
the gully narrowed, the rugged walls
towering above them grim and anenac-
Tetg. By the light of the tomk they
examined the ground, but no further
tracks were visible until amending a
bend they fdend themselves at a dead
end. •
Flack glanced earound in the dark
and shivered. Drawing close to Pye-
croft, he whispered:
"Nix doing here, gov'nor, it's a
blooming cul-de-sac,"
,• Pyecroft shook his head:
"There's an entralce here, some-
where," he said, "but it's too dark to
see it So there is nothing else to be
done but to explore the whole hese
of the cliffs, 1 vote that we try the
far end first, that's the niest likely
p
la
c
e
s"
Itas Flack who ultimately found
it 'cunningly concealed beneath thick
strands of creeper which Ming -n pro-
fusion down the cliff face.
"Here y'ame, gov'nor," be whisper-
ed, "wot's this?"
Pyecroft directed his light upon the
spot where the ether was holding
back a great bunch of ern*, and
saw a portion of a wooden door
ed to reseinble the gra/ rock on either
side of it.
US, and the children pelted ne wJ Lh
soft mud, But (Wally any turu came,
Suddenly 1 dug 'my tees into that
burro and charged the mob, He
bowled Several elver, find in a mem.-
Mit the Vamp Wail in an uproar. Oleo
fat follow stood in lily wey, but that
donkey Jest hatted him in the belt,
and ho lenthencorpinnk on the side
of a tont. after thab we galloped
off in to tliu ulgliL bete re aliyone
could saddle a horse.
Dp the valley, I forted a cliff with
sharp edged reeks. Working close
to it, I began to rub the ropes which
bound my wrists, on the rough sur -
taco, Then lights began to twinkle
here and there in the valley, as the
bandits set out to hunt for me with
torches. Five minutes, ten, fifteen,
I rubbed those toueli ropes, while til'
lights oame nearer, then, just as 3
had given up hope—they snapped
and I was free!
ally arms were so numb that I was
almost as helpless as a baby. Up
and down tbe valley bobbed the
torches—and each torch was carried
by a man -hunter. I edged close into
the cliff, while the feeling gradually
came back into my hands.
Fortunately for me, noon e came
near my hidieg place Whenever a
bandit's torch went out,. lie would
make a dash for camp, so as not ,to
be 'eft aloe in the darkness. Prob-
ably be was afraid of a dragon jump.
lug on his back, and flying away
with him to its den. Anyhow, the
torches went
out oue by oue,
and the search
ended for the
time. 500131
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the tamp quiet
ed down. Sen.
teles paced to
" %,/ aaaa and fro, but as
the night wore
on, even these huddled close to the
dying camp fires, and dozed in the
fitful light.
Just the idea. time for a raid! No
one would ever expect a prisoner to
suddenly attack a camp full of arm-
ed men.. Cautiously I set out to-
ward the tents.
(To be continued.)
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."How the devil did you spot that?"
exclednied.
Flack grinned:
"Bit of luck it was," he confessed.
"Y. tripped over this here vine stuff
and found mihand resting on wood."
"By gad 1" murmured Pyecroft ad-
miringly, "they've concealed that jolly
well. It would take mighty keen eyes
to discover it it daylight, practically
impossible in the dark, I should think,
It's locked of course?"
"Aye, it's locked, hut I'll have it
open in a twink nith the twirlers."
(To be c( ntinued )
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