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brushed the tips -of herlingera 'tbitat;
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up a hanurierand some nails and
faeten the *tree permanently. Then
you can IlleVI3 •the bed back 'to its'
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narrow squeak!"
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heart hut not through galitintry, "that
• bed • steys Where it is. Not all the
She fairly dragged me out into the king% horses nor all the king's men,
corridor and then, picking up her can put it back again."
dainty sidrts, pattered down the rick-
ety 'stairs at so swift a -pace that I
had atone difflepity in keeping her
pink figure le aleit. Why is it that
a woman can go downstairs so much
faster thap a man? • I've never been
able to explain it. She didn't stumble_
once, or miss a step, while I did all
manner of clumsy things, and once
came near to pitching headlong to
the bottom. We went down and
down and round and round so end-
lessly that I was not only gasping
hut reeling.
At last we came to the broad hall
at,the top of the main staircase. Al-
most directly in front of us loomed
the great padlocked doers leading to
the other wing. Passing them like
the wind she led the way to the far-
thermost end of the hall. Light from
the big.peneless windows overlooking
the river, came Streaming into the
vast corridor, and I could see doors
ahead to the right and the left of us.
"Your bedroom?" I managed to
gasp, uttering a belated question that
should have beenasked five or six
flights higher up' at a time when I
was better qualififd to voice it. "What
the dickens is it doing down here."
She did not reply, but, turning to
the left, threw open a door and dis-
appeared into the room beyond. I
followed ruthlessly, but stopped just
over the threshold to catch my breath
in astonishment.
I was in "my lady's bed -chamber."
The immense Gothic bed stood on
its dais, imposing in its isolation.
Three or four very modern innova-
tion trunks loomed like minarets a-
gainst the opposite walls, half -open;
one's imagination might have been
excused if it conjured up sentries
who stood ready to pop out a the
trunks to scare one half to death.
Some of my most precious rugs a-
rkrned the floor, but the windows "1 dare say they laugh at me. eon -
were -absolutely undraped. There found them," said I, lugubriously.
were a few old chairs scattered about "They do," said she flatly. Before
but no other article of furniture ex- / could quite receiver from this senti-
cept an improvised wash -stand, and a ent dig, she was ordering me to put
chimsy, portable tin bath -tub which the bathtub where it belonged. This
leaned monchalantly egainst the foot task completed, I looked up. She
of the bed. There were great mir- . was standing near the bead of the
rors, in the wall at one end of the bed, with a revolver in her hand. I
room, cracked and scaly it is true, stared. "I keep it under my pillow,
but capable of reflecting one's pre- Mr Smart," she said nervously. I
ence. said nothing, and she replaced it un -
"Don't stand there .gaping," she der the pillow, handling the deadly
cried in a shrill whisper, starting a- weapon as gingerly as if it were the
cross the room only to turn aside frailest glass. "Of course I couldn't
with a sharp exclamation. "That hit anything with it, and I know I
stepid , Helene!" she cried, flushing should scream when it went off, but
warmly. Catching up a heap of still accidents will happen, you
tumbled garments, mostly white, from know."
a chair, she recklessly hurled them "Um!" said I, judicially. "And so
behind the bed. "This is the mirror— my study is just beyond this mirror,
the middle one. It opens by means eh? May I enquire how you happen
of a spring. There is a small hole to know that I have my study there."
in the wall behind it and then there ."Oh, I peeked in the other day,"
is still another secret door beyond she said, serene. once more.
that, a thick iron one with the sixth "The deuce you did!"
Baron, Rothhoefen's portrait on the "1 was quite sure that you were
outer side of it. The canvas swings out," she explained. "I opened Lud-
open. We inust--" wig the Red an inch or two, that's
I was beginning to get my bear- all You are quite cosy in there,
ingeee aren't you, I envy you the grand old
The sixth baron? Old Ludwig the chaise lounge."
Red?" I wavered, but succeeded in sub.
"The very one." duing the impulse. "It is the only
"Then, by Jove, he is in my study! comfortable piece of furniture I have
You don't mean to say—" left in my apartments," said I, with
"Please don't stop to talk,'' she convincing candour.
cried impatiently, looking about in a "You poor man," she said, with her
distracted manner, "but for goodness rarest smile. "How fortunate you
sake get something to put against are that I did not remem.ber the
this mirror." chaise lounge. You would have been
My mind worked rapidly. The only deprived of it, I atn quite sure. Ot
ohject in the room heavy enough to course I couldn't think of robbing
serve as a barricade was the bed, and you of it now."
it was too heavy for me to move, 1 "As a matter of fact, F never lie
feared. I suggested it, of course, in- in it," I said, submitting to a once
voluntarily lowering my voice to a conquered impulse. "If you'd really
conspiratorial whisper. like to have it, I'll see that it is tak-
"Pull it over, quick!" she iconi- en up to your rooms at once."
mended promptly. "Thank you," she said, shaking her
"Perhaps I'd better runout and get head. "It's kind of you, but I am
Mar and Ru—" not so selfish as all that, believe me."
"If my hus—if Mr. Pless should "It is—quite in the way, Countess."
open that secret door from the other "Some one would be sure to :Mee
side Mr. Smart, it will be very cm- it if you sent it up now," she said
berrassing for you and me, let—" reflectively.
I put my shoulder to the huge "We'll wait till they're gone," said
creaky bed and shoved. There ware
no castors. It did not budge. The She sinned and the bargain was
Countess 'assisted me by putting the settled without a word from her.
tips of her small fingers against one You've heard of men being wrapped
cnd of it and puehing. It was not about little fingers, haven't you ?
what one would call a frantic effort Well, there you are.
CM her part, but it served to make We returned to the corridor. She
me exert myself to the utmost. I, a closed the door softly, a mockery in
hig strong man, couldn't afford to view of the clatter I had made in
have a slim countess pushing a bed- shifting the bed and its impediments.
stead about while I was there to do "We can't be too careful," she
it for her. . said in a whisper. She might have
"Don't' do that," I protested. 1 spoken through a megaphone and
can manage it alone, thank you." still been quite safe. We were
I secured a strong grip on the hot- tramping up the stairs. "Don't you
tom of the thing ane heaved man- think your guests will consider you
furather inhospitable if you stay away
"l`lYy.ou might let me help," she :tried, from them all morning?"
fit inly grasping a sire piece with bolt I stopped short, "By Jove, now , on and so forth. He offered to give
that you remind me of it, I prothisecl me the address of the men in Munich
haTrlidse' bed moved. The veins stood to take them all out for a spin in the j whc had performed such v)endere for
out on my neck and templee. My motor boat before luncheon. Haeeards him, and suggested rather timidly
face must have been quite purple, and has had his boat sent down." that he might he of considerable as -
it is a hue that detest. When I She looked Positively unhappy. "Oh
how 1 should love to' get out for a
spin ofi. the nverl I wonder if I'll
ever be free to enjoy the things I
like most of—"
"Listen!" I whispered suddenly,
greening her arm. "Did you hear
footsteps in the— Sh!"
Some one was walking ober the.
stone floor in the lower hall, brisk
strides that rang out quite clearly
Was it so hear, Mr Smart?"
I swallowed very bard. A prophe-
tic crick already had planted itself in
rny back. "Will you forgive me if I
-subadt that you sleep quite a distance
from home?" I remarked with justi-
fiable irony. "Why the deuce don't
you atey on the upper floors?"
tBecause I am mortally afraid,"
she said, with a • little shudder.
"You've no idea how lonely, how
spooky it is up there at the dead
hour of night. I couldn't sleep. Ai
ter the third night I had my things
moved down here, where I could at
least feel that there were strong men
within—you might say arm's length
of me. Pm—I'm shockingly timid."
She smiled a wavering, pleading
little smile that conquered.
"Of course, dent mind, Countess,"
hastened to say., "Only I thought
it would be cosier up there with Rose-
mary and the two maids for com-
pany."
She leaned a little closer to me.
"We all sleep down here,"she said
confidentially. "We bring Rosemary's
little mattress down every night and
put it in the bathtub. It is a very
good fit and makes quite a nice cradle
for her. Helene and Blake sleep just
across the hall and we leave the doors
wide open. So, you see, we're not one
bit afraid."
sat down on the edge of the bed
and laughed.
"This is delicious," I cried, not
without compunction for I was look-
ing directly into her eager, wistful
eYes. A shadow crossed them. "I
beg your pardon. I—I can't help
laughing."
"Pray do not stop laughing on my
account," she said icily. "I am used
to being laughed .at since I left
America. They laugh at all of us
over here."
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"It is—it is Mr. Pleas," she whis-
pered in a panic. «1 recognize his
tread. As if I could ever forget it!
Oh, how I hate him! He—"
"Don't atop here to tell me about
it," I cut in •sharply. "Make haste!
Get up to your rooms and lock your-
self in. stop him. How the
deuce did he get into this side of
the--"
"Through the dungeons. There is
a passage," she whispered, and then
she was gone, flying noiselessly up
the narrow stairway. -
Assuming a nonchalance I certainly
did not feel, I descended the sairs.
We met in the broad. hallway below.
Mr. Pleas approached slowly, evi-
dently having checked tits speed on I
hearing my footsteps on the stairs.
"Hello,"I said agreeably. "How
did you get in?"
He surveyed me coolly. know
the castle from top to bottom, Mr..
Smart. To be perfectly frank with
you, I tried the secret panel in your
study but found the opposite door
blocked. You have no objection, I
trust, to my looking over the castle
It is like home to me."
My plan was to detain him in con-
versation until she had time to se- i
crete herself on the upper floor.
Somehow I anticipated the banging
of e door, and it came a moment later
—not loud but' very convicting, just
the same. He glanced at me curious-
ly.
"Then how did you get in?" I re- i
peated, cringing perceptibly in re-
sponse to the slam, of the distant a
do,o,Bey
the same means, I daresay, t
that you employ," said he.
For a moment I was confounded. b
Then my wits came to the rescue.
"I see. Through the dungeon. You
do know the castle well, Mr. Pless." s
"It is a cobwebby, unlovely passage
said he, brushing the dirt and cob.?
webs from his trousers:• My own ap-
pearance was conspicnonsly immacu-
late, but I brushed in unison, just t
the same.
"Grewsome," said I.
He was regarding me with a cur- f
ious smile in his •eyes, a pleasantly
bantering smile that had but one
meaniag. Casting an eye upwards, a
he allowed his smile to spread.
"Perhans you'd rather I didn't dis-
turb Mrs.—"
."Britton," said "My valet's wife.
I don't believe you will disturb her.
She's on the top floor, think."
He still smiled. "A little remote r
from Britton, isn't she?"
I think I glared. What right had
he to meddle in Britton's affairs? i
"I am afraid your fancy draws a /
rather long bow, Mr. Pleas," said I, s
coldly. 1
He was at once apologetic. "If I t
offend, Mr. Smart, pray forgive me.
You are quite justified in rebutting
me. Shall we return to our own
ladies?"
Nothing could have been more ad- t
roit than the way he accused me in r
that concluding sentence. It was the r
quintessence of irony. 1
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American. I could not help feeling
tho derision in which he held not
only roe but the liazzards and the
Mmithe as well. He looked. upon all
of Us. as coming from an inferior
race, to be tolerated only as pasaers-
by and by no means worthy of his
august consideration. We were not
of his vaarld and never could be.
Ignoble to him, indeed, must have
been the wife who came with the
vulgar though welcome dollars and
an ambition to be his equab and the
sharer of his heaven -born glory: He
could not even pity her!
While he was discoursing so am-
iably upon the subjects he knew so
well by means of an inherited intelli-
gence that came down through gener-
ations. I allowed my thoughts to
drift upstairs to that frightened,
hunted little fellow -countrywoman of
mine, as ifitolerant, as vain perhaps
as he after a fashion, and cursed the
infernal custom that lays our pride so
low. Infinitely nobler than he and
yet an object of acorn to him and all
his people, great and small; a dis-
credited interloper who could not de-
ceive the lowliest menial in her own
household into regarding her as any-
thing but an imitation. Her loveli-
ness counted for naught. Her wit,
her charm, her purity of heart count-
ed for even less than that. She was
a thing that had been bartered for
and could be cast aside without loss
a pawn. And she had committed the
nconceivable sin of rebelling against
the laws of commerce: she had de -
'milted! They would not forgive her
for' that.
My heart warmed toward her. She
had been afraid of the dark! I can
orgive a great deal in a person who
s afraid of the dark.
I looked at my watch. Assuming
careless manner, I remarked:
"I am afraid we shall be late for
he start. Are you going out with us
n the boat or would you prefer td
rowse about a little longer? Will
ou excuse me? I must be off."
His cynical smile returned. "I
hall forego the pleasure of browsing
n another man's pasture, if you don't
mind."
It was almost -a direct accusation.
He did not believe a word of the Brit-
on story. I suddenly found myself
wondering if he suspected the truth.
Had he, by any chance, traced the
agitive countess to }ny doors? Were
is spies hot upon the trail? Or had
he betrayed herself by indiscreet'
cts during the past twenty-four
ours? The latter was not unlikely;
knew her whims and her faults by
his time. In either case, I had come
c feel decidedly uncomfortable, so
much so, in fact, that I was content
o let the innuendo pass without a
etort. It behooved me to keep my
emper Es well as my wits.
"Come along," said I, starting off
n the direction of the lower regions.
le followed. manoeuvred with such
access that ultimately he to>k the
ead. I hadn't the remotest idea how
o get to the confounded dungeons'
It never rains but it pours. Just
s we were descending the las. night
f stairs before coming to the wind -
ng stone step: that led Inc down In-
o tat earth, who but Britton should
oma blithely up from the posterior
egions devoted to servants and their
ike. He was carrying a long paste-
oard box. I said something impres-
o ebestway o re o n%, or re- sive under my breath. Britton, on
dpoamiriengofthtohsee emau6tralhaplal,i,n, t
taining him. It was necessaty for gaeed at me forlornly.
ingssaidin, lelhee- Ile put the box behind his back and
seeing us, stopped short in his tracks.
me to have a goo eecuse or rum-
maging about in the unused part of
the castle. "It seems too bad to let
those wonderful paintings go to ruin.
They are hanging down in some plac-
es, and are badly cracked in othere.
I've been worrying about there ever
since I came into possession. For
instance, that Murillo in the centre.
It must be preserved."
He gave me another queer look, and
I congratulated myself on the success
of my strategy.
He took. it all in. The mocking
light died'out in his eyes, and he at
once became intensely intend in
my heaven-sent project. For fifteen
or tweets, minutes we discussed the
dilapidated frescoes and he gave me
the soundest sort of advice, based on
a knowledge and experience that sur-
prised me more than a little. He
was thoroughly up in matters of art.
His own chateau near Buda Pesch,
he informed me had onlyreeentl
"Ah, Britton," said I, recovering
myself most creditably; "going up to
see little John Bellamy, I suppose."
I managed to shoot a covert look at
Mr. Pless. He was gazing at the
hall -hidden box with a perfectly im-
passive face, and yet I knew that
there was a smile about him some-
where.
The miserable box contained roses,
I knew, because I had ordered them
for Rosemary.
'Yes, sir," said my valet, quite
rigid with uncertainty, "in away, sir"
A bright look flashed into his face.
"I'm taking up the wash, Mr. Smart.
From the laundry over in the town,
sir. It is something dreadful the way
they mangle things, sir. Especially
lady's garments. Thank you, sir."
He stood aside to let us pass, the
box pinned between him and the wall.
Never in my life have I known roses
with a more pungent and penetrating
Y odor! Britton seemed to fairly reek
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steps.
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the results.
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"Attar of roses," said 1, sniffing.
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snooping busybodies out
of the castle KJ bad to nag upeverY
door the place, even,at the risk of
starving those SIII0E1 *mild defend.
Especially yvae firm in my resolve
to keep the meddling ex-liusband„ in -
his proper place. Granted that he
suspected me of a secret amour, what,
right had he to concern himself about,
it? None whatever. I was not the
first baron to hold a fair prisoner
within these powerful walls, and I
meant to stand upon my dignity and
nig rights, as every man should. Who
— But,. great heaven, what an im-
becile view to take of the matter!
Truly my brain was playing silly
tricks for me as I stumbled through
the murky corridors. I had my im-
agination in a pretty fair state of
subjection by the time we emerged
from the dungeons and 'started' up
the steps. Facts were facts, and I
would have to stick to them. That
is why I bethought myself to utter
this sage observation:
"Britton is a faithful, obliging fel-
low, Mr. Pleas. It isn't every Eng-
hehrnan who will gracefully submit
to being chuckled out of comfortable
quarters to make room for others.
We're a bit crowded, you know. Ile
gave up his room like a gentleman
and moved over temporarily into the
other wing. He was afraid, don't
you see, that the baby might disturb
my guests. A very thoughtful, de-
pendable fellow."
"Yes," said he, "a very dependable
fellow, Mr. Smart My own roan is
much the same sort of a chap. He
also is married." Did I imagine that
he chuckled?
Half an hour later when I rejoin-
ed my guests after a session with
Conrad Schmick, I was somewhat an-
noyed by the dig George Hazzard
planted in my devoted ribs, and the
furtive wink he gave me. The two !
pressions that seemed pretty well dies were regarding me with ex -1
di-
vided between disapproval and mirth. •
The baron, whose amicable relations
with Mr. Pless evidently had been re-
stored, was grinning broadly at me.
And the Countess imperiously had
directed me to supply her with an
the scandal of the hour!
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CHAPTER IX
I Am Invited Out to Dinner.
I sometimes wonder what would
happen if I really had a mind of my
own. Would I be content to exercise
it • capably? Would I tease to be
putty in the hands of other people?
I doubt it. Even a strong, obdurate
nund is liable to connect with condi-
tions that render it weak and pliable
for the simple reason that it is some-
times easier to put up with a thing
than to try to put it down. An ex-
acting, arbitrary mind perhaps might
evolve a set of resolutions that even
the most intolerant would hesitate to
violate, but for an easy-going, trou-
ble -dodging brain like my own there
is no such thing as tenacity of pur-
pose, unless it be in the direction of
an obfuscated tendency to maintain
its own pitiful equilibrium. I try to
keep an even ballast in my dons of
thought and to steer straight through
the sea of circumstances, a very dif-
ficult undertaking and sometimes
hazardous.
A man with a firm, resolute grip on
formed her that they were
get up for breakfast* OW 1041-,
human beings and not larks.
They used my study for purposes
of their own, arid g at me when
I presumed to itrude upon their
privacy. Mr, Pleas took possession'
of this room, and here rectivettwlk
sorts of secret operatives engagedit
the task of unearthing the former
Mrs. Pleas. Here he had as inapt
as fifteen reports a day by meseen.'
ger from all parts of the land drat
here he discussed every new' feature'
of the chase as it presented itself,
coolly barring me out of my gatitORI
sanetorum with the impassive corn -
mend to knock before attempting to
In spite of their acrimonious tilts
over the card table, he and the baron
were as thick as could be when it
mine to the question of the derelict
ccuntess. They maintained the strict-
est privacy and resented even the
polite interest of their four Anieri-
car. friends.
Finding Mr. Poopendyke at work
over some typing one day, Mr. Mesa
nererantorily _ordered him out of the.
study and subsequently complained to ,
,Otr,
me about the infernal racket the fel-
low made with his typewriter. Just
as I was on the point of telling him
to go to the devil, he smilingly call-
ed mx attention to a complete plan
for the restoration of the two great
hells as he had worked it out on
paper. He had also written a eper-
scnal letter, commanding the Munich
firm to. send their most,eompetent ex.
pert to Schloss Rothhoefen" without
delay, to go over the leans, with him,
As I recall it, he merely referred to
me as a rich American who needed
advice.
(continued next week.)
Winnipeg, Man.—Acquisition of
some sixty of the largest types of
passenger and freight engines, as
.wellsas more than 2,000 neve box cars
which will be ready in time for grain
handling in September, for the West-
ern division of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, was announced by Charles
Murphy, general manager, here. The
new engines will be put into opera-
tion between Fort William and Field,
the first addition to the stock of en-
gines in three years.
It was quite dark and very damp
in the underground passage. I had
the curious sensation of lizards wrig-
gling all about -me in the sinister
shadows. Then and there I resolved
that the doors of this pestilential
prison should he locked and double
locked and never opened again,
I was master of the place.
Moreover, old man Schmick was
down for a had half-hour with me.
How came these doom to be unlocked
when the whole place was supposed to
be es tight as a drum? If nothing
el Se sufficed, the two prodigious
Sehmicks would be required to stand
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