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as blossoms in its flavour
"SALA`
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'Fresh from the gardens'
ed involuntarily its grip on the door,
which swung out past me with a loud
groun, Another beam of light flashed
from the shadows close by, focused
on me and snapped oft,
",lmorillauslty!" cried a man's
I heard him leap through the litter
of furniture, anti dimly saw him fling
hint torch at me, It crashed against
the door, and I snatched up a chair,
stooped low and lashed at his legs.
He tumbled in a heap.
741 "Hugh! Nileka!" I shouted at the
top of my lungs,
I had my hands full on the instant.
The Italian's helper reached for me
first. I saw his knife in his hand,
and struck out with my fist. Being a
knifefighter, it was what he least ex-
petted, and he went over. I 0111 be-
hind the large centre table, and as the
Italian and the other man closed in,
I reared it on end and toppled it et
them. They jumped apart, and I
found opportunity to heave mother
chair at the chap I had just knocked
down.
But I «as in for a bad time. Teodor-
eschi and the elan who had first rush-
ed me were ugly customers. I slipped
behind the couch that stood M front
of the fireplace and tried to make for
the window. They headed me off, and
I drove a right hook to the law of my
origina; foe that sent hint reeling.
'then the Italian was on me like a hu-
man juggernaut. tie swept aside my
blows as though they Were harmless,
folded me in his great arms and tossed
:nc from hint, I spun across the hearth
into the fireplace, and brought t'p on
all fours in the &sites.
Every tooth in my head was jarred
by the crash, but I had no time to
think of pain. I heard the gutteral
snarl of the gorilla -man behind me,
and looked to see his knife descending
in a stab that was :'med inside my
collarbone. Desperate, I threw myself
backward against his legs, and he fell
on aha couch. Yet he was up again in
an instant, anti chopping at me, with
foam dripping from itis lips.
I had to run, and as I ran,I kicked
the fire -irons in his way. They tripped
him and his knife went hurtling across
the room into a bookcase. But I could
not escape. His companion herded me
back toward hint, and presently I was
battling to avoid his clutch. Once
within his reach, I was helpless as a
child.
His anus wrapped ale like cables;
his wicked green eyes blazed nt tore
with insane ferocity; his teeth gnash-
ed at my throat. And his two friends
hovered near, watching for an oppor-
tunity to finish me with their knives.
Then I heard feet pattering in the
hall, a cry of encouragement. I sum.
moiled all my strength for one last
struggle
"Shoot' Hugh! Nikka! Shoot!" I
ytaled
Teodoreschi lifted me from my feet,
and tunica me face upward in his
arms. I honestly think he meant to
gnaw through any throat. His pallid
cheeks gleamed with sweat. His eyes
were utterly inhuman. But an auto-
matic cracked in the doorway, and
Was followed by a choking cry. He he-
sitated. There were, two more shots,
and he slammed me on the floor, with
tr booking setflub of defiance.
The next tying I remember was
Hugh pouring raw Scotch whisky
clown my throat—mid how good it
tasted.
Dial you get him?" I stammered.
"We got one fellow," answered
I-Iugh gristly. "Or I should say,
Nikka did."
He switched the torch on the body
on .the hearth, There was a red
splotch over the hearth. The light set -
ted on a dark, thin hooknosed face.
Watkins stooped, and almost in-
stantly jerked erect.
"It's the ratan that told us 'e came
I thought I had heard a sound, What
from you. On the Aquitaine, sir!"
it was I could not say. It was very ,"Jack, did you recognize the third
faint, a gentle burring rip. •111011?»
I swung out of bed, reached fora 1110111s?"
my head.
candle, thought better of it, and cross- "The 110(11m was the only one whose
ed to the door communicating with face I ,rw."
Hugh's roost. It was ajar, and I pok- 'He is that same Teuton Hugh's
ed my head in, 1 could hear his gentle uncle spoke of."
breathing. Nikka's room beyond him Hugh leaped up,
was quiet, Outside of us three, only "Hoy do you know that, Jack?"
Watkins slept in that part of the "I jus' know, that's all He wanted
house. • to bite my throat out like a tiger. Oh,
After a moment's hesitation, I crept he's Toutou, all right."
Hugh's face grew bitter -hard,
"I should like to shoot the swine,"
he admitted.
"You are very likely to have the
opportunity'," Nikka comforted him.
"Nov, see hese, you chaps, what are
we gaiilg to do with this fellow I shot?
We can't have any publicity, and while
you may persuade servants not to talk
about an ordinary burglary, you can't
Mash therm up if it includes a killing,"
"What's your suggestion?" asked
Hugh.
"Remove hien secretly, and tell the
serv<nts that nothing is missing and
we don't want the affair talked about,"
"But where?" asked Hugh. •
"Use the Prior's Vent," I suggested.
They both looked at Inc as if I had
gone lead.
(To be continued,)
The Teasui of the llco1eoll
By A. D, HOWDEN SMITH
BEGIN THERE TODAY
Lord James, the Crusader, was given
the secret to the Treasure of Bucoleon
by th3 Emperor Andronices, The secret
has been lost, Intl. the present Lord
James discovers it. Ile is murdered 50
band
fstsuccesand
to thetitle
dies
without
reveal-
fag 1tohis Hugh
Chesby. Hugh then returns from New
York to the family estate and begins a
scares The thugs follow. and while all
are at the funeral of Hugh's uncle, 1115
house Is ransacked. Nikka taranlco, a
war-t'me friend of Hugh's, and Jack
Naph, who tells the story, aro Hugh's
11000111 00mptr1110115.
00 ON W1T12 THE STORY
CHAPTER V.
thieves," Nikka said when they ltd
left. "At least, some of theta, The
Italian I made nothing of."
"They said he couldn't speak Eng-
lish," I put in.
"You didn't notice then, that he was
listening to everything that was said,"
observed Nikka.
"No, but I sate him read the rhyme
up there over the fireplaces He gave
me the shakes."
As I spoke I looked up again at
the overnuantel where the Gothic char-
acters showed dimly in the light from
I happened to look up at that 1110- the smoldering logs and the rays of
neat, and surprised the Italian in one the sunset. I conned over the four
of his lightning surveys of the roost. lines deliberately-. "Ye Prior's Vent."
"Mr, Teodoreschi seems exclusive,"
I remarked.
"Oh, he?" remarked Mrs. Ililyer,
"He speaks no English and he in sen-
sitive about it,"
"What at gorgeous fireplace," said
Mr's, Hilyer.
"Esther a quaint verse there, too,
I see, How does it run?"
She picked it out slowly.
Whenne thatte ye Pappist Church -
mantle
Woudde seise hys Soul's contents
Hee tookened up ye Wysshinge Stone
And trolls ye Prior's vent.
'Deuced odd! What does it all
mean?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," I said.
"You don't suppose there, could be
some secret Meaning to those words,
do you?" she asked.
I wish you'd pick it out for ate,"
I coudteled
"A heti to something else, you
know," she went on. "Our ancestors
were fond of that sort of thing."
I felt something behind me, mai
turned my held. The Italian had left
the table in the :entire of the room and ' p
moved rap to the fringe of our group. I
His green eyes, flaring with an un- R
canny vital force, were intent upon v
the rhyme on the over -mantel. N
He growled something in an under-
tone to Mrs. Hilyer, and she nodded.
"Fascinating as your room is, I ant
afraid we must leave you, Lord Cites -
by'," she called 000r to Hugh.
"By the 101.,," Hugh interrupted, as
they were ready to leave, "I 11105111 to
ask you: did any of your people see
strangers around here the morning of
my uncle's funeral? I have reason to
think the house was entered."
I was amazed at the sudden silence
that gripped the room. The Italian
Todoreschi, already in the doorway
after n curt noel of farewell, stopped
dead and stared hard at Hugh
"Not that we've heard of," replied
Mrs. Hilyer promptly. All of us were
at the funeral. And if the servants
had noticed anything queer, I'm sure
they would have reported it to me."
"Thanks," said Hugh. "Would it be
too much trouble for you to inquire of
them, just the sane?"
"Not at all."
"Thanks for the warning, Lord
Chesby. We'll let the dogs loose around
the house after this at night."
Teodoreschi, still standing in the
doorway, rasped a single sentence, and
passed out. The other flocked after downstairs into the entrance hall,
him like hounds over whom the hunts- groping my way in time pitch d. rkness.
man cracked his whip, A chink of light shone out of the short
"I think they are a party of polite passage that led frons the hall into
the Gunroom. It flickered away, and
returned. Wishing now that I had
taken the automatic that lay on the
table beside my bed, I stole into the
Gunroom passage. The door 55110 ajar
and I cautiously peered in.
The Gunroom was a pool of shadows,
save only in front of the fireplace,
where a single ray of light played
upon a prepast_rous figure crouched
on the mantle shelf. The light ca1110
from an electric torch in the hand of
it second figure outlined against the
d'.ing coals of the wood -fire on the
hearth, I caught once more the faint
noise like the prolonged ripping of
teugh,wiotlan syi bad attracted my
attention upstairs.
The light flashed on steel, and I
>;�t e1i h,4t ulq f;gfrr`e on the niaantle-
she f was working with a small 501V
on the panel of the over -mantle con-
taining Lady Jane's verse. As I watch-
ed, he suspended his efforts and barked
impatiently at his assistant, The ray
of light quivered and shifted upward.
For a fleeting section of a second it
traversed the figure on the mantle-
shelf and focused momentarily on his
head and shoulders.
I gasped. The figure on the mantle.
shelf wan Professor Teodoreschi, the
Italian, who had accompanied the
Hilyer party.
In my amazement my hand tighten- Heal the Sprain with Mlnard's.
"Hugh," I said suddenly, "d'you
happen to have with you the copy of
that other verse of Lady Jane's?"
He produced it from his pocketbook,
without speaking.
I spread the copy before ane:
Putte downe ye Anciount riddel
In L'ecente, Seemeli ordour.
Rouse, 1 ye i ystick Sybil,
Vex Hynmte who cloth Endeavour,
Nor treate Hys effortte tendour.
And in the winking of an eyelid the
cipher leaped out before me.
"I've got it!" 1 shouted, and I
sprang up and danced across the
hearth.
"Here!" I shoved the copy of Lady
Jane's doggerel in front of him and
Nikka, "Now watch!"
I took a pencil and drew it through
all except the first letters of the first
and last words in each line, So:
R.I ...... 5.,..
V.. ..... .... ..... E
N.. .... ... ...... t
The result of course, was:
S
E
"Prior's Vent!" gasped Nikka. "He
has found something!"
"Thr'. the secret to the location of
the treasure is in the Priori Vent!"
I added triumphantly.
We puzzled over the find, however,
until bedtime, without reaching a de-
tesion,
CITAPTER VI.
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