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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1906-05-10, Page 7The Adventurers By 11. B. MARRIOTT WATSON ' COPYRIGHT, 1891!, BY HARPIR E BROTHERS to oritimuussasmossatmosorimsevoigramswpossmisswwuimmettibi lion. "Got lt," he said sharply. !'Throw the light this way." I moved the lantern forward, end sure enough there under Sheppard's hand stood out a round Iron knob or Handle In the huge masonry. "Press," said I. "No; turn," saki be, Nothing ensued upon his action. "bet Montgonery try," I suggested. L1io boy stepped forward and ;wrenched at the knob. "It's stiff with rust of centuries, but it's set hi iron," said Sheppard. "We :shall want oil." "Oil be hanged!" said Montgomery. "PI) do this.or die." • He swung, doubling on himself, and 411e veins jumped in his forehead. "You will move your wound," I pro- ttested, Montgomery said nothing, but renewed his exertions, and with a creak 'the knob turned and a gap grew an the wail. "Hurrah!" said Sheppard,, his voice ricochetting down the musty corridor. "flush!" I enjoined. "Pull it open." :The two tore back the cupboard door, and my lantern flashed on an appall- ing space of blackness. "There is nothing here," said Mont- gomery. outgomery. "We're not finished, you duffer," said Sheppard eagerly. "Feld along the !back wall. Isere, let me. Ob, the devil! I'm too short!" Thrusting the lantern into Sheppard's bands, I sprang at the wall, and with a leap seated myself on the floor of the cupboard. "The back is wooden," I said. My. •fingers ran swiftly across the oaken outface and presently stopped. "The lantern," I called to him. Sheppard let the lantern fall in his texcitement, and in a moment we were gblunged in darkness, At the same time there arose a sound on the grim silence of the corridor. I drew in my breath, .Ind I think every one did the same. X felt rather than heard Montgomery fumbling with his revolver. Ten, twen- ty, thirty seconds passed, and then Sheppard struck a match. "It's the infernal wind," he ex- tclaimed. . The light flared in his face as he relit (he lantern, and I noticed that it was Wild and burning, With tremulous fin- gers he handed me the lantern, and the Bight shone on a bit, of steel l held un- 41er nra thumb. I pressed, and with a •;Jerk the odken screen fell back. I put out a hand and encountered nothing. ' "I'm going through," said in a whis- iirer. "Follow me. I'Il leave the Ian - tern here. Heaven knows what we Ishall find." I let myself softly down below, and .'lily feet struck the stone of the floor iolice more. Sheppard and Montgom- pry followed. We cast the light about gip, We were in a dungeon closed with- ', �� sad HEAP. :The treasure was there before ottr greedy faces, 'in absolutely blank walls. In the cor- der some rags and paper lay heaped. 1 pushed them aside, and they crum- bled at the touch of my foot. "It's not here," said Sheppard. •'Throw the light this way. Ah, I 'ithought so!" ' Ere he had finished he was halfway !;lip a flight of stone steps, and we fol - ;lowed peilmell. A door of heavy oak [barred the way at the top. "We wanted oil after all," said Shep- •l�iard impatiently. Montgomery flung !his weight against it, and with a crash ;3t opened. • Montgomery, overbalanced With bis l -a Cold" y eIort, staggered and fell upon the threshold, but Sheppard, who was next turning, to him,aid no attention and, t t ng, P looked at me. The light made no Way • upon the great darkness. "Do you know where we are?" whis- pered Sheppard. "'This is below the u •e allin? keep. Shall we go P "Certainly," I said, "get Montgom- ery up." lie pulled the ltd to his feet, and slowly we shoved back the huge creaking door. The chamber into which we were now come was small and square and, like that below, barred by solid mason- ry ason ry and unrelieved by window or grat- ing. I found later by calculation that this must be in the very heart of the keep itself and so wholly. disported from the •+rest of the castle that the noise of ordnance would scarce have penetrated its deep and dismal re, cesses. � 1y eyes were drawn as by a magnet to the farther corner of the barren cell, in which I could perceive some formidable shadows wavering be- neath the dull, uncertain light of my lantern. Sheppard also had descried them and, plunging forward with a cry, flung himself upon his knees. "They are here right enough," he called. And at his words Montgom- ery and I approached hint. I held the light above his head, throwing the faint beams across his shoulder. There were three large oaken cases standing upon legs. and simply carved upon the face. The dust lay deep on them, as upon the floor of that interior dungeon. Sheppard brushed the dust away and seized the lock. The hinge fell back to bis touch, and slowly be lifted the massive lid. • The light shone still upon dark shad- ows, but, stooping a little lower, I thrust it into the mouth of the aper- ture, and our noses hung over the sides SNEEZING and running at the nose, stuffed up feelings in the head, sore throat, tickling in the throat and coughing. it This is the natural development of Unsure of the windows a watch might what is in the beginning ""only a cold." be kept upon the nether parts of the It is the way III which scores and Gwent Rut from one so stationed the thousands are allowing colds to de- back of the park and the crown of the hill behind 'were quite concealed. In velop into bronchitis, pneumonia, this connection it appeared that the Consumption or some equally fatal keep would best serve us, more pudic - lung trouble. blarly as the upper ebambers were r if colds were promptly cured there readily gained from the inhabited wing 'grould be no need for sanitoriufaas and of the castle, whereas the towers reared their formidable heads in isolation and hospitals, for consumptives. Because led only to the corridors of the base- peop10have abealtlungs they need not meat and to the battlements above. It become consumptives if they will but was In the keep, thou, that our sentinel guard against colds and cure them must Bold Iiia glint watch, The high - promptly by using ]fir. Chase's"Syrup est chamber in the keep rose i!mmedi ipf Linseed and Turpentine. ately above the level of the battlements This great medicine has proven its and was pierced by narrow slits in fhe masonry. This was a convenient sta- t tight to place tin every bonne by better still the root of the that THE • W. T L,M TIMES, MAP 10 0 06 we had settled this point, And by that time it was 4 o'clock, "Now, you bad better go and He clown, " Haid I to the others; "otherwise you will be nodding -en your watches tonight, 1'or my part, there is an hour yet to the time of safety, and I take first watch." Sheppard expostulated with me Lor what the termed unnecessary precau- tion, but I held to my point, and pres- ently they left me. CHAPTER K. IEN X descended into tate house I had bit upon one lite of defense at least, and I at game proceeded to real- ize it, As I walked from the draw- bridge alonga oat tothe back of bltgth mme the castle I wondered if it was prac- ticable; but, remembering what old Kesteven had said of his pr'edecessor's experiment some forty years before, I that the sluiceswould had great hopes t still work. The brook ran, as you will remember, behind the castle, at a little distance from it, and I found without difficulty the mouth of the conaute which had been formerly used to feed the fosse, I inserted my arm as far as possible, and the space seemed fair- ly clear, though the earth had crept in and lay along the bottom, grown with grass to the depth of some inches. Still I had no fear that the flow of water would not wash this sediment away, provided always I could get the sluices up. To Sind these sluices was my next thought. I moved along the turf in the direction in which it seemed that the culvert must run, scrutinizing very carefully. every inch of the ground. About three feet from the stream was a noticeable elevation, a grass plot rising in a mound two feet high, Here was obviously what 1 wanted, And so, taking a spade, I dug with a will and soon had the turf re- moved and the floor of ivstone erection laid bare. It was a good !tour's work g°finery cheerfully, and, taking his ere I had Bleared the rubbish away brace' of pistols, he vanished along the sufficiently to free the sluices; then.] corridor ��� laid hands on them and pulled vigor - think s this: asked Sheppard, "1 ottsly, but fruitlessly. I must plainly think the peer boy has earned his diu- have assistance, and accordingly, well ries• enough content with my labors so fat, "Bless you, he shall have his dinner," I went back to the house. At break - to answered. "Only the danger is going fast I revealed my scheme, much to to bo later, and I'd rather Montgomery the delight of Sheppard, who roundly were asleep in bed than asleep on the deelnred that be would give five years tower. " of his life for this adventure. Support We bad arranged that Williams eel by two enthusiastic assistants, I re should stay the night in the castle and, turned to work, fetching with mea imbuing him with the fear of burglars, heavy iron bar for use as a lever. bad armed him with a shotgun in case '" 1 1-ttl rl • beef dont ower '� we should come to the worst. As Shep- MQ'�[iER, SISTER AND BROTHER » edofConsumptiop,butthislinden lady used Psychine and is strong and well $" My mother. brother and sister died of consumption,' says E11a M. Cove, of Lin- ! den, N.S., "and I myself suffered for two str s n yearsfrom di est moa hand weak ons ;x g lngs. I suppose I inherited a tendency in this direction? But thank God I used Psychine and it E i up.Mylungs built ma right are now strong. I enjoy splendid health, and I owe it all to Psyrhtne." Consumption, whetherbereditaryor con- ructed, cannot stand before Psychine. Psychine kiltsthe germ,o materit Ps h n t how t Y attacks the lungs. Psychine builds up the body and makes it strong and able to resist. disease. Psychine is an aid to digestion and a maker of pure, rich blood. The greatest giver of general health is SYCFIINE (Pronounced Si -keen) 50c. Per Bottle Larger sizes SI and 52—all druggists. DR. T. A. SLOCUM., Limited, Toronto. "No; let Montgomery," I said mean - "Right you are," responded Mont - of the box together. The treasure was there for certain' t e t or g ge pard remarked, `t a could readily tan pard,- There it lay spread before out greedy also1eti t I as d la Prl ey nc cock with! his ef• gle the Welshman's brains if he be - faces, the gold and the silver and the forts. Montgomery flung his heavy came suspicious, and if his garrulity precious stones that had been destined should and with a crackk csomeomething came nd bring us the sympathetic as - to save one king from death and an- body upon the th of the bar, sistance of the Iaw I think we could other from exile. I let the pieces slip witha jerk. At the seine time I heard be stupid enough and vague enough to confound kindly efforts. Mrs. through my fingers—guineas, moidores, below n faint rumbling and rushing as to nwas by hishin time bound to us circlets of gold and silver, amulets oe is iter, and all the material gems of the mar- by iron ties through Sheppard's con- trivance, nor do I know to this day ex- actly how he managed it or in what directions he used his amiable and soothing fictions. The housemaid was Mfrs. Main's hireling, and we need scarcely include her in our calcula- tions: We were now, as I conceived, ade- quately fortified against a surprise. Frain 8 o'clock until dawn upon the next morning we should be stretched upon the rack of suspense, but each of us was sturdily resolved to accomplish his duty at all hazards. That an attack would be delivered I had few doubts, but my anxiety Jaye rather as to the watch in which it would be delivered. I had sent Montgomery to his post early, as it seemed wiser for more re- sponsible beads than his to take the deeper and darker hours of the night. From 8 till 11 his time ran, and yet they might be upon us ere that. He was fed with some sandwiches and cheered with a little wine, while be- low Sheppard and I waited in a condi- tion of tension. "Oh, hang its" exclaimed Sheppard presently, after dinner, "I can't stand this. Let us go and join him." "You would be much wiser," said I, "to get an hour's sleep." Sheppard shrugged his shoulders. "It's my turn next, you say, and I'm not used to be awakened in my beauty sleep. It's bad for me. No; I'll go to bed when you relieve me. But I rec- ommend your own advice to yourself." "And I will take it," I answered. "See that Montgomery gets his supper and goes to bed like a sensible person. I'll be with you at 2 punctually." I cannot say that I enjoyed a peace- ful sleep. Although I wee dog tired, partly from the exertion ( f the day's work and partly because 1 l:ad had no rest the previous night, I still slum- bered very fitfully. FInal]: I awoke in n fever and, throwing the l: .t blankets from me, stepped to the open window. My bedroom faced the north, and the cool airs that heralded the dawn wan- dered over me, reducing the fume and fire of my nerves. Par away some roistering bird was calling, not in his spring notes, but raucous now with the somber beat of autumn. The curtain of the dawn was lifting. It was time for me to relieve Sheppard. My watch marked a quarter to 2. Having dress- ed, I went clown to the great hall and, thrusting the western windows open, looked out. Trees, like great ghosts, Invisible, 'whispered in the night to- gether. The stars glimmered down be- low, and I recollected suddenly that I was peering into the water of the fosse. a The stillness hung so deep that I Was In all three periods Milburn's heart and possessed of a sudden with a hundred Nerve pills will prove of wonderfulealuo to tide fears. Was Sheppard murdered? And Gver'the rites. hire. ,games King, Cornwall, were the castle and its treasure now in Ont„ writes: "I was tro»blcd verse much with the hands of those abominable asses - heart trouble—the cause being to a !treat extent sins? I listened fol; a cry, but there due to"changcof life. " T have been,taking your was none, only the gentle wash of Mean and fills for some time, and mean . the waters against those anelent foun- to continue doing se, as X can truthfully say they are the best remedy I have over used for dations Land the swishing of the leafage building up the system. You act at liberty to on the neighboring trees. The park use this statement for the benefit of other lay, As Dila might have fancied, under ket. "How much is there?" asked Mont- gomery. Sheppard seemed to ponder, measur- Ing rudely with his finger and comput- ing the superficial area of the boxes. "No one can say offhand," said he, "for there are the jewels, for one thing, among willch are rubies. Now, rubies of that size" --and he pounced upon one —"are worth little short of a thousand pounds." Montgomery gaped and whistled. "Let us make a rough shot and put the box at £50,000. Come; I'll take a bet that it's muter the mark." "Then there are the other two," said I. "True," said Sheppard. We all looked at ono another. "Come, boys," I said, rising; "let us get out of this. We know our way, and the treasure cannot take itself wings." Reluctantly they obeyed, and we re- traced our steps through the cupboard into the corridor and thence upward through the courtyard and into the liv- ing rooms. The dawn was brightening the eastern skies. I pulled out my watch. "After 3," I said. "You'd better go to bed. There will be nothing happen now." "Three o'clock!" echoed Sheppard in- dignantly. "Why, it is the very time for attacks and surprises. No; I'll see it out now." "Very well," I assented. "We've got to arrange our defense, and as you are all determined not to go to bed we may as well hold a council of war." "Agreed," said they, and we sat down to the job without further ado. We were agreed to consider o in the morn- ing as tiie break of day for our pur- poseS, and We were hardly exposed to an assault before 8 in the evening. The sky was still luminous at that °hour. It was therefore plain that We mast set a guard upon those intermedi- ate and nocturnal hours. From 8 till u" was a space of niue hours. That was to determine for us a watch of three. So far we settled the preliminaries of our defenses. But we had now to con- sider further. The drum towers com- manded the slopes of the valley like two tall sentinels, and from the em - ""We vc lou° it!" I shouted, and ere the words were out of my mouth Shep- pard and the other were racing for the moat, whither they presently waved me with wild hands. The water was pouring from the coii- duit in a strong stream fully one foot tit thickuess. That was enough. It would take some hours to fill the moat, but it might take all day so long as we were secured by the fall of night. it e left the sluices up and went back. "The next tiring," said I, "is to attack the drawbridge. The portcullis wants oil, but that will do later." "We'll have the castle a mediaeval fortress in a twinkling," said Shep- pard. The heavy chains of the drawbridge were intact, but the machinery was in a very bad way, and without more ado we set to work upon it. I called my man Williams into requisition, and I think it took the four of us till 0 or 7 o'clock in the evening ere we pro- nounced ourselves satisfied. After that we had a rehearsal with both port- cullis and drawbridge. By this time the moat was swimming with water, which lapped under the shoulders of the bridge. There must have been ful- ly twelve feet of water in the fosse. "This won't do. We'll have an inun- dation," said Montgomery, and he let the sluices down. When all was done we surveyed our handiwork and -were con- tent. It was now close upon 8 o'clock. Dinner had been ready for more than half an hour, so we were informed by Mrs. Main, who must base regarded us as lunatics. The clock in the hall struck 8 its we eutered, "Watch time," said I. "Who goes?" We looked at each other, laughing, "`It's my turn," said Sheppard, with a grimace, but I stopped him. THREE Trying Times in A WOMAN'S LIFE WHEN MILBURN'S HEART AND NERVE PILLS are almost an absolute necessity towards her future health. The fust when she is just budding from girl- hood int° the full bloom of womanhood. The second period that constitutes a special drain on the system is during pregnancy. The third and the one most liable to leave heart adnerve troubles isduring "changeoflifet silent figure turned and a low voice spoke. - "Is that you, Ned?" The sound almost startled me, occur- ring upon the stillness. "-buy trews?" I asked. '"Kell, I have two things to com- municate. Do you see that tree." I peered into the darkness in the di- re, -tion he had indicated. "I bear it," I observed doubtfully. "WO, I've seen it," lie retorted. "Blur ayes are better than mine,. then," 1 answered. "Maybe," saki Sheppard cheerfully, "maybe not. But I don't profess to see r tlirou;,h a wall. That tree is fifty Paces away, and it is an oak, very large and umbrageous." "I believe you are right," I answered. {{ „ I think recollect it. "I didn't," he went on. "But I reck- on to see by match light as well as any." I was puzzled. ""Match light?" 1 (laerie(1. "You haven't been"— "Oh, dear, no:" lie exclaimed. "My tower bas been the central patch of I stole upstairs to the keep. blackness in this black night. Be- sides, who ever struck a match al night to see by? No; the match was in that same tree I speak of." I was silent. "I presume it didn't strike it- self," he continued. "Lower your voice," I enjoined. Sheppard smiled, as I could perceive even in the darkness. "Oh, I don't see why," he declared. "There's no one there to strike a match uow, to the best of my belief." ""flow is that?" "Did you hear no sound?" be asked. I shook my bead, and he patted his shotgun, : Colorado ' "I congratulate you on your sound- Novel toss of health. I fired about an hour ago, and I fancy the shot did not al- together miss. There followed a still, small noise and after that again pat tering feet receding. I think some has indigestion today in Sercombo's army." Sheppard shouldered his gun and walked to the northern verge of the parapet. Stooping, he fumbled in the darkness, and the next moment his voice sounded from below my feet. "Follow me, Ned," be called. Groping about with feet and bands, I came up- on an open hole in the floor and,in- serting my legs cautiously, happened upon the first step in a stone stairway. Diligently stepping down this through sheer blackness, I came out upon Shep- pard's heels into what by comparison seemed daylight. The stars glistened in the canopy of heaven. I was out upon the battlements. "We might have known there was some communication between the keep and the battlement," said Sheppard. "You see the advantage. I've been pacing this walk like a sentinel for the last two hours." "Can you get right round?" "I'll show you," be returned and led the way along that ]ofty roadway. The battlements naturally stretched across the width of the castle, running from wall to wall. The parapet stood sonic five feet high and was broken with the machicolations of the design. There was ample space, therefore, for twenty men at arms to march abreast along the heights. Sheppard moved lightly, -rhe Hind 'Ton gave Always Bought, anc'i. Which bias been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signtttnre of and has been made under his per-, ��- sonol supervision since its infancy, • • E r'rv(r.' Alfow,no one to deceive you in this* ,All Counterfeits, Imitations and ii Just -as -good" are but triflei M Experiments h and endanger thel i thatw t , d health o !€slants• and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTs*►`RIA Castoria Is a harmless substitute ;For Castor Oil, Parc- goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine !nor other Narcotic substance. 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Out. •�ealetrs. _. �, Governor's Wife Piano Innovation That Will Startle Society. Denver.—Society ladies will receive something in the nature o1 a shock when they attend in November the first of the winter receptions at the governor's mansion, Mrs. Jesse McDonald, the quiet, frail, reserved little woman who is the first lady of the state, has ideas and a pow- er of initiative that stamps her as a genies, according to Elbert Hubbard's latest definition of the word, which is: "The ability to act wisely without precedent." It has been whispered about that when the doors ot the executive mansion are thrown open at the first official reception the ladies of the receiving party will remain seated while greeting the guests. When asked concerning this pro- posed new order of things, MFS. Mo - Donald replied: "I would like to do it, although I have never heard of its being done and denot wish to intro- duce any features which may excite unfavorable criticism, I am sure 1 am right, however, and after consulting with my friends, If there are no very strong objections, 1 shall go ahead. "My plan is to arrange probably five chairs in a semi -circle with the hostess occupying the ono nn the center, and as the guests drop In they can be seated for a few minutes' conversation. Doesn't it sound attractive? It is sen- sible, and, I believe, after the ice is broken and people grow accustomed to the tdea, it will grow very popular. Of course, anything unconventional is his head just swinging clear of the par• Liable to attract laughter, depreciation, apet and the black darkness contained ridicule and opposition, but common between the shadows of the ramparts. 'sense will endure to the end." The leaden roof was incumbered with rubbish. Presently Sheppard paused, TOWED TO SEA BY A SHARK and there rose quickly before me out Fishermen Encounter a Big One of the superincumbent gloom the black- Tangled Up in Their Trawl — er mass of the drum towers. Feeling his way, Sheppard hit upon an iron Story Is Sustained. 1is adder connectiwith the herhts wg above, and presently we stood upon the topmost pinnacle of the castle and peered from it into the night. The noc- turnal mists and blackness of the val- ley below were slowly shifting. The trees gradually grew black, showing against a vast and gray gloom. Yet there was no light visible in those seething changes of the elements. The night still hong about us. The southern drum tower Iooked down upon deeper shadows, and I could not descry the wall below. I turned to my companion for an expla- nation and smiled at the confusion of my own brain when he answered: "That's the south, Ned. You know the battlements are in ruins there." Of course they were, but I was not tt be deterred from a complete circuit of the walls by that small fact, and 1 groped for the ladder, "Bo careful, Ned," said Sheppard. "Better not. Wait till It's light." Now, I knew very well at the time that be spoke wisely and that I was merely taking a rash hazard for nc better purpose than to display to my- self yself my own determination—or obstt• nary, if you will. But the feeling was strong upon me, and so, Welting my (To be continued.) Chamberlain's Cough Remedy 13 UNItQUAI.ED FON Coughs, Colds sod troop. Boston.—With an Immense shark furnishing the power, Joseph Bent and William Jason have broken all records in South Channel, near Cape Cod. They are members of the crew of the fishing schooner Francis V. Silva, which ar- rived here the other morning. Their story is sustained by other members of the crew who witnessed their experi- ence. Bent and Jason were out in a dory hauling their trawl. 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After dry- ing, the potatoes should be ant and planted in the usual way, but care should be taken not be allow them to touch any box, bag or bin where scabby potatoes have been kept. Potato Scab. 1 lithe Maine Experimental Station has made .a speoia1 annoy of potato scab. rtt a trees bulletin just issued the following advice le giventjartat PrObably the most common way in severe Form of Asthma "1 first used Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine with my daugh- ter who suffered from a severe form of asthma. The least exposure to oold would lay her up and she would nearly sufilocate for want of breath. I must say I found it to be a most satisfactory treatmnnt and it has entirely cured her." —Mrs. A, A. Vail Buskirk, Robinson Street, Moncton, N.B. 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