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heed to trifles wheu I'm on real bust-
ness," he declared. "You must remem-
ber that it was mainly exhaustion that
did for me, and, thanks to the wine and,
the good meal and the brandy, Fre au -
other Tan. I'm not cat's meat yet, and
I fancy I'll see other people out before
I am," he ended significantly.
"Very well," said L "And now your
plans?"
' He looked at the clock. "high time,
too"' he exclaimed. "Tonight, I lulow,
was the time fixed, but what hour I
didn't hear. I guess about dark. The
place I can find with your aid. Isn't
there a stream that runs south of these
hills into the Ray?"
"There is the stream behind us," I
answered. "I believethat wanders out I
below the town, but 'ye never traced
it."
"That will be it—a mile this side of
the river itself. We can follow the
course—and the sooner the better. Are
we ready?"
"Ready this moment," I answered,
looking at Sheppard and Montgom-
ery, who nodded.
"Then let us get away."
We turned to leave the room, when
I suddenly recalled what we had all
forgotten in the excitement of the nar.
native and this precipitate plan of cam-
paign.
"Good heavens! WhaLabout the p0 -
lice? They will be watching for you."
Sercombe frowned. 'This is nasty,"
he said, sitting down a
right. Will they take me?"
"They have a warran
• "Yes, yes; true. Well,
them. I reckon the ca
if the castle can stat
said, smiling.
As we were consid
still with his smile up
the rest of us about
pard leaning upon the
there came a knock a
all started, but, _rete
could be no more the
aluswered to the rap. 1t
."You will see that this could not go •
ou, *Vernon. I deckled that =ruing• to run upon the knives, if 1 could do
no more. At the itrst sign of my stir-
ring Stamboulos was by me, with his
creese.
"'Ali right,' I stammered, 'finish me,'
for I was as weak as a cat and all a
sweat.
"He laughed and went away, shak-
ing another man by the shoulders.
"I lived through that day somehow,
but it was not so bad as the night --no,
not by a long wily. All the -while. I
was snarling like a tiger prepared for
.a spring, and spring I did. Look here.
"In the afternoon—I guess it at 4
•o'clock—I started out. They took me
to be too weak, I think. The Levan-
tine is as cruel a creature as God
made. He loves blood, but I believe
'if he is educated to know starvation is
worse he will choose starvation. Stam-
boulos chose starvation, I take it. I
starved. That was a good joke to
thein as they waited for the end of
me and the coming of Hood. They
were safe enough perched in that high
hollow« But 1 started out. I ran
down and gained 'the track, Then of
a sudden I thought they could catch
me in the open track, and I jumped off
into the forest.
"They were after me—ob, yes, smart
enough, the lot of them, I think—but
I sped through the growth like a tough.
I was a hare. I tell you. I was upon a
-cinder track; that was how I felt. I
heard nothing and saw little, but pres-
ently aomething clutched me, and on
the instant 1 turned. There was noth-
ing could stop rue now. I got him
and his neck in my hands, and I pulled
.and squeezed. I should have knuckled
the soul and the life out of him, but I
'had no weapon. He raised his hand. I
saw his knife. It got me somewhere."
Sercombe raised his coat, and a black
stain showed on his' shirt.
"But I held on, and I choked harder.
• Then I heard other voices. I think I
was supersensitive just then. It ran
over me suddenly that the game was
up. 'Ali right, knife me,' I thought,
and the black brute did. It struck my
shoulder blade, and I dropped my,
hands off him and lay still."
He ceased. We drew our breaths
.deeply.
"I knew I was done," he said. "I
wanted no bother. I lay quiet. Then
I was conscious that he was off me and
stood there•looking down.
"Presently there were some feet close
by my head, and through my half open
eyes I saw there was another of 'em,
and he was looking down. 1 didn't
•care, but I must have gone off about
that time, for when I looked up again
there was no one there, and I felt stiff
,and faint and sick in my stomach."
CHAPTER XXI.
ERCOMBE came to a pause.
"That's all, gentlemen," he said.
"I made tracks for the castle
then. I don't know how far it
was, but I covered the distance as fast
as I could. You see, I was afraid. I
was left for dead—dead I was to those
two brigands, and. dead I am reported
to Mr. Hood. That's all right. I don't
regret it. It gives me a. chance. I've
got my hand In now, and, by thunder,
I'll keep it!"
He .ceased and fell back in his chair,
while a silence held us for some sec-
onds. Then Sheppard rose and, a
brightness shining in his eyes, put out
his hand in his impulsive way. "Cap-
tain," said he, "you've blotted out a
.gooL many points by this story, and I
do �''t hesitate to say so on my own be -
:half."
Sercombe accepted his hand and
laughed. "The trouble is, Mr. Shep-
pard," said he, "that I had to strike fie
bargain not with you, but with Mr.
Greatorex. I wish rd. known your feel-
ings before."
"Are you all )right?" I asked. "What
about this wound?''
Ha rose from his seat. "I pay no
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gain. "You are
t," i replied.
we must dodge
stle can do that
ud a siege," he
Bring, Sercombe
on his face and
the room, Shop -
back of a chair,
t the doer. We
llecting that it
a 11irs. Main, I
M
Main it was,
but, after all, there was some reason
in our start of uneasiness.
"Mr. Jones, sir, wishes to -see you,"
said she.
A look passed round the assembly.
"It seems that we are anticipated," re-
marked Sercombe pleasantly.
"Did he ask who was here?" I in-
quired.
"No, sir; he said he would like to see
you."
"Very well," I answered slowly;
"show him into the library." And
when Mrs. Main was gone I said:
"Tints brings the matter to a point.
Jones is here after you, captain. His
men were watching."
"Of course," put in Sheppard, "there's
the outlet from the treasure chamber."
"Now we're getting at it," said Ser-
combe easily.
"And the only path to that is by way
of the guardroom, and as like as not
Jones' men are without," I retorted.
"There's my room with the secret
staircase," interrupted Montgomery.
We looked at him. "By Jove!" said
Sheppard.
"You're right," I said.
With that I went off to visit Jones,
whom I found in a most portentous
mood and with his infernal notebook
to hand.
"I have reason to believe, sir," said
he coldly and in his best official voice,
"that a Man for whom I have a war-
rant out is harbored in the castle."
"Ab!" said I coolly. "And who might
that be, sergeant?"
"One Captain Sercombe, sir, seen en-
tering the castle an hour or so back
by Constable Buckle."
"You seem very well posted in the
affairs of my house," I answered and
lit a cigarette. "Perhaps you will be
good enough to find him." And I turn-
ed on my heel. I felt that this was the
only way in which to take my friend
Jones' official impertinences. Ile reck-
oned us for Sercombe's companions.
The captain had been seen to enter,
and I had no defense save to leave the
Police sergeant to his own devices.
"I beg your pardon, sir," he said; "I
have your leave to search the castle?"
"Every inch of it," I answered indif-
ferently. "flow long do you propose
to take, a fortnight?"
Jones coughed. "If you will give me
your word of honor, sir, that Captain
Sercombe is not within the castle"—
he began.
"1 will give you nothing, not even a
compliment on your imagined smart-
ness," I interrupted sharply. "You are
as blind as a bat, and I Will leave you
to stumble about in your own way; but
one thing I will not have, and that is
your men trespassing on my premises,
as they did an hour or so ago. If you
have business, have business, but if I
find any ono hanging about the Copses
I will take my own way with him."
Jones started at toy angry rejoinder,
gassed.
em ar
b
and ho
appeared a little
"You
haveyour
remedy,
sir," I
said,
,
but 1 made no answer, merely moving
to the door. "I will take your word for
It, sir," he repeated.
"I have not given it" I said.
"Well, sir," said /ones, "I bid you
good evening."
1 knew well enough that the prospect
of that interminable search had made
him wince. It Would be folly for hint
to undertake it, and deo he withdreri
with this alight dit>teharsa t co!sttegtee.
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Sheppard met iso with the
Montgomery bad undertaken the job
of guiding the captain through the gal-
lery, and after that Sercom be wan to
conduct him to the rendezvous on Elie
river. He had given Sheppard partials
tars of the place, and it did not appear
as it we could miss it, but time was
Passing, and if anything was to bo ae-
complisllcd we must be away, Our
preparations were accordingly pushed
forward, nor were they very elaborate.
Au encounter, maybe a bloody One,
might bo looked for, Certainly we
could not afford to dispense ,with• our
weapons, but. beyoud,them there was
little to delay or incumber us.
Sheppard and I got forth of the cas-
tle and reached the great gates just
after dark was fallen. As ire passed
through I thought I perceived the black
shadow of a man hovering iunoug the
bushes near by, aud-I put Link down as
.Touts.
At the foot of the gorge we turned,
and, following the road to the right for
a quarter of l; tulle, clipped quickly
with the bend of the brook; eastward
and for the border of the farther comi-
ty. The first part of the way took us
through the outlying stretches of the
forest, but presently the woods hugged
the margins upon either side, and be-
hind was open country, broken into
fickle and pastures, with here foal there
the shining windows of a fartubeuse or
euttage. About this point' It occurred
to Sheppard that we wore being fol-
lowed.
"•I saw a man cross from that last
dile," he declared. "and I'll swear I
Beard a rustling in the bushes."
"Very well," said I. "If Jones is
after us Jones will have a long tramp,
and the sooner we dispatch him on it
the better."
"What will you do?" he asked.
"Sit tight," said I, "and keep mum.
here's an excellent corner for silent
meditation," and I dropped into a
black patch of bracken, whither he fol-
lowed me.
We had been following a footpath
which wound through the coppice close
to the stream, sial a little distance to
the Left we sank into our hiding place
and tva}tell. Some five. minutes after,
the footsteps of a than"souuded softly
tehlnd us, and he cause pito the plane
•)f sight. Dark as it was I made him
out for one of /ones' men, and my
.)pinion Was confirmed by the stealthy
manner in which he proceeded.
"We'll let him pass," I whispered,
"and then follow him. Rustle police
are no harm to us." •
Live minutes later we emerged and
reemnede our journey, diligently open-
ing our ears to the sounds of the night,
bat nothing was audible to alarm us,
and we reached at last a spot where
the path 'ran down to the water's edge
between thick trees. Opposite, the dark
bulk of a little jetty was just discern-
ible and beyond that the lights of a
house. •
"This is the place," said Sheppard.
"But I see no signs of the others. Yet
they most have got here before us."
"Let us wait," I suggested, and
meanwhile we are better in hiding."
Wo concealed ourselves among the
trees and passed ten minutes in some
anxiety. ."Was it possible," I asked
myself, "that Montgomery and Ser-
combe bad already encountered Hood
and his scoundrels, with a tragic re-
sult? Or, again, had Jones happened
upon them and taken Sercombe? Per-
haps even the captain had been dealing
treacherously with us all through."
But these speculations were scatter-
ed at the approach of voices and a
noise of oars in the water, which here
ran deep and wide, a mile from its
junction with the Ray. We listen$
with increased excitement, but as yet
nothing was visible in the darkness.
The boat seemed to draw up at the
foot of the path below us, and there
was the noise of two people landing.
"It's all right," I whispered to Shep-
pard. "Here they are."
And I was on the point of jumping
up when I heard a new sound oppo-
site, and a figure rose and stood in
the pathway. As we strained our eyes
At Sercombe's feet watt a prostrate figure.
to make out what this might be I heard
the approaching feet of the others.
Then somewhere out of the night these
words floated to us: "Captain Ser-
combo, I arrest you in the name of the
queen."
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There was a violent exclamation and
the noise of a struggle and afterward
a short cry and at horrid Brack,
Sheppard and I leaped to our feet
and reached the path, where ten paces
from the water stood Sercombe and at
hie feet a prostrate figure.
"What le this?" I said anxiously.
"Oh, you there, geutlemen?" said
Sercombe, putting. "This knave would
have ruined aur whole venture. But I
reckon I've given hint his stomach
full."
"Yes, you Lave," I said bitterly,
bending over the man. "lie's about
done for."
"Pooh!" said Sercombe. "Only struck
his head on a log. He's all right, Don't
waste time over such swine." And he
made for the boat, where I could per-
ceive Montgomery.
I stopped him, "Understand this,
Captain Sercombe," I said—"I am not
here to break innocent heads or to im-
peril honest lives, and if, as you say
and I hope, this poor ratan is not dead,
I will have him taken where he can be
cared for."
Sermentbe laughed harshly. "You are
so infernally particular, Mr. Great-
orex. But have your way."
"Very well," said I; "thea I will take
him over to.the house yonder."
We carried the unfortunate man
aboard the boat and pushed her off,
Montgomery punting to the jetty. There
we landed the body, Suddenly Ser-
combe stopped.
"This is my affair," be said, "not
yours. You won't be able to show your
faces after this if you're mixed up in
it. Besides, I may get definite particu-
lars as to Iiood if I go up." •
He shouldered the unconscious form
of the policeman as he spoke and de-
parted, staggering under his burden.
In a little he came back,
"It's all right," he said easily. "I
told the farmer that it was a friend of
mine who had met with an accident,
and he has promised to look after him
till I return. I am to Call in an hour's
tine." He laughed. "And I've found
out that Hood left half an hour ago,
having borrowed the old gentleman's
boat. There's some good in charity aft-
er all." And once more he laughed.
At the word Montgomery and Shep-
pard bent to the oars, and the nose of
the boat shot downstream.
1
CHAPTER XXII.
ND now," said I to Montgom-
ery, "please explain. I think
we none of us contemplated a
boating expedition. Where
are we going?"
"Hood's got on before us, you know,"
he explained eagerly. "Captain Ser-
combe and. I got away safely and reach-
ed this ferry twenty minutes before
you, but the boat had gone!"
"You mean Hood's boat?" I asked.
"That's it," Sercombe broke in. "I
reckoned we might nab Iiood in the
act, but we came too late by ten min-
utes. I recognized the place frown his
description. For the matter of that,
it's easy to find, but there was n° boat.
That meant we must carry the expedi-
tion a stage farther ere we could drop
on him. Presently Montgomery and I
happened upon this tub a bit lower
down. She's no great shakes, but she'll
do to come up with him."
"And when we do?" said Sheppard.
"I don't want to put too fine a point
On it. sir." said Sercombe, "but it
means cutting out, and if we are not
Prepared for cutting out, why, we bad
best turn the nose of the boat upstream
again."
There was silence after this, but
Sheppard and Montgomery applied
their oars, if anything, a trifle more
smartly.
"We're not going to turn back now,
if that's your meaning, captain," I said.
"We only want to understand where
we are and what we have to expect"
"I think, Mr. Greatorex, that you
may expect treasure," said Sercombe,
with a laugh. "Hood's got a load
aboard, and be's no thought of being
followed. What he's after I don't quite
know, for he never got to the end of his
explanations, owing to that Greek af-
fair, but he's going down the river,
that's certain, and he'll paddle none too
quick, having a cargo. On the other
hand, he does not want daylight on
him. He'll make where he's bound for
by night and under the stars. Now, I
dare say, you geutlemen know these
parts better than L What point do
you put on it?"
"Give him six hours," I suggested,
"anti that will fetch us into the early
moruing. Montgomery. bow far do you
reckon a boat would get by 3 in the
morning?"
Montgomery pause. su his oar and
considered.
"It ought to get near I-artegree," said
he at last.
"And where may that be?" asked
Sercombe.
"In the mouth of the Severe—in the
estuary."
"Ah!" said Sercombe thoughtfully.
"Now, I wonder what will happen
thea. And I should like to know what
my friend IIood has got in his bead."
The sky was heavy with low belly -
lug clouds, and scarce a breath of air
stirred. We raced between the banks
as it were through a wild moorland,
and some scattered voices of the dark
reached us. A little after there was a
jar and a shock that sent us all sprawl-
ing in the bottom of the tub.
Sercombe, who was iu the bows, put
out his arm.'.
"It's at boom," he said. "'This is a
piece of private water."
stet.
"
"We shall have to carry the boat
round," said Sheppard.
"Did IIood, do you suppose?" I
asked.
"No; I think not," said Sercombe.
"I'd. like to- see the party that would
carr that cargo. Yes; you're right.
Where hood's been we can go."
"If he has been," said Sheppard.
Sereontbe made no answer, but pull-
ed the boat along the o�
"It's wood," be said, "and I Make
no doubt but it's old and tired. Any-
how I think heed's dlugey went
througli this. I can dud no break,
though "
"Let us put a pace ou the tub and
try," I suggested.
Sercombe whistled slowly. "She's
not nlueli of a tub, I admit," he said
dubiously, "but it's all wove got." -
"You are afraid of leer splitting up?"
"That's so, but, anyhow, let's6 risk it.
Drive, boys, when I give the word,"
Wo backed out and palled up the
stream, and I set her nose full ou,
"Now:" said Sereouth°, and the oars
struck the water together. With a
eighing, groaning noise the tub dipped
her snout into the water, and it hum-
med about her sides.
"Nov!" shouted Sercombe again. I
leaned forward to the stroke, and in
the next second the blow came. She
struck and staggered, recoiling and
shivering in every beam. But Ser-
combe, iu the bows, who had peen al-
most precipitated into the stream,
cried out iu triumph;
"She's through; the boom's given
somewhere!"
That was true, as we found out im-
mediately, for the current bore the
diugey down once More upon the log,
and with a rasping noise and a jerking
movement she slipped over.
-It's lucky that the wood was rot-
ten," said Sercombe. "I don't believe
our tub would have stood another
ounce."
"1 think we must thank IIood, too,"
I
remarked. "Oh, ke'il thank him when we meet
hila," said Sercombe cheerfully, "and
the sooner we pay our devoirs the bet-
ter. So let's buckle to."
In spite of our objections Sercombe
insisted upon taking a hand with me
at the sculls. He professed himself
quite well, said he had often suffered
from the salve complaint and could
stand more of it.
"A pin prick to the way they get at
your vitals in Sicily," said be.
He certainly showed no signs of fa-
tigue or faintness in his handling of
the oars, but rowed like a sallor—a lit-
tle
ittle stiffly, but with plenty of force, and
we cut the water at a fine pace. Pres-
ently Sheppard, who had taken Ser-
connbe's place in the bows, tapped me ,
on the shoulder.
"IIere's the Rayl Neel," said he,
"So much for the first stage then,"
said Sercopthe, who heard him, and he
leaned on he; oars. The current took
us with a gentle wash into the bosom
of the larger stream. The clouds con-
gregated solemnly and, to my fancy,
with au aspect of sullenness. The air
was still, and the sweat broke out on
the rowers. We changed again, and
under the fresh impulse the tub ran
down the Ray.
"We may pick them up any moment
now," remarked Sercombe, and I ob-
served him, in the stern, loosen his coat
and feel in his pockets.
"The boat's leaking," said Mont-
gomery in my ears. I stopped rowing
and repeated his words to the others.
Here was a dilemma. Sercombe paid
no heed. Ho was staring, as I could
just perceive—staring out upon the
river over our heads.
"Do you see anything?" he asked.
No one answered him.
"Stay on your oars!" he commanded,
and I no longer recognized the soft
voice of our old enemy, but something
(To be continued.)
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first musical instrument of the human
race.
Four shillings per annum was the
rent of s five -roomed house in Henry
VIII.'s time.
Records of F lrfax county, Virginia,
show that eGorge Washington owned
at the age of 27 50,000 acres of land,
and in 1790 the Washington family had
killed 150 hogs for their use.
New York was first called Gotham by
Washington Irving and J. K. Pauliding
in their humorous work "Salmagundi,"
in sarcastic allusion to the singular
wisdom of its inhabitants. There is a
Gotham in England, seven miles from
Nottingham, the people of which are
t dually styled "the wise, men of Goth-
am," because for hundreds of years
they have been credited with saying
and doing the most foolish things.
Automatic cooking boxes were in
general use among the Hebrews nearly
The years ago. T} e Greek and Ro-
man writers frequently refer to them.
Ir. his edition of "Juvenal." for exam-
ple, Friedlander cites a commentator
who refers to "the Jews who, a day be-
fore the Sabbath, put their viands hot
into the cooking boxes, the pots beim;
covered with napkins and wrapped
about With hay, so that they may have
warm food on the Sabbath."
CAST 'iR OA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
zczee44.:
• —
• 0Pate of Greedy Rattler. •
In Ozark county, ali.souri, the other
day a large rattlesnake was found im-
prisoned between two rails of a fence.
The snake had come upon a fleets of
1 young quail, caught one of the birds
,and swallowed it. The survivors ran
to the other alta: oT the fence, whore
upon the snake crawled beiwetli like
rails until it caught another bird,
which it swallowed. The result was
that the snake, owing to the bulge
made by the first morsel, was unable
to move forward and because of the
second protuberance was unable to go
back. Thus its greed led to its heath.
Statues While You Wait.
Machinery has threatened the noble
hand trade of the sculptor. A Neapoli-
tan has invented a sculpturing device,
whose motive power is steam or elec-
tricity, which they say can do the work
of 20 first-class sculptors. One of the
machines has reached New York, but is
the subject of a lawsuit against the pur-
chaser of the American rights is front a
"sculpture syndicate."
When this is
settled and the machines get to work
every town in the country can become
an art center.
The Busiest Man.
A Chicago.automobile club has elect-
ed an official surgeon. That n
an won't
have time to breathe, if he tailed care of
all the members.
THE WORLD'S AGE.
Who will say the world is dying?
Who will gay but prime is peel?
1 Snrks from her.v;n, within us lying,
Flesh, and will B ash till the last.
Fools! who fancy Christ mietakhn;
Mau a tool to buy and sell;
Earth a failure, God-forsakeu,
Anteroom of Hell!
Still the race of Hero -spirits
Pass the lamp from hand to hand;
Age from age the Words inherits—
"Wife, nod Child, and Fatherland."
Still the youthful bunter gather,
Fiery joy from weld and wood;
He will dare as dared his fathers,
Give him cause as good.
While a slave bewails his fetters;
While an orphan pleads in vain;
While an infant lisps his letters,
Heir of all the ages' gain;
While a lip grows ripe for kissing;
While a moan from man ie wrong;
Know, by every want and blessing,
That the world is young.
—Charles Kingsley,
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No matter what kind you have, Blind,
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you.
This is a strong statement, but it is
supported by a thousand testimonials
from those who have been permanently
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SONiECURIOUS EPITAPHS.
(London Daily Mali )
The Suffolk Institute of Archaeology
has jnet issued an appeal to incumbents
in the county to transcribe the epitaphs
a their church -yards so that a perman-
ent record may be kept.
Some curious epitaphs come to mind.
Here is one, reminisceut of "Omar
Khayyam":
"Beneath this stone lies Catherine Gray,
Changed to a lifeless lump of olay.
By earth and clay she got her pelf,
And uow she's turned to clay herself—
Who kuo ,ve but in a course of years,
In some tall pitoher or brown pan,
She in her shop may stand again? '
Short end enceiret 18 til@ foligwing:
"Here lies Robert Wallas
The King of Gcod Fellows,
Clerk of All Heliows,
And makers of bellows,"
Tbc, following punning epitaph is in•
eoribed on the Eolith of a Liverpool
brewer:
"Poor John Scott lies buried hero. ti
Although he was both halo and stoat,
Death stretched him on the bitter bier;
In another world he hope about."
There is a delicious blending of the
spirtual and temporal in this:
"Beneath this stone, in hope of Zion,
Doth lie the landlord of the "Lion."
His son keeps on the business stilt,
IResigned unto the heavenly will,"
Temperance advocates should net
read this epitaph:
"She drank strong ale and punch and
v4 ins,
And lived to the age of ninttyniuo."
There is a todo'i of malice in this in.
seription to the Rev Mr (;heat.
"Here lies at rest, T do pretest,
Ode Chest within another.
The chest of Wood was very good—
Who sloe s0 of the other 1"
Here is a curious one on a "tombstone
in Hartland church -yard,
"Here I lie outside the chancel door,
here I lie, beoanse I'ni poor
The farteee In, the more they ply
tint her. I :ie as warm as they."
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