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Show it'l l iLirix x riUUUAii x if. imz: -? AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN SATURDAY; FEBRUARY 9, 1929 LU w . y ewTTTT . iaW W.N.U -IRVICC rthsiBU(DlLE(DN COVYAICHT 1931 Vv"KTAMO MC COPYRIGHT mi TMt RIMIWAV CO. CHAPTER IV Continued. HJoodl Oti nugV" MMMurbea to Hello, Jock I Do you feel your I again?" .... . ... I'm right n I can be," I lu lled, which wn the truth. Nothing thered meexcept having the wind ueesed out of me by that gorilla." "WbaKgorllla?" v . The Italian Teodoreachl." "Oh, was be In Itr Hugh and Nlkka exchanged glances. "Well, Uk a look at thla fellow." ggested Nlkka. Ha twitched the torch on the body the hearth. There waa a red aplotcb er the heart The right band atlu latched , convulsively a long knife, Jtb a alight curve near the keen point the blade. The light tettled on a irk, thin, hooknosed face. "Ever seen him before?" Inquired agb. "No," 1 admitted regretfully. -Oh, Watty!" called Hugh. "Tea, your ludsbip." "Ever seen thla man before?" Watkln stooped and almoat Instant-Jerked Instant-Jerked erect "It itr, your ludsbip I It's the man al told us e came from you. On the qultanla. slrl" "Jack, dirt you recognize the third an?" I shook niy bead. "The Itallau was only one hose face I saw." Well. I hail a Mmpse ot Number bree as be e&.aladed through (he indow after Teidreschl I'll take tur word for the Italian I Ue Nuro r Three, I uieari 4ooked very much ke the Russian, the brother of that luntess we met this afternoon." "I shouldn't be surprised If Numbei bree was the count," I said. ""Now think of It. the Italian called 'Sergei' ihen they first Jumped me." 'That would be right, then," agreed Mkka. "Did he call 'his carrion any- hlngr . . .. ' ' touched the dead man with hi Be called Vlada V at the same ;jie." "Tbat sounds reasonable, too." salt) tfttrlrn Antr In rhntl crVit "Why?" "The man Is a what you would ill a countryman of mine. He Is a gypsy I ten vou. my menns. our iusk "Ha Is That Same Toutou Hugh's Uncle Spoke Of." grows us we draw oear It. I have sulo before that we face a gang of Inter national thieves. But see how their Important swells. Hugh, this man Ullyer v.' . n all la aald and 'lone, ao Engllab ctij'-ry geneleman, living to outward iranotl seeming with the law la " "f them. Tbey bae a pair of, aha: Russian nobles, probablj with exl' records. We have seen a Levantine iiuander with them. We know tb'' imve powerful connection In Amerlni We know they have -c-cess to the criminal organization of 'he gypl's We have seen an Italian A l.'iitlst iVs no n.ore Itnllnn fhnn vou are.' ''.'rrupted. "He may be h jidentlat, but he's French. No doubt uho;ii that" "Wh, ,s he, then?" asfce.' Mkk Placidly, "Me Is tbat .sutiu Toutou Hugh's uncle Hioke of." HUfjii Icujied up. "U tlo vou snow thai. ' Jack?" "I Just I uw 14 that's ulL Vt'terUaj afternoon I saw Ihlnv although I did not recognize him, aa he normally la. Il6T7eaMTnSemJugb"Tn that mbddTf A 1" 1.1 If v)(l knows I Wel. a few minutes ago 1 aw htm blood-crazed. 1 Be wanted to Mt my Jiroat ouUlke a tiger. Ob, be's Tooou, ail right" Ungh a face grew bitter-hard. !:LcAfA" be ssI(V"I au rj Trmnr sn iranr HOWDEN SMITH to flrlve 0 71o tittle DeppTng, and do hit of killing on my own." "You can't do that sort of thlna. Hugh." 1 urged. "Why not? Ue'a a murderer. Isn't he?" He killed' my ancle butchered the poor old chap 1 D'yoa suppose Ullyer would dare complain to tbt police?" v '"' "What you say Is right enough,' said Nlkka quietly, "but 70a (orgel that Hilyer's gang are hardly the kind to give up without a fight, especially when the man you want U their leader- . . - Hugh eat down gloomily. "1 suppose you are right," be ad mltted. "But 1 should like to aboot the awlne." "Ton are very Ulely to have the opportunity," op-portunity," Nlkka comforted him. "That Is. supposing you aboot flrst Now, see here, you chapa, what are we going to do with this fellow I shot?" "What's your suggestion V asked Hugh. "Remove him secretly, and tell the servants nothing Is missing and we don't wanr the affair talked about" "The. Idea la good," assented Uugb. "I'm not anxious to have any more sensational Interest attached to me. but what can you do with htm? The body Is I., thin room. It's got to Ue taken out Ton can't bury a body with out dlggln: 1 grave. Tbat meansJeav-Ing meansJeav-Ing a trace. Suppose s nie one should see us or suppose some one should flad the grave and lnvesUgr.e. Muni you, "Id top, whatever our motives, we- are-violating the law li we don't report the man'a death," "There may be a way out of your difficulty," I remarked. "What la It?" "Use the I'rlofa vent" They both looked at me as If 1 bad gone mad. - "What are you talking about r demanded de-manded Nlkka. "Thla la serious," reproved Hugh "Just because you tlnd a ailly cipher m i am serious," : Insisted. "This has been an eventful evening. Among other things, 1 think 1 have found the Frl .ir'i vent. Let me have the torch. Nik ka." I turned It ou the over-mantel- An efficient kit of burglara tools, left by our enemies, reposed on the mantel shelf under the carved group of darning darn-ing monks, ale-horns and tankard waving aloft The figure In the middle of Jie group bad a comically protruding protrud-ing belly that seemed to waggle as the light played on It But what Inter ested me was the small flexible saw that waa still fixed tn the baae of ton panel above the dancing monka. "Do you see what our friends were up toT' I asked. "That fellow Toutou baa a keen mind. Be Is somebody to be reckoned with. He saw what none of us saw. even after we bad worked out the cipher. "What did be seef asked Nlkka: For answer I switched the light on to. Ijtdv" Jna verse: . Oijrtmr tljattr g fTopUt (Ebntrijmanttf 13amt arkr Sga &ouf nmtrat f funkrtud op gt ElgHffjtogr 01mtr Anil traUtt jj JJrtor'i TJrnt "Ue IImI. I (iiittwereu. "Awi he Jumped to coiu luslom from It. - He knew, as we knew, that there la soiiih thing concealed Id this house, pmlm bly In this room. And the thought rliiii tbat verse would not have been pltm-d there unless there waa a reason for it" "By Jove, 1 believe be was right I" exclaimed Hugh. Nlkka propped a chair against the mautel piece, and climbed on to the shell. The panel bad been saweu through on both sides and part of the bottom. While 1 held the light on the pnnw Nlkka sawed away, and tn fifteen mln utea he had It detached from Ita bev eled frame. "Come up here. Hugh, and nelp ni with It" he aald. ' They found s thin chisel In tin burglar'a kit and with this Uujri gently pried the panel loose. "It has a atone backing." cried Nile ka disappointedly, as It came away. In fact w experienced Pr' found feeling of disillusionment whet. Watklns received the paneTln hl arrov and the empty area of stone work waa revealed, about four f- long and three feet high. - Too bad." said nuirn. jiirriinu down. Specially as we" couT.rrMn mitten a body thronsh an opting Hm lr.e." ' r v - There came yell of trlnnpii fr. Nlkka, and Watklna. whoae ey t l been straining al the opening. ahfHite.1 r Tfiej Is something there, yoarrM ahinr . ; ' - Nlkka waa digging furiously with the chisel at. whar, looked to be a dark atone In the very renter of the empty area. . -If an inner wood panel," be grunted over hit shoulder. 1 can (eel something behind It" There was a splintering noise, and the "stone" fell apa-t Behind U was a shallow recess, perhaps nine incbea square, completely filled by a maty iron box. Nlkka levered the box out. and banded II to Hugh.- The box waa about three Inches deep. - It was unlocked, and Hugh lift ed the cover without difficulty. InaMe were two papers, very brittle and yel low from the beat of the chimney. The first" ' Wrf 'etartr'' Yrtfginenf frflif rsf ' household account book: Sptr. w tod, tlfl Paid Conrad of Nurmburga v 0r-minm 0r-minm mssuna: ltm. for Una y Olds Cryptts bslowa y Priors House: Itsm, for y ngtae for ye Priors vnt: ltsra. for ys an-UlnsTS an-UlnsTS In ys Qunneroom 111 si 44 lUm, two bosM of risndars sT Iron Aocompta.r 111 sit 4 And below this waa written! And 1 aantBynraa forth of y VOag thstt B mlsht not hava Chaano ta Ulk howbsslt Hm ya elouasmoutbed as Hatb Uttsl (ToslrsB. "What did she do with the second box?" I suggested. "Probably used It in another mystery," mys-tery," chuckled Nlkka, "What's the other paper, Hugh?" "It's the real thing I Great Jupiter, see what Toutou missed T And he spread the second paper on bis knee. It was short and to the point: ' ' To Hymns thatts bath Witts to rd My riddel. PrM atts y One time y Hflnxes bsadds and ye Ifonkss bslll. 80 wl) ys PlsacinK drop In ya Daitar aids of y Harth. Thatla whyeh you Seke you thai Diacovour la vta propar "Place. " Jana Cbeaby I flashed the electric torch on the mantel piece. "Ye Sflnxes headde" was In the very center of the row of Turks' heads and veiled women that waa sculptured along the edge of the stone mantel-shelf. "Ye Uonkes bel-He" bel-He" was the bit of carving that protruded pro-truded from the center of the bibulous group that had upheld the panel bear Ing Lady Jane's verse. "I've pressed , both of those more than once," I protested. "Cut not both at once," answered Nlkka. Fie bounded up, and drove his two hands, palm out against the projections. projec-tions. There was a muffled thud In the fireplace. I sank on my knees, and trained the electric torch Inside. On. the "dexter," or right-hand side. In the rear, yawned a hole some two feot square. 1 crawled through the ashes, anu thrust the torch over the rim. There waa a sharp drop of three or four feet and then the beginning of a flight nt atalra. heavily carpeted with dust A damp, earthy odor smote my nostrils. "Ever seen that before, Watty?' asked Hugh. "Never, your ludsbip. 'Is late lud ship, .Mister Hugh, was frequently In the 'ablt of being alone, aa I daresay you know. But 'ow In the world could 'e have found It your ludshlp. If he didn't find out at first about that?" Watklna nodded toward the gaplrni bole In the over-mantel, "I'm d d If I know," admitted Hugh. "Maybe we'll find out By the way. bow do you suppose you close the Tentr Nlkka fingered the two projections, and the moment be applied pressure the flagstone slapped up Into place, "Tbere'a some counterweight arrangement" ar-rangement" he said. Evidently." agreed Hugh. "Well, you chaps, we are another milestone farther on the road, but the first thing we have to do Is to get the corpus delicti safely underground. Jack bad best go upstairs and wash, while Wat-kins Wat-kins gets dressed and fetches our clothes. In the meantime, Nlkka and I can be disposing of our friend here.' We adopted this plan, and Watklns also volunteered to tell cook to atart breakfast When 1 came downstairs twenty minutes later, Hawklne the butler, carrying a large tray, was knocking on the Kunroom door. "I'll rake It" I told him. "You go back to the kitchen like a good fellow, fel-low, and keep the maids quiet" I knocked for several minutes with out result and finally set the tray down, and banged the door with both fists. "All right I Ail right!" called a strangely blanketed voice. "Who Is itr "Jail" ' feet scuffled Inside, and the door was jerked open by Hugh, rather dusty and cobwebby. - ' "We were out under the park,' be explained. "We took that gypsy down safely, and I came back ahead of the others on tbe chance you might be trying try-ing to set In. There's a regular passage. pas-sage. Jack. It seems to go on and on. We didn't have time to follow 1: -very far." He set the table, whlcb 1 had over turned, on lta legs, and I brought In the tray- Then Nlkka and Watklns emerged from the fireplace, blinking owtlshly, and we three drew -hairs op to the table, and Watktns served breukfasLas deftly aa though we bad not departed a . halr'e breadth from Ihejirdlijary routine of ilfe. There waa a knock 00 the door. "Who's thatr said Hugh. """It should be 'Awklna with th quick lime.- your Watklns, hastily chsjr. '. ludshlp," pushing answer.-fj bark h-f "TThy qukk-Ume?"l asked, as Wat- kins received a - bulky, whltlsh-pow dered sack through the half-opened , doc ; .:: : -t :t -fWa cant very well dig a grave In tone," was Ntkka's grim comment , We (tabbed breakfast, "Ton arj going to be on guard here, Watty, while we art gone," aald Bugh. "Have yon your automatic? BIgbt 01 Don't let anybody in." - Be took the electric torch, and dropped the sack pf lime down the hole in the fireplace. We climbed after aft-er It one by one, The at aire continued to desceiid for another fifteen or twenty twen-ty fee, and then ralgbtot ed out At the foot of the last atop lay the body of tbe gypsy, Hugh was carrying tbe lime aack so Nlkka and 1 picked up vlbe d.o. ikl, tjash j.b lighted the way with tbe torch, , m Tbe.paasage . waa. JWOt!ful'.-bulUj. with aa even floor, and wide enough for one man to walk comfortably. According Ac-cording to a compass on Nikka'a watch chain. It trended across the park towards the ruins of the priory. We estimated that we had walked a kllometor wen we noticed a gradual upward slope In tbe flooring. The passage pass-age turned a corner, and the tight of Hugh's torch waa reflected on the rutty tronwork of wb:.f once bad been a massive door. Of the wood only a pile of dust remained. re-mained. . cluttered about tbt broken lock; bat the great binges still stretched across the path, upholding a ghostly barrier o bolted darkness. We 'eposlted tbe dead gypsy on the floor, and helped Hugh to bend back the creaking Iron frame, - We stood 00 tbe threshold of a mausoleum similar to the one In which we bad seen Lord Cbesby laid to rest Hugh stepped across the atone all! of the doorway, and swung the light back and forth between the pillars, . Suddenly It glinted glint-ed on metal. We all 'pressed closer, staring at the picture that took shape under - the white glare. On a. stone shelf lay a akeleton In armor. 'The peaked helmet had rolled aside-from tbe naked skull, but the chalnmall of the hauberk still shrouded trunk and limbs. Next to It lay a smaller akeleton, clad tn threads of rich vestments A bygone Lord of Cbesby and bta lady I "We are Intruders la this place," I exclaimed. "It doesn't seem right. Hugh." "One feels Indecent tn being here." agreed Nik! a, Hugh frowned down upon the two skeletons. They wouldn't mind," he said. "We have a reason for coming." And while the echoes bad their will with bis declaration, be led us slowly around the circuit of the chamber. Niche followed niche. On shelf after shelf lav the bones rf men and women whose bodies rotted ages ago. Halfway Half-way r round we came to a shelf that held skeletons. Tbe Inner, obviously obvi-ously a woman's, thrust its poor bones through tbe tattered fabric tbat robed It Tb man wore an immense pot-helmet pot-helmet ol the early type, with eye-boles eye-boles ant nasala drilled In tbe fashion of a cross. His chalnmall waa very finely woven, and Included mall shoes j that had collapsed pathetically on crumbled bones. Bis gauntleted bands were clasped on tbe but of a long, two-edged two-edged sword, whlcb lay upon his chest with lie . flat between his feet On his chest. Just above the clasped hands, waa an Iron box Identical with tbe one which we bad found behind the panel of the over-mantel, tbe sec- Hugh Switched His Torch Base of the Shelf. on the ond of tbe "two boxes of Flanders Iron" which Conrad bad furnished to Lady Jane. Hugh switched bis torcb on the base of the shelf. In rough, angular Gothic characters we spelt tbe Inscription: Inscrip-tion: ' '" Hie Jacet . ; Hugh Continue Cheablensls ; Edltb Domlna Cheeblenals - "Ihe flrst Hugh I" exclulwd Ougb with' a note of awe In bis voice. He hesitated a moment and then reached out reverently and removed the tronjwx from the mailed breast Handing the torcb U me, be raised tbe dingy cover.' Inside waa a chest of ebony, hound' with silver, sound and -whole. lt was unlocked, A UnghJ lifted the 'lid. a' sheet of paper fell i ont and Nlkka caught It Across the ' top wss engraved "Castle Chesby," and It was covered with fine, cramped wrritlng. '" ' " . -i"I a VrrU . James; . record,' uild - i 'V v . ."I," : 1 l.fZl tI A CI THESE- WANT A1T3 tlufb. "After the exultation 6T plunging plung-ing the mystery tn be murdered like a dog I Poor old chap I" taat Thursday avsnlne. la studying Lady Jana's dossaral oa tha back of tha Inatrurttona, I auddanly parcalvs4 tha rlphar It oecurrd ta m tbat tha Wrt ewwtk ovvsteliay tuft- room muat hava soma coaiMctto witb this, and attar savarat-dsya saralna itoct"tlt"TTr-tba-aCTatrtB"UiTnM taraat tn-taa taaa, 1 cad abut myawlt up. and rafuaad lunchaoa. taa and din-aar, din-aar, and finally, lata la tha avanlna. I sank against tha mantal-ahalf, Waak tad halt fainting. My hands, aroplna for support atruck tba sphinx's naaj and tha monk's stomach. I fait than) tva, . haard tha Raastona fait Aftar that bunaar waa forgottan. I daacand-ad daacand-ad tha chlmnay atalra and found mv way bara, tha drat Cbaaby to travaraa tha Prior's vant alnaa that slnaular old ancaatraaa of wlna so affactually ooo-caalad ooo-caalad It tha elaw to tha traaaura. I do not aaa how I eaa fall to Ortd tba traaaura, bat I shall laave tha mlaalnt half of tha Inatructlona, togatbar with tblt nota. In Lady Jana's ebaat eo that If 1 ahould fall, tba Information may be available for Hugh. Jamas Cbaaby. "'" "Thla was what be tried to tell at the last" said Uugb. "There Is something pecUlar about bis finding the secret In one way and our finding It In another ao shortly afterward," t aald. ' "The soothsayers of my people would call It a sign, a premonition," replied Nlkka, with . melancholy smile. ' "Of whatf .....Of lhe . removal of whatever curse or Inhibition baa prevented the discovery discov-ery of tbe treusnre up to this time."; "Well, two men have died already since this last search waa begun," an swered Hugh, fumbling' In tbe chest "And who knows bow many others huve been killed on Ita account?" He drew out a bundle wrapped in . ecaylng velvet cloth. Within was s wrapping of silk, snd under all a folded blank sheet of parchment enveloping en-veloping two other documents. One was s parchment, tattered and worn, whlcb had evidently been much ban died. Its surface was crowded with the same intricate Black Letter script In medieval Latin as comprised the Instructions on the Charter Chest. The writing waa bad!., faded, and a number of words In the lower right-hand right-hand cornet- badbeen-- smudged by dampness at some remote time. The second document waa a penciled translation of the first In Jamea Ches-by's Ches-by's handwriting: The Great Palace or aa aome call It, tha Palaca of tha Bucolaon la ovr against tha Hippodrome and tba Church cf gt Sophia. In tha Innar Court, which fronts upon tha Boaphorua, there u a door, under tha sign of tha Bull Reyond tha door la a halL At tha and of tha hall there la a atair. At tba fool of tha atair tbara la a gate. Paae through tha gata Into tha atrium which off tba' Garden of tha Cedars. In tbe Harden Is tha fountain of tha Lion From tha center of tha fountain take tour pacea weal toward tha wall of th atrium. Then walk thraa paces north Underfoot la a red atona aa ell aquay Kaiae tha farewell, my eon. and forget not the monka or crowdan Priory and tbe oIlKht of Jerusalem. Thine in the love of CbTtet and tha tainted Cuthbart " Bush. beneath scrawled : this Lord Cbesby had The mlaetfia portion Is not asaantlal Below tha atone Is tba traaaura. Tbat eema certain. . 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