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Show "'BRYrorxTY nrtrt hen 1 MS i i . , , , i T11 SYNOPSIS t I tl'mt thing like hof,. .. Wd rou lose anything. Urd Cl.es by?" inquired Hilmi "1 think not" The Countess 8andra vassi,lievra Prm lted an artistic shudder to undu late her Pgure. "Bozhe mot. Maude!" she cried. "U, you bring us tutu your rural Kngland to risk death from burglars? I urvUn the llolshevists." Several people laughed. "All the same. It's nn Juke " an swered Mrs. Hilyer. "Thanks for the warning. Lord Uiesuy. We'll let the dogs loose around the hoiue after thK at nijiht." Teodoreschi still standing In the doorwyy, rasped a single sentence, mid passed out. The others linked aftei valet, that the old gentleman has left with a stranger, purposing to be a friend of Hugh A mysterious telephone messnge BOtifles Hugh that his uncle is In hospital, dying, victim of an Before his death he assassin. babbles of the treasure, and tells them he was stabbed by "Tou-tou.- " With Lord Chesby's body, Hugh and Jack sail for England in London Hugh and Jack meet their war buddy, Nikka Zarenko. famous gypsy vIollnlBt," and pore over some old documents seemingly having a bearing on he treasure and its location A hidreferred to as the den room, 'Priors Vent," in frequently mentioned. Jlontey Hilyer, man ol ibady reputation, but owner of a neighboring estate, calls on Hugh with a party of friends, mostl One of them, Intro-dupe- d foreigners. as "Slgnor Teodoreschi," an Italian, makes a distinctly unfavorable impression on Jack. him like hounds oxer whom the huntsman cracks his whip. Mrs. Hilver mid the countess vnved a last gocd-hyand Wntkitu closed the d or after them. Nikka and I looked at one anothe' and hurst ou laughing. Hugh, with a muffled curse, threw up the earsi window. "Let's have some fresh air." he saij "That scoundrel Money Hilyer mukes me feel dirty " . "They were a queer crowd," mined. "That countess vwimt ad I had Continued 5 gorgeous fireplace," said "Tliat is a countess. "Ah, yes," he agreed, with his ah "Kather lordly broad pronunciation. i quaint verse there, too, I see. How does it run?" the kelp from Cifttrrljmamt jprkr Jfya BouVa rontftttf $tr laokmra vp ge tjBBf?ittg "I hiiren' the slightest idea," said. "Not has anybody else." l conversation had attracted the attention of the others, and Mrs. llil-ye- r dre Nikka and the count In from Our the , chimney-piece- Tou don't suppose there could be wm secret meaning to those words. to you?", she asked. "1 wish you'd pl.t It out for me." 1 countered. That at Was Amazed at the Sudden Silence That Gripped the Room. looking, though I think she was trying to pump me." "A key to something else, you know, '. "Well, Hilyer didn't ask me any he went o "Our ancestors were questions, I'm bou .d to say," returned fond of that sort of thing. They loved Hugh. "He was too busy wUb his mystery, dud life wasn't aand anecdotes, safe In beastly gambling those uays as it Is ' crooked dope. What did you make out in ours." "lt'8 perfectly thrilling," cried the of them, Nikka?" (ountess. "This Is Nikka lit a cigarette before he re just, the kind ol room to bouse some wonderful secret plied. "I think they are a party of polite perhaps a tragedy." I felt thieves." he answered at last. "At behind and me, something urned mv head. The Italian had left least, son.j of them. The Italian gave Ike table In the center of the room me the shakes." nd moved "Who was the Bey person?" imiuired up to the fringe of our roup. His green eyes, flaring with an Hugh. "".unoy vital force, were Intent upon Nikka's lip curled. ruyme on the "That fellaheeu cur! know the breed. "Humph," I thought to myself, "you They live by graft and worse. It we " ooi oe able to speak English, but go to Taris I think I shall make In I know appear t, be able to read It." qulries about some of them. e growled something Id an under persons at the prefecture of police wh. . ,0 Mrs- - Hilyer and she nodded ought to have their dossiers." "How did they get on the subject rt . '"unariI8 as your room Is, 1 am ...aiu we must leave you. Lord 'hes- that verse of Lady Jane's?" demanded e called over to Hugh. "Slaimi Hugh. worescbi had reminded me we just "It was the countess and Mrs. Hil 10 Put him i' saw it. and on the London train , yer." I explained. "They we drive home." mean hidden some "T? on insisted reading HI have Villi! tnfttr.ra ,.otlH nn II." Into ing Wttmert Tugh Impassively, as ho and As I spoke I looked up again Jlned the -- st of ns. the overmantel where the Gothic char and Kave the ne. essary or .I,.,..?8 aclers showed dimly In the light from o "7 'o Catkins. the smoldering logs and the rays font the over I conned the sunset Mor the St. Vent Leger." I heard Hit lines deliberately. "Ye Trior s 81 to seemed lump 'o H"Sh words I',D nut so sure three The last ""h Tou Hren' 'aklng ob "S hunters, are you? I've- -" I a,ucry lo myself. had often put . - 1 ,,',7, Hugh Interrupted. "I ask you: dld any ' yu 8,r,,n8e around here the my uncle's funeral?" men,?.'!' 111 BornL , 81 ,ama!!ed that Teodr1 . her Urt no1 dead ,., ,ue Meo ?e ro alrea,'y Hem -- "" " the doorwuy "f farewell, stopped e' ,Ju8h conilnued. "I hearo was 8een 0D the Un 'ark of Park- i .Tti -'"us 10 know nrhuihor mi "ran "J' 8eeD thu morning HnK'r n foot." "Sol h e'v neard Vn mpund "All of o ter,,, "lly''r' f,uni'ral- - And If the eerv oti "" u' hany,b,DR queer-- , reported It to rnn?1", Car" S of 42! too "ld Hgh. "Would tt b nS.,ro,,l)le tr you to Inquire Several little girls were "paying Albert. m.use" on a side porch when front hi U.tee year old, emerged side of thn horn, on the opposite He excitement. street In search of enthusiastic with once greeted was shouts. I We're Albert on over. "Come lol of run. having tonkins up and down the him; motor cars he acrosl bu, his face iow .ook of evident disgn, mler the nature of ih Z IS"? he nerceived ' A talnmen, offered him ""- had been set wilt, uou was told he was to oe n?i f '""Pan? mm'h" c - irolested t; . ''(,",!" ' w Hilyer ve never, had any ' in the twinkling of an eyelid the cipher leaped oui before me. I did not reason It out. it just came to hen I saw the VE iu H,e next to he last line, I think got It," I shouted, and I sprang up and danced across the hearth, wav ing the paper in my hand. "I've got it! The key! The cipher! The trea.---" lint even as I started tt say thai I thought better of IL "No, that's going too far," I panted, breaking off In my mad dance. "I've got something, but how much It mean is another matter' Hugh pulled me down beside them "Talis sense. Jack." he ordered "Show us your " "Hore!" I shoved the copy of Lad.v Jane's doggerel In front of him anil Nikka. "Now watch!" I look a pencil and drew it through all except the first letters of the first and last words In each line. So: me-w- "l'e 310 Aaaiour.t rid dot-- In V t I V o S E N t Nikka. "He has found something !" And his eyes, too, sought the vers, carved on the overmantel. "Up there, too! It can mean only one thing." "That the secret to the location ot the treasure Is In the I'rlor's vent," amended Nikka. Hugh, who had been In a brown study, aroused himself, and peered at the mass of the fireplace. "I'm not trying to belittle Jack's discovery." he said slowly, "but you chaps must remember that we don't know where or what the Trior's veni is." "Except that you may take If for certain It is In this room," replied Nikka. "And that perhaps the fireplace ha something to do with It," I suggested' Hugh shook his head. "No, no. Jack, that won't wash. You yourself, have measured that chimney area, and we all agreed there wasn't space inside it foi a secret chamber If I thought there was. I'd tear it down." "Hold on," counseled Nikka "Easy does It. l'"or the first time we've got it somelhi ig to go upon. Let's over for a while, and see what we can make out of It." We chewed It ovei until bedtime without reaching any decision. CHAPTER IV The Prior's Vent time before I went to in sleep. Lady Jane's cipher and lis conclusive Information kepi buzzing I doz.-through my head. Hut at last off and dreamed of fat monks wh. round hole In h popped out of courtyard In endless su. cession until one ot theii number, stoiitet than th. rest, became weded in the op. nine I He babbled profanely in Latin and It was a long nd . for an airplane lo - relation 10 uie , "f not possible for . air-.b- atu, to tionary In relation at a rate of 100 Is flying airniane fan henn w.uu . miles an hour against the speed of the UN) miles an hour, be iero. plane would air In P"-- M IJisi re-dy- aked The night was very dark, and there was not even a hint of starshlne to light the room. I rolled over, and shut my eyes, and promptly sat up In bed. I thought I had beard a strange sound. What h was I could not say It was very faint, a gentle burring rip. I swung t,ut .it bed. reached for a candle, thought better ot It. md crossed to the door communicating with Hughs ri.om. It was ajar, and as I poked my head In, I could hear his gentle breathing. Nikka's room, beyond his. was quiet Outside of us three, only Watkins slept in that pari of the house. My first Instinct was to laugh at myself, but 1 opened the door from my room into the hull and lisieued there. At Ursl I heard oothlng. Then it seemed to me that I detected a creaking as tt ol subduod footfalls. I cou'd uot quell the uneasiness whi.h possessed me. t started to call Hugh and v'ikka, and stopped with my hand raised to knock on Nikka's door. It woulO be a fool stunt to wuke them for nothing but my iwn fancies. After a moment's further hesitation, I crept downstairs Into Ihe entrance hall, groping my way In the pitch darkness. Keeling more than ever like a fool, t looked Into the dining room and music room. I bad lust stepped back Into the hall when a chink of light shone out of the short passage that led from the hall Info the gunroom. It flickered away, and returned. Wishing now that I bad taken the automatic that lay on the table be side my bed, I stole Into the gunroom passage. The door of the gunroom was ajar, but not sulliclently to permit me I drew It cautiously to see Inside. toward me. The chink ot light was more pronounced. A brief mutter ot voices, hoarse and restrained, reached my ears. As the crack widened, I adjusted my eye to the opening and (eered In. The gunroom was a pool ot shad ows, save only In front ot the fireplace, where a single ray of light played upon a preposterous figure crouched on the mantel-shelf- . The light came from an electric torch In the hand ot a second figure outlined against the dying coalB of the wood fire on the hearth. They mumbled back and forth to each other, and now 1 caught once more the faint noise like the prolonged ripping ot tough cloth which had attracted my attention ud stairs. The light Hashed on steel, and I realized that the figure on the mantel shelf was working with a small saw on the panel ot the contain Ing Lady Janes verse. Asl watched, he suspended his sfrorts and barked impatiently at his assistant. The ray of light nulvercd and shifted upward For a fleeting section of a second It traversed the figure on the mantel shelf and focussed momentarily on his head and shmilders. I gasped The figure was Trofessoi I'codnrcschi. the Italian chemist who had a companied th Hilyer's party In my Hii:azem( nf my hand tightened In voluntn il. Its grip on the door, which swung out past me with a loud groan Another beam of light flashed fr m the shadow close l.y. focucsed on me and DtamonA 'Due's Easy to faults Perfec use at all Drug J exc Philippine Coinage Money coined for the I'hillppine Islands first arrived In the Philippines from the Philadelphia and San Francisco mints in June, 190U, and was first placed In circulation in July, 1003. 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Water pressure at the depth ol ue mile is about one ton to the square Inch, so that the device would give its users a maximum margin of safety. 111 top ot my lungs. I bud my hands full on the Instant The man who had Dung the lorco at me w;is already sera milling to his The Korilla tike Italian liar) teel lumped from the uiHhiel shell with the 'ilerl energy ot a big cat- - He and the man who had been helping him down were nw dodging toward uie. ' lirez pas!'' hissed TetMioresch) in thronty accent thai were vaguely lamillai Ter.ez. Serge Vlada! Tercel! Tolgnarde !" The Italian's helper rem tied me drsl saw his knife in his hand and "little boy" in the domestic scene 'ruck "iii with my bst Hem a knile about to be enacted. flghtei it was what lie least ex pec led For a time he stood about., silcni and he went over I ran behind the and muking no effort to join in the large centei table, and as Ihe Italian he deliberately and the i.lher man closed in I reared proceedings Then walked l" Ihe IllUe table and gave It on end and toppled It a' them They ii and if a vicious shove, upsclting jumped apart, and I found opportunity all ovei disres Utile the toscattering heave another hair at ihe cha I had Just knocked down. the porch. In Ihe horrllied silence But I was in for a bad time i eodorea that followed this crime, he an nounced solemnly : whs on me like human iuggertiaui Tin a had boy and I've gotta go He swept aside m blows as though nome." Kansas I'll J Slur. they were harmless folded me in hi great a. me and tossed me from hliu I Reserved Opinion. spun actus the dearth Into the firecivil ol the and brought up 00 all fours U noiicoiiiuillialiii-splace, The servant Is proverbial but this gem re the ashes. corded by Lord Asquitb fakes the Fvery tooth in my head wa . .1 red the crash, but I bad no time to cake: ty think of jain I beard the guttural, Tt used to be said of one of th most distinguished civil servants. Si. snarl of the gorilla tnaa behind me,' b.Kii and looked up to see his knife descendAlfred I.yall. who was a pool to n topic ns thf such on even ing I a stur that was aimed Inside that I threw my weather he would not go farH.e uiy collarbone Desperata his and he backward legs, self against than: -Tm Inclined to guess that there fell od the couch. 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