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"FAYE" LABORATORIES, t!8 Temple CU, Denver. WNU W 4336 suffer burning, scanty or DO you frequent urination; backache, headache, dizziness, loss of energy, leg pains, swellings and puffiness under the eyes? Are you tired, nervousfeel all unstrung and don't know what is wrong? Then give some thought to your kidneys. Be sure they function properly for functional kidney disorder permits excess waste to stay in the blood, and to poison and upset the whole system. Use Doan's Pills. Doan's are for the kidneys only. They are recommended the world over. You can get the gend Doan's at any drug uine, store. time-teste- CHAPTER XI Continued 20 "She was lying down on her bed when a gag was clapped over her mouth. Pharaoh, of course: but alone. She put up a fisrht, but he very soon had his way. Fie hound her wrists and ankles and took her master key. Then he carried her down her private sralr-cas- e and Into a ecret room the ante chamber, In fact, to the cellar where lies the gold. "I'm afraid there's no doubt thnt she suffered: but. except that Pharaoh put tt across her, she simply leaves that bit out. But he must have been pretty ruthless, for In the end she opened the secret panel concealing the cellar steps. "Well, Pharaoh and Dewdrop went down,' to view the gold: but Rush and Bngle remained In the - chamber on guard. I ousht to have said that her Imnds and her feet had been freed. Still, she hadn't much chance, for they kept a torch on her face. "I shall never understand why Phaas raoh employed two such wash-out- s Bugle and Rush. The first thing those two bright lads did was. between them, to drop the torch. By the time they'd found It again their prisoner was gone. The door to the secret room Is a secret door. It cannot be opened from within. It was, therefore, standing open. In a flash my lady was out and had shut the door. "Well, though she was safe, she wasn't clear of the wood. She was locked In a staircase-turre- t, and Rush had her master key. She called from the embrasures, but, as the castle was empty, there weren't any ears to hear. Then, after a while she found Sabre standing beside her, licking her hand." I felt that such a statement demanded some sort of expression of disbelief. "But you said" "You shut your face," said Geoffrey. "Truth is stranger than fiction every time. The door to the turret was open and so were the doors to her room. But her room had been used. The thieves had escaped by the chimney, entered her room by the fireplace, cleaned themselves up In her bathroom and disappeared." "The obvious thing to do was to search the castle forthwith. I ought to have said that long before I got back, the switchboard had been repaired and the lights had come on, and while my lady was talking, the staff which had been scattered was trickling back. Florin and I Induced some sort of order before beginning the search. "We began with my lady's bedroom. One look at the hearth was enough. There was soot all over the place. But nothing and nobody else. We left the watchmen there and my lady and Florin and I went down to the secret room. It was empty now, we knew, for Pharaoh and company were gone: but the door to the cellar was open and my lady wanted It shut." He took a deep breath. "I'll tell you what we found. We found Pharaoh, Dewdrop and Rush all three of them dead." "Go on," said I, Incredulously. "Fact," said my cousin, shortly. "I'm glad you weren't there to see It It was a dreadful sljrht. Bugle had done the three In and then cleared out. I fancy there'd been some scrap. Pharaoh's back was broken: he had no wound. "And here's my Interpretation of this astounding find. "In Pharaoh's absence Bugle and Rush between them let Lady Helena go. Warrantably fearful of the consequences of what they had done, Rush and Bugle quarrelled, and Bugle killed Rush. Afraid to face Pharaoh such a dereliction of duty meant almost certain death Bugle decided to kill him And so he did. and Pewdron, too. Then he escaped by the chimney, with Lady Helena's master key. This let him out of the castle by the way by which he came In. Why he waited to let her out, I cannot conceive. Pos sibly some twinge of conscience you never know. That's one of the points which we shall never clear up." "Then everything's over," said I "The terror Is laid." "The terror Is laid," said Geoffrey. "Bugle remains, of course. But I, very much doubt If we shall see Bugle again." Thoughtfully I regarded my napkin. Was It five or six days before a corpse rose to the surface of the water In which It lay? "Then everything's over," I repeated. "Except the Interment," said Geof frey: "which Is fixed for tomorrow evening, as soon as It's decently dark. As you seem to have had a night off, I think you might help with that." Six days had gone by, and my precious secret was safe. Only Till was hardly surprising. two boings knew that I had approached the castle that terrible night: and of these the one was a dog and the other was dead. I had not used Barley's pistol: I had cleaned my cousin's knife: my filthy garments lay hid In the Plumage woods. Nobody knew that In my notecase was Helena's master key. But another secret was safe. On the' Sunday night Pharaoh, Dew-droand Rush had been laid in a common grave, not far from the mouth of the tunnel that ran from the moat. Though nobody knew it but I. Bugle ad yet to appear. For some unac p """" " t peered st htg things tosetn" you nc L We've eaten of strange, sweet frnlU like two children, band in hand. And mrtv we're back where we were where we were when you came to Plumage and I told you about the gold. We countable reason the moat still withcan go farther back: perhaps we have. held its dead. But I'd like to stop there, if you can. I mean, one can always be friends." My cousin was painting Plumage. Twice a day he visited Yorick: but I "I can stop there." I said thickly. was not Invired and would not go op "That's right." said Helena gntly. unasked. Neither would I go to Plum- "1 thought you couliL", For a moment she looked at the age although I longed to see her because I was sure that Helena sat palms of her little bands, as though with my cousin and watched him at to consult those pretty pages before work. proceeding with a discourse that was I had made up my mind to leave An' making my heart feel cold. nabel and to go and stay at Innsbruck Then which was a city I knew. My cousin "When I say friends, I mean It I'll was to follow with Barley In four always have a feeling that I can dedays' time. pend upon you. I shan't attempt to. yon And so I was sitting at Annabel, know. But I shall be glad of the feeld cursing life and regarlling my ing. You know. When things go wrong. trunks with at listless stare, It makes a world of difference ff you were when the host of the Inn came bustling can say to yourself 'If with a note In his hand. here, they would understand.' " "You can count on me," I said. "You Dear John. "Your cousin tells me that you are let me come to know you as as I'll leaving tonight. Before you ro. will never know anyone else." you be no good as to show me where "Will It help you, John?" youna; Florin lies? I ' would not ask "I don't know. I'll write and tell yon." you this favour, but I was fond of "That's right. And I'll always anyoung Florin, and you are the only being who knows the site of his grave. swer. You see, my dear, we must never I cannot believe you will rcfus me, ireet again. We've looked at glory toand so. If It will suit you, I will call wasn't our for you today at a quarter to three. getherand turned away. It Please will you tell the bearer 'yes' fault, you know. We rather . . . rushed our fences. But down In that valley or 'BO-- ' HPl.Mi of shadow we gave each other JudgI went down to the door of The Reapment . . . and the Judgments were to to Hook, the ing groom. speak good." "Tell her ladyship 'yes,'" I said. I could not speak. I sat as though turned to stone. My heart In my breast As the coupe stole into the Ice. The blow which had fallen was I descended the steps of the already, had fallen again. I had nothinn. to lose, and had lost It. "From him ing Helena smiled and nodded and I took that hath not shall bs taken away even off my hat. that which he hath." "Will you drive, please?" "I I don't know that mine was." I With a pounding heart, I took, my said desperately. seat by her side, perceived the glow "I'm afraid it was," said Helena. "I of her presence, discovered her faint put my love above honor and you perfume. . . . mustn't do that. And in any event mine The spot to which we were going was. You took my love and you put it lay 12 miles off, and, after leaving the back In Its place. I don't say you car, we must walk half a mile through weren't right to do It, because yoa the forest to come to the dell. Be snre, were. But there are some flowers, my I dear, that you can't transplant. mean If you move them, they die." flj Blow upon blow. Couldn't she see that the thing she was striking was dead? Everything and everyone was dead. Young Florin and Pharaoh and Dewdrop and Bugle and Rush, and now her love. And I had killed them not Bugle, of course, nor young Florin. But everything else. "That's all right," I heard myself saying. "I'm glad . . . it's dead." There was a long, long silence. By the time It was over I had myself in hand. At length "Poor Bugle," said Helena slowly. "He did me a very good turn." "By dropping the torch?" said I "I suppose he dropped It," she said. "But Rush was bullying me, and sometimes I think that Bugle was going to stop him. I don't know, of course. When It fell, I Just flew for the door. And In any event he waited to set me free." "A twinge of conscience," said L Helena shrugged her shoulders. "He needn't have done It," she said. And then again. "Poor Bugle. I'll always remember him kindly. I think he was the best of the lot" A Gag Was Clapped Over Her "I think you're right," said L "I Mouth. bad a weakness for Bugle, to tell yon 1 drove slowly enough. . . . But though the truth. Of course Rush showed him half an hour went by before we left off." the coupe. In all that time we never "I know, I know. But he had a spark of feeling. More than a spark, I think. exchanged one word. Again and again I sought to make Very few men, placed as he was, would some remark, but I feared that my have troubled to let me out." voice would tremble and so betray an "What, will you do," I said, "about emotion I did not wish her to see. To the loss of your master key?" sit thus by her side, as I had sat so "Change the locks, I suppose. It's often, was stirring the depths of my a hideous waste of money: but if Bubeing, as though with a sword. Though gle's tempted, you know, there are I kept my gaze fast on the road, with pletity of crooks who'd pay a long the tall of my eye I could see her peerprice for that key." less features and the gentle, steadfast I dared not pursue the matter: to look on her lovely fare. She was neithdc so would be to sail too close to er grave nor smiling, but something be the wind. I decided that Bugle must twixt the two: her air was the air of show another spark of feeling by reone whose day Is over, who has of choice turning her master key. I would post withdrawn from the lists of life and It to her. Is now content to sit and watch the There was another silence. With her eyes on young Florin's tourney in which she will ride no more. I had never seen her like this and at grave, Helena spoke again. first I could not discover what it was "That wasn't the only reason why I that I found unfamiliar in the beauty wanted to see you before you went I I knew so well: and then I saw; the want your help in a matter. . . . eagerness was out of her face. "Your cousin Is painting my picture he's nearly done. It is the most loveWhen I brought the car to rest, Helena was out In the road before I ly portrait. . . . And as he won't hear of a fee, I want to make him a prescould open the door. Then we entered the forest together, as we seemed to ent. "Well, I've got a cup at Yorick, an have done so often In other days. In silence we came to the glade old. gold cup, with a curious history. where Geoffrey had been painting when Years ago, in the sixteenth century, I first set eyes on the thieves, and In the Yorick of that day was painted. A silence we passed to the coverts which young painter came from Vienna, a Had he lived, he might have been planted on purpose to man called Latz. keep the dell. And then at last we came would have been famous, for the picYour cousin out not quite as I had Intended, above ture Is terribly good. the bluff, but lower down, between the picked tt out In an Instant as being bluff and the water, at the edge of the best of the lot. Well when the a sloping lawn. painter had finished, the count was so Helena caught her breath. pleased with his work that he called for wine and drank the young man's "Oh, John, how lovely," she said. health, and when he had drained the Though I knew the spot was handsome, when I had seen It before I had cup he called for gold. I suppose his been too much distracted to consider treasurer brought It. Then he filled the features that went to make It so the cup with gold pieces and gave the painter the lot I hope It was aderare. "It's finer than I thought," I said quate payment In those days It probquietly. "I never saw It from here." ably was. The next morning the paintFor a moment we stood together er left Yorick to make his way home. looking down on young Florin's grave. On his lonely ride to Salzburg the poor man was robbed and murdered his "I must bring old Florin." said Helena. "I think It would help him a lit body was found by the road. Now the thieves didn't break up the cup. but tie." Helena sat herself down with her six months later they tried to eell It at Innsbruck where Yorick then had back to the rippling brook. "I'd like to stay friends." she said. a hotel. But, as It happened, they took "I know you're going away, and I It to the very goldsmith that Yorick think you're right. But I'd like to think himself employed. The moment he saw that though our our moments are the arms, he knew that the cup had been stolen, and, to ut a long story over, we still were friends." 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