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Gering tells Exon there is a family secret, known only to the head of the house, to be found in the great tower at Brief, oy a doorway none can ever find Exon inherits his uncle's fortune and sets out to right Gering's wrongs En route he encounters Percy Elbert Virgil, son of the villainous Ferdinand and sees him in conference with Inskip, a diamond merchant He engages a valet. Winter, who hates Percy and meets by chance at a garage John Herrick, who is a linguist and who as, a youth served as a page at Genngs Herrick, wedding, and had visited Brief due eventually to tall into an inheritance, is at present unemployed and seeking pleasant work to while away a few months Herrick and Winter regarded the countryside. It seemed as well to get our surroundings by heart. At every side road, I stopped, and we studied the map, so that, though our progress was slow, we all of us knew continually where we were. And then I turned north and on to our penciled roads. It was half past twelve and we were among the mountains, when the way which we were using began to rise very steeply, after the way of a pass. This was so much to the good, but hereabouts the map and the country agreed together so ill that we could not determine the heights which we were beginning to climb. . As though to confuse us still more, the road bent to and fro and doubled upon itself, while the woods through which we were moving were very thick and the CHAPTER 11 Continued trees upon either hand met over our 3 heads. Though we were not lost, The woman smiled. we as good as blindfold and I think you are English, she afterwere five minutes had passed we said. were goI could hardly believe my ears knew not which way we nor come. we had whence ing and 1 think my look of amazement We threaded this natmade her laugh. Be that as it may, ural must have for gallery nearly two miles, the two of us laughed together as when we first very faint, at heard, though at some excellent iest, till the roar of falling water some disa bright-eye- d girl came running, tq tance ahead. see what the matter might be. And very nice, too, said Her. Her mother addressed her in Geran ear. This means rick, cocking man, still shaking with mirth, and a break in the trees. Stop when we the two of them laughed together get there, my boy, and I will rebefore returning to me. turn to the map. I need hardly My mother, said the girl, can say that it shows no sign of water. only speak two or three words, but In fact. Im inclined to think that I am better, sir, if you will say they guessed this bit. The temptawhat you want. tion, no doubt, was great. Nobody Shes better than 1 am, said I. seems to come here: so who on And you are extremely good. Have earth was ever to say they were you ever been in England? wrong? Oh, no.. But every summer an Whilst he was speaking we had English family stays here. They been rpunding a bend, and, though come in August to fish. And they we could not yet see it, the song of have been good to teach me as some great cascade was growing much as I know. more impressive with every yard. Do you mean that they stay Then we floated over a crest, and That they lodge there was a bridge before us, some here? said I. with you? forty yards off. I am sure that neither Winter nor Always," said Brenda, proudly for I later learned that that was her I will ever forget the moment when name. They have made us a beau- we walked on to that bridge. We tiful bathroom two years ago. had never before encountered so tre-From , nine mendous a head of water falling said I. Listen, oclock this morning my friend and from such a height; and what with I have been scouring the country- the terrible might of the sheaves side to try and find an inri at which' and tresses of foam, the everlasting we could possibly stay. We could roar and the definite quaking of not even find one at which we could the ground upon which we stood, we felt both dazed and abashed and break' our fast. looked the one to the other, as men Brenda nodded sympathetically. The inns are no good," she said. in the presence of something they 1 said. cannot conceive. Will you receive us? I do not know how long I stood We shant be any trouble, and my servant here will do all 'he can to staring, but 1 suddenly found that Herrick had hold of my arm. Behelp. of the tumult 1 could not hear cause The girl consulted her mother. I he what said, but I let him turn me in with heart my watched them my and about bring me up to the paramouth. of the bridge. pet Then I now had my back to the fall and We shall be pleased, she said once I leaned over and down to at simply, until the end of July. see if the splendor below us comAs may be believed, we did no pared with the grandeur above, but more that evening than minister to Herrick wbuld not allow me to do as our needs and stroll in content about I wished, jerking my arm and shoutour heritage. The house, which had ing, until in some impatience I liftbeen a bailiffs, was full of fine ed my head. And then 1 saw he was pointing rooms: our apartments were all that not at the raging water, but out of and the could ever desire: men two the coach-house gap in the trees. Rolls was lodged m a A crows mile aWay stood a castle, three which would have accepted cars. All this was wfell enough, but built on the spur of a foothill against With the the honest goodwill thdf'was shown the green of the woods. staircase-turrets, I see four could naked eye man a remembers as such was us left of the the and towards as long as' he lives With it all, no was rising one great, round questions were asked and we were pile tower. left to ourselves. After breakfast the following day, Ten minutes' later, perhaps, I we returned to the map. We found ' our Winter a little speech. made for the farm bearings at once, Herrick and I had strolled on, out was marked. The name of it was Raven: and Brief lay 11 miles off of sound of the fall, and Winter had Such a distance was very conve- taken the Rolls and had caught us nient, for while we could have gone up.' I want you to know," said I, to the castle in 20 minutes or less, we why we three are here and what were out 3f the range of such goswe are out to do. In that castle you sip as comes to a servants hall. I believe there to live three saw casbut the was The estate large, is the present owner, tle stood to one side: and that, of people. One of the second, his Brief: Count the if for had it course, was something, a nephew and the child: third, we were unless only in the middle, stood Mr. a his of by Virgil, Percy ready to trespass, we could have name. About estate the all at seen nothing said Winter, The same, sir? so much was stood mountains shortly. But whether, by climbing clear. The same, said I. one, we should have a fair view of Thank you, sir, said Winter, could we than more the castle was his teeth. between we penciled carefully Still, divine. Now to though Mr. Virgil lives so speak, bythe roads which, he is not the son of the house southern there, on side, the Brief passed for that was the side upon which the and the castle is not his home. It castle was built. And then we set is his cousins home and yet he out to prove them Unless the map lives there'. , . 1 have reason to think that the was lying, if Brief could be commanded from any point, that point Count of Brief prefers Mr. Virgil, could only be reached from one of his nephew, before his only child: and since the Count is about as big our penciled roads. At half past ten that morning the a sweep as Mr. Virgil himself, I bethree of us entered the Rolls, and think it more than likely that, 1 drove leisurely westward, while tween the twd, his cousin has a very thin time. And his cousin is a girl the Lady Elizabeth Virgil, just twenty-four years old. If that was as much as I said, it was more than enough to fan to a flame the embers of Winters zeal, and from that time on he was heart and soul in the business, as I shall show. The astonishing chance which led us straight to the viewpoint to which we had hoped to come was the only stroke of good fortune we met that day. To be sure, it was handsome enough: but the fact remains that, so far as we could discover, the bridge from which we had 'sighted the Castle of Brief was the one and only point on the roads we had marked from which that remarkable pile could be fairly surveyed. We now had our bearings, and, the map proving faithful once more, we never lost them again. By four oclock that day we had compassed the property twice and had never seen so much as the top of the tower, but, for what it was .'worth, we knew the lie of the land and had marked the two entrance-drive- s and three or four tracks which would have accepted a car. To a great extent we had the ways to ourselves, and, except in one village, called Gola, I do not think our passage excited remark. But we ran through that twice, which was foolish, and the second time, looking back, I saw a smith and his helper run out of the forge and stand staring after the Rolls, with their tools in their hands. When I told Herrick, he sighed. Cant be helped, he said. But a blacksmiths forge is as bad as a barbers shop. Gossip. And thats the worst of using a notable car. Wed better give Gola a miss for as long as we can. It was after that that we climbed again to the bridge and, berthing the Rolls beyond it, turned to the arduous business of proving the woods through which the cascade fell down. Except by entering these, we could not possibly tell whether or no they were hiding some coign which commanded Brief, for we could only survey them by looking up from below an angle which showed us no more than a billowing quilt of leaves. For three full hours we fought with "that mountainside, and for all the good we did we might never have left the car. We could not even reach the head of the fall, for after perhaps 250 feet I came to a hidden y cornice of rock, and of which in tales view the though, men of the mountains tell, I hardly like to say that this could not have been climbed, I should like to see the man that could have climbed it and, better still, the manner in which he went to work. As for finding a point of view, but for the roar of the water, we should not have known where we were, and, until I came back to the road, I never found so much as a rest for the sole of my foot. Going down, I met Winter past speaking, clinging to the roots of a saw no sign beech, but of Herrick till I came to a brake of brambles not more than 60 feet up. Here his hat was hanging, caught up on a venomous sucker that sprang from a monstrous bush, and, since he was not to be seen, supposed that I had passed him in my descent for had he been coming down, he would not have left his hat. I, therefore, shouted his name with all my might, to be answered from the midst of the brambles by which I stood. trust, he said gravely, that you have enjoyed your stroll. Im not going to ask "if you've viewed the promised land first, because I know the answer, and, secondly, because I am not interested in posts of observation to which only an anthropoid ape can conveniently repair. And now, if Winters alive, you might procure my release. Ill direct the operation Ive had nothing to do for ten minutes but work it out. Youre not hurt? No. Merely disabled. If I dont breathe, I hardly suffer at all. But to move means laceration. You see, Im embedded in briars which simply must not be touched. Transgress this law, and youre savaged beyond belief. I heard him sigh. So thick and fierce were the briers and so deeply was Herrick involved that a quarter of an hour went by before we could haul him out. That was enough for us all, and .we made our way home, proposing upon .the morrow to assault the neighboring height" blue-gra- 1 1 ,I t The burden of the next three days will hardly go into print. Enough that we fought like madmen to wrest from the mountains and forests a secret which, if they had, they would not disclose. Such harsh and unprofitable labor I never did, and when Herrick at last declared that he would no longer abuse his flesh, I must confess I was thankful to throw in my hand. At four oclock on a Thursday he leaned against a fir and stated his long-sufferi- ng -- BRICK SEWER PIPE FLOWER POTS WALL COPING and ALL CLAY PRODUCTS : UTAH FIRE CLAY CO Salt Lake FACE SYNOPSIS ' I0GQ00CCOQO PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTO-KRAF- T ECONOMY FILM SERVICE Any Roll Developed with - - - - 25c 8 Quality Prints Extra Prints 3c Wrap coin and film carefully 749 Salt Lake City, Utah PHOTO-KRAFT-B- SCHRAMM-JOHNSO- DRUGS N case. I am tired of unseating my intestines by efforts no goat would be such a fool as to make, and Ipi sick of straining my eyeballs in an effort to see through cover which is just about as transparent as a cellar of coal. In a word, I have had my fill of futility. I, therefore, suggest that we enter the enemys lines without further delay. I may say that this suggestion belongs to the spirit alone: if I took the advice of .the flesh, I should enter a nursing- home. With that, he began to retire by the way we had come, and Winter and I came after without a word. As we drove back to Raven, we summed up what we had learned from going about the estate, and after an excellent supper, of which we were very glad, we studied the map we had marked and laid our plans. These were, very shortly, to make for the mouth of the northern entrance-drive. There Winter would set us down and then go off for petrol, of which we were running short. How long our visit would last, we could not tell, but when Winter had taken in fuel, he was to return with the Rolls and berth her in one of the tracks. With that, we went to bed early, for we were to rise at dawn, more or less content that the country had forced our hands and little dreaming of the ruffle which the morrow was to bring forth. The sky was cloudless, the world was drenched with dew and the sun was not yet upon the mountains, when Winter set us down a hundred yards from the mouth of the entrance-drive. To this there were no and only a board lodge-gatemarked Private" distinguished its rough, brown surface from that of an ordinary road. The first track on the right, Winter. Back her down and take her well into the wood. You may have to wait some time, but dont go far from the car and keep out of sight of the road. Very good,' sir, said Winter, and set a hand to his hat. Five minutes later the Rolls was three miles off and Herrick and I were padding along the drive, one road. upon either side of the For a furlong the drive ran straight: then it bent to the left and the woods upon either hand began to close in: but the bracken held on and was growing tall and thick we could see the green flood stretching beneath the trees. And then the drive curled to the right and ran into the woods. We had covered more than a mile and the sun was up, when, something to our surprise, we heard the sound of a car. This was behind us, coming the way we had come, and at once we whipped into the bracken and kneeled down among the green stems, to let it go by. After a moment or two, a closed car, traveling slowly, slipped into and out of our sight. The blinds of the car were drawn, and a chauffeur, wearing black livery, sat at the wheel. A glance at the numberplate showed that this was obscured., The return of Percy, said Herrick, after a heavy night. 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