Show I 1 what the I 1 j I 1 gray d house house TV hid E V ar vie mystery of a I 1 haunted mansion 11 IV aa I 1 by ma martyn A A A J ai W N X U service copyright by wyndham matyn CHAPTER X continued kut these other two men burton asked anxiously they will find that they have an opportunity to got get away aay its clond I 1 ng oyer byer for min im willing to match my giant lant hawk against your fuchsia moth that we shall never see ece jim or lulal again agal til 1 jim and luigi could hardly believe choir eyes when hen they saw that flit nion men had find the te two hio miscreants merged into tho the shadows and faded from sight by some secret and unknown anin there remained appleton anti anil his lady their problem was not so simple appleton must be hold held when the cell door was unlocked the lady waa voluble and angry when applelona App letona door was lung flung open he lay on the floor youve killed himi him I 1 she said and flung bung herself at tits hla side elde there was no DO doubt that she loved lovea him presently he sat ant no and smiled at lier her we lie face was white my heart Is not strong be admitted men aten with high color often owe it less to good health than to heart trouble I 1 have had much to worry me today with your conr permission I 1 will get some madle medicine lne before we resume our conference appleton seemed shrunken and feeble it was the woman who supported pim him slowly they walked ahead df their captors toward th large living room appleton was courteous to the last fast it Is your house he said smiling feebly after you geril temen I 1 burton was the last to enter when tie he ans well inthe in alie room the door was suddenly shut nod and looked locked behind him five men stared at orio one a another n kotlier helplessly the sick man had tricked them CHAPTER XI I 1 it was ten minutes before they had smashed the door down there was nothing but darkness and pelting torrents pf af rain with flashlights they searched the sanctuary until about midnight biorn torn by thorn spikes and drenched to tile the skin akin to confess that they were beaten ap ana his lady and add escaped the five made their way to he wire edge of the bird sanctuary and came I 1 exhausted to tho the oray gray house dina cella celia and florence burton were waiting their alarm would have been greater had bad not hanby left a note saying that lie he and bill and junior were going on a long ions hiking trip here said hanby dramatically breaking la in on thern them ure are the lost 1611 ones I 1 florence hp tire re is your T tom om celta celia I 1 b behold the raptor captor odthe wild ivilo fail faun n I 1 a moment for ex ich nations he added junior an and I 1 have hare to go out put again he turned ta to gilsson jils hla aon son get gei car around to the tl le front ont door as soon ni a you can durF hurriedly lealy ue ae picked up the tele phone and called 06 local chief of oc pollee police whom he be had met lo in the red hed 1 chapin murder affair sir bir hanby talking he begun began 1 I ive ve just chink in I 1 met a 8 whole train of big trucks passing along south I 1 fi be surprised it if they were svere rp running a c cargo a rg 0 t bjoze boze id bools too into it if I 1 you he hung buns up ap the instrument I 1 1 I did that he be to his ta family nilly because 1 I want the seizure made somewhere not on bihy ihy property boyle happens happen to be bb one of the teni ants whose repairs has a nl na anya v ased what hat seizure dina cried bill will ha e i to tell tel I 1 yau you ail all about 11 tt canby picked up the telephone in chak alm connected with the garam garage the ijadi and the gard gardeners en rs quarters the heard hear d 6 him fin alv glup w wh a t seeded fin an extraordinary order lid instructed phree roen men in the tp ride around the bird anric enary until ho he ordered abero to cense cease patrolling andio and to hold any trespassers to break awny from 1 it I 1 1 1 11 bill will explain tie said we well U be back in half hn an hour it ta r its as almost un hour before te fure he cume in I 1 weve been checking up tiAn things ggs he sold eald now nov for something to eat euh I 1 agalli he took up the local telephone this time pe lie instructed oi a chauffeur to tell the men riding about the P elrd alro sanctuary sanc tury that I 1 crisli basl kvas done lly by this time dina knew th the e whole st 01 ury Y I 1 slit i I 1 iq ivas particularly I 1 in renia nt the amr rayed p ilyes by appi t 06 ona s coni cani anti ip I 1 iu ILI ae I 1 ais weri th the leasing 1 01 e a i 1 s a g 1 1 I l I 1 ce you n 11 dootz doan fan ean tc c sn say those t dread fire t d 1 H A ft isif pl e flie ou ve escaped 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 impossible I 1 pelham cried now how do you knoerl some three hours houra ago ilanay told them I doctor Docto grant ana coming from a caso case and saw a plump gentleman and a good broling woman at our upper en entrance gates etea they were soaked through from the rain he be supposed rind and lind and a reasonable story to tell their motor had stalled somewhere and they w wore ore on their way to got get gas dotor rf tor orant believed it ano and took them as ar as stanford ville where they bought a five galton gallon can and hired a car to take them back babli to their machine the driver was told to go to the bearc nearest st railroad station tie he did so and halved hel eel ved g good pay and the can of gas they took the ten thirty alve train to new york I 1 dont havi to bs be a house detective or a yale sophomore to guess who I 1 that drenched couple was ilow how old did they get out of the sanctuary and make the upper road they wont went up the stream we know theres a clear way because jim used to float tile the co cadda jes down while wo we wore were losing our flesh and cl in oll old 1 d thicket they were wading in three feet pf af water to safety another tiling thing white while they delayed 63 ua the crowd at boyles made its ita getaway such ek a night is as foggy reiny and moonless aris n godsend to them the tracks were enough in boyles yard when we got there but jio he brinin has washed nil all marks from the priced aronds itten IT ten it wout bo be easy to trace I 1 them tho the professor hazarded it wont bo be hard to trace forty tenton ten ton ton waking a 0 convoy f for manhattan manila triin they ther cant make eno dupre je than lhnn twenty flye five miles au an hour our at the outside got get then and they il get appleton too here tho telephone rang sharply it was tile local chief of police no was angry and disappointed ue informed hanby that with his own inon tind prohibition enforcement lie he had bad overtaken held up nod searched a fleet of big trucks lio proceeding southward they ivere were laden only with building material which had been carefully examined tn n every instance they e driven py y roen men whose alibis wera genuine bowl said hanby hanging jp up that was a hot one I 1 it certainly proves that tho the amateur detect live business Is not as simple as it se seems elbs what amphon or jim did was ito to niter alter the destination ot of the booze 1 ships In stend of going toward manhattan n they went into hilling filding 11 dann i sensed d deep i depression in him her husband was a man binn wio always played to will wi mind I 1 she bhe bald putting her arm about hla his shoulders ly IF im proud of you nil all abu youve I 1 I 1 ve given a husband back to FI florence 0 denpe and but for you I 1 night might have lost ray iny son in law 11 site smiled elf at leslie and cello celia youve cleared up the great grant mystery III 1 something Is lost in every victory pelham reminded deo him again the telephone disturbed them Ua hnnry rilly answering rated rat ed his hand si lance clience find and attensil att entil long distance he be whispered I 1 alls I 1 ton ten all of you I 1 they crowded about the instrument I 1 A distant central informed some sonic ono one os as yet unknown t that hat here bera lyns tits its party I 1 this la Is M halaby canby speaking said bald the mat man at the instrument there floated out into theyo the room orn the very clear articulation of mr appleton I 1 I 1 we wish to thank you said ap for our opportunity to escape everything turned ou q as we desired Jim reports the perfect suc BUC cess and I 1 are now in new york she le was very much attracted by your per tonality wo both feel 1661 that hat ive Q dv ax a great deal 6 to I 1 Y you ou fortunately WP we can reppy hanbys face turned red it in ini I 1 tur blin I 1 to have appleton jeering joei nt at him oyer over the long distance lie he was coin commencing to tell mr air appleton what he tb thought ought ot 0 him when I 1 dina tapped mal him ap P the arm Ll stent she c 1 11 I am n not of lying when I 1 halwe sax we can repay mr appleton remar remarked keil W when he ii llan Hari bya bys recrimination ris we were r e cut short oli oil dear roe me no I 1 As aa you will not see any ot of us i again I 1 bequeath to you the hie contents of your own I 1 pellar cellar even be law cannot take abe it away from youl TIIE crins OND END |