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Show (Continued frYom Our LftSt Issue) "Wells is an old fool! ' Andrew continued. con-tinued. ' I any. thorn Is nothing any of tin can do for Roger, he'll lo'P like a baby tonight, and be all right In the morning I'm going out and I shan't j be hack until late, but I'll take my ! key and I won't disturb you if von toll Carter not to put the chain "on the door." He strode heavily from the room and in another moment, Mlas Drake and Hoburt followed. "It's work for nothing to Met th table for (hem; they don't touch I thing!" Carter mourned, as ho and Miles cleared away the final dobrin of tho meal. "I'm butg 1 don't know wh it s como to this house, nor where Its going to end ' ' "Whst'" there to be scared of?" Miles asked stoutly, "I've seen nothing no-thing barring that fainting spell ol Mr. Roger's today Is he ortc-n took like that" Carter shook his head. "Only once before and that was Just a day or two after after tho constable brought Mr Hobart borne when he'd hem walking Iti his sleep That's what you heard, uin t it. William V" He asked Hie question with almost :i-tlieilc :i-tlieilc eagerness. "No." William replied bluntly If you want the truth 1 heard he was either drunk or crazy!" "Not a thing had he touched that night, for 1 had the only set of keys lo the wine cellar'" Carter asserted I solemnly "I've vet to iee klr Hobart ln liquor, but I can't say as much for i Mr .-vndrew: Mr. Andrew was such a I trial to the rest of tho family w hen he I came back, though he's toned down I considerable, especially In his language. langu-age. It was shocking to hear. 111-laio 111-laio " "I shouldn't be surprised," Miles observed. ob-served. "Did he bring thoo fits back with him. too. from Australia" You mean what happened last Monday." Mon-day." Carter lowered his voice "if you want to know my opinion ; from what l could get out ot Edward I think Mr Andi'vv was whamming, though the Lord only snows why " i Miles glanced sharply at the old man bill his tone was casual as he i emexkad: He was playing a trick on Edward, i maybe, out then was no fake about! Mr. Roger's faint today." No. nnd as ior Mr. Hobart. I in glad m.V given up the stock market j tir fore -before hf lost everything, l hough someiiui. s I've w ished that the ' money never came in the first place' n was that made aU ihrco of them a t : (juei r long ago. and though 1 almost i torgot about It In the years between, pernaps they've been wrong in the neaa ever since." "How do you mean they acted queer when they came Into their money?" UMKeo .Miies 1 remember when the news came and though thej were excited It struck mo then that not on of them BeemeO really nappy about it or even surprised. surpris-ed. Mr. Hobart seemed to think onlj of getting back at other folks for all the years or hardship they'd been through; getting rich by making other oth-er tOlka poor! It gave me the shiver to hear him. You would have thought thut there was a death in the house!" continued Carter. "Thy dldn i talk to each other any more'n they had to, i didn't scarcely look at each other, and 'll accrued as though there was almost 'hatred between them! Mr Andrew had ugly fits ot temper that he'd never nev-er showed before and other times Mr. Roger would break down and go all to 1 plocea light out of a clear sky. only I Mr. Hobart kept a level head on his shoulders and all at once I noticed tho hair at each side or his foreh-jad was turning gray and him oply 191 But quiet years came after, and eomfort-uiile eomfort-uiile ones, and I t'orgoi until this trou-ble trou-ble now brought It all hark to me. ' CMAPTIJi: XI Dlko two nouscbreakers, Sergeant ! Miles and Scottlo stole up the back stairs thai night and halted before the door at tho end of the hall. As he drew the skeleton keys from his pocket. Miles Indicated the traces I Of wax whi' h still adhered to the lock, (hen w diapered "Ami.- H want-! want-! od to gel In here mighty bad, dldn t ho?" Scottle noddod, not trusting himself to speak, and hie companion oiled the , lock and key-hole carefully before setting set-ting to worn. He made no noise, but tlo mlniltea dragged out Interminably I while the other watched and listened tensely for a possible interruption. The key clicked faintly In the lock and the door swung slowly Inward, ' Walt till 1 close- tho door, ' Mill commanded, then as a tiny light gleamed out: "Good! There s a bolt on the inslae and we can't bo surprised. surpris-ed. Andrew may come home at any time and I have a hunch that ho'U try to finish then what he started this af- tcrnoon." "It looks as though he'd made a , pretty thorough Job of it If destruction ! was his object,' gcottle commented dryly as the rapler-llkc thrust of light played about the dense Diackneea of tho room. "May the de'll take us If we're not In a museum:" They were In a huge, low-cellinged room which had evidently been long unused for human occupancy. Un the left trunks and packing cases of all shapes and sizes were heaped pell-mell with broken hasps I rom their depths .1 liehTogelieuUB IIUISH Of TellCS and ! manuscripts had been scattered in all d Irei i Ions. Haughty, though fragmentary Idols Iclll'l IMIIIinie COOKlllg IOl, .' a. I weapons, bits of crumpled carving j and among them all roll after roll of ancient parchment together with note- , bookfl Of B more modern day. ycollle approached a long, metal-I metal-I lined box and after one glance within. ' promptly retreated 'it's a mummy," Miles gaaed bretf ly down at the small, tightly av.uth-od av.uth-od form and then turned Indifferently Indifferent-ly away. "If Andrew found what he Was looking for this afternoon, we are j wasting our time, but I don't think he , was sui-cesaful. Those noto books must ' ontaln the result of years of study and classification and see how the pages are torn out anl scattered about ! " Then. It was writing that Andrew-was Andrew-was after, and modern writing at that, for he'B only thrown tho parchments aside!" Scottle gathered up a handful hand-ful of the loosu ' sheets and examined them critically. "But what was he looking for" That's what we've got to find out what would Roger have written and carted all around the world with him that his brother would want badly enough to steal? Mr. Wells told me that the throe brothers wore devotedly attached attach-ed to each other, but I have seen small evidence of affection, on Andrew's part for any of them." "Do you aoe all these odd caskets of metal and carved bone'" Scottlo was playing his torch over tho ancient relics which Uttered the floor. "Perhaps "Per-haps wo can find one or two that hasn't been broken open. ' It was long past midnight when Ihey desisted at last and Miles romarked ' w ith a Nhrug: " I guss we'd batter j give n up, old man tf there was an -thing here bearing on our problem, Andrew must have made off with It, lafter all." Hcottln suppressed a snei heroic-ally heroic-ally a tho dust which still floated In the air assailed his nostrils, and replied re-plied In a strnngled voice "Tho mould of the ages Is eating into my lungs, and there's a mysty, 'spicy reek front that mummy " "The mummy'" Miles struck his hands together softly. "It's the one placo ws nevrr though of, Scottle. I We're not beaten yet"' He darted over to the long roffln-Mke roffln-Mke case and his companion followed somewhat reluctantly. "The the person doesn't appear to have been disturbed since the Pyramids Pyra-mids were built." ho ventured. '"What are you about: lad ? You're never going go-ing to undress ! I ' "It's I'eruvlau, not Egyptian; don't you see the Inscription" responded .Miles In a quick, oxclted whisper. ' Moreover, tho wrappings about the hoad and breast have been unwound I within a very few yearB at most and then replaced' MHes Inserted his hand with Infinite Infi-nite care lnaath the displaced fabric which covered the shrunken, flint iikej it, and drew forth a Hbmder roll oi parchment. Scottle hastily returned I his unwelcome burden to Its original position and strode around Die case to over his frlend'o shoulder at the discovery "It's In figure writing " he exclaim -sd disgustedly as the roll unwound on ii DOVer bo able to road It and it would il" you no good If you did! I've no doubt it's a prayer. Put it bat k, Owen, it's defying Providence ' "Defying vmir grand mot her!' Miles interrupted 'This message Is in Egyptian Egyp-tian helroglyphlcs, Scottle. I know that much' Egyptian picturs writing In the wrappings of a Peruvian mummy' Uet me B phco of that parchment from the floor, will you?" BcottiS i i mplied and held both his ton I. iiid that of his companion while the latter compared the textur of the scrolls. At length he drew a quick breath and faced the older man with shining eyes. "I can't read a word of it as j ou say. but by the Lord Harry, I thing we've got it' There are professors In town who can decipher It for us and be depended de-pended upon to hold their tongues afterward, af-terward, and we'll see that It reaches! one of them tomorrow! "But it can't bo what Andrew was looking for'" Scottle . postulated "Hi certainly cannot translate heiro what! you said!" ! Nor would b'a have known that Iti was w hat he wanV-d If ho had round I it!" rctortd Miles. 'Can't you see. old man. That was the Intention Inten-tion of tho person who placed It there. It is something that had to ' be preserved and yet must be undecipherable unde-cipherable to anyone not a student of Egyptology." Miles stowed papyrus and parchment parch-ment carefully In his pocket Switching off their torches, thoy Btol from fh" room, but as Miles re-locked re-locked tho door behind them his com- I panlon seized his arm. "Lo you hear that"" Scottlc's husky, w hisper breathed In his ear 'Some- I ono's up. anil thore's a wee streak of ; light coming from that room at the front. Whose Is It?" 'Hobart's." whispered Miles In r-ply. r-ply. "flatten yourself ag.iinsi the wall and walk lightly as JTOU can; we're going to look Into this!" Foot by foot they cropt alonj the 'hall until halted as though transfixed, for the voice of Miss Drake trembling and . barged with long pent-up emotion, emo-tion, came to the listener's ears. 'It is no use! If we were the only ones concerned I would ha, o kept this' from you, but It shall not be visited upon the next generation! I know the , truth Hobart' I have always j knownt" (Continued In Our Next Ivne) j |