The evening world. Newspaper, May 22, 1908, Page 17

' ———. DODHOOOODIOSGODHODOSDDODHHODHHDHOGHOBODIOGOHDOOGODOID HHO SOGOCDAOOS Dorothy Clair Did Not Turn the Fatal Card in the Secret Chamber, but a Mere Visit to the Forbidding Place May Affect the Family Luck The Mystery of or, The Manor Mystery BY FERGUS HUME, Author of “The Myste: Qeprywight 1008, by the Nations! Press Agency.) GENOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Dorothy Clair (deughter of Francis Clair, @ gentieman in reduced ctroumstances, liv- ing tm @ manor house that was once an epdey) loves and te loved by Percy Hallon, @ young engineer. Her father wishes her te marry Sir John Newby, a rough old mtll- fomatre, whom she disitkes, A dinner party fe arcanged at the manor. Besides Hallon, Dorothy and Clair, are t Lady Pan- Win (Claire widoret sister) and Billy and Wihelmna Minter, their neighbors, Clair fa discussing Nawby's failure to come to the menor, although expected by a certain train, which Clair went to meet. Pery and _bocothy become engaged. Dorithy sus- Bests that they go to a secret rom under @ toxer of the manor. In thie room an Qxncestor of Dorothy's won the inaner by laying « 6 of cards with @n abbot and Enverite eta’ ald “Te cant thet won | jo an ace of spades, known a3 | ure, Fie bern's Kea" to the secret room @ny member of the Clair family who timni the cant over will changw the family fore tunes. Dorothy and Hallion go to turn this card. As they enter the socret roan they find Sir John Newby lying dead un its oor, “murdered. It still Hes on a table According to tradition, Seige tees CHAPTER III. The Mystery. M CLAIR, seated in the shabby drawing-room with crossed legs and closed finger-tips, was bor- ing an audience of three with specula- tions as to the disappearance of Sir John Newby. “I expected Sir John by the 4 o'clock train on Saturday,” he complained, plaintively. nd Lady Panwin prepared everything for his receptlon— you remember, Selina, what trouble y: took. I recol ed guest did arrive I walked as far as the © 00's Grove, thin! that Newby might have taken a 6 cut through there instead of proceeding by the high road.” “You were late for dinner,” said Lady Panwin, who was tatting—an early Vic- torian craze she indulged in. “Yes, Francis, you need not deny it, for you left the house at 6, and it was 8.10 when you returned I am positive of the time, because the duck was overcooked. I asked Jules, who had been to the vil- lage for a bottle of white vinegar, If ct that when my expect- ot ing he had seen vou, and he had not.” She rose with a scream, and the re- maining three people also sprang up, but without e scream. Through the which ¥ e terrace, French window opening on as one of three Dearing in his arms + of Dorothy lefore quartet could gain breath to a Bary questions, he laid the eirl dc on an adjacent sofa, and explalsed. “She Has Fain‘ed!’ “She has fainted.” he said, rapidly, and evidently s p to a high n of excitemert "We were going to turn the ‘Devil's Ace,’ and'— ‘What!’ cried Mr. Clair, furtously. and, finding his voice with surprising rapidity, “Do you dare to say that you have been to the tower? We have found Sir John Newby. He {s dead—murdered!” Mr. Clair dropped back Into his chatr, gasping, with staring eyes and open mouth “He was not murdored here. sald B “Tod dered surely?” 1 know dead on the stor under the tower. stones, #0 he must have been killed in some way. He sprang up and forward as Dorothy sighed and opened her eyes. “My darling! My"— Clair rose suddenly and pushed him back. “You must not approach my daughter or speak to her. I refuse to sanction this preposterous engagement. You must"— “Francis,” cried Lady Panwin, rising, tall and gaunt, “what's the use of talk- ing about such things in the presence of death? Where's Jules?” A neat, lean-faced, black-haired Uttle man, with fishy dark eyes and a deferential manner, stepped forward and took the glass of water from his mistress. “Hore, milady,” he said, in very good English, and in a meek tone which fitted his servile looks. “Go down to the chamber under the tower, Jules, and see {f what Mr. Hal- ton says J# true." While she procured wine for her ualf- fainting relative, Hallon and young Min- ter disappeared through the window {n order to explore the crypt with a lan- nle in the 2 1s blood on t tern, Wilhelmina, pale and silent—for she, also, was shocked and startled— heiped Dorothy up the stairs, That young lady was trying her best to re- cover her nerve, and succeeded ver well by the time she arrived in own room “What a fol you must think me, willy, |, snatching at a bottle of eau de cologne and wetting her handkerchief. “But how on earth could Sir Joho Newby’s body ge: into that vault?” A Doubt. “Oh, Willy, don't ask questions which you know I cgn't answe one in the neighborhood knows the legend, and that the chamber is under the old monastery tower, It is hard to find, | know; still. a) one might stumble on tt, If he took the right passage. “And if he did not?” asked quickly. “Then he would get lost In one of the other passages, There's a perfect svc of catacombs under Abbot Hurley's Towe:, Father has a plan of the foundations. But the luck! Oh, dear me, Willy, I have changed the luck. Though to be gure," ended Dorothy oubtfully, “1 did not turn the ace of apedes." Willy, the Devil’s Ace; | ry of a Hansom Cab.” “Did you tntend to?” “Of course, When Percy proposed and I accepted him"— “But your nerves, dear?” ‘They are all right now—that ts, I can exercise self-control. It was silly ot me to give way. I never fainted be- tore in my life. Oh, what an unpleas- @nt memory I shall have of my second proposa: “Your second? “Yes. You know that poor 6ir John asked me to be Lady fused, much to my father’ I really could not bring myself marry such an old man, for money. I would rather live with Percy in @ cot- tage than with Sir John in a palace. Oh, I am sorry he !s dead—for he was ja kind man, and never bored me, ex-| cept when he made love, Who can [have kiNed him: ‘Some one who knew the way to the crypt," said Willy, dectstvely, “I don't think you know what you are, talking about" ered Dorothy, !mpetu- ously, "I know the way, and aunt} knows ft, as does father. You are not going to accuse any of us, are you?" “No. But"—— Willy paused. 6he thought of Mr. Clair's terrified face, of | Lady Panwin's apprehensive look, and/ again remembered the diMoulty of | finding the orypt. A terrible thought | flashed across her mind, which she | quickly dismissed. “It's she muttered. “Wha: as they is impossible?” asked Dorothy left the bedroom, a eee CHAPTER IV. made no answer. The Search. \ (LLY She was —for the thought would not be dismissed—if Fran: Clair had any- thing to do wi the death of Newby and the concealment of his body. It was ridiculo of course, even to think of such a thing. All the same, Mr. Clair, by his own confession, had wulked to the Cuckoo's Grove to see if Str John were coming. He c have come and gone in twenty minu @ was absent [ro the Manor hours and nore, according to Lady nwin, What if be had met wit Newoy and had Guarreiled with him, and then When the girls re-entered the draw ing-room, 1 Panwin, very white, ut very c posed, was talking to Halion. She turned with a start when | the ne ere & i—a stra. thing Lady Panwin to do, as sh often ed of her Immunity from nerves. giad you looking better the sald to her niece, in a tone of voice. "'B n on his bicycle to re” asked are to Ax has gone {ori inspector father? my Dorothy, quickly. “I have made him Me down, He has sustained a severe shock, and at his aye such a thing may break up his health entirely." “What about the—the body, asked Willy, hesitating. “Billy and I found it in the vault,” he satd, with forced composure, “and we have left it there until the Inspector arrives. Hobson ts guarding the door of the tower." | Stabbed Fm Behind, nd Sir John really has been mur- Percy red? Yes, We turned over the body to search for a wound, The poor man had been stabbed from dehind—that {s, he was struck under the left shoulder- , and must have died almost im- mediate! “Did you find any knife? “No. The body was simply fala out, ‘ace upwant, on the stone table in the) tre of the vault How {3 it dressed?” Panwin, suddenty. “In a sult of gray tweed, with brown doots.”” | “And the hat? | We could not find any hat.” | “T can't say," said Hallon, pondering; | “put, from the absence of the hat, and | posalbly,of the weapon which slew him, | I should think that he had been killed | somewhere else, and then the assassin | concealed the body in the crypt.” | Miss Minter's fa cleared. So fragile | a man as Mr, Clair could never nave carried so heavy a corpse from the Cuckoo's Grove to the tower. | ‘The next day every one, far and wide, knew of the tragedy which had taken place in the haunted tower of Abbot | Hurley. Not tion much. asked Lady that such immediate dissemina- of the dreadful news mattered Eyents were succeeding one an- otier too rapidly to permit the mind | f anyone to divell upon single items for any great length of time. The one fact—the principal fact, the dreadful truth—was that Sir John Newby had been brutally done to death; and the burning question of the hour was: Who him? No one could an-| n Inspector Trusk, of | jarly zealous and whom Billy had je night. himself to an ts: {Axteigh, a parti harp-sizhted officer. brought back on that sar Trask did not cpinion. He was too clever for that. Hoe simply examined the body, the ault and the tower; took the report of| Dr. Hart, and questioned closely the in- mates of the Manor. Not one of the six people who had been at the dinn table could throw any*lght on tho mat- ter; and the servants, from Jules tho| butler to George, the gardener's boy. were equally tgnorant, The sinister af- fair was as complete a mystery as could have been found in any detective aay After the first shock Mr. Clair quite) recovered his nerve, and took matters | nto his own hands. That ts, he saw | Inspector Trusk, and explained all! about the invitation and the non-ap-| Dearance of the expected guest. He | was also present when the servants and his guests were questioned, and finally related to the sceptical police | oMoer the legend of the tower. Mr. Clair was particularly emphatic in in- sisting that the vault had never been opened for over fifty yeurs. | Cross-Questioned. | “Can you be sure of that?” asked Trusk, doubtfully. ‘You tell me that the key of the door was usually left {n @ niche of the passage. Anyone could have entere “No one could have known where | the secret chamber was,’ said Mr. / Clair, obstinately. ‘There is one pas- | sage leading to the chamber, certainly, | ‘but three or four branch off. A/| stranger would probably 1cse his way {n such @ labyrinth—and in the dark-| ‘ess, too.” | emphas!s— TOGROGOSOC Ger “Could you make a mistake yourself, not turn the ace,” urged the inspector, sir ‘She never even saw the card—if card {f f went down I|there ts; which I doubt, as, when take a lantern and/searching the vault, we did not find it j one.” up his ears. “Then there 1s a plan?” | Lost. “Yes. One which dates from Eliza-| “A mere visit of a Clair to the secret Dethan times, It was made by an|Shamber is enough to alter the family ancestor of mine who ventured to turn|!uck.” eald Mr. Clair, clinging tena- ‘Devilia Ace’ with, bad results, |Cously to the legend which added dig- and who’ a |nity to his family history. “You can eager nne “ see for yourself that trouble has come Poape mer a Modan athe) Mr with my daughter's rash intrusion into aa le |that unhallowed chamber. No, 1 should th at certain *ked Mr. Clair interrupted with dignified! «tt t@ strange, certainly,” sssented rebuke. ‘Pardon ine, but | belleve thet | prugk, nursing his ohin. you ever the last Abbot of the monastery d!d|ghow the chamber to Sir John?" curse the tower, and I believe that the| turning of the ace ts fatal to any mem-| one else, and even asked me to show ber of my family. Several of my an-|him the fatal spot. But I always re- cestors and my own grandfather risked | tused. Until I went down with you, In- the danger, and with bad results. And) spector, to view the body of my la- now, when my daughter goes—againet | mented friend, I never set foot on those my express " said Mr. Clair, with | staira” “Then how do you know where the chamber ia?" asked Trusk, sharply, “By the plan. Stay!" Mr, Clair rose “No. He knew the lege uu, ike every wish s horrible thing comer to | trouble my p “But I understand that Miss Clair did The Evening World Daily Magazine, friday, May “ZZ, 19US5. sidtcalicabatile wis JOG Poocscococonor) “I will bring the plan to you. It te in the Ibrary.” And he went out, | Trusk made pointe in the blotting | paper with hia penoil. |rary everyday mortal, he could not | bring himeelf to credit the truth of tho Clair legend, yet he could not deny but | bat the visit of Dorothy had brought the expected trouble. Contrary to the expressed opinion of Percy Hallon, the |{rapector believed that Bir John had |been decoyed to the vault and there |hed been murdered by « foul blow be- |fore he could turn round or ory out. | But only some one who knew the way \to the vault could have #0 deooyed him, Unless Sir John himself had learned |the way—yot Mr. Clair declared that he had never shown him the route, “It's most extraordinary,” sald Mr. |Clair, re-entering at this moment, and with e large, thin, morocoo-covered vol- jume in his haod, “but the plan of the catacombs under the tower has been torn out of this book, You can see for yourself,"" and he tendered the volume to Trusk. (To Be Continued.) The Million Dollar Kid -- -- -- MELLO, CARRIE} HERE 'S> A BUNCH OF ROSES L THo UGHT You'D tne! WILL YOU MARRY ME, CARRY ? my \NCOME 1S A MILLION A pay! IST WAIT UNTIL { cer Beauty ‘Hints. By Margaret Hubbard Ayer. Broken Veins. ROKEN veins on the face may be removed usually by good facial massage. 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HE oftener a man falls in love the more easily aad I gracefully he does it; exercise seems to keep the heart fm good working condition. It must be a surprise to a woman when her husband Sues for $200,000 for the alanation of her affections, which he never seemed to consider worth two cents. Matrimony {!s a revolying door, round which husband and wife follow one another without ever meeting on the game side of any question. A woman's anxiety to keep her husband home even- ings is prompted not so much by a desire for his ‘as- company as by @ monbia determination to know eo 1s cinating where Comfort {s Just a relative thing, efter all; to one man it means nothing less than an automobile, a yacht and a million-dollar income; while to another it {s completely summed up In an old pair of slippers and the privilege of smoking round the house. tear, is a slow and tedious one, “Home” is any four walls that Inclose the right pers Home Hints For Busy Housewives. |Qullt Lining. | NSTBDAD of using one layer of cot- ton batting in lightweight quilts get the old-fashioned canton flannel for the ning and put the fleece @lde in. Quilt as 1. and first | Washed {t will demonstrate its adva: tage over the old way. Take Out Berry Stains, O remove berry steins from tabi: Uinens place a bowl on the tab beneath the cloth where the stain |18; leave the cloth in position; then pour boiling water directly over the stain and e until It disappears |the water running into bowl underneat the tabiesioth. Leave until dry; then remo from underneat n a + smooth out tablecloth on the table. Listen to 2 we By the Birds Oe “What do you think, Biliz” BobAddaae Being an ordi- |} The OOe% eeanee By Thorn 1 (Copyright, 1908, by the Prees Pub- | lishing Company.) CHAPTER X. Cupid in Royal Palaces,| UPID was in @ vory romantic mood when he planned the | first meeting of the German| Whom not long ago he de- scribed as “the Jowol that Sparkles by my mide.” Prince Wilh of Prussia, as the Kaiser then was, kenau for a few days’ shooting as the| Guest of Duke Briedrich of Schieswig- Holstein, As the castle came in sight the young | stopped his carriage, and started to; cross the park on fout. He had not gone | far, however, when a pretty picture arrested his attention—that of a girl| boughs of a tree, with the book she Jhad been reading lying in her Inp. | Where is the young man who could \ resist the alluremant of such a vision and under the pretext of inquiring the | way to the Schloss exchanged a few plegsant words with the young lady | whose peace he had—perhaps not un- that he had thus romantically mado the acquaintance of his future wife. An hour or two lator the young people met again.et the castle, and we may, of Introduction It not difficult to picture the idyllle days that followed. The future Emperor had come to shoot, he remain- ogether the two young people drifted quickly toward the fate that so inevi- tably awaited them. When at last this Ideal holiday came to an end, and the | to tell his parents of the sport he had ad, but much of the Princess who had | stolen his heart away. Naturally the parents were delighted at the success | joloing in Silesia, as well as at the Court of Berlin, when it was known that the Prince had found so desirable a bride, On the trunk of an oak tree in the beautiful park of the palace of Mon Repos, in Rhineland, you may atill leclpher the inacription “O., 196, B., (Continued.) Emperor and his Kmpress, received an invitation to wo to Pri Prince, with boylike unoonventionallt; Swinging in a hammock from the} The Prince made his way to her, pleasantly—disturbed, ttle thinking be sure little was needed tn the way ed to wor; and In the dat Prince returned to Berlin, he had little | f thelr little ruse, and there was re- Sweden's King Carves Name varved more than half a century ago sy the late King of Sweden when he | plighted his troth to the beautiful Princess Sophie, of Nassau. A year | ariier the lovers had met for the first | ime at Neuwled, when Prince Oscar. vho was travelling through [urope Yount Rosendal, spent a few day lest of the Princess Zu Wied, ress Sophie's sister. as Prin- When a visitor to Cetinje once re- narked to Prince Nicholas of Monte- ssro that, although his country was ry beautiful and interesting. it ap ‘ared to have no valuable exports, His iUghness {8 said to have replied with ‘winkling eyes, “Sir, you forget my aughters.” Of these daughters, all of hom have made splendid alliances, © most beautiful by universal con- ent was Princess Helene, who, if the ate Czar had had his way, would to-day ave been sharing. the Imperial throne ot Russia, But in this case, as in many BOOS | ==Love-Making | knew DOOODOHODIHOHOOOOHG Romance——— ton Hall. others, Cupkl proved more powerful even than a King, for he had already given the Czarvitch's heart into the wate custody of the Heasian Princess and Helen's love and ambition were doomed to dleappointment. Love at Fir ¢ Sight. But he was probably only cruel to be Kind. A few years later the Princess was present at a gala performance tn the theatre at Venice after the opening of the exhibition, and there her ex- julsite beauty not only attracted tho notice of the present King of Italy, but cast such a spell over him that he knew no pe@ce until he had won her consent te be his wife. “It was,” His Majesty not long ago declared, “a cise | of love at first sight, and {t has brought me by far th life has known.” Queen Wilhelmina of Holland had no lack of high-placed eultors for her hand long tetore her “fairy Prince’ came Into her life. It was one summer day that she first met the handsome and soldierly Duke Henry of Mecklenburg- | Schwertn in the Thuringtan Forest, and } the moment she set Syes on him she | that her conqueror had come at ‘/ last, It was the prelude to many happy 4 days of la! meetings, when the Prince would steal away from his military du 4# to ramble through the forest glades tn blissful companionship with | greatest happiness my the fair young sovereign who had so uickly bUshed her sovereignty over / his heart; and when, @ ittle later, Wil- helmina with her mother paid a visit to Hoghst, in the Odenwald, the lover was quick te follow in thelr stops, and his loyalty was “eoon crowned by sweet consent.” “I have never known two young peo- ple so absurdly happy,"’ wrote one of the court ladles When they drive ther at Het Loo, as they do every Jay, they take turn and turn about at 3 like child and generally themselves a way which if judged by normal etandards of decorum.” “IT teve Him Here!’ In allowing her heart to dictate the chotce of her husband, Queen Victoria set un example which all her children have followed with the happiest results, It was in the Cathedral of Worms, to which he had gone with his tutor and equerry to examine the frescoes, that King Edward first saw the lovely Danish Princess who was destined to share his throne. To the susceptible young Prince this vision of sweet girl- hood was a revelation. “I had never reallzed till then,” he has since con- fessed, “the full possibilities of femal loveliness.” And when, a little later, His Royal Highness met the Princ Alexandra at Heldelberg, he so quickly found that she was as charming as she appeared that the Prince Consort w able to record in his diary, “The young people seem to have taken @ warm lik- ing for each other.” The climax to the romance came at Rumpenheim, where the Princess was laying with some relatives. One day she arrived at the palace looking flushed and happy, after a meeting with the Prince. ‘Her cousins were most anxious to hear all about It," says Mr. Kinloch Cooke, “and great excitement followed when Princess 4 Alexandra, producing @ ‘photograph . from her pocket, laughingly exclaimed, 4 ‘T have him here!’ (To Be Continued.) 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