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Woprtight, Pace: Newspaper Berrice.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECHDING CHAPTERS. New Yorker, uses his ime mysteries, working ind and you told the story of the o! CHAPTER Xv. (Continued,) How the Great Sword Spoke to Scanlon. Fe HE girl looked surprised. “I had followed—thinking to help him “How soon after?” “A moment or two?" { Again Ashton-Kirk looked at Scan- jon. ‘Between the time you saw Campe without at the gate and the time you got downstairs I think it could Have replied Mr. Scanton. “There are a number of little things which Mr. Scanion could not under- stand,” said tho crime specialist to the girl. “For example, how he came to wee you in the hall, apparently looking for some one, on the night he discovered the housebreaker: “He saw me?” She looked at Scan- jon. “When?” “When you lighted the match. But I beard you before that—talking to ‘the fellow who jumped through the window.” “You heard me talking to”’—the girl was amazed, then a sudden thought seemed to come to her, and she said, "a face, “what did I “You went away, replied the big man. “I beard you go down the hall. “But you came back, and it was then you struck the match.” ‘The girl's golden head shook slowly. “I did not go away and return,” she said. “But I heard”—— “The first woman you heard was not Ii” It was now Mr, stare. “Miss Knowles," said he, “I don't want you to think l'm trying to put anything at your door that shouldn't be there. But you expected some- thing to happen that night—I saw it in your face in the afternoon. The girl did not reply for a mo- ment; she looked at him, steadily, “I think 1 know what you mean,” she said, at last. “It was when you 8pol of Mr. Ashton-Kirk coming that night. 1 was frightened then, as I was frightened a whilo ago when IT was asked to await him here. I felt sure that if he were expected some- thing was about to happen.” . Scanion frowned. "You see," said he, “these are queer times, and when a fellow gets mixed up in such, and sees things that he don’t fathom, about the only way open to him is to ask to bave them explained.” “I, think I can understand that feel- ing{very well," sho said. “There aro many things for which I too bave sought an explanation.” “When you left the room that night of the burglar's visit,” salu Jat, “and while L was telling Campe and his man what had happened, you did it very quiet! “{ had a reason,” said the girl, “I hurried away to find the person whom I'l been seeking when you saw me strike the match,” i “Well, were you successful?” “L wat I saw who opened the gate berated your prisoner.” Licey Sc mon mopped his face, which had grown suddenly heated, “The wind’s changing,” said he to the crime specialis£ “It's beginning to from a new quarter alto- Scanlon’s turn to shton-Kirk was looking at the You see how it is?" sald he, Yen," she replied. “And now that I do, I think it very strange that it did not occur to me before. But was so full of the thought of helping Mr. Campe, even though he did treat me like a child and refused to con- fide in me, that I never dreamed any one might suspect me of being one of those who were threatening him, Bhe turned to Scanlon, “[ thought all the time that you would understand, That is why [ hinted at this and that, and called your attention in an indirect way to those thin, which excited my sus- Pana, on!” with a gesture, “there were, ) many of them. I suspected The wt ning je at the inn from the begin- \use I once saw a crippled who had been a friend of ‘s father in Mexico, ana rd, for some reason, be- wath ®& my, The strange foot- prints which "'d seen of a morniw® on the riv& bank put dread into heart, the sieaithy figures I'd seo se sometimes of @ t as I lookéa from my window 1 then began to my that Bt Sandon the might when T M1 and on the night w! found the door to the vault standing 9 and saw @ stranger ascending the staire I felt sure of it. “Was that the night that Mrs, Krets ia sat tad vou oried out?” naked Bat, “Tes,” Miss Knowles. “Bat,” who went on, “I think I had other rea- eens to be euspicions. As you say, Mr, Scanlon, these are queer times. Things here are odd—strange; like ourself, I do not understand them. it is there about this hai I her hand upon the ment, “which attracts me so strongly —for wi ye ig it being used other than the melody a player of it could strike from its strings? Take that great blade upon the wall,” here she turned her face toward the two- { handed sword resting against the atrip of tapestry between the win- dows ‘It seoma evident enough— there does not look to be anything ms, about it of a And get ‘e know what, though I have tried to discover many and nmiany times; and 1 have stolen it away to my room more than once, 10 use. There was & short silence, then she went on, to Beanlon: “On the te ge that you followed Mr, Campe and me out along the path, cer whose sword trailed upon the ground, I felt sure that you had discovered something about this weapon, and were, perhaps, trying to convey it to me secretly, But I saw afterward that this was not so.’ “Tell me," said Scanion, who felt much as if the floor were slippin th ni ; he shook with fear of what was outside, I know that fac- ing a danger was tonic, while cower- ing at the mental picture of it was spirit-killing, So I thought it would do him good if he went out, voluntar- ily, if only for a few moments—no matter what the danger, Of course he did not understan I wanted him to go; neither did Kretz, who protested very strongly." x Bat looked at the crime epecialis who smiled in an amused sort of way. Then he said to the girl: “You say you took the sword to your room to examine it? How about the harp? ver take that away with your” in an alcove behind some " said Bat. “It was dark. The window was open. You picked at the strings of the harp, but made no sound. Nod me!” the girl seemed etartli “I did. What were you doing?” “What I had seen done more than And I was trying to nce more Scanlon looked toward Ashton-Kirk, and now that gentle- one atrike the harp strings at night at an open window always the same window?” 0. "It depended upon the direction of the wind—the window selected al- Ways opened in the direction from which the breeze was blowing.” “Did that not suggest eontething to you “It did. A signal, But, gesture, “it could not hay There was no sound.” hton-Kirk turned to the .harp; his long supple fingers ran over the strings, and they responded atirring- ly. Bat Scanlon leaned toward Miss Knowles, “I think,” ald he, “I've got just one more question to ask you, and here it is: What about that package that came the other day—the one with the blank paper in it? “Oh, I don't: know!" The girl seemed weary with the things which she did not understand. “It was like the other packages that came here. Always blank paper; never a@ single thing which would lead me to even guess at what they meant.” “When you saw the man Alva in the moonlight,” spoke Ashton-Kirk, addressing Scanlon, his fingers atill gently plucking at the harp atrings, “did you pay particular attention to the hill he had selected was a high one, “But I think that’s all.” “There vantage, said the sp detective, “There were no intervening trees. From that hilltop to Schwartzberg there is ono clear sweep. He ceased strumming at the harp and his eyes went toward the sword upon the wall. A step or two, and he had it in his hands, “It brought fortune to the Hohen- los, eh?" said he, and his ey seemed dreamy as he gazed at tt. * good blade!" Then the e: an@® he continued: Si said Bat. the big man, taking the tangled mass from his coat pocket and offering it to the other, Pull one out, That's it. Thanks," Avhton-Kirk took the proffered sts@Qg; it was quite jong, and trailed the floor in a soiled heap. Start- Ing at a point close to the hilt, he be- gan wrapping the string around the eword blade, “Look! Ashton-Kirk held the sword, hilt up, and with the flat of it toward them. To the amazement of the big man, he saw lettered tn black Ink, dow the length of the closely wrapped strin WATCH SCANLON. CHAPTER XVI. A Matter of Much Ingenuity. 4 4 ELLO!" said Bat, his eyes bulging at the sight. “What the dick- ens is that?” For answer the crime specialist unwound the string, drew another from the many in Scanlon's hands, and wrapped it around the blade in turn. Once more he held up the weapon and now they read: TO-NIGHT. “I get it,” said the big man, “not all, but some. Those packages sent Miss Hohenlo had nothing at all that was worth looking at inside; \t was outside that thelr interest lay. In the string.” “I think,” said the girl, wondering- ly, “1 heard of some such a thing “The Evening World Daily Ma Ashton- Kirk, Spécial Detective A New Yorker's Strange Methods of Solving a Crime Mystery By John T. McIntyre said on-Kirk, tapping the weapon, “When he desired to send & message to his confederate in Schwartzberg he'd wrap a string about the stick and carefully ink his communication, letter ter, down its length, unwind the cord, tle it after let- After this he'd about a parcel of blank paper and despatch it There was nothing would excite suspicion; secret until wrapped blade of the sword; then the inked portion’ fell bout it that it held its around the bit by bit into place, forming the, letters, and the writing “But it couldn't be read. “Perhaps not; ne’ was read,” ‘All these strings are messages then," said Scanlon. He frowned perplexedly, and asked: “But why write this way? Why not a letter, * and a cipher inside?” “The [etter mignt, in some way, be opened.” theless a cipher writing would attract notice, and in the face of such happenings as Schwartzberg has been experienc- inj right,” 1 at the strings: read them all?” said Ashton-Kirk. hardly worth while.” He heavy sword upon a crossed to the harp one mo: sala Bat. table suspicion would be sure to fol- Then ‘Going to “It da threw the and re. “They must be very brief, and little could be gotten from them at best. for the most part, merely a ‘he real ons ‘They, appointed e for the real communication: ‘Yes; and those were received and answered upon the strings of the harp.” “The upper strings are the girl, eagerly, them, They are of metal.” “And very hea’ way, and they are strung tonlshing tension~infinite! than the Ad “I often noticed customary strings of odd," ‘of steel, I should to an an- ly higher the harp. The ‘pull’ of a number of steel strings of this thickness, and keyed to this pitch, would be too much for a framo would quently this one has been of the ordinary sort. be pulled asunder. It Conne- powerfully reinforced; the keys are of a special type, an@ the sockets in wh turn appear ma h they ellously atrong.” “But why all Wis?” asked Scanion, his frowning gaze upon the harp. ‘It was found necessary to estab. lish @ means of communteation be- tween the inside of Schwar' the outside, Letters or wri sages would not do; sig: might be seen; secret mee alniost impossible, for on taberg and itten mes- nal lights tings were could not often steal successfully in and out of a pla “No, be depended on And nel watched as this one }s," agreed Scanion, “It couldn't ther could the vaults be used as a meeting place, For the door to them Is the most watche! thing In the house.” “A way must be had," ga’ Kirk, “and one that must and secret. This man, Aly id Ashton- be stient a, as Ful- ler's report tells, is an able physicist, and ao the method hit upon of bridg- ing this difficulty must be his.” Ha looked at them as though asking thelr particular attention, "The he, “is capable of viston on certain point, It will folly eye,” nald ly up to a yw an ob- Ject golng up Into the alr, then the object will disappear; it wight” However, though ix ‘out of the object can't be seen, it is still there, atill go- ing upward. “You've heard the yell of the siren, upon seagoing ships?’ a thing use he proceeded. “You've heard its shriek mount and mount, getting higher and higher, and finally vou ceased to hear it? Rut it had not stoppe still going on, only it had pitch so high that it wan o shot dd. ot wi reached put of ear- It_was only when it began to fall and had reached the point where you had los {t_once mor that you began to hear Mr. Scanion drew down one corner of his mouth and blinked a great Rumber of times. “What do you know about that!” tol as this before, But it never occurred said he earpane the worlds groctest au. ity upon sound, nas fo fool poms notes Tom Helmholtz. In his book ‘On the Sen- ions of Tone,’ he says: ‘The simple partial tones con- tained in a composite mass of must- cal tones produce peculiar mechant- cal effects in nature, altogether in- dependent of merely theoretical con- siderations, These effecta conse- quently give a pecullar objective sig- nificance to this peculiar method of alyzing vibrational forms,’ 'Too high," objected Mr, Scanlon, “Get ‘em lower, and over the plate." Then,” gaid Ashton-Kirk, “this master of sound goes on to speak of the phenomenon of sympathetic re- sonance, He says on this point: ‘When, for example, tho strings of two violins are in exact unison, and one string is bowed, the other will begin to vibrate, And in another place: ‘Gently touch one of the keys of a pianoforte without striking the string, so as to raise the damper only, and then sing a note of the corre- sponding pitch, forcibly directiniy the voice against the strings of t in- strument, On ceasing to sing the note will be echoed back from the er plano. It is easy to disc: this echo is caused by t which Is in unison with the n directly the hand is removed from the key, and the damper 1s allowed to fall, the echo ceases.’ “We see, in the case of the siren, and tn other things, that some tones are so high that they are not heard Also woe seo, by*Helmholtz, that when & string keyed to a c tone is struck, another string, to the same tone, will at once take up the sound, or vibration’ Here Miss Knowles interrupted him, eagerly. that “EL think I ase what you ean,” she sald, “These unusual strings upon the harp, this great strengthen- Ing of the frame, ns that it is keyed to this inane pitch, That some one outside has an instrume of some sort keyed in unison; and when the harp string is tou the other vibrates in sympathy.” “And that these vibrations, made in long or short waves, or in groups, much, perhaps, as the telegraph code is made, formed a ready means of communication.” ir. Seanion seemed appalled Well,” said he, after a short pause, T think I've absorbed the most of it But I'm not sure. However, there ia one thing [am sure of, and that is that I've got a cabinet-sized ploto- graph of the party who's got the other instrument, That's what Alva had that night on the hilltep when £ saw him sitting in the moonlight. He was exchanging silent talk wi Schwartzberg.” Then an \dea see to strike him, and he frowned again “There is one thing that I don't quite get. And that ts: If these vibrations, or tones, or sounds, whatever you call them, were too high to be heard, how did the receivers of them make them out?” Ashton-Kirk shook his head. “As to that,” said he, “I am not prepared to say just now. A further search into the thing might bring St out, but I'm not sure. But this Twill say: The sense of touch ts marvel- lously sensitive in some people; one every now and then hears some won- derful story with regard to it. Pine, deitcate hands may be the answer to your question.” “Another thing,” sald the girl “Why was the wind required to a ways be from the direction of the person sending the vibrations to Schwartzberg? You'll say to carry them, But what of the answer t them? Would not the wind which carried the vibrations from one quar ter hold back those sent by the one opposite?” “Only in part, unless the wind was very strong. And I think if you can remember the nights upon which they were fairly calin, the wind at the time of the sign: was always from the direction of the reon outside might be explained by person's a! F_ knowledge of he medium in tse. wants @ more understanding was more able to ite Maunter manifestations’ Here a small clock hurriedly strucic the hour of 9% looked at Scanion, “And now And Ashton-Kirk ‘he added, “I think {t's time to drop speculation for a space. There is some work ahead of us which is going to be sharp and of the sort that leaves not @ trace of doubt in the mind.” CHAPTER. XVII. Conclusion. SHTON-KIRK, with few Miss them despairingly. “Frederic’s game she sald. badly.” “In that cas is disgraceful, “I never saw him play so Misa Knowles and Scanlon, en- billlard room @ moments later. Hohenlo kreeted laughed Ashton- Kirk, “it will be a charity to relieve you of him, Miss Knowles, I am sure, will take his place with credit.” The girl gave him a quick glance; then she went to the table and took the ue from Campe's hand, “I don't think I have much of a chance amas smiled she," chtully, ‘you you.” mat Bean with hi spoke Miss Ho , he's always been too Indeed, Tam never quite at jen lady's pretty able,” m to Ashton-Kirk, a few moments later in the hall; “und in r things: ¢ bostdes must be on 1 first in the tion prote n't say sh wou ing awit northwest the billiards that something son as if nothing was face of dani y from toes of imag suid ABhton-Kitk, Scanion, * had any shortcom [think the hed the matter of th wind onto the shoulders vot that whe that, would you? She ‘8 happen- Campe on rand now the girl, aad to ul there in respect, And th er that same night, that the sword was missing, the fact onto my suspic- 2 he wale d the same came out of the bill- joined them, uiked. Ashton-Kirk, “the last act of this drama of yours is about to be “Good! Ing. "Whatever tt “Are you armed? “L always am--now, young man, sadly a step ¥ for months," “And you, Seanlon “All When ne Ashiton-Kirk sa Please call your man ne hand, that tains, on Kretz,” aald he, for years, and he 1 worthy of confidence,” “Maybe no," be 60, be sure.” inquiringly. Scanlon hel “What do you vomething ow il admitted Rat But things bre: way sometimes, you know, He looked at the other “How about that da; aid Compe, his eyes burn- develops—Kood!" answered the haven't taken ut a firearm in readiness led the big man, lower floor to Campe: We'll need ont one g into the cellars, 1 one be © hall hereabouts, and left ike why | ant to say all right; then, dat the speaker aston- A, I should as soon distrust myself ‘ve known him every way “May- x the other Bo let on We were shot at in the cellar?” he. “How 41d the lamp By Robert Miner oR Rea NES, Ashton-Kirk smiled, “If that's all you have against the Sergeant-Major,” eaid he, “I think he will do, As it happens, I know just what caused the smash, some one from the darkneas struck it. I saw the hand that did it, but not the owner thereof. canion was silent for a moment; he said: “Well, I don't set myself up as @ Judge. 1 was wrong in some other matters, so there's no reason why I shouldn't be wrong in this one of Krets, I'm willing to.” “There is only one traitor in Schwartaberg, 1d young Campe, mournfully, “Who's that?” asked Scanlon. “I think you know,” replied the young man. “And, as I bave sald to you before, there's ho need to m tion names.” There was a brief si- lence, then he added: ‘Something made me suspect that everything was not Tight. But I was never sure of anything,” to Ashton-Kirk, “until the night before your first visit here.” “You saw some one picked up by the searchlight while Kreta was firing at a man who was running away,” th sald the crn specialist, "We her, to When sho returned,” said Campo In a low tone, “I asked her why she went, ho got out, and what nd. Hut she couldn't an er since she has avoided atomary mia- aid Scanion. “L made one of my en that night, too," “L pleked the wrong lady, and I thought you meant her, too." Then to Ashton-Kirk: “Shall I call the ergeant-Major | “You,” replied Ashton-Kirk. In a few moments the German en- tered, and he listened, grim and un- winking, to the detective's inatruc- tlons “Here T shall stand,” said he, “un- til you tell me—no more." ‘That's enough—if you keep your eyes open.” ‘Then to Scanlon Ashton- Kirk sald: “Do you think you could find a hatchet? “I'l have one in a minute,” replied ® the big man. He produced one from the store- nm. Ashton-Kirk then went to the outer gates and blew a shrill signal, Almost at once Burgess and his com- anton appeared out of the darkneas, and followed the special detective into the enstle. Then the electric torch fasted along the vault stops as the five descended. ‘The door cloned and Krotz was heard to shoot the heavy bolts “It's rather early to expect any- thing definite,” sald the erime spectal ist. “Hut you'd better see that your weapons are ready, for ad} that’ on they reached the Moor of 1 had a heavy automatic ckly ‘they weut and found It place one here sald Mr. Scanion, fingoring the gtlp of his weapon re: wretfully, Then in another tone he added, to Ashton-Kirk: “But, I aay, what makes you think there will be?” ‘some elal about lays ago,” replied the spe- detective, “ln my journeying in the guise of an Invalid, 1 across a bort hidden along the nk, and the indications were ng that it belonged to the t the inn. asked Scanton mo of your ex man who went ampe's papers,” sald [ thought a paper was H the visit, And so ft was -but only as a thing that would lead to something else. This latter fuct I suspected from the contents of the telegram recelved by me this morning; and [T was convinced of tt when we made our searen of the vaults a few hours ago. The paper sought was one which held certain directions; the man with the cough found it that nigde before he leaped through the window, The per could not have been clear to them; it Remmted to something hidden here seats of Sohwartsbergi gazine, Saturday: October 24: £914 Y HOHENZOLLERN’S LOCKER length, perhaps last night, Alvi of cated what they sought.” Young Campe gave “So it was in Schwartaberg, ae they eaid “You never know it then?” asked Ashi threatened with death unloss I gave up wi nothing times, but they would not believe but looked at the other steadily, why. Hut,” spoke Mr. Scanlon, how you know they located what they the been an effort to raise It, but the at. tempt has failed because of a lack of tool “T've got It, ternoon, that place where you left me to go poking among Sovered the von ve eb in tty and that's what told you they wore coming “Well don "a “Very well done, indeed! ating if from asking 4 imuelf from beatae ‘unable to contain himself any or, ineonta nuccession, and In a few mo- menta Ashton-Kirk dee! The torch had been snapped off; they stood in the darkness of the sda Ani told ‘him, the young man was ailent for “The way you have gone about this array of detached facts could be plecad together, whole #o direct and significant. But even now I do not understand how you made up your mind nature of the ea | “When I read contained in his report, that the for w So, if you think he's O. K. Al tle of and then a murmur, “They are coming.” said the crime spe: phe Of light danced in the darkness, it flooded a narrow space; the door to the underground passage had been opened; a man stepped into the vault. \@.! “You could have given them the run of the place,” suggested Ashton-Kirk, “and let them search for themselves.” ‘The jaw of the young man set. ‘In that far cor apectaliat, in the floor, to-day, eomo one has scraped away gy és 2-008 Ce Fiano edi Keitede Next Week's Complete Novel tn THE EVENING WORLD © The Cottage the Fells By H. De Vere Stacpoole This Book on the Stomds Wil Coot You $1.25. You Cet li tor 6 Cents. “and he also ki as we saw by the wheel tracks his chair, Him superior intelli- olf, and lo~ chances to work "Hold the lantern ery. “Great work! “Nover saw bett at the soft man, brother put in on “I'm not sure. he exclaimed despairingly. iton-Kirk. knew nothing, except that I was it I had never scen and knew of. I told them #o a hundred [ph thie place. Joe death over them; must have «i story to get him t this way; he was you know, Anywa Moxico; Joe div: any kind of word 0, hey asked that, I refused. You, [ think,” and he ‘know think I do,” said Ashton-Kirk, tell mo wy came the strong v ut don't let plates togethe: Shaw obeyed: the plates ona layers of otled had them all nik ‘© after? an ir,” sald the crime there is a heavy flag set Very recently, #0 I noted cement at its edges. There has and a voice sald q “Careful now, ge anything hasty. id Bat. “When you ked me up ig tho river this at grartied, feve ly they saw the bi Jon In the shadow, master of % detectives; in the automatics which the tangled old the place where you di: And you saw tools night.” laughed the detective, who had patiently °, ty tions, man, and smiled “The mired nald bette: head jeanion. Right here, man, promptly. the work One query followed another igi found himself p in statements and explanations. talking in low tones. when everything had been ito ¥ counterfeiting can Republic engraver, th a space. Then he eaild quite wonderful—I would not believed that auch @ meagro te. and made into a 4g, at hia feot. as to the jen seck.” ‘uller’a statement, ‘Steady now,’ the part of the er! Mr. Shaw, keep a mer head of the Guatemala police tern. © now that countr; representa- at Washington, I wired at once as to the man yours. ‘The light of the of his offenses four steel plates; them face up, and with a few > ge of the hate! cuts from th upon each ruined P then, ones more, voice died away; there for a moment. asked Scanlon, “what did intruders, m lanily at gain there was silence. Then, lit- ! by little, a sound reached the ears the big man—a faint scraping— You Kc T suppose, ps drew back an in a smile, “you police.” “This wal instant the torch flashed to m their way; then, safe in shadows, they waited, A glimmer en clalist. trein Mext bo interes! of the murder of “You couldn't To the surprise of Scanion he recog- sneered Alv: niged thi ft gentleman: “Hello!” wi Rat's mental excla- Alva. mation, “He's here again, in he? Maybe we'll play a return en ment; our act went big last tim The abo ond mah, Shaw. the chal came Hirst, who had discarded both ttle doctor carying som “What is the time? his “Almont 10," replied the soft man, “We'd better spo! “Wait,” said the soft to have a look at the doo: Tl ion nat the atep. raya lighted up the inquiring faces of adow. He nodded said he, “we'll say now. I'm giving for your sake, any of your friend spare an enttret a af newcomer looked car ut, and as he wax doing 40 « man entered. This was the drawn He turned and helped Indian servant with the rolling ir, in which lay Alva, After this v passage, “Want rutch and stick, and then the ord of tho inn, with the peppery heavy tools. od Alva in no time atrong voice. thelr captors, tui Alva's chair was the other with et to work at once,” t the bars.” a0, ke Alva, “I want jood-night." ei the tunnel, time.” Then the great and clo: he rays of the lantern came creep- toward the five crouching in the But the edge of the tllumt- ton did not quite reach them as man went by and softly up the After a little he returned; the ered main by any of said Asht those awaiting him “All right,” he reported, “It seems and not at alt in to be still nailed fant.” th ascended thi “Now,” mild Alva impatiently, “to. ty work, ‘And let us get out of this and meant hole, I can feel the dampness creep- Schwartzberg.”* ing into my very bones,” Kratz opened th The watchers saw them cluster summons. — ‘Tho about the point indicated by Ashton- aeemed gathered Kirk a hort time before, The yellow about the door Hight of the lantern played about them — “The Fraulein quaveringly; Alva, with his mia- grim ¢ shapen head and his burning eyes, lad ‘ould go d old Campo got cold feet, backed of the job and hurried north. n Joe some kind of af 1 before he could get we were, up & trea. oll, we are safely down walt here: Get y was a silont menace, Ashton-Kirk nodded to the soft Guatemala police also ad- Then, withopt turning his “How long do you think tt would — take you to undo the work of Joe ~ “With a hatchet bout one second to The engraved steel clashed upon the - “There they are,’ “Don't be too sure of that, Mr, The mark of your hand plain in your work, and it would be at all diMicult to tte you up the man, quietly, followed, many aldelong glances, sed them out. n't think you'll ever he both- were interested In the plates, passage tilled in, if I were you, to spend much time at rman motioned toward that ‘on new how to wrap, 4 #o that the damp wouldn't get on ft,” sald Shaw. closer.” Under the light the drawn mai pacted the plates closely. " said he at, tenet How long did your them?" A many good months, though. And it was all dose worked himself to, he was sick " ees o hide his work in a wise ot oe y, he went tori to mo; and there = oles of the nd we'll be off." arefully he : on another, wr between, vly adjusted when they were snatched from his handy uietly entlemen. Don't do Thero are five gane between you and what you want.” amazed, stared at Ashton-Kirk. knariing, tee?” ai Paint. oi. urly form of and beside tim the nwartzberg and the twoy polish of the black these held there? of your brother,” ay they never answered the big. upon four plates, notes of the Mert! ie replied the i ll take tho torch, too,” said Bat, «|| ‘9 to be mure and make a job of It.” | waid the detective, as his keen eye noted a movement on iminals. “And ; way from that iat I understand the sudden ex- — tinguishing of lights ts @ specialty of torch fell upon'the Mr. Scanion placed” ~ them forever. And the Y clashed upon the floor, this time at the feet of the observed the big ‘Sening that you were #0 much trouble to get them I'd pn without them" sald Alva, and his full \d_ showed his teeth will now call the vg Be > “T hardly think we'll go to that em. replied Ashton-Kirk. A n Government ponasibly would 1 to know who was “The three members of the Campe family, but we'll hold that in reserve for a while, at least.” Prove anything, cm Mpthing about that ¥ you @ chai nor for the sake 1s, of course—but y in going,” ‘And let us seo no more of Sullenly the seven, like wild beasta, longing, but not daring to leap upon > 7) ned to the pi Pi rolled into tt, 7, muttering alled Scaniom “Hope you've had @ stone swung ebet those gentlemen on-Kirk to Campe, you. How nae ave 6 steps, “Td ¢ door at Campe’s entire household In the lower hall Hohenlo,” and the jown to you. Butt sat propped up in his chair, waiting. 1 would not let her." we Tron chinked against stone; there “You are not hurt? asked a vole” | came a grinding straining as and the golden-haired girl came tora on the men threw th velghta on the ward young Camnpe, Her voice wam i bare; then fe 4 panting of low aid trembling, and she movedi> — breath, muffled exclamations, and & unsteadily 2% huge slab of stone from the floor — leaned agatust the wall iy “The Nght!" cried Shaw, , arety The rays shone down on the place time to leap forward and cateh the — 70a which the flag had covered a few fainting girl in his arms, y Motnenta before Miss Hohenlo, white, and with a The they are!" came the deatened look in her eyes, stood look- smothered cry of the aoft man ing at Ashton-Kirk. al Shaw snatched at ae “He was not injured?” she asked. “} 9s moment | It was a flat foil bla work!" an was 4 wekage, Ww and th r wee rr de out t ing, the fol y 5 layer after layer 1A ) the rays of the Th on the surface of are It's Joe's Tho soft man Was exultant 4 waved his arma, river bank, there?" Dumbly she went down the hall, husband,’ shton-Kirk, “he fe. 3 nen looking at . : ) Narrowing eyes, he “He has just about reael Will you join ‘How many are ther asked her hands seeming to grope the Ds Alva “Kretz," said the special detective, 47% bg replied Shaw, “And all in “open the door.” c man, " circulation ip Be iat aon” Jo the ay he bar bew mdi tion. The woman, German babbled the soft and ina ‘stuf’ in will never foo tha: uff,’ and her “Well,” aaid Getected, ‘St! moved after few moments ti heard the great pap open and Mr, Sean