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THE GHOST OF LOCHRAIN CASTLE
A Thrilling Novel of Love, Intrigue, Tragedy and the Mystery of a Famous Diamond
By MRS. C. N. WILLIAMSON,
Author of “Tho Lightning Con*
ductor," Etc., Etc.
CHAPTER XIII.
An Amatour Detective.
yKumber 33 was a email and com*
vnonpliire room, such its might have
been given to n lady'* maid; and Kin-
path reflected, when she hew It, that
Mr. McGowan would not have offered It
to her had she not been going to leave
hie employ. Now, It did not matter
to him whether she w an Mat lulled or
not at Lochruln Castle; nhe would have
to stay on through her fortnight; and
then nome other girl would arrive to
take her place, to be treated with all
the klndneMH and consideration that
had been herH at flrnt.
But, after all. she said to herself.
auch unimportant things mattered no
more to her now than they d|d to Mr.
McGowan. She was ho unhappy both
for herself and for Lady Hilary Vane
that little details of physical comfort
were too Insignificant to be thought of
twice.
She was miserable because she was
going to be turned out Into the world
again, where she would be worse off
than ever, because she had failed—or,
If she had not really failed. It W'as the
same as If Mho had. She was miser
able because she knew that she had
been foolish enough to fall deeply In
love with a man aa far removed from
her os tho sky Is from the earth—
a man who thought of her. when he
thought of her at nil, as a clever child
In a different Hass from her own.
poor llttlo creature to whom one must
bo kind out of sheer pity for her lone
liness. She was miserable because that
man would perhaps marry Lady Lntn-
hart, who was doing all she could to
secure him, and who—If she succeeded
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—would sooner or later Induce her
lover to believe the young stenographer
a scheming little pretender.
These were Elspeth’s own personal
griefs, but ehe had others. She was
very sorry for Captain Oxford, whom
she liked and admired, anil whoso
cause she would have championed If
she could. She was wretched In sym
pathy with Lady Hilary, who would
probably be forced Into accepting a
man she did not love; and she feared
much that her friend was still In dan
ger from the secret plottings of two
jealous women.
As for the letter which Hilary had
asked her to give Mr. Trowbridge, she
had not handed It to him during their
short conversation In the morning, and,
when several hours had passed without
her seeing him again, she had enclosed
the letter In an explanatory note and
returned It to Ludy Hilary. What had
happened since—whether the note had
been sent once more; whether the girl
hail given her agswer by word of mouth
Instead of writing, or whether the ques
tion was still In abeyance. Klspeth did
not know, for she had heard nothing.
None of her regular work went on
that day. except with Mr. McGowan
for she was Informed by him that
neither Mr. Kenrith nor Captain Ox
ford would need her services, and she
could not guess whether this were be
cause of her disgrace or because the
theft of Mr. Kenrlths Jewels had upset
the ordinary routine.
Later, when the time caine for her
to go to Lady Ardcllffe, she was In
formed that she would not he wanted
that afternoon; therefore she would
have been Idle during most of the day,
had not Mr. McGowan had plenty of
work to give her In the office to replace
that which she usually undertook out
side.
Altogether, she whs In a strange state
of mind—a state which she felt could
not endure for long. Toward evening,
us she tried to make the ugly new room
look habitable, she decided thut she
would pay a secret visit to the tower
that night, and discover. If she could,
ason for her banishment. She
nothing of Lord Lochruln, and
could not suppose that he had any con-
tion with the myitertotll occur
rences In the tower; Indeed he had not
been In the hotel when they had taken
place. But she believed that his desire
to have the room was only an excuse
to get her out of It.
Perhaps It was really to he given to
him, perhaps not. Perhaps it would not
be occupied at all, at any rate imme
diately: but of one thing Klspeth was
obstinately certain. Something was to
happen in that room, at all events In
the tower, that very night, or she
would not have been moved out so hur
riedly.
Klspeth did not even say to herself
that, If nh# were right In her surmises.
It was nothing to her. She had come
to have the Idea—though but dimly and
vaguely—that many mysteries were
moving shadow-like about the hotel,
and that all these dark shades were
controlled by one hand, perhaps aided
by others; that somehow there was a
connection between all the gliding
shadow s.
Kenrith was concerned. If the motor
ear accident were part of a plot. Cap
tain Oxford was concerned; Lady Hil
ary was concerned, and behind the veil
which was Impenetrable still, Klspeth
teemed to see Trowbridge and Countess
Radepolskol. Maybe, after tonight that
veil would not be Impenetrable,
any case, the girl resolved to do her
best, even If she risked much to And
out what was on the other side.
Klspeth remained In her room all the
evening, as she had remained In the
beautiful old one; hut she did not go
to bed at the usual hour. She sat up,
trying to read, and once In a while
glancing at the stained and faded
sketch of the boy in old-fashioned
clothes, which she had brought uway
from the other room, between the
pages in a book of her own.
The face was so like Captain Ox
ford’s that she half Intended to show'
It him some day, and though she did
not wish and had no right to take it
with her out of the house when she
left Loehraln Castle, she had been
disinclined to leave it in its old place.
If she did so and the tower room tv as
really occupied she could not get the
sketch if she should make up her mind
to let Captain Oxford see It.
The guests of the Hydro, those who
were there for pleasure as well as those
who were there for health, went to bed
early, und by midnight, unless there
w ere'a dance or theatricals, the great
house was quiet, the hall and drawing
rooms deserted, even by the men. Kls
peth knew this, and so when the half
hour after midnight had well passed
she opened her door and looked out.
The dimly lighted corridor was silent
as the grave. Kven the man who col
lected the boots had come and gone
and would not return till early morn
ing. She tiptoed downstairs and was
not disturbed by u sound. On the
ground 1! x»r there w as a grandfather
clock solemnly ticking and Its hands
pointed to the quarter before 1. Kls
peth told herself that she was safe now,
She would meet nobody—unless some
person wandering for as strange 1
reason as her own.
To go from this part of the house t<
the tower where Klspeth hail lived It
was necessary to pass the doors of Mr.
Kenrlth s and Captain Oxford’s rooms.
They were In the same corridor. Just
beyond which was the entrance to the
ower; and their corridor could be
hut off from a small, square hall (on
which several private sitting rooms
opened) by a heavy, sliding door.
This door Klspeth had never seen
closed, and so far as her knowledge
extended. It never was closed by night
>r by day, but now, to her astonish
ment, It was shut.
“It Is sure to squeak and wake
omebody.” the girl thought ruefully,
s she tried cautiously to push the
oor back. • But for some time she tried
in vain, and It was only wheh she dis
covered an odd, old-fashioned catch,
which held the latch down as she
strove to turn the handle, that she
was able to open the door.
“Supposing anyone on the other side
had wanted to come through.” she said
to herself, "he could not have got out
of the corridor this way.” And then
the thought sprang Into her mind that
the closed and'locked door was per
haps part of the mystery she was hop
ing to unravel.
The idea frightened her, as It made
the plot—whatever It was-r-appear so
elaborate and so formidable, she felt
that the elm idatlon might prove to be
beyond her powers, or that she might
be destroyed In the attempt she wo*
about to make.
Still, she persevered* and alowly
pushed back the sliding door which, sc
far from squeaking,* glided so smoothly
along Its groove that Klspeth wonder
ed If It had not been lately oiled.
As the door slid back a wave of acrid
smoke rushed out Into the girl's face.
She could see no light In the corridor,
except a dim yellow' gleam faintly vis
ible through a thick brown smoke
cloud.
Instantly the tears started to her
smarting eyes, and she kept herself
(torn coughing only by covering her
mouth and nose with a handkerchief.
“Something on Are here,” sne said
to herself, und with a start of terror,
her thoughts turned to Mr. Kenrith.
Ills room was In the corridor. What
If It should be burning while he slept?
What If the same person who had sto
len his jewels wished him now’ to die
by Are?
Her eyes and lungs stinging with the
acrid smoke, Klsretn felt her way dowr
the corridor, and was about to stop
before a red light glimmering through
the keyhole of the door opposite.
“Cantaln Oxford’s room!” the girl
gasped. “It’s on Are.”
For a few seconds she lost her pres
ence of mind, and ran to the door of
the tower, not knowing what she did.
But the fact that this door was locked,
ay the other had been, recalled Klspeth
t« herself. Never had It been locked
before; never had It even been shut.
It could not be that both these doors
were closed tonight by accident; that
this was a mere rotncidence. No; they
had been locked for a purpose, to pre
vent the escape of someone whose
room opened on the corridor. The per
son who had kindled that red light had
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locked the doors as well; and the per
son who thus planned the destruction
nf Captain Oxford had attempted hla
life once before.
Klspeth knew that a moat ran round
this part of the castle, which was the
oldest of all; and should Captain Ox
ford try to escape by his window, he
would certainly be seriously Injured,
If not killed. Kenrith. too, was In the
same danger. He was to be sacrificed
with Captain Oxford.
All these thoughts flashed through
the girl’s brain In the fraction of a mo.
ment. W'hlch carried her back from the
tower door to the door behind which the
red light dickered. There, she bent
upon the panel, shrieking "Fire, nre!”
and crying Captain Oxford's name.
No sound came In answer, though
again and again Glspeth rained blows
on the heavy oak; and she turned to
Kenrlth’a door on the opposite side of
the hall. There was no red light there,
and Kenrith was not In the deadly
peril which threatened hls friend, but
If she could wake him he would be safe
from danger afterward, and would help I
her rouse Captain Oxford. '
With all her force she struck upon
the door, calling "Mr. Kenrith—Mr.
KenrHh!"
But there was no movement, no re
ply.
K’Have they been murdered already?"
ehe asked herself, trembling with hor
ror now. "No. It can’t be. Tho heavy
smoke of the Are has drugged them. I
must And the night tvatchman and get
him to break the doors tn. It’s a won
der he or some one else hasn't heard
e before."
She turned to run toward the door
which led Into the gnat hall when she
was seized round the waist from be
hind and at the same time a hand wan
pressed over her mouth. She felt thet
she had been lifted off her feet, and
that she was being borne away, away
toward the corridor In the direction of
the tower.
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