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American barbed wire manufac
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SYNOPSIS
John Spencer and his cousin, Geoffrey
Bohun, are vacationing in Austria.
Geoffrey is a gifted portrait painter but
prefers to paint landscapes. While
strolling in the forest, John hears Eng
lish voices, and decides to investigate.
From safe cover he finds four men
burying a man in green livery who,
evidently, had been murdered. Pharaoh
is the leader of the gang; the others
are Dewdrop, Rush and Bugle. Unfor
tunately, John makes himself known to
the assassins by dropping a letter with
his name and address on it. He tells
Geoffrey and his chauffeur, Barley, of
bis adventure. Geoffrey, realizing that
John's life is in danger, declares he
must vanish. Spencer discovers that
the livery of the murdered man corre
sponds to the livery of the servants of
Yorick castle, and tells Countess Hel
ena, mistress of the castle, what he
had seen. With Geoffrey and Barley,
John starts for Annabel, a nearby vil
lage. They encounter Pharaoh. In mak
ing their getaway they exchange shots
with the gang, without serious result.
They arrive at Plumage farm, on the
Yorick estate, where lady Helena had
requested John and his cousin to meet
her.
CHAPTER ll—Continued
—4—
“I don’t quite know," I answered.
“We haven’t found a place yet.”
The girl gazed into the distance.
“I hope you’ll stay here.”
I could hardly believe my ears.
"Here? At Plumage?" I cried.
“I hope so. I can answer for the
man and his wife: and you’ll have a
privacy here that you wouldn’t get at
an inn.”
“It’s ideal,” I heard myself saying.
“Simply ideal. We’ll be on the spot,
yet in hiding. But why—l don't un
derstand.”
"If you insist on fighting my bat
tle, the least I can do Is to billet you.
Don’t you agree?”
I turned and looked at her, but
though I think she knew it, she did not
turn.
“You’re very generous,” I said.
Her eyes left mine—to light on the
driving mirror, all splintered and
starred.
After a long look, they returned to
me.
“Was that?" she said, nodding, “a
present from Annabel?"
“Yes.”
“And you were driving?”
“I was.”
“Tell me exactly what happene'd.”
When I had told the story, she drew
a deep breath.
"If you’d knocked on that door. . . .”
She shivered. "May I look at that
letter of yours?”
I put it into her hand.
She examined the envelope carefully.
Then —
“Have you looked inside," she said,
"since you got It back?”
I raised my eyebrows.
“As a matter of fact I haven’t I
never gave it a thought."
She pushed aside the torn edges and
drew out the shoemaker’s bill. . . .
The note on its back was printed
and easy to read.
Dear Mr. Spencer,
The gentlemen tn green had done
something which he must have known
I should not like. That is why he was
being buried. Verbum sap.
Yours very truly
We read the words together, her
face two inches from mine. Then
we turned and looked at each other.
But I had no thought for the note.
Her hair had stung my temples, and
I could only wonder whether she knew
how terribly attractive she was.
“I wonder If I’m a hoodoo, and
bring bad luck,” she breathed.
“That's rot,” I said thickly.
She did not seem to hear me, but
sat very still for a long moment. And
then she was up and was pushing her
hair from her temples as though tj
rid of her thoughts.
"Come. Let's talk to your cousin
and then we can look at your rooms."
Over her shoulder she threw me a
dazzling smile. "To tell you the truth,
they’re ready. If you Insisted on stay
ing, I hoped you’d stay here."
»»»•**»
“We must go to bed," said my cou
sin. “We've had an Arabian day."
We had bathed and changed and
eaten and now we were strolling on
the apron under the stars.
“Never fight Fate.” Geoffrey said.
"My one idea this morning was to get
you out of the way. To say so would
have been foolish, for the blood was
up in your head and you wouldn’t
have gone. But I meant to cool you
at Annabel—let you flirt with the
hope of finding your men: then Barley
was going to report that he’d seen
Pharoah in Salzburg: when we meet
hire at Villach tomorrow, you’ll see it’s
the first thing he’ll say. So we should
have left for Salzburg. . . . And after
a week or two there, young Florin’s
face would have faded and you'd have
come home. Very dishonest, of course.
But put yourself In my place, and you
would have done the same.”
“I don't think I should," I said, frown
ing.
“Yes. you would,” said Geoffrey.
"I’m your keeper, you know: and when
people like Pharaoh get going, ordi
nary people like us must pass .by on
the other side. The moment Barley
comes back, we’ve got to locate these
blackguards. First come, first served,
you know.” He drew in his breath.
“We simply must find them, John,
before they find us.”
With that, he Insisted that we
should retire for the night.
And that was the end of that as
tonishing day, upon which by the mer
est chance my fortune was joined with
those of the finest lady that ever I saw
and one of the deadliest ruffians that
eyer drew arms. The one sought to
preserve, the other to take my life:
and I was of consequence to neither.
Sharply at eleven next morning Lady
Helena Yorick rode up to the farm.
Her groom led two spare horses, for
after we had consulted. Geoffrey and
I were to ride to Yorick for lunch.
As I stepped to her side —
“Nothing new?” says she.
“Nothing.” said I. “And you?”
She shook her head.
“Except that my brother’s returning.
I wish he wasn't just now, but It can’t
be helped. At least he’s coming alone.
He’s very young, you know: and peo
ple spoil him. and—and sometimes he
makes the wrong friends. He brought
two back last time. . . . One was
French. He took to me at once. I
think he'd have gone very well in some
servants’ halls." She laughed at the
look in my eyes and swung herself off
her bay. “Worries of a chatelaine,"
she added. “If only I’d been the boy,
and my brother the girl . . . Where’s
Mr. Bohun?”
“Map-reading,” said I. “His man,
with our big baggage, will get to Vil
lach tonight. He’s got to be met, of
course. What Geoffrey is trying to do
is to work out how we can fetch him
without fetching Pharaoh, too. That
show at Annabel’s eaten Into his
brain."
“I wish it would eat Into yours.
Rush mayn’t be there next time, to jog
his superior’s arm."
Here Geoffrey walked out of the
house and gave her good day.
“And now tell me this," said he.
“Had young Florin keys upon him?”
"No," said the girl. “While he’s
within the castle, the night-watchman
carries keys: but before he goes out,
he leaves his keys with his mate.”
“Well, you beat them there,” said
Geoffrey. “Young Florin was killed
for the keys which he hadn't got.”
“I think you’re wrong” said the girl.
“To enter Yorick won't help them. I'm
the person that matters. They’ve got
to bring me to my knees.”
Geoffrey looked at her very hard.
Then —
“Lady Helena versus Pharaoh and
others. You know I can’t help feeling
that you ought to go to the police.”
My lady pulled off her gloves.
“Let’s walk in the meadows," she
said, “and I’ll tell you one or two
facts.”
In silence, we left the apron and
took to the fields. . . .
“My father,” she said, “had vision.
He knew the great war was coming
and he saw that after the war the
world itself would fall upon evil times.
Mother had a very great fortune, and
father was rich, and his one idea was
so to invest this money that, while
the lean years were passing, it would
be perfectly safe. I think he really
wanted it for Yorick. Our motto is
All things pass, but Yorick endures.
And he wanted to insure that Yorick
would always be maintained as it has
been maintained for about five hun
dred years. Well, this idea obsessed
him, and I think that my mother’s
death affected his brain. He threw
back to his ancestors, and he put his
whole fortune in gold. Golden sov
ereigns, mostly." She put her hands
to her eyes. “I tell you it’s the curse
of my life."
“You don’t mean—” began my cou
sin.
“Yes, I do,” said the girl. “Lying in
the cellars at Yorick is the best part
of two million pounds. It’s going, of
course. We live upon capital. But
even so it’ll last for a hundred and
fifty years. And long before that, of
course, the idea was to change it
back.”
“Good God,” said Geoffrey. And
then, “But what astonishing foresight
your father had.”
"He was wise—in theory. But how
would you like to have charge of two
million pounds in gold? The only peo
ple who know are old Florin and I.
i said it was in the cellars, but it’s
not as easy as that It’s 4n a private
cellar, the way to which nobody
knows. Once a month I take what
I need to Salzburg: there’s an old
firm of lawyers there that sees me
through.
“But of course it was bound to come
out. I’ve done my very best, but
there’s been a leakage somewhere, and
Pharaoh knows.
“Well, there you are. He obviously
can’t get away with a million pounds.
He could never transport It, for one
thing. Very well, what’s his object?
I imagine to levy blackmail. Os course
I sha’n’t submit, but I can’t afford to
let the position be known. That’s why
I can't go to the police." She struck
the turf with her palm. “You know
what gold means today. Its posses
sion was always dangerous. Men hur
ried it in the ground and misers count
ed it over at dead of night. But to
day they wouldn’t dare count it. I’d
be an outlaw tomorrow If people knew.
Everyone’s hand would be against me
and half the thieves in Europe would
be camping outside my gates.”
“The remedy's too obvious.” said
Geoffrey. “Why don’t you get rid of
the stuff?"
“Because I have passed my word.
My father made me sweat; that until
the world was settled I’d keep our for
tune in gold."
“And you’ve no Idea," said I, "how
Pharaoh will go to work?”
“I wish I had,” said the girl. “Tc
give me away would be futile. I mean,
it would kill the goose.”
Lady Helena laced her fingers about,
a delicate knee.
“Well, now you know why Pharaoh
the Great is here. He may prove hard
to deal with, but I’m In no personal
'danger—l think that's clear.”
This was too much.
“Clear!" I cried. "I don’t think It’s
clear at all. I think you’re in very
great danger, by day and night. The
man Is ruthless —you know it."
“I entirely agree,” said Geoffrey.
“And I’ll tell you another thing. In
view of what you've told us this morn
ing. I think it was no mere chance
that sent John down to that dell.”
• •••••*
Yorick was like no castle that I
have seen, for though it was moated,
the moat was not tinder Its walls, and
the pile seemed to rise from an island
which Nature had brought from a dis
tance and set In a fold of the hills.
We. crossed the moat by a draw
bridge that could no longer be moved,
and a gravel road brought us up to
the castle gateway, which must have
been twenty feet high. This was now
shut by vast curtains of silver-gray,
and to my surprise, my lady rode
straight between them, her horse’s
head and shoulders parting them as
she went. We followed her under an
archway and Into a small courtyard.
In the hall my lady left us, to go
and change, and, when we had washed
our hands, a Servant led us to the ter
race where a table was laid.
The view from here was astounding,
for we looked clean over the forest,
which seemed spread out like a fan,
on to the foothills and mountains
which stood in their ancient order, the
nearest some seven miles off.
An Austrian lady joined us, a Ma
dame Olave, who plainly lived at the
castle for Lady Helena’s sake. But
though in this way convention was
doubtless observed, as I have shown,
my lady went unattended wherever
she chose.
When luncheon was done, my cousin
went off with Madame Olave to see
the gallery of pictures, but Lady He
lena walked with me round the ram
parts, showing me certain landmarks
and telling me the lie of the land.
After a little —
“Was that gray all right this morn
ing?”
“Yes,” said I. “He gave me a lovely
ride.”
“I thought he would. You shall
have him to take you back. I shall
keep three horses at Plumage as long
as you’re there. With a groom, of
course. You may have news any mo-
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“This Is the Gentleman of Whom
I Spoke.”
ment which I should hear. But please
don't think they can only be ridden
this way. They’re for you and your
cousin to use whenever you please.”
"I shall ride to Yorick,” said I
“to see how you are.”
"But not too early,” says she. “Yor
ick wakes up at six, but its eyes aren’t
properly open till eight o’clock. So
don't ride before then, if you please,
either in this direction or anywhere
else.”
“I’m going to ask you to do a dif
ficult thing. It concerns old Florin.
You see. It’s so awful for him. He
knows 1 can take no action, and what
can he do? He’s got to sit down help
less under this shattering blow, while
the men that dealt it go free. And so
I want you to see him and tell him
what you told me—that you are out
to get them and to see that justice
is done.”
“With all my heart," said I. “Let
me see him at once.”
Without a word she led me across
the terrace and into a library. Then
she summoned a servant and bade
him ask the warden to eome to h.er
there.
Two minutes later a man of some
sixty summers was ushered into the
room.
Helena spoke In German.
“John, this is my warden. Florin,
this is the gentleman of whom I
spoke.”
The warden bowed to me, and I
went forward directly and took his
hand.
"I can’t bring back your son, Florin,
but one day I’ll show you his grave.
It’s a pretty place, far better than any
churchyard, fit for a king. But before
I take you there. I’ve some work to
d 6. I’m going to find the fellows that
took his life. And they’re going to pay
for it, Florin. I'll never rest till
they're taken, alive or dead."
(TO BE CONTINUED)
PEACE BIRTHRIGHT 1
OF CHILD; BANISH
FEAR FROM MIND
Fear, one of man’s greatest ene
mies and the root of much evil over- t
whelming the adult, acquires all too j
hardy a growth in childhood. Yet t
readers of the current issue of the t
Parents’ Magazine are reminded by v
Psychologist Rhoda Bacmeister that t
if fear had no survival value, it (
would not have persisted to the de- ]
gree it has; that a little fear is an }
excellent thing to keep humans out c
of danger. It is caution and fore- t
sight, the habit of going slowly and t
thinking when in doubt that father j
and mother should spare no effort to {
develop in their offspring.
Fears come and go. Mrs. Bactneis- -
ter admits It is easier to know what
to do for a timid child than to un
derstand where the fears come from
in the first place, but says it is im
portant to find out. Her anaylsis
identifies several varieties of fears.
Baby cries at the sight of a float
ing duck in his tub. Why? Because
once he lost his balance in the bath
while watching ducky. Three-year
old Bobby runs from a salamander.
"Shame on Bobby," cried mother, for
getting the fuss she makes' when any
thing crawling comes towards her.
Here’s a fear that comes from con
tagion. Small Susie’s afraid to go to
bed in the dark. The chances are
this is a direct suggestion sea
duced, perhaps, by mother who cau
tions Susie against doing so and so
lest “the boogey man” catch her.
Mrs. Bacmeister remarks: “It is
both cruel and stupid to warp a
child’s character by making fear the
emotion that controls him; it is a re
pressive and inefficient control at
best.”
In order to help the child get rid
of unreasoning fears, the psycholo
gist suggests replacing the old asso
ciation with a new and pleasant one
and urges calm reassurance when a
child is frightened. “Never rush nor
swoop,” says she. “Take it easy I"
We learn from the lady who knows
that among the more immediate and
less abstract reasons for a child’s
anxiety attitudes and nervous ten
sion the most harmful is “the thrill
mongering” children’s radio program
in which voices are keyed up and
sound effects used to give the im
pression of intense, usually terrify
ing emotion. Says Mrs Bacmeister,
Gnincing no words:
“This fear impression the young
sters get only too well. The entire
ly unsuitable emotional strain disor
ganizes their nerves. They have bad
dreams, restless sleep, are persist
ently timid rather than panic stricken
at any one specific situation. Par
ents who care for their children’s
wholesome emotional development
will not permit exploitation of their
sensibilities. Children should be kept
as free as possible of all forms
of over-stimulation from whatever
source. Peace is their birthright.”
We’ll No Gie Ower Just Yet
a Bittie, Is Spirit of Scot I
I am about knocked out of time ,
now; a miserable, snuffling, shiver
ing, fever-stricken, night-mare-ridden,
knee jottering, hoast-hoast-hoasting
shadow and remains of man. But
we’ll no gie ower just yet a bittie.
We’ve seen waur; and dod, men, it’s
my belief that we’ll see better.
A Careless One
■ He —You’re good at conundrums,
try this one.
She —Sure, go ahead.
He —Take away my first letter,
take away my second letter, take
away all my letters, and I am still
the same. What am I?
She —That’s easy. You’re a mail
carrier.—Milwaukee Medical Times.
Can’t Eat ’Em and Have ’Em
“Go on, Johnny, eat up your crusts.
There may come a day when you’ll
be glad of them.”
“O. K. Then I’ll save ’em till
then.”
Poor Burglar
Chief —While I,was out with some
of the boys the other night a burglar
broke into our house.
Yeoman —Did he get anything?
Chief —I’ll say he did —my wife
thought it was me coming home. —
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