The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-07-25

eount thsreof die unto this world. knowing
that nOt one ple . shall Cromwell touch To
whom God shall appoint shall all my treaS
ure he, for Raught can communicated
Well. Harold stared and stared at this In
scriptiOn He read Il forward. backward,
eroSswayH and In every other way. tut oh
sDlutrly without result Al last. Wearird out
with mbaTy Of mind and the pursuit. Of .
futile OccuIation. be dropped OF Snund asleep
~ his char That happened about q quar-
ter q u O'Clock TIE next thing that BE-
knew was that be suddenly woke up. wnks
up completely, passing As quickly from .
conditiOn of deep sleep ~ one of wakefulnesa
asthough be bad never shut bis eyes He
uRssl ~ say aftsrWari that be felt a. though
somebody had come and aroused him. u was
not like natural waking Indeed, % IN
accustomed was the sensation that for Q mo
DIent the idea flashed through his brain that
be had died in bis sleep and waG now OWaksn
ing 70 new state Of existence
This SOON passed, however Evidently b
must have slept some time. for the lamp was
out and the tlre dying He got up and hunted
about In the dark tor some matches. which
at last he found He struck q light, stand
ing exactly opposite 10 the bit a. paper
with the copy Of Sir James de Ia is's dy
ing message on IL This message neatly
copied long ways upon q half sheet VI large
writing paper, such a. the squire generally
used Its arSt line ran AZ u was copied;
do not Grisys for mo, Edward, my son,
that am thus suddenly and Wickedly done"
Now, as the match burned up, BY some
curious chance, connected probably with the
darkness ami the sudden striking Of the light
upon his eyel,alls, IL came 70 pass that Har
old, happening to glance thereon, was only
able 10 read four letters Of this first line Of
writing, all the rest seeming TO him but as q
blur connecting those four lettsrA They
Weres
D n d
being respectively the initial letters Of tho
diSt. tbs sixth, the eleventh and the sig
C.Suth words Of the line given abOva
Tie match burned out, and DO began to
hunt about for another
"D-E-A D." be said, aloud, repeating the
letteTs almost automatically. "Wby, It
spells Dead That Is rather curiouS."
Something about this accidental spelling
awakened his interest very shaTply-it waH
IN odd coincidence He lighted some can.
dies. and hurriedly examined the lna The
hrst thing that struck him Was that The four
'etters which went % mike up the Nord
dead" were about equidlstant In the line Of
writing. Could II bel He hurriedly counted
the words In the line, there WeES sixteen Of
them, that ia, after the trst; ono Of the let
Uers occurred At the commencement Of every
18th word.
This was certainly curious. Trembling
aith nervousness he TOOK q pencil and wrot'
DOWN the initial letter Of every Gfth word IL
ihe message. thus;
Do not SrisvO for ne Edward. my con. thst
am thus suddenly and w'cEsdly done 70 death b.
rebel murderer for aAashs hAppsnsth but &c
cOrdlug 70 Gods WIN And now farewell Edward
I'll wo shall meet in heaven. Ny money! have
hid. and on account thereof dc unto this work
knowing that not ON piece shan Cromwell tOOal
10 whom God shan appoint shah al ny trSAw
Ne for nAushs can communicate
When be had done he wrote these initials h
lines
DA1u mans LnOuus 9Qc
i Great heaveui be bad hit upon the rOadin
4 the riddle.
The answer was dead MauS Mount" To-
lowed by the mysterious letters A. Q. q
Dreathless with excitement, he checked ID
etters again TO see II by any chance hA ha
made an error. No, it wss perfectly correct
Dead Mans Monpt" That was and In
Ieen for centuries the name Of the curiou
a A. IL -
lie same that learned autiquarians had dil
Tsse.i the origin Of 50 asrcely and that bi
Iunt, the late Mrs Massey, had, at the COS
ftwO hundred and atty pounds, erected
Mushroom shaped roof over In order N prov
hat the hollow In tho top bad oncs been th
Isreeabls country scat Of an ancient Britisl
alnily.
Could It then b but coincidence that af
ser the trt word the initial Of every llftl
word In tho message should spell out thl
name Of this remarkable place, or WaS &c q
lrraDgOdI lie sat down TO think it over
trembling like q frightened child Obviously
/ Il was not an accidsut: obviously the pria
Iner Of more than two centuries ago had Il
mis- helptezness invented this simple cryptic
,,rnph In the hope that his son, nr. u not BIZ
on, soma one Of his Descendants would dis
over Il and thereby become th9 master d
he hidden wealth. What place would b
more likely for the old knight to have choaeV
o secrets the gold than one that even In thosI
lays had the uncanny reputation q belnl
| 1auntedI Who would ever thihk Of looking
| ,Or modern treasure In the bnrying' place q
the ancient deadI In those days too, Mole
nIlI mr. Dead ManS Mount, belonged 70 tht
10 IA MollS family. who had reanquired it o.
he braak up Of the Abbey lt was only q
the Restoration. when the DoiEsrisigh branch
'umo into Possession under The viii Of thl
SEUnd and last haronet, Bir Edward d \
..olls, who died In exils, that they failed q
recover this pOFtlnn Of the property And y
this was %. and Sir james. The murdered
man, bad buried bis treasure In the mnunt,
what did the mysterious letters A. D Q.
meant Were they, perhaps, directious - v
The line 10 be taken TO dlsnover 10 Harold
,-ouId not imagine, nor, a. matter Of fact,
lid be or anybody else ever and out this
either then or thereafter.
Ida, indeed, used afterwArd laughingiy ID
.eclaFo that old Sir james meant 70 indicate
hat hO considered the whole thing q plain
| u A B Z, but that was an explanation which
nd not commend itself 70 HaroldS practical
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