Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-08-18
Instead of answering, Radd suddenly
-, od conoh+ tho East Indian

Instead of answering, Radd suddenly
arose, and caught the East Indian
around the neck with desperate grip
pressing upon his face O couple pf hand
kcrchiefS which had been saturated with
all tho chloroform they would hold.
Vain and short was the struggle, SC
terribly had Hillington been taken at
disadvantage, and he soon lay like one
dead in the hands of his assailant.
Depositing the helpless figure on the
ground, Radd searched for the Keys ne
wanted, and in another moment was on
his way to the Moreland cottage.
Favored alike by the light which
cleaned cut from it and by the rapidly
gathering darkness, he at length stood
looking into one of the windows OF the
room which had been assigned the East
Indian, and in which lamp had been
left burning,
What his eyes sought so earnestly was
the visitors baggage.
"There it is" escaped him.
Agained he looked around and lis
tened.
The mother and daughter had evident
ly lust returned from the parlOr to their
sitting-room, for light had vanished
| from the former room only to appear IN
| the latter.
Pausing in the concealment Of group
of bushes barely long enough to assure
himself that his sister-in-law and niece
were in the latter apartment, Radd
glidod around the corner of the house
and gained the private door leading to
| Hillington's apartment,
To enter unheard was task requiring
time and patience, but Radd was ade-
uuate TO it, and by the end OF another
minute he had accomplished it in ST.
lencc.
And what wild JOY flowed from his
eyes and features. as he knelt beside the
trunk which had SO long fixed his atten'
ton and sought for the key to unlock Ia
The search was a brief one, and the
trunk was soon opened.
Then began a search of its contents.
A little solid, sole leather trunk did not
long escape his attention, and he drew
it out upon the floor with wild, thrilling
10y which requires no description.
"Of course it is the one in which
Colonel Ridley placed his two millions
before sailing from India" he thought
his eyes glowing like live Goals. 81
responds in every way to the little solid
sole leather trunk described in tn
Colonel's last letter from India Ali"
The current Of his thoughts suddenl!
ceased flowing, and he gasped for breath
He noticed that the seals of the trunl
were broken, and an awful fear con
vulsed him.
"But of course that does not signif,
anything" he argued himself Willing
ton opened the trunk, of course, as sool
as it came into his possession, but h
has kept it under his gaze ever since
The two millions are still here! 1t onl
remains to find the key which fits thi
trunk and to make use of it,"
He essayed unsuccessfully several Q
the keys in rapid succession, but
length encountered the right one, an
the next moment the trunk lay unlocke
before him.
All that remained was to unstrap il
but so weak and nerveless did Radd be
come under the wild gusts of excitemen
sweeping over his frame that it wa
nearly minute before this trifling tas
had been executed.
! At last he raised the lid by a quicl
spasmodic movement, and bent his gaz
wildly within.
Q And then what a cry escaped him!
! Instead of the two millions he ha
hoped to secure, he had under his ga
dozen compressed packages OF O
S newspapers.