The Princeton union., 1900-11-22
THE PRINoEToN UNIoN: rHuRsDAY, soyEMBER -, 1000.

Iglittere;s vitl. The tears she still reso-I
Ilutely kept back, this brave child suf-
fercd no sign OF emotion TO escape her
at the peril OF her lover.
We'll, what haze yDN done? she
asked i,nperiously. What do The po-
lice sayT'
! began to explain.
"Tut, tut! Let IFS have no excuses, no
beating about the bush. You have
known this--'et me sce-more than IL
hours, and yet 1ny--my friend, Captain
Wood, is still there where you say they
took him.
"Where believe they took him.
"Ehis won't do at all, Mr. I don't
know who you are or what you call
yourself-Snuyzer, an American de-
tective? All, well, MIR. Snuyzer, shall
now take this matter in hand. We've
got to find Captain Wood--;at least /
have whether you come into the busi-
ness Or not"
II shall be sorry to be left out, miss,
but there are others besides us have
taken it up now. I've seen q British
general, Collingham by name"
Eyes, yes; I know. Wi]lic's--I mean
Captain Woods chief at the intelli-
gence. was just going to send to him.
He is q man Of great influence and i'm
portance, man Of the world, who
knows his way about. He has been
told, then? What is he doing?'
"Working the police. He will take a
mob Of them down to where I traced
the captain. am going Oh to meet
them there
,"Then I'll go too. Wait here. please,
while put on my hat" and she rang
the bell. when the man comes, tell
him to bring my bike around. No: I'd
better take you with me. Order my
pony cart. Say it must be at the door
in ten minutes from now
In less than ten minutes she came
down stairs dressed for driving and
buttoning on her gloves.
'sfo1ne, sir,'' she said brisker and
sharper than ever. II cannot easily
forgive your previous dilatoriness, but
we must try to make up Tor lost time.
Here is the pony cart, and we will take
the dog
When we reached the Strathailan
road, to my deep chagrin the boy Jo-
seph was not there, nor was he to be
seen anywhere near or far. Now, !
could have staked my life on little Jo-
seph Walls He was London lad
who had seen much in his short life on
shore and afloat, for although l had
picked him off a crossing on account OF
his quick tongue and bright ways he
had been to sea on Thames lighters
right round the coast. Now I was
training him to our business. He took
to it naturally, knew what was ex
pected of him and was not the sort tt
be fooled into quitting his post Or goins
off on fandangoes on his own account.
Miss Fairholmc turned On me like {
tiger when we drove past the house
and back still without sign Of Joe.
'Get out of this cart and go and rims
the bell" she said iercely. '"rhe soon
er we get inside that house the better
=, Make haste, please
hammered at that door and hung OF
, to that bell till woke all the echoes O.
= that dead-alive suburb. No one came
There was not sign Of life within
Presently the police came up, and tn
general, who had been cruising abou
=. on his bicycle, joined miss outside
= They all stopped there, talking to her
bit, and judge they were hesitatin:
= to act, arguing it out with the general
t who was very fierce and positive, or
y dering them about short and sharp. bu
: doing little good till missy took UP tn
. running. But she soon sent them fly
s ing in after me and came with then,
2 One Of the constables ran around t
). the back, where he found strip O
garden with a low wall. He was owe
a that like fash and in through th
:. scullery window. Half minute NOR
and we heard him unchaining the from
d door. Then we all trooped into the Ell
- try and ran through the house, som
S high, some low, but none Of us tindin
i anything. There was not 4 scrap o
e furniture nor the signs Of any occU
e pancy that we could see.
e But miss, she also hunted, halloin
OH the collie dog with "Go look, Roy,
l. worry, worry. worry, which drove th
It DelSl ne2E1y mac de nunIeu an
q quested through the house with
n short, swapping bark, as if he wa
rounding up q sheepfold, and it wa
e he, marvellous animal, who led us int
e the basement, into sort Of cellar b<
tween the front parlor and the kitchen
Here be raced round and round like
thing possessed, yelping furiously. Th
place was all black darkness. No VIII
dows, not a CLINT of daylight. BJ
some one struck a match and lit
bullseye, and we could make out whs
there was there. One big. long table,.
kitchen table with seats on each sid,
and at the end strange thing that tol
it's own story.
, 1t was q sort of wooden erectio
something between 4 scaffold and
bulkhead; two great upright timber
wedged in tight between the ceilin
and the stone foor-might have bee
a support. pillarlike. for the roof {
20 ceiling, but we could see it was NEAR
to. make some one fast to-a pair {