Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-08-10
CHAPTER xxl.-(continued.
By PROF. WILLIAM H. PECK.

| CHAPTER XxI.-(Continued.
Then there was much delay ere
! Clarence was able to rouse the old
man without rousing the occupants of
the neighboring cabins.
| But at last he was able to see and
| speak with the old fisherman private
savior Of his life than he offered to do
| anything that Clarence might desire
except go to Dun Aengus.
Clarence, however. did not desire
the old mans company, but to engage
him to take Helen and himself to Gal
way on the next morning, or to hold
his boat in readiness for the use of the
lovers for a day or two, in case they
did not before that time present them
selves at Kilronan.
To this the fisherman willingly
agreed, and also pledged his word not
to reveal to any one aught Of what
Clarence had found it necessary to
tell him.
The old mans statement that
kings officer was stationed at Xii
leany made Clarence very cautious,
for he feared that narrative of his
escape and reward for his capture,
with description of his person and
the route of his supposed flight, might
be in possession of the kings officer
He did not know that Lord GenIis
had never seen him. and that he was
in no danger of rearrest, and his chief
desire at present was to rescue Helen
from Dun Aengus and make her his
wife as soon as possible.
81 may return in few hours" he
had said to the old fisherman; $50
have your boat ready for the trip, at
the cove just east of the village. l am
quite sure l shall be there with my
friend''-he had not told the old man
that his friend was a young lady--"by
an hour after sunrise. Ii you do not
see us on the beach by noon, return
to your home and expect US to arouse
you between to-morrow's midnight and
the dawn of the next day."
With this understanding Clarence
returned to Dun Aengus and entered
the building.
His first care was to look into that
room in which he had left Lord Gen
lis and Martha.
The lamp on the table was burning
dimly, yet he was able to see the po-
sition of those in the room. Every.
thing was as Sosia left ill., No smell Of
the recently burned pastilles greeted
the nostrils of Clarence. He suspect
ed nothing of the truth. The breath
ing Of the two sleepers was heavy,
deep and regular.
"They sleep well. 1t Is an hour
when sleep is most profound" NUT
tered Clarence. IF we make haste,
Helen and will be safe out of Dun
Aengus ruins within half an hour-it
is fully that time before dawn. But
these may awake. will make sure
that they shall sleep for two OF three
hours, for the woman seems restless"
Indeed Martha began to stir and was
about to wake up.
The former pupil Of the sorcerer had
| pastilles similar to those Sosia had
used. He took them from a broad
mouthed vial and tossed two Of them
| into the room.
One fell upon the carpet and did
not light. the other upon the table, and
burst noiselessly into flame
The sorcerer. watching from the
darkness. and able TO note the move
ments of Clarence by the dim light
that streamed upward through the
opening, grinned and said to himself:
| "A few more Of those sleep pastilles
will put them into a sleep from which
they will never awake on earth!"
Clarence now took a bit Of candle
from his bosom, lighted it, looked
about till he found a few loose boards,
and these he placed over the opening.
"They will not awake for two hours
at least, he thought; "and by that time
Helen and | shall be, hope, far on
our way to Galway"
/ He now moved rapidly but deliber-
ately through the rambling mansion
till he arrived at the trap door in the
closet
i The soreerer, watching him from a
distance saw him lift the trap door,
enter the recess below it. and close
1.-THE trap door after him.
Now be is descending the spiral
/ stone stairway thought Sosia "He
goes to the trap like a decoyed fox!
] I shall be near the iron door of the
!, dungeon before he enters it,
The next instant saw the sorcerer
touch a spring which opened a secret
door near him, and through this open
ing he glided to a passage which end
ed just at the iron door of the dun
geon--its termination no concealed as
4 the door of the dungeon was swung
back into that passage into which Clar-
ence was going SO unsuspiciously.
CHAPTER XXI
The sorcerer Entraps Clarence.
Clarence Darrell. after closing the