The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-03-23
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS

S4NOPSIS OF PRECEDlN(J Cf1Af1 LEXIS
On a summer tour through the western
English counties | stop one evening at
country inn. hear of a burglary at
Ivor castle, which is owned by an odu
character. and | meet young Mont
gomery, farmer, who quarrelS with
the other guests. Ill intervene in
an attack on a queer old gentleman,
Mr.. Kesteven, who invites me TO lvor
Castle. spend the night with him.
III-Kesteven introduces me to Hood,
his former valet, who now keeps an
inn near the castle. While showing
me a secret chamber Mr.. Kesteven is
interrupted by Hood. At Mr.. Kes-
teven's request | take hurried trip to
his solicitors with him. In the even
ing, at the castle, my host leaves me
for few minutes, promising to tell me
a secret. On hearing a noise in his
room, find him dying, with a paper
clutched in his fingers. | remove the
paper. ". Mr.. Kesteven's death is
proved to have been caused by heart
disease. The fragment of paper gives
incomplete directions for reaching a
secret portion of the castle. | attend
to Mr.. Kesteven's obsequies and am in
formed by his solicitor that the hurried
visit was for the purpose of making me
his sole heir. | meet Captain Ser
combe, soldier of fortune" An
offer, which | refuse, is made to me for
the castle. VI receive Il visitor,
who tries hard to induce me to sell the
castle. | interrupt conference be-
tween Captain Sercombe and another,
but do not see the other. The captain
tries his hand at persuading me to part
with my new inheritance. | decide
that it is hidden treasure that is be-
hind the efforts to have me sell lvor
castle. VII decide that the paper
taken from Mr.. Kesteven'S hand is the
second sheet of the key to the mystery
and that there is a conspiracy to obtain
the treasure, | ask Montgomery to
stay with me, | find Heed spying about
the grounds and catch <Sercombe in my
room. The captain Informs me that
the treasure hidden in the castle Is
treasure trove and the property of the
crown. We agree to conduct our
search and contest without calling in
the police. WILL resolve to call nay
friend Sheppard to assist me. am
spied upon by foreign looking man.
Hood admits that he is the man who
struggled with Mr.. Kesteven on the oc-
casion of my first meeting with the
latter. Seicombe, feigning accident,
tries to shoot me. 90 to London to
call Sheppard and am followed. out
wit my pursuers. WILL return to
Ivor Castle with Sheppard. Sercombe
and Food call on me, and we agree to
compare my paper with the one taken
fron Mr. Kesteven. The documents
together give complete guide to the
castles hidden chamber. AS Hood
and Sercombe leave the castle, Shep-
Dard is attacked, and Montgomery and
| 90 to his rescue. IN and X.-We re-
pulse the attack and visit the treasure
chamber. Williams, my farmer, is en-
listed in the defense of the castle. We
fill the moat by means of a connection
with a brook. On guard at the castle.
XI.-Beseiged by Sercombe and d
party of Greeks. We hold the castle.
one of our assailants is drowned in the
moat Williams tells the police
that the castle has been attacked by
burglars. We learn that Sercombe is
at odds with Hood. We are visited by
the police, who are outwitted by Ser
combe.
a lantern. newly lit and shedding a
dull glow through the opaque glasses,
was set upon the floor and east the
long, black shadow of MN against
the wall He was standing near the
short. deep embraSure thai yaWnCd III
the massive stone walls of the drum
tower, scrutiniZing the valley below.
What could he be there for: KS
wondered, turning over the circum-
stances in my excited mind, he stOop-
ed, and, picking up the lantern, thrust
IL into the window, waving it from
side to side. / suppose this was i'll re-
spouse to some signal from the valley,
but | paid little heed to it at the time,
being suddenly interested i'll Il recogni-
ton. 1t was Hood.
| will confess that the identification
of that uumiStakable lean body and
black head filled me with sudden dis
quietude of which it would have been
hard to give the reason. The very 81
lence of the man Sowed fear and mis-
trust i'll my heart And so it WAS that
instead of breaking from our hiding
place and Selling the impudent in
truder ! put Il hand on Montgomery
ana constrained him to retire. with me
into the lower passages. We concealed
ourselves in one of the side galleries
and there awaited Hoods return for
that he would return | had no doubt.
Evidently he and Sercombe commune
Gated with each other by means OF
flashing lights, ana it was equally eyi.
dent that Sercombe's signal must have
been to postpone action | could see
pretty plainly the method Hood intend
ed to adopt. He was 10 admit the