The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-04-09

SYNOPSIS or PRECEDING CHAPTERS

On a summer tour through the western
English counties | stop one evening at
a country inn. | hear of burglary al
Ivor castle, which is owned by an ODD
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 IvOr
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 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
lis sole heir. | meet Captain Ser
cOmbe, soldier of fortune" An
offer, which | refuse, is made to me for
the castle. VI receive a visitor,
who tries hard to induce me to sell the
castle / interrupt a conference be-
tween Captain Sercombe and another,
but do not see the other. The captain
tries his hand at persuading me TO part
= inh nnIta
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 conspiracy to obtain
the treasure. | ask Montgomery to
stay with me. | find Hood 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. VIII resolve to call my
friend Sheppard to assist me. am
spied upon by a foreign looking man.
Hood admits that he is the man who
struggled with Mr.. kesteven on the &C.
casiOn of my first meeting with the
latter. Sercombe, feigning accident,
tries to shoot me. go to London to
call Sheppard and am followed. | out
wit my pursuers. WILL return to
Ivor Castle with Sheppard. Sercombe
and Hood call on me. and we agree to
compare my paper with the one taken
from Mr.. Kesteven. The documents
together give d complete guide to the
castles hidden chamber. AS Hood
and Sercombe leave the castle, Shep-
pard is attacked, and Montgomery and
| go to his rescue. IN and N.-Ne 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 brook. On guard at the castle.
XI-Beseiged by Sercombe and a
party of Greeks. We hold the castle.
One of our assailants is drowned in the
moat. XII.-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. XIII.-We dismiss Williams.
We capture Hood in the treasure
chamber and contine him there. NV.
-Sercombe offers to compromise. but
we are interrupted by the police.
Hood escapes from the dungeon. XIV.
and XVII am captured by the
Greeks under Hood. While prisoner
in the inn | make terms with Ser
combe, who does not keep his word, |
attempt to escape and am retaken.
The inn is visited by the police. and
outwit Sercombe and escape. XVII.
Montgomery, Sheppard and find that
Hood has removed the treasure, and
we decide to hunt for it. We inter-
cept Hood, who is rescued by Ser
combe. We all proceed to the inn and
learn there that Williams has been
murdered. XVIII I sicken of the
adventure but am persuaded by my two
companions to see it through.
"Mr. Hood heard YOU" he answered,
civiliy enough this time.
1T was good of Mr.. Hood-very
sharp of Mr.. Hood" returned, and
l take leave to thank Mr.. Hood and to
wish that he had discovered us IA little
sooner. Maybe you and | would have
been spared useless tramp
If We slept sOundly that night it was
owing more to the labors of the expe-
ditiOn than TO any peace Of mind or
satisfaction Of spirit. We were thor
oughly out of tune with ourselves, and
for the next two days our tempers
came near to swapping. Even Mont
gomery looked sour and morose, but
TO give him his due, he was all the
more set on pursuing the adventure to
an end; and 1t was in this manner that
we spent the last day before the cul-
mination of this strange and tragic
history.
The first event in that continuous