The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-03-12
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS

Ivor castle, which is owned by an odu
character, and | meet young Mont
geometry, farmer. who quarrels with
the other guests. III 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 MIR. Kes-
teven's request | take a 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 pape.'
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. I 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 conference be
tween Captain Sercombe and another,
but do not see the other. The capita ;
tries his hand at persuading me to pa, :
with my new inheritance. | decide
that it is hidden treasure that is be-
hind the efforts to have me sell lvor
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taken from Mr. Kesteven's hand is the
second sheet of the key to the mystery
and that there is conspiracy to obtain
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
tries to shoot me. go to London to
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 complete guide to the
castles hidden chamber. AS Hood
and Sercombe leave the castle, Shop
pard is attacked, and Montgomery and
| go to his rescue.
"Three o'clockm echoed Sheppard in
dignantly. why, it is the very time
for attacks and surprises. No; Ill see
it out now"
VERY WELL" / assented. We've got
to arrange our defense, and as you are
all determined not to go to bed we
may as well hold Il council of war;
agreed" said they, and we sat down
to the job without further ado. We
were agreed to consider . in the morn
ing as the break of day for our pur-
poses, and we We're hardly exposed to
an assault before in the evening
The sky was still luminous at that
hour. 1t was therefore plain that we
ate and nocturnal hours. From till
) was a space of nine hours. That was
to determine for us u watch of three.
So far we settled the preliminaries of
our defenses. But we had now to con-
slider further. The drum towers com
manded the slopes of the valley like
two tall sentinels. and from the en-
Drasure of the windows a watch might
be kept upon the neither parts of the
Gwent But from one so stationed the
back of the park and the crown of the
hill behind were quite concealed. ID
this connection it appeared that the
keep would best serve us, more partic-
ularly as the upper chambers were
readily gained from the inhabited wing
of the castle, whereas the towers reared
their formidable heads in isolation and
led only to the corridors Of the base
ment and to the battlements above. Is
was in the keep, then. that our sentine.
must hold his silent watch. The high
est chamber in the keep rose immedi
ately above the level Of the battlements
and was pierced by narrow Sits in the
masonry. This was a convenient sta
ton, or, better still, the roof of the tow
er, with which flight of stairs con-
nected the chamber.
We explored the keep thoroughly ere
we had settled this point, and by that
time it was / O'Clock.
Now, you had better go and lie
down." said | to the others; otherwise
you will be nodding on your watches
tonight. For my part, there is an hour
yet to the time Of safety, and | take
first watch"
Sheppard expostuLated with me fol