The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-03-29
By HI. B. MARRIOTT WATSON
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS

On a summer tour through the western
English counties | stop one evening at
a country inn. | hear of a burglary at
Ivor castle, which is owned by an odu
character. and | meet young Mont
gomery, a farmer, who quarrels with
the other guests. Ill intervene in
an attack on 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 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 q 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. l 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 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. Sercombe, 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 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, Shep-
pard is attacked and Montgomery and
| 90 to his rescue. TX and N.-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 brook. On guard at the castle.
XI.-Beseiged by Sercombe and a
party of Greeks. We hold the castle.
One of our assai lants is drowned in the
moat. Williams tells the police
that the castle has been attacked by
burglars We learn that Sercombe is
"a odds with Hood. We are visited by
the police. who are outwitted by Ser
combe. NlIl.-NNe dismiss Williams
We capture Hood in the treasure
chamber and contne him there. XIV.
-Sercombe offers to compromise. but
we are interrupted by the police.
Hood escapes from the dungeon.