The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-08
CHAPTER u-(Continued.)

lauSfllng together. we chatted of tn
old days in Greece and Turkey, of GU
voyages TO South America, and of sun
ny days in Spain. 1 had never seeI
he kissed me twice and then said sucl
an extraordinary thing that l coulC
not help but remember 1t.
"Okyada and l will be working lat,
in the observatory" he said; "ther,
may be one or two men about assisting
US. Ie}n't be afraid If your hear {
noise, Harriet. You will know it's al
right and that / am aware of It."
/ did not press him at the moment
out IN my WI room | thought mucf
upon 1t all and was quite unable tc
sleep.
Deepdene, as many know, is an ole
Tudor mansion. My own rooms arr
In the right-hand wing, and beyond is
the open park which runs right dowr
to the Bury road Let me ask anyon
what my feelings must have been
when, CHANGING to look over the gar
den at ! o'clock that morning, l saw
as plainly as my eyes nave ever seen
the figures of three men crouching be-
meath he wall.
AS If TO magnify my fears, there
was the light of our observatory shin
ing brightly across the park to tell
me plainly that my brother was still
at work and that the invaluable Oky-
| oid must ne WITH MN,
Judge, then, in what a dilemma |
found myself. My brother away at the
observatory, half a mile at least from
the manor! two old servants for my
bodyguard! q lonely house and strange
men seeking to enter it. Driven this
way and that by my thoughts, at first
l said that | would take Fan at his
word and hide away from it all like
a true coward in my bed. This l would
have done il the doing of it had not
been unsupportable. I could not lie.
My heart was beating so. every sound
SO distressed me that I arose in des-
peratton and, putting on my dressing
gown with trembling fingers, deterrn-
ined to wake up my maid. Shall | ever
forget it. If 1 live a hundred years?
The dark landing when I opened my
bedroom door. These could not aft
fright me. 1t was the whisper OF voices
l heard below; the soft tread of feet
upon velvet pile. All, those sounds I
shall ever rememberi
The men a entered the house, they
We're coming upstairs. If I crossed the
dark landing to my maids room, as
suredly | should meet them. Step by
step / heard the thieves creeping up
stairs. Then I do believe half
swooned with terror.
They We're coming up, step by step,
to visit and rob my brothers safe.
kept in the dressing room, where the
japanese, 0yada, usually slept. This
much even my agitated mind i'm
pressed upon me. And you may i'm
agfne my feelings when I say that the
rays of the dark lanterns they carried
were turned upon the very door of my
bedroom. which / had just shut behind
me.
Had they been diverted a hands
breadth to the right, they would have
discovered me, standing with my back
te the wall, a helpless and, 1 do pro-
test, a pitiable figure. I heard them
Dreading discovery no longer, I
crossed the landing silently and en-
tered my maids room. She heard me
with as little concern as If / had been
ordering her to go shopping into Cam
bridge.
The masters away in the park"
she said. Then we must fetch him, |
I'll go myself. Do you wait
here with me until I am dressed.
l dreaded being left alone.
Why, that's all right she ex-
claimed quite cheerily. "TIl go and
call Williams. They'll be off fast
enough, mistress, If they get the di-
Almonds. Now, do you Just sit here
quietly n think nothing at all about
1t. I'll be there and back like mas
teTs motor car.
go NJ ob3C AAclo 6OiiG, i IoSk6u Ine !
door and sat all alone in the dark
ness praying. 1 make sure now that
1t was not truly more than five min
utes when a terrible cry, something
inhuman, so dreadful as to be be-
yond all my experience, rank out
the house and was repeated
again and again until the very night
seemed to echo. Unlocking the door,
! ran out to the landing calling, "Ean!
Fan! for Gods sake, tell me what has
He answered me at once, my dear
standing at the door of his
room. I peeped into the room
him, and then I saw sometime
which he could not hide from me. AZ
lay full length upon the floor, APP
parently dead BY his side there kneit
the Japanese Okyada, who chafed the
of the sufferer. Fan shut the
door and, leading me away. he tried
to tell me what 1t was.
My dear Harriet, you see what
comes of touching scientific imple-
IlIriits.S - Here's a man who Wanted To
look inside my safe. He quite forgot
that the door of 1t is connected up to
a very powerful electric current. Don't
be alarmed, but go back to your bed.
Did / not tell you that there would be
strange men about?"
a said, for PHYS sake, let
me know h truth. There were three
men altogether. i saw them in the
garden; they passed me on the stairs,
They were robbers, Fan; you cannot
1t from me-
you poor little Harriet. he said.
kissing me. "of course they were rob-
bers. I hav beer expecting them for
81 week or more. Did I tell you + should
be in the observatory? That was fool
ish OF me-
.But there was a light there, dear
.Ah, yes. I wished my guests to
think me sfar-gazing. Two of them are
now returning to London as fast as
their motor car can carry them. The
other will email with us to recuper-
ate.
Fan" I said, you are hiding some
thing from me-"
MY dear sister" he replied, does 4
man in the dark hide anything from
anybody? When I know. you shall be
the first to hear. Believe me, this Isl no
common burglary or Z would have act
ed very differently. These are deem
secrets. ] may nave to leave you To
search for them
His words astonisned me very much
MY OWL agitation could not measure
his recollection or the which.
tive range episodes OF the night had.
lett to him. For my part, I could but
Tass Ion hours or meditation, in
which tried TO gather up the tan
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