Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-03
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CHAPTER T.-David Amber, starting
xor duck shooting visit with his friend.
Anthony Quain OF Tanalewood Lodge.
Hnkcmis. comes upon an attractive young
lady equestrian who has been dismountcd
oy her horse becoming frightened at the
sudden appearance In the road of q burly
Hindu. Amber 10 about to attack the babu.
put the latter convinces him that he 10
innocent OF being the Intentional cause Of
the young lady's mishap. He declares he
10 BeharI Lal Chatterji, 1.-THE appointed
mouthpiece of The Bell" addresses Amber
A. Tsn IF ,, high rank and pressing
KEN, into his hand. disappears in the
nearby wood. Turning to the girl at his
sioe, Amber is astonished to hear her call
MIN by name.
CHAPTER HIS wits come to his
rescue and he addresses her as Miss
sophie Farrell. daughter OF Col Farrell
OF the british diplomatic service in India,
and visiting his friends. tie Quains She
surmises that Quain had written informa-
ron leading to this deductiYe reasoning.
They agree to keep secret the meeting
with the Bengal ana the matter Of tbs
mysterious box. Several nights later the
Quain home is burglarized and the bronze
box stolen.
CHAPTER III-Amber and his friend
Quain go hunting on an island and be-
come lost when darkness comes on. Start
ing Tor home in a boat. the yawl slips
away IN the night with Gaafn aboard and
Amber is left marooned He wanders
about, finally spies lights in the distance
ETaches cabin and knocks for admis-
So that presently the tired aud over
wrought man. believed himself talking
with her, reasoning, arguing. pleading
desperately Tor his hearts desire; ).
and wakened with q start. to
hear the echo of her voice as though
she had spoken but the instant gone,
to find his own lips framing the syl-
tables of her name-"Sophiai'
Abruptly he regained consciousness
Of his plight, and with an effort shook
his senses back into his head 1t
was not precisely time when he
could afford to let his wits go wool
gathering Infiexibie of purpose in
the face of all his WEAKNESS and dis
courageI1ent, he was on the point of
resuming his march when he was
struck by the circumstance that the
whitened shoulder of a dune, quite
near at hand, should seem as if
frosted with light-coldly luminous.
Staring. speculative, he hung in the
wind-inquisitiye as a cat bua.loath to
waste time in footless inquiry. The
snowfall, setting in with augmented
violence, decided him. Where light
was, there should be man, and where
man, shelter.
His third eager stride opened up a
wide basin in the dunes, filed with
eddying wells of snow. and set at
some distance, with two brilliant
squares of light-windows in an in
visible dwelling. In the space be-
tween them, doubtless, there would be
q door But second time he paused,
remembering that the island was said
to be uninhabited. Only yesterday he
had asked and been so informed
Odd
So RAISING strange he held it, in
deed, that he was conscious Of a sin
gulsr reluctance 70 question he phe-
nomencn. He had positively to force
himself on 10 seek the door, aod even
when he had stun 5led against It's
step he twice lifted bis hand ana Let
it fall without bnocising.
There was not a SOUND within that
he could heor above the Glamour Of
the goblin night.
In the end, however, he knocked
stoutly enough.