Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
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By ). w. McCONAUGHY
Copyright, 1919. by star Coz

tNDlNE4EUls 1910 be Elhf Nt-'
TN all the thousands OF square feet
az steep slate roof there is one
Il loose nail 1t thrusts its head up
in that one-inoh strip where IL can
catch and hold the bootheel Of the
steeplejaok who is sliding to hts death.
This grim. freakish humor Of the
Powers That Be. which ls miscalled
coincidence. caused Warren Jarvis
TO mistake his right for HE left hand
as he was running for his life down a
carpetea corridor OF the Hotel Wander
lip far above the night roar OF Broad
way Thus he turned, not into the
room that led to the FIRE escape. but
Into the bed chamber Of the Dona
Maria Theresa Of segura. Princess of
Aragon, who had a lot OF other titles
and innumerable privileges, none Of
which she needed at that moment
nearly so much as she needed Warren
Jarvis. fleeing the vengeance OF the
law
Fevered and distfaught the Princess
had retired to rest, but not to sleep. an
hour before. Her situation, the peril
that menaced her. belonged to an age
that lives to-day only In Scott and
Froisssrt -Four or 1--WE centuries be-
fore her countryman Cervantes had
slain with a laugh the type Of man
who would gladly have aided her. and
would have seen nothing ridiculous
about e. Her ancestral home, the an
cient castle Of the Seeuras. was given
over to bats and owls by night and
crows by day
Hidden somewhere anonp the deadly
pitfalls and secret passages Of the castle
was treasure Of million dollars In
cold. II was guarded by a ghost a
true specter that men had scoffed at and
braVed--anu then had promptly dlssp.
peared.
Now IL was no longer scoffed at or
brsved. But she had just received a
cable dispatch telling her that her
brother had entered the castle and
around her neck hung the solution 10
the hiding place OF the treasure, the
little chart found that day after a weary
search
A Duke s Offer.
II was a tale 10 tell a knight Of Ar
thurs table, not to a CASTELAR, dandy OF
the twentieth century, soft handed and
sophisticated Her klnsman, the Duke
Of Alvs, indeed had offered to be her
champion, but he barghined IN advance,
and the guerdun he asked was her
hand And. besides, lately she had had
cause 20 distrust deeply the honor and
honesty Of her kinsman ~ Alva
Dona Maria had never read the lines
Of Mr. kipling's Romance IL Dead
and all unseen romance brought on the
nine-tfteen. or ehe might have had more
faith IN a power still strong enough TO
run express trains When the splendid.
silly order Of chivalry fen and died the
winds Of romance carried a few OF the
seeds across the seas to a broad and
fertile valley ana dropped them IN the
rich soil where the Ohio comes down to
meet the Mississippi There, as else
where custom makes law, regardless Of
written statutes And so Il was that
following a custom that had grown from
one Of those seeds, az lmmutAble as the
Cumberland ridges, a young man in
evening clothes. clean OF heart, brave
and good humored, with 1912 model
pistol Eripped IN his oyercoat pocket
walked past bona Maria's door in a New
York hotel. seeking the head Of the
Markhsms, to XIII or be killed In a fair
man he sought was the head Of the