Evening star., 1914-07-26
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said he could ruin Mr.. Conway's chance with
Lady Annira if I'd get him into the castle.
He asked about Mr.. Troy good deal, when
he heard that an American had come un-
expectedly to see Mr.. Conway, and wanted
to know what part of the house he'd been
sleeping in. 1 told him about the Black
Breton room. and the story of it. I'd heard
from Lady Annira Mr.. Troy was to be there.
Then he got me to draw him plan of the
castle to show where all the rooms were in
relation to one another. He seemed more
interested in the Black Breton room than
any other, especially when he saw it was on
the ground floor. He wanted to know if
there was a cellar under it, and I said no:
but told him about the caves. / think his
idea was that the mystery of the room might
be explained easily enough, if there was some
secret way to it. And l suppose he thought
the clue might be found in the caves: for
he wanted to go through them, when let
drop l had explored them from end to end.
All this talk was the night Enmons came:
and he made me promise to take him
morning when the tide was right, about
i half past five."
AND did you take him?" Daura asked.
ayes, did take him. l took him as far
as the chapel, with the queer little altar
hewn in the rock, the one we always called
the Lost Piper's altar"
@Have you any idea under what part of
the castle the cave chapel may be?' asked
Daura, who had never been allowed to go
into the caves.
more or less under the Black Breton room,
only very far down."
4Can it be possible that there is a secret
way up to the room from there, l wonder?"
Daura said, half to herself. She remem-
bered, with a cold weight in her breast, the
sound she had heard when she was hiding
the Jewels, a sound as of metal falling on
stone.
ave always been thinking it might be
so, and that Emmons was looking for the
way when he was out of the castle so much,
nobody knew where. Perhaps he found it"
IL don't think he could have got into the
room, or he would have left the castle of his
own accord. Still he might have found the
way up from the chapel to some secret cup
board in the wall, and then not have been
able to go any farther There has been
something well worth a thief's taking in the
Black Breton room for days now, and if
there is any hidden spy hole that horrible
man might have seen me putting my sisters
lewecases on top OF the old wardrobe. But
surely Emmons would have disappeared at
once, if he could have got the jewels!'
Il suppose he would Conal agreed with
her. @If he was only thief. l don't care.
now she's gone. what becomes of me: so
tell you all this-and you can bid me leave
Skye, never to come back, if you choose
and I'll obey. The very sight of the castle
will break my heart after this night; so I'd
rather go. Mr.. Troy was nothing to me, one
way or the other; so l didn't mind what
Emmons did to him, SO long as Mr.. Conway
was in the castle. But now Mr.. Conway's
escaped, and Emmons knows; for 1 went
to his lodgings to see if he was really asleep
there, and he was out. l met him, and we
both saw the motorcar go away with the
newly married couple. He cried out, 'Troy's
betrayed me! l knew he would. He'll pay
for it, When l asked him what he meant
he mumbled something about Mr.. Troy's
having vowed to kill George Conway: but
instead of doing his work here he'd fallen
in love with one of the young ladies, and
was false to his duty. That was nearly all"
NEARLY all! Conal, it was not all! You
~ must tell me everything now. It's the
only way you can atone for the cruel mis-
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