The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-02-17
NINETEENTH INSTALLMENT
CHAPTER LXVIIl.
Count Sachio's Search,


Your majesty, l can now assure
you Of our success"
Count Sachio of Grahoffen spoke
calmly. On his face was written full
conviction of the truth of his words.
He stood once more with his monarch
in the great hall Of the palace of Ora
hoffen, whittier he had fastened at
once on his return from the rival
capital
why, Sachio?" demanded Cortis-
law. What reason now to believe
our success nearer thar it has been
any time these months past?"
Your majesty asks proof? Look!"
Sachio held out in his hand the two
halves, or what purported to be the
two halves, of the broken coin of
Gfetzhoffen. He, indeed, supposed
them to be both halves Of that mys-
ferrous coin, although in truth one
was only the counterfeit long since
devised by Count Frederick to appease
his own king. That Michael of Gretz-
hoffen had missed his former posses
sion-that Kitty Gray still held one
half of the actual coin-neither Sachio
AO4 AIS Mug AOW AACW.
Both conspirators bent above the
bits Of metal and both smiled in exul-
tation. Their arduous search seemed
now really to approach it's end.
by my faith, Sachio," exclaimed
Cortislaw, "it seems indeed we have
but to run the trail hard and fast a
tri1e further
Eyes, your majesty, it remains only
for your servant-your very faithful
servant, may I say TITO find the
hiding place of the scripts and treas,
ures themselves"
That is a necessary detail" said
Cortislaw, with cold grin. II have
fed long enough on maps and keys
and scripts-now 1 would dip my
hands in actual mintage of gold coins
i would see the light of real gems
shining, and not this ignis fatuus which
we have followed so long over the
morasses of doubt and uncertainty.
Success! Success, Sachio-in real
coins, in real gems, in real treasures
that success alone can mean any
thing to you or me-
BE it so, your majesty" said
SachiO, with no abatement of his conf
dence. II take my chances. l stake
my life on the hazard of full success
IT I find not the hidden treasures of
Gretzhoffen, then hang my head on
our walls as warning to all boast
ers."
go, then,'' said the king coldly;
you have found your way within their
h0f0ro-6o
deeply-under the wall of the torture
chamber, perhaps, the coin says-the
treasures hiding place lies deep under
the walls-but precisely where is
that?"
Always the kings cautious mind |
carried him into the doubts and diff
dculties of any case.
1T must be somewhere below and |
beyond the galleries which they
Hooded from the meats when they
came near drowning all our troops"
replied Sachio. II know those gal
cries as I do my own bedchamber.
Trust me to run out this puzzle to
which we now have the key here in
ny hand. When 1 do, 1 shall dip my
lands deep in actual mintage of gold
,oin."
You will do nothing OF the kind,
Sachio,' said his monarch. "You will
eserve that first right for your king"
Sachio flushed red, but bowed, con-
'cious of the swift rivalry of pirates
Who parcel unholy gains.
True, your majesty" said he, Il
poke but in metaphor. The senior
light in any such endeavor as this is
lways, of course, that of the king.
The right and the pleasure of the
monarch who has led us to such sue
ess as this is a thing paramount to
IL others. But swift enough shall be
ny course to your majesty, once /
ave found the actual Kidding place"
Agreed" said Cortislaw, and turned
o gnaw his beard in the impotence
( man long baked Of his most init
nate desire.
And Sachio fastened, be that said
Dr. him. His swiftest car carried him
cross the devious way that lay be-
Ween the two kingdoms, and duly ne
rived at the door of the palace OF
Here his acquaintance
nth the place and his ready reference
all inquirers to the king himself
aimed him easy access once more. I
Michael, the weak, still dwelt in the q
alace, giving small care to the ruin e
nd disorder which lay about him on
IL sides. Let others care for the gov
rnment, let others make good the .
reaches III the capitals defense, let