The Yale expositor., 1916-10-12
FIFTH EPISODE
THE INTERVENTION OF TITO

ne IN EntENllOU VI
David Manley was not altogether
proud Of his days work. AS he sat
tied and bound on the rough brick
floor beneath the Owls Nest that once
fiippant-minded young man even ac-
knowledged that things looked rather
bad for him. He had been made
prisoner. The iron claw of Legar had
reached suddenly out and closed about
him.
But David Manley did not altogether
give up. AS he lay there, sore in BODY |
but even more battered In mind, he
still spasmodically struggled with the
cords that held him hand and foot.
The solitude of that unsavory den
did not add to his comfort. The mere
fact that Legar could see fit to leave
prisoner thus unguarded impressed
the prisoner with the fact that his one
armed enemy was only too we'll as
eured of his power. And the more
Manley thought of Legar and his meth
ods the more that sinister figure seems
to bewilder him. He knew that Legar
was the unrelenting and eternal enemy
of Enoch Golden, just as he had been
the enemy of Golden's daughter Mar
CORY
The thought of Margory directed
Manley's mind back to the earlier
events Of that strange day He recalled
his long talk with that quiet-eyed girl
in the uuiet-toned shadows OF the
Golden library. II had been the hrst
talk between them into which the per-
sonal note had entered. He had en-
loved that talk for he had felt, as IT
progressed, that the girl had begun TO
realize he was her friend, that he want
ed to be her friend.
But the quietness of the Golden
home had proved to be nothing more
than a lull which precedes the sud
den storm. For, five minutes after ne
had left the smiling girl, the Golden
butler, with terror in his eyes, had
come running to him saying there was
q stranger in the house, stranger
who had been seen lurking about the
halls and had promptly disappeared
at the sight OF one of the servants.
So Manley, forgetting everything else'
had promptly Joined in the search tor
that mysterious intruder. And his hrst
thought, after doing so, had been tor
Margory Golden.
Hurrying to the library to make sure
of her safety, he had found her seated
at her fathers desk, quietly talking
over the telephone. And there had
been little in that scene not suggestive
of tranquility. For blinking placidly
down from its perch beside her mac
stood Tito, Margory Golden's newly
acquired parrot, for which Manley him
self had small love. This feeling was
based. not so much on the malevolen
air of wisdom surrounding that green
bodied filcher of human phrases as OF
the somewhat disturbing trick, taugh
IT by some earlier master, of seeking
out gas lets and turning them on tn
moment il was freed from its chain.
Yet as It had stood close beside tn
girl SO busily talking over the tele
phone IL had seemed as companionabl
innocent as a canary. And 1t ha
turned to blink sagely at Manley as Tn
girl, apparently unconscious OF III
presence, had crossed to the mahogany
faced vault set in the library wall an
proceeded TO open its ponderous dool
This had startled Manley not a little
for the combination of that vault wa
a secret jealously guarded by Colder
a secret unknown TO Manley himsel
II was not until she stood with tn
massive door swung open that Mamie
had confronted her. But she shove
no embarrassment at his sudden inte
ruption.
"My father has just phoned frol
Philadelphia" she explained. "Ther
are certain papers he must have fC
his conference with the Regent Trui
company tomorrow"
But when did you find out how
omen that door?" had been Manley
inquiry.
Two minutes ago, over the tel
phone" had been the girls reply.
Then the sooner that door is sh,
and locked again the better" he hs
warned her.
"Why?" she had asked, for the fir
time conscious of his excitement.
because there's an unknown ms
hiding somewhere in this house, al
heaven only knows what he's aft'
I'm times like shesel"
Even as he had spoken Msniey hi
Setectsd an unnatural fullness abo
shs postisrs draping the sho door