The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-02-17

| VI IAo army. dlmSelI, ne was content
to continue his revelry in the palace
with those who cared to join him,
male or female, creatures dissolute as
himself, who had chung to him fatuous-
ly In hope of possible reward at some
later time.
Before this ruler Count Sachio of
Grahotfen presently bowed humbly,
processing his friendship, giving no
token of his treacherous errand.
What, again, friend sachio of Ora
hof1en?" TESTED Michael when he saw
him. "You have become one of our
most faithful subjects, is it not so?
I still miss Count Frederick, who has
left many duties unperformed-I still
miss the young American, who should
be here to tighten the cares of the
heavy hours. Yet you come-late our
enemy, now our friend. What can we
do for you, Sachio, to show our graft
tude for your faithfulness?"
Nothing, your majesty, save to al
low me division of a flask, now and
| then, with the greatest monarch of
| the modern days. Nothing save to al
low me to join your majesty for
lighter moment betimes, after the du-
| ties Of the day are done. Meantime
since would not weary your majesty
i pray no more than safekeeping
within your majesty's walls, as I
wander here and there. The art treas
ures of this palace surpass any with
which am acquainted. AS youth, /
tried to paint, and l still love the
work of those who have done as mas
tiers what my student hand could new
er do. May look at the pictures in
the galleries-the statues, your maj
esty?"
with all the heart in the world, my
dear Sachio!" exclaimed Michael
"Your discerning judgment is valued
most highly. Make free with what
you like, and come to US when you
please"
This carte blanche was all that
Sachio could ask. He accepted it liter
ally. What he purposed actually was to
make free with anything he saw; and
he did indeed intend to return to
King Michael when he pleased. Thus
set fret to wander as he liked in the
palace of Gretzhoffen, he made no
doubt whatever Of his own quick ar
rival at the hidden door of the lost
treasure of Gretzhoffen AS he bowed
himself out he scarce could conceal
the satisfaction on his face
Sachio was an alert and active soul.
His was no haphazard intellect, apt to
accept the dictum of mind less exact
than his own. He was soldier first |
and next diplomat but all the time |
model secret agent, a typical spy and |
detective. He now set about the bust |
ness in hand, deliberately, with preci- |
sion, methodically, so that he need not |
do any task a second time.
He himself had sketched a rough |
map of the lower galleries as he fan
cied them to lie. He calculated now
that with the aid Of this chart and his
own earlier acquaintance with these |
subterranean chambers, it would be
easy to find the last door that lay be-
tween him and the buried treasure of
Gretzhoffen.
What scenes of horror these places
must have held Sachio did not pause
to ask. That souls had passed out there
through these cold walls of stone, that |
human flesh had quivered here in tor
ment and human voices broken in
their anguish, meant naught to him.
A king had seen fit to surround his
treasures with such terrors in order
to fence away all intruders. He had
buried these treasures under the very
floor of his torture chamber so that
Ill might fear to intrude there in their
search. Some might be deferred by
such fears-but no: Sachio of Grahof-
EN-. He walked on calmly, unmoved,
sure that his own persistence, his own
cunning, had defeated the purpose of ,
he dead king, whose methods so long
lad defied the avarice and greed Of
hese two kingdoms,
Sachio lost little time in the earlier .
'ortions of the subterranean galleries,
nd satisfied himself only that he was
lot being pursued. Soon he arrived
Lpon the lower levels, where he did
lot expect to meet disturbance. Now !
anne the crux of his search. ,
He made his way slowly along the f
arkened channels carved at some un- i
nown day from the granite rock on I
7hich stood the Gretzhoffen castle, /
ried door after door, and entered t
hamber after chamber, slowly, me- c
hodica1ly, with no enthusiasm, but
My the air of man covering all pos Y
ible mischances in his search.
He looked most carefully in that a
ortion of the vaults where he had @
ound the half of the torn parchment,
ut got no further trace of the miss A
lg portion. This gave him a certain
ause, for he had figured that the
roken coin and the broken parchment
ou1d correlate, would focus, some
here nearly at the same point. But
le stained and widowed walls, still il