The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-25

wonder how Count Malonyi's an
: cestress had managed to keep
: alive behind the curtain on the
, days when she had to hide there,
: he realized that there must have
} been a communication between the
secret passage and what was now
the telephone box, a communica-
ton too narrow to admit a per-
] sons body, but serving as a venti-
lating shaft,
AS a precaution, in ease the sec
ret passage was discovered, a
stone concealed the upper aper-
ture of this shaft. Count Matonyi
must have closel up the lower end
when he restored the wainscoting
of the study.
SO there he was, imprisoned in
the thickness of the walls, with no
definite intention beyond that OF
Iescapin. from the clutches of the
police. More hours passed.
Gradually, tortured with hun
ger and thirst, he fell into a heavy
sleep, disturbed by painful night
mares which he would have given
much to bs able to throw off. But
he slept too deeply to ecove
consciousness until 8 o'clock in
the evening.
When he woke up, feeling very
tired, he saw his position in an un-
expectedly hideous light, and, at
the same time, 81 accurately that,
yielding to a sudden change Of
opinion marked by no little fear,
he resolved to leave his hiding
place and give himself up. Any
thing was better than the torture
which he was enduring and the
dangers to which longer waiting
exposed him.
But, on turning round to reach
the entrance to his hole, he per-
ceived first that the stone did not
swing over when merely pushed,
and, next, after several attempts
that he could not manage to find
the mechanism which no doubt
! worked the stone. He persisted.
! His exertions were all in vain.
/ The stone did not bulge. Only,
/ at each %exertion, a few bits of
, stone came crumbling from the
upper part of the wall and still
further narrowed the space in
} which. he was able to move.
/ 1t cost him a considerable effort
to master his excitement and to
r say, jokingly:
S That's capital! / shall be re-
< dneed now to calling for help. 1,
Arsene Lupin! Yes, to call in the
help of those gentlemen of the po-
3 lice. Otherwise, the odds on my
being buried alive. will increase
e every minute. They're 10 to l as
it isl"
He clenched his fists.
Hang it! I'll get out of this
. serape by myself! Call for help
Not If [ know it!'
ri He summoned up all his ener-
S gies to think, but his faded brain
gave him none but confused and
Observation-Disclosures. He was haunt
ed by Florace's image and by
.ss Marie F~auville' S as well.
Its tonight that I'm to save
them" he said to himself. .And
h certainly will save them, as they
are not guilty and as | know the
real criminal. But how shall ]
set about it to succeed9n
d He thought of the project of pc,
lice, of the meeting that was to
h take place at Fauvllle s house OF
is the Boulevard Suchet. The meet
ling had begun. The police were
watching the house. And this re
y minded him of the sheet of paper
found by Weber i'll the eighth vol
Ell ume of Shakespeare's plays, anc
le of the sentence written on it
k which the project had read out
I, Rear in mind, that the explosion i
IS Independent of the letters, and that i
III will take place at 3 o'clock in the morn
- ing.
Eyes" thought Don Luis, ac
cepting NJ. Desmalions reasoning
n Eyes, in 10 days time. As Their
IN have been only three letters, til
#. fourth will appear tonight; an,
the explosion will not take plac
IL until the fifth letter appears-tha
Is is in 10 days from now"
id He repeated:
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