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and retire to my room, The butler will be along presently to see to the doors and windows and I hope you will efface yourself while he is about. Naturally do not want pub lcity, and 1t will not suit your chief to advertise what will assuredly prove 10 be a ghastly failure"
 "All right, miss replied the bud ding detective. "The servants shall not know that am in the house If T can help it, and I'm fair cau- ton at creeping about. I shall obey Mir, Roake's orders as 10 not being q nuisance. never fear"
 Margaret went up 10 her room, but she did not stay there long.
 Stealing down the back stairs, she procured some bread and cold ham, with which she returned by the same route to the bedroom. Her plans were by now formulated. The butler always made noise in bolt | ing doors and fastening windows. She would wait until she heard him
  the signal that Blissett, in whose promise she had faith, was engaged in effa cling himself in one of the re- cepton rooms on the ground floor, That would be her opportunity 70 start on her errand Of mercy to the hidden fugitive.
 ID to 3 certain point the pro gramme was carried out in It's en- tirety At 10 o'clock the stately tread of the butler reverberated from below, bolts were shot and win dow catches snapped. Blissett would be round dark corner somewhere. avoiding him in master l ly inactivity vet never far from the cupboard. Taking her electric torch and the packet she had made up of the annexed viands, Margaret crept along to the carved panel, pressed the cluster of grapes and in ca ressing whisper murmured her lovers name into the dark interior.
 There was no answer.
 Guy. darlins,' she tried again. i've brought you some grub"
 still no answer. She took out her torch and flashed 1t round the stone-walled cell. The ray showed little else but the stone walls. The late tenant of the priests hole was not there,
 CHAPTER XIII
 4 sound of movement below stairs reached the girls straining ears. The butler had finished lock ing up and was returning to his
 pantry, or Bissett had tired of watching the cupboard and was
 starting to patrol the house. Any
 how, Margaret dared not stay there
 longer. She tossed the packet of
 food into the vacant cell, closed the
 panel and sped back to her room , Margaret Lathrop was a matter . of-fact young woman. devoid of sen , timentality and willing to accept a
 their apparent values things sh' } could not understand. Guys absence from his hiding-place she argued , was probably due to his having | means of exit therefrom of whicl l he had not told her. Most likely
 when she did not bring him his sup ) per, he had gone out to forage fo 7 himself.
 |. What exercised her most was tn . hope that he should get back l. 5 the priests holc without runnini ) into the arms of Blissett. On tn S whole, she was confident that h i would emerge victorious from what e ever adventure he had embarked or f As a soldier of repute in France, on Q who had won his spurs in forays in y to No Mans Land, he was an adep
 at quiet movement and he migh E be trusted not 10 give himsel y away.
 $ She took pride in the fore ,, thought which had prompted her t h throw the ham and bread into tn 1 abandoned cell, for there was th n chance that he might have to re l treat to it without reaching tn c lsrder
 j. On that optimistic note Margare l. undressed' and, after listening at he j. door while for sounds that neve
 came, got into bed and was aslee V almost as soon as her head touche II the pillow. When she opened he Q eyes 1t was to see the sun shinin If lNl Ae anA cha g ized that she had been awakened b g a thunderous knocking on he n locked door.
 2 "Is that you, Nary" she calle e out, sleerily. naming her rait
 What on earth is the matter?" e Yes, miss, it's me. For God n sake let me in" was the repl. e Something too awful has happene lr during the night"
 It was only then that the occul 1t rences of the previous evenir Is flooded into Marsaret's drows T. mind. She leaped out of bed ar IS admitted the servant. who signalizt It her entrance by Hopping down ( E. the floor in faint. Presently sl
 began to moan. Hesitating at Il
 water bottle remedy, Margaret tot H. her by the shoulders and shook tl Ad hysteria out of her.
 'ie Its MT. Jevons the butler, SC as me for you. miss" the frghten ms maid explained. There's a de q: body in the hall"
 Throwing on a few things. Ma ed garet covered them with 6 dressi of gown and descended the front stai he At the turn of the first landi ns. she saw that, with the exception n- her aunt, the entire household V
 gathered near the cupboard whi m- had lcomed SO largely on her ho we zon last night. The butler appear ad to be featuring or preaching to no subordinates about some prone