New Britain herald., 1925-07-08

She had reached point hundred yards from the lodge gates when 8 piercing whistle shrilled on her ears two long blasts followed by a short one-and a movement in the shrubbery on the left drewher eyes to a huge dog of the mastiff breed straining at a rope by which 1t was fastened to a tree. Again the whis- tie shrilled and Margaret saw that the rope seemed to be almost at breaking point. And the great dogs glare told her that she was his ob- iective if he could win his freedom.
 She gathered up her skirts and raced for the hall door, slamming 1t in the fierce beasts face as its slavering jaws snapped at her Go ing to a window, she saw the baked animal tearing down the road and once more she heard a whistle-a single, prolonged blast now, She rang the hall bell.
 Giles" she said to the footman who appeared, q have been at- tackled by a dog who was tied by rope 10 a tree in the east shrubbery off the avenue, The rope broke, and I want you 10 go and fetch what is left of it. The shorter length was carried away on the dogs collar"
 When the footman returned from his errand he was laboring under obvious excitement.
 This rope didn't give way of it. self, miss" he said. Somebody must have helped it. See, four of tho five strands have been hacked through--a clean cut with a sharp knife"
 Margaret had expected some such evidence of intention, but she merely thanked the footman with out comment and. when he was gone, verified his statement. It was as he had said. The rope was a stout one and brand new. The break was not due to decay, but to carefully administered slash from q keen blade.
 She attempted to reconstruct the outrage directed against her. She had no doubt that Mir. James Hon. eybun had procured Q ferocious dog and trained it to obey the signals of the whistle, especially that of Straning at it's leash on hearing the two long blasts followed by short one. He had then provided himself with rope and damaged it 10 suit | his purpose, afterwards setting out | for the grange with the dog on the rope. His call to inquire for shoot 1 ing to rent had probably been only an excuse to furnish him with le- gitimate reason for entering the grounds On his way Up to the | house he had tied the dog to the tree with the nearly severed rope and after the meeting at the lodge gates on leaving had only gone { few paces along the road befor' blowing his whistle.
 It was terrifying surmise. bu the only one that tallied with thu facts revealed hy her adventure.
 But that means that he mus have spied upon my movements, O had someone doing it for him" sh grcaned "Oh, why does he perse cute me SO ?"
 Cold reason was ready with th answer Honeybun was punishin her for employing Klyne, having as certained that the famous investi gator was still working for her. Out of this tanele there emerge the greater problem. Were Nil James Honeyhun and Miss Larki acting in concert or separately? T that no answer was forthcoming though one conclusion was out , standing. An enhanced interest va attached to the Red Rain" in tn gauge of MT. Samuel Honeybun- , the theory rejected by the polio from the chief constable downward f She found herself in bed at las trembling all over.
 , She could not think of sleep, e2
 hausted though she was. She dare !. not plunge into unconsciousnes , which would render her helples !. She took up a book V hich she ha
 brought up and began to req S But the pages were blur, and sf F soon lad the book aside.
 s Then, suddenly. the thing hal pened. A faint scraping soun s which she located as outside h.
 window. fell upon her ears. Sl L. knew what 1t was. Somebody h5 if raised a ladder against the sill ar I was getting it into the desired pos , ton by moving if from right 10 le' il or vice versa. There was a bri
 pause and then in the stiffness of
 very calm night there came the pi
 pad of someone swiftly ascendil
 the rungs.
 Margaret had carefully fasten
 the catch of the window, but tn
 would he no obstacle to a man d ' termined to effect an entrance.
 would simply smash a pane of gla
 and push back the hasp. And |
 fore the terrified girl could deci
 on her course if he did so he did
 There was the tinkle of glass
 the floor and the lower sash W
 pushed up.
 It was a night of rapid chang
 Just as a leg appeared over the { a new sort of sound was audible
 the sound of a scuffle on the ladd
 followed by muttered oath and {
 dull thud of body striking ground below.
 Just in time, girlio," said vo
 in the black void of the open W
 dow. "I will run down and see
 the beggar's neck is broken, a
 then, if, as I think, he Is W !. enough to have done a bolt, l V E return and claim your hospitalit
 It was Guys voice. Margaret
 up in bed clasping her hands
 gratitude, not only for her love
 return, but for his timely rescue