Year: 1874

ned his secret already. But Will give clue
to the mystery by reminding them OF what
they know already-that Calais was for more
than two hundred years an English possession,
and that finally it was taken by the French
under::the Due de Guise in 1858. Among the
fOrlorn band of five hundred Englishmen who
then garaisOned the town was an ancestor OF
the Warnings, a man of wealth, who had spent
the better part of his life there, and who fell
during the final assault. His former residence,
now In the poorer instead of the better part
of the town, as it was three hundred years be-
fore, had been long in use as hotel OF the
second class. To this hotel Harry betoOk him
self with very definite and important plan in
his mind. A single servant accompanied him.
1t was a quaint, spacious tumble-down |
rookery ofa place, such as the traveller in any
old French town will find in the more ancient
quarters. 1t did not look very promising IN
in the way of comfort and neatness, but it had
every appearance of being well patrOnized |
| Harry Waring doubted whether he should be |
able TO find any place in it after all.


The landlord hustled out into the spacious
courtyard to meet him, and feared that he
could not accommodate milOr suitably. There
was, to be sure an attic chamber, indefinitely
| high but milOr would not think of that
And the Frenchman smiled inwardly at the
odd taste OF the stranger in coming to this
hotel at all, while he cursed, also inwardly, the
| ldlC ludI lltu JUST luNelglGu Hlui luJO IGlIluS
| his best rooms to a pair of commercial travel
ers, and at shamefully low price.


Harry Waring, on the other hand had much


ado to conceal his satisfaction at finding the


merest foOthold in the old hotel. But it was


important not to awaken any suspicion of his


object. " [ am sorry" said he, that you


have nothing better to offer me than sky


parlor. But 'tis my whim to come to your
hotel. love to get away from those modern
hI1TI 1InoV md hnk


ter apartment soon. Meanwhile | shall busy


myself in studying your old city.


The landlord hoped to accommodate mean


while he would take every pains TO make


milor comfortable az cinqneme


"Stay," cried Waring, who had been closely


scanning the court yard during the dialogue.


" will tell you what monsieur shall do if he


pleases. He shall build me little pavilion


on this side of his court yard, where the sun


shines. There | shall carry on my studies like


the hermit that | am; my servant shall take


care OF the room and of my books, and will


pay you roundly beforehand for gratifying an


Englishman's $ whim.''


This proposition caused NJ. Hertier to shrug
his shoulders more actively, perhaps, than he
had ever done before What a radical, rev.
olutionary, an unheard of proposition But


those Englshmen are capable of anything, J"
reflected he = mIlOr does not come to this
! old place every day-no, not every three
months. Doubtless milOr is as rich as he is


odd. | shall not be the loser"


Z There was a long debate over Harry War
ing s proposition 1--WE will see what can be
, DONE, said NJ. Hertier finally and the result
! was that the next morning Harry Waring was
=, overseeing gang OF carpenters who were pre-
/; pairing to put up box fifteen feet square in
the courtyard that had been unchanged in ex-


ternal appearance, except by decay, for more
g than century. Great was the curiosity man
u ifested over the Engshman's whim All day
J. the dO-nOthngs of the hotel peered out OF


their windows at the wOrkmen there was


some growing, indeed, over the pounding and
/ hammering that went on, but "milOr" had
u made ample satisfaction beforehand to his


landlord, and on the whole think NJ. Her
IS tier guests were more entertained than an
:, noyed by the extraordinary performance in the
IT courtyard.


% While the carpenters were at work WarinC
d established himself comfortably in his sky.
l parlor. His principal anxiety now was to ge
:; the early occupancy of his room in the court
g yard. He had taken little interest in the con
'r struction except to hurry it on. Since the 10
IF cation of the new structure had been deter
al mined he had divided his time between hi
y books and long strOlls in the country. It wa
n afterward remembered however that in tn
r selection of the precise spot for his little build
r ing Harry Waring had been almost unreason
lie ably particular. Nothing would suit him bu
ut that it should be placed exactly here, and no


there, to get the " sunlight at such and sucl
m an angle; foot to the right or the left wOul
IN not answer. Mr.. Hertier could not see wha
m the Englishman wanted of the sun in summe
III time; for his own part, he was glad enough c
lg the shade of June or July. "What dro
III sort of creature u he would exclaim to him
at SELF "It must be that he is touched in tn
IS brains. But that is no matter as long as


have money"


4. The carpenters worked on meanwhile, wit
al provoking slowness, as it seemed to Harry
m but in the course of a week the court yard RI
or sumed it's usual quiet-the apartment was fiji
i'd ished. Harry would not wait to have it pain
of ed. "I learned to like the smell of fresh pir


on my American travels" said he. " tax
ry possession at once. My servant will sleep


the attic room"


ed So Harry Waring' new quarters were mad


ready for him as soon as possible. The roo
ny was nearly furnished, but he refused half tn
en- articles that the landlord proposed to brin
to saying that the less furniture the better h
whim would be suited. His baggage consis


ing Of three stout leather trunks, was move
he down stairs, and precisely week after he hs
d's left home Waring found himself established


his new quarter built to order, in the old hot
ry. which had been the house of his ancestor. f
nd found himself, too, firmly established in Il
all reputation of being crazy. All the people
erv the hotel spoke of him, among themselves
/ I the insane Englishman, and people came fro
md distant parts of the town to see with their ov


eyes the building which this inexplicab
yht lunatic had caused to be put up. But Wari
it kept the peace with every one, and seem
re- we'll enough satisfied with his reputation


a madness.


be The method OF that madness. however,
art was very careful not to reveal For his late
age researches had convinced him that his ancC
She tors, who died in the defense of Calais abo


three hundred years before the time of Il
nd visit, had converted his whole fortune, a &C
rry siderable one for the time, into gold, and h
der buried it in the courtyard of his mansion, t
an identical hotel in which Harry was now sta
the ing. More than this: the obscure anagri
was which he had found among the genealogi


papers Of the British Museum he thought ii
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