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FOUR COPYRIGHT BY MINTCY,BAlCH,t CO. W.H.V CHAPTER VI ?John. who. by thl time, is very much in love with Hel ena, declares that he must go ti Salzburg to find Geoffrey, belni nervous because of the failure o : Freda to return. He starts out, am arriving at Plumage finds that Bu gle and Rush are there. Later Phar aoh and Dewdrop arrive. From con cealment in a room above John over hears something of the gang's plana CHAPTER VII.?John Is transfixed with horror at the revelations and determines to get away before thi rang discovers his presence. Arriving at the forester's cottage he hearj Freda insisting to Pharaoh thai Helena is not there. John's pres ence is discovered and he and Pharaoh exchange shots. Later John flndi Helena, hidinir nearby. She decidei they must return to the castle be' fore Pharaoh gets there. They tint valentine in a drunken stupor ll company with a girl from the streeti of the village. Helena decides t? abduct her brother. While Heleni and John are talking In the llbrarj at the castle. Pharaoh appears armed CHAPTER VIII.?Dewdrop steps oul from behind a curtain. Pharaoh ac. cuses Helena of abducting her broth. ?r. Pharaoh exacts a promise thai they will do nothing before midday They retire. Half an hour later Hel. ena appears in John's room by way of a secret passage. She persuadei him to carry a message to Geoffrey She tells him that the message is a request to Geoffrey to keep Valentine with him at any cost. John deliveri the message and insists that he musi return to the castle. Geoffrey knocks him out. _ CHAPTER IX.?When he recovers consciousness he finds himself bound and gagged In a car with Barley keeping watch. He falls asleep and la awakened some time later by ths sound of a brook, near which hs had been left. Geoffrey explains that Helena had fooled John about the message. It was John who was ?o be kept, not Valentine. Helena's ;ear for John's life i? what prompted that action. Helena arrives and is very much disturbed over John's attitude. The three of them discuss the situation. Barley arrives and tells them that Valentine is in a private ward where only patients who have been bitten by mad dogs are admitted. Helena declares she will not sleep in the castle unless they return With her. John slips away. Tt was awful to hoar such naivete 'ssue front Helena's lips. *1 am not concernofl with your right. To insure Mr. Spencer's life will cost you ten thousand down and ten thousand a year " Her palms clapped fast to her eyes, Helena throw hack her head. "All right." she said. "I'll pay it." rue worus seemeu torn mini nt-r throat. "One thins more," said Pharaoh. "It will not he convenient to meet you tomorrow night. I take the first premium now. Show me that cellar, or strip. I don't care which you do, for I guess you can open It naked as well as clothed." I think a full minute went by before Helena moved. Then very slowly she rose and turned to the right. Then her hand went up to a sconce. Hid hold of the bracket and pulled .t down. I heard no sound, but a panel below the sconce moved, and, when she turned. I saw the shape of a door which was standing ajar. So Helena severed one of the threads by which her life was hanging. Slowly she returned #ic bench. As she took her st^t, Pharaoh rapped out an order. "Put a light on the lady. Bugle." I think my heart stood still; but I had a torch and the wit to do as be said. "Rush and Bugle stand fast; Dewdrop with me." He crossed to the gaping panel, with Dewdrop directly behind him, lighting his steps. As he pulled open the door, 1 saw the stonework beyond. I stood waiting for their footfalls to fade. M.v moment had come. Rush was speaking and wagging his dreadful head. "Sheba'n the goods." he murmured "Look at that mouth. Here, I'n goin' to 'ave a close-up. Gimmt that?torch." Between us we bungled the bus! ness, and the torch fell down anc went out. I let him grope and fini it. As he stood up, grunting, I tool him fast by the throat and drovi mv knife Into his heart He gave- one frightful eonvul slon. And then I knew he wai dead. . I got to my knees and sought to the torch. When I had found It, switched it on to the bench. ThI; was empty. I turned the beam on to myself. "Helena," I said, "It's all right I've done the swine tn." She did not answer, so 1 got t< my feet and threw the beam rouni the room. She must be there some where. And then all at once 1 knev where Helena was. She had fled for the staircase turret when Rush and I, betweei us. had dropped the torch. Rush had locked the door of thi hall, not the door of the secret room I took a step toward this?am stopped In my tracks. The doorway by which I had en fered had disappeared. Helena was safe?for the moment . . ,..a ' So" much I saw. (As a matter of i* fact, she was saved; but at that j time I did not know that no one j within the room could open the) door she had shut.) And Rush was !, dead, and Pharaoh and Dewdrop | knew nothing of what had occurred. | In the twinkling of an eye my posl|| tion had been reversed. If I could j i j not make an end of the two, I de- j J J served to be shot. 11 I stepped to the cut through: which Pharaoh and Dewdrop had j [| passed. ,j As I had supposed, this gave to | a winding stair?no doubt of a con-1 11 siderable depth, for though I [ j strained my ears, I could hear noth-1 i log at all Determined to leave nothing to I chance, I proceeded to lay my am1 j bush with Infinite care, ij Pharaoh must find nothing wrong ?until too late. To all appearance i the room must be as he had left it 1 The bench, however, could be seen ) from the head of the winding stair. ! I must therefore suggest to Pharaoh | that his captive had merely moved. | This was easy enough. Next to J the bench stood the fireplace, which j jutted Into the room. On the other ( side of this was a chair with Its) j back to the wall. If my torch were1 j trained upon this, Pharaoh would ! receive the impression that his cap; five had changed her seat, for the j chair was masked by the fireplace ) and could not be seen from the cut. j The only question was how to supj port the torch. " MAmont T ofAA/1 ^KIn1r!n/? r ur a uiuluciu i aiuinj uiiumii^. i Then I perceived that, unless I j were to flout reason, this office must devolve upon Rush. Anyone leaving the stair with a | torch in his hand would h# almost j 1 sure to i'ltimlne the opposite side j of the room. The corpse must there fore lie moved in any event. And if 1 could gird it into the semblance of life. . . . In two or three minutes the gris ly business was done, and Rush j was seated upright in a high-backed chair, with an arm along one of the chairs and the torch in his hand. His belt and mine and some cord I found In his pocket had done the trick. His head had proved trou-1 blesome, but I took a stick from the grate, buttoned this Into his | waistcoat and propped It like that. The effect was hideous, for the corpse was poking its head. But that was beside the point At the first blush, not even the man's own , mother would even have known he j was dead. Here I should say that, before I had set Rush up, I had taken away ! his pistol and Helena's master key. 1 Once again I took care to listen at the head of the winding steps j ?and heard no sound. To pick my own position was easy enough. I had only to take my stand ; behind the panel-door that belonged to the cut. This was wide enough j to conceal me. I decided to use a pistol, for the 1 bullet was swift and sure and at quarters so close I could not possibly miss. For all that, I took the knife, too. And then at last I was ready, with the knife at my hip and a pistol In either hand. . . . I had to wait full five minutes i before l beard a sign on me winding stair. The sigh grew to a murmur, and the murmur into that unmistakable sound?the regular scuffling of feet J! that are mounting a flight of stone , steps. The footfalls were hasty. | The two were mounting apace. . | Why this was I could not imagI Ine. Why should they run? The i stars were fighting against them. : But for their haste, I should not ?! have heard them so soon. The rapid, regular shuffle began . I to grow clear. . , . s Unless they were moving as one, the shoes of one of the two were r rubber-snled, for only one set of II of footfalls came to my ears, s In that ease? And then I saw the glow of a torch. Two steps more, and I heard their heavy breathing. . . 0 The stars against them? All the j company of heaven had ranged Ity self on my side. The two would be j spent and breathless. . . . c Dewdrop began to speak before he had entered the room. "Bugle an' Ruth to go down. Pha3 raoli thayth?" As he stepped through the cut e and I fired. I saw my mistake, i. Dewdrop would lisp no more, but 1 the deafening roar of my pistol j had carried a message to Pharaoh -1 which not even a child could misI read. I I could have done myself violence. ! Pharaoh was more than warned. "I " " 1 THE STATE My shot, being fired when it wai had reported the ugly news tht Dewdrop was dead. The 'act thfl I no one came down would conflri ; this report And no one could hav j killed Dewdrop, unless he had firs made an end of Bugle and Bush. The truth was in Pharaoh' i hands. He knew as well as did j that someone was In the chambei { waiting to take his life. As I say, I could have done mysel j violence. I was here to play th i knave, and instead I was playing th I fool. I am bound to confess that ; cannot defend my annoyance a } finding that I must fight Pharaoi instead of playing the butcher as i had already done. I can only sa; ! that at that time I had no fear fo | myself: but since I knew very wel | that the man was as swift and a | cunning as I was slow, I was ful of apprehension lest he should es cape. The bare thought of such ai outcome made the sweat start 01 my brow. Live?after what he ha'< done? Live?to walk out of tha room and do It again? I pulled myself together, slid m; pistols Into my pockets and se about hoisting Dewdrop out of m; way. CHAPTER XI Helena. ^'OW by firing, as I had, upor Dewdrop, I had cast away the element of surprise: but tha was not all the mischief that 1 had done, for the roar of the heavy pistol had made me completely deaf. When I had fired in the forest so savage was the report that foui or five minutes went by before my full hearing came back: but here within such four walls, the shod of the violent explosion had ap palled the drums of my ears. To listen for Pharaoh's coming was, therefore, but waste of time, and, since he might arrive at any moment, I made my preparations as swiftly as ever I could. These were simple?there was not much I could do. The chair on which Rush was seated I slewed to the left, so that the beam of his torch fell full on the cut in the wall. I then took Dewdrop's torch and studied the room, marking the furniture well in case I must move in the dark. Then 1 slid the torch into my pUVKCl lUHi IUJ U"n II '" IIIIIU IUC great table of which I have spoken before. This was a pedestal table of carved, gray oak. Between the two pedestals there was a knee-hole or arenway rnree feet wide by some twenty-six inches high. Looking through tills, I directly commanded the cut, while the pedestal offered good cover on either hand. I ventured to settle myself with the greatest care, for I knew that if I possibly could I must kill my man before he had entered the room; if Pharaoh could contrive to come In, the advantage 1 presently held would be utterly lost, for though we should, In a sense, be fighting on even terms, Pharaoh was an expert at murder, but 1 was no more than a resolute ama teur. Since the cnt was so narrow the gauntlet he had to run was extremely strict and. unless my pistol misfired, I did not see how he could do It and save his life. So 1 lay very still from force of habii straining my useless ears with mj pistol-hand on the plinth of the pedestal-table and my eyes on the cut that was waiting to frame mj dead. After a little, I found myseh thinking how soft the carpe was. . . . I do not know how long I wait ed, but the first intimation I hat of Pharaoh's approach was the sud den roar of his pistol as he flret at and shattered the torch. I fear this tale is a record o bad mistakes, hut when I was lay ing my ambush I made the wors of them all. I have no excuse t< offer. I think a child would havi seen that he must so place thi torch that, while It illuminated thi cut, it could not itself be seei from the head of the winding stair Be that as It may, the horrii shock and the darkness took mi aback, ant^ when I fired at the cut I fired an Instant too late. Pha raoh's answer came swift as a flash and his bullet went through m; knee-hole, to lodge in the wail be yond. And then?silence. We were both of us deafened, o course; and, remembering that, at least had the sense to move. An instant later I was standini behind Bush's chair. And then for the first time tha night I felt the stab of somethlni I knew to be fear. I was as good as blindfolded my ears were stopped: four wall hemmed me In, and somewher within their compass was movingDeath. Pharaoh was trying to find mf stealing this way and that. He hai only to brush against me, touch m with the tips of his fingers, and should be?caught. His deadl swiftness of action would see t that. Any moment this might bar pen. Any moment the roar of hi pistol might make the last soun< I should hear. He might be bu three feet off?now. In another lr stant I might feel his breath o my cly?ek. . . . (Continued Next Week) ... j ? - .. - ? -'TT*"3. "*' - - J-* *"*. " , - ? PORT PILOT, SCXJTHPORT, I S Early Molting ? Cuts Production rt f g Hens In Flock That Molt J I, During June Are Hardly 1 r, Worth Keeping Over For t Another Season it fi e I Early molting hens, which be- j v e j gin to drop their feathers in the r month of June, are not worth t I t i keeping in good poultry flocks. 1 ^ These birds, said Roy S. Dearj I styne, head of the poultry de-!v I partment at State College, stop j y 1 laying when they >egin to molt, j * I but they go right on eating feed g jand running up expenses. I They do not lay as many eggs f ' as late molters, he continued, and " the eggs they do lay are pro- ' Iduced at a time when eggs are ,; plentiful and prices are low. j Since early molting is an in! heritable characteristic, they will ? pass their trait on to their off- ? ^ I spring if left in the flock and j I used for breeding purposes, Dear-1 7 j styne warned. j In hot weather, he added, it is I | especially important that only infertile eggs be produced for | ? home consumption or marketing, | as they have a much greater! 1 keeping quality than fertile eggs. J Except in the breeding sea- j J son, roosters should be kept away [ from the hens. And only the ' i best roosters, those with the abil- w ' i ity to transmit good qualities to P . i their offspring, should De Kepi ; for breeding. * " If eggs are collected several ' times a day during the summer, and stored immediately in a cool j [ place, they will keep much bet- j ' ter. Wire baskets which permit JC air to circulate freely among the j > eggs are ideal for the storage i ^ 1 room, Dearstyne stated. ^ But even under ideal conditions j ? 1 eggs should not be kept in stor-1 age any longer than necessary |,fc' A poultryman who gets a rep- = utation of marketing only fresb eggs can command good prices. Lice and mits propagate rapid! ly in hot weather. Infested birds s soon lose their vigor and fall offi ! in egg production. Dearstyne urged poultrymen to examine! I their birds every few days, so! they can check infestations as I soon as they start. ! i Fly Control Is Best In Spring t I . I Destroying One Female Fly In The Spring Will Cut ; | Off Life Of Millions Of Fall Insects One female fly in the spring, ! ' allowed to live and breed, may leave millions of descendants by :i ; fall. !j Don't give them a chance to' [ breed, cautions John A. Arey, extension dairy specialist at State College. Start control measures) as soon as possible. Flies are not only carriers of filth and disease, but they are a constant source of annoyance to cattle and livestock. Cows will not give as much milk if continually harrassed by flies. ' The first step in getting rid of ! this nuisance is to eliminate j ' breeding places, Arey continued. Manure from stables should be removed daily, if possible. When practical, it is best to 1 haul the manure direct to the fields where it can be spread j ' over the land. Where this is im-j practical, at least try not to t ' leave large piles of manure lying { around for many days at a time. |t Clean up the premises of the j ' house and barnyard, he contin- j [ ued. Any filth left exposed will! f 1 serve as a breeding place for j 5 flies. 8 | With the best of care, however, j 8 it will be impossible to destroy j 8 all flies in the larvae stage, j 1 Therefore, it is advisable to use [ ' ,traps, poisons and sprays in : ' fighting this pest. I 8 A good poison can be made by j mixing three quarts of skim milk! with one-fourth quart of formal-It 1 dehyde and one-fourth quart of! j 5 molasses. Place the mixture inlj ' shallow containers where the flies t are, but where animals and poul- f try cannot get at it. ' A good spray is very effective, | ' Arey stated. A number are now [ 'on the market. Follow the direc- I 3 tions given, he said, and good re- | suits will be obtained, j Good fly traps can be purchas- j jed or made at home. Farmers' j 'Bulletin No. 734, U. S. Depart- 1 ment of Agriculture, Washington, I contains directions for making j traps at home. The Congressman's wife set up | !. in bed, a startled look on her j d face. "Jim," she whispered, [ e "there's a robber in the house." [ I "Impossible," was her hus- f| 5 band's sleepy reply. "In the Sen- | o ate, yes, but in the House, [: never." j a I d| Bobby: "Mother, who'3 that J J t woman all dressed in black?" t; i- Mother: "Hush, Bobby, she's a n sister of charity." Bobby: "But, mother, which is ' she, Faith or Hope?" ||| H. C. Bolivia News ? p Comist Mercer and J. D. Dan- j j ord, v/ho have been working at C( Myrtle Beach, S. C., returned F lome Friday. w Rev. J. D. Withrow, of Winna- F iow, was In Bolivia Saturday on ^ msiness. g Mrs. C. P. Willetts, of Bolivia, c irith her sister, of Carolina Beach eturned home Tuesday from a|v) rip to the mountains. A nice rip was reported. Frank Mintz was a business w isitor in Wilmington Saturday. e( C. P. Willetts and Kennith Mc- s, Leithan were business visitors in hj Vilmington Friday. Mrs. J. I. Stone, Jr., spent last gj 'riday in Wilmington shopping, i Misses Elnora Ganey and Ger-1 rude Mills, of Leland, visited j S Irs. Foster Mintz last Monday, j ~ Mr. and Mrs. Larence Veit,, a Ir. and Mrs. Dewey Edwards, | ! I nd daughter, Anna, and Mrs. j ! lalph Boak, left Thursday for a;! I rip to Philadelphia and Chicago, j Miss Marion Smith was in Bo- I I via Thursday. t I I Mrs. Eleanor Osborn and little j I aughter, Joann, of Greensboro,, I re visiting her mother, Mrs. T. | [. Johnson. i Dr. Atkins has finished his I ish boat and is now ready for| ishing. I SURPRISE SHOWER Mrs. Amanda Potter Lewis j j 'as honored with a lovely sur- jlj rise shower given by her sister, IJ Irs. Hardy Clemmons. Mrs. Lewis recently married jl| Idgar Lewis, both of Bolivia, j jj After the games, the advice j jjj lat was given was read Dy i jj [rs. Miles Mercer, and were en- I # >yed by the crowd. Mrs. Lewis j ? as invited out to visit several! ? ifferent places, finding hid- j ;n treasures, which was aj? vely variety of presents. Those j ? ttending were, the bride, Mrs. j ? dgar Lewis, hostess, Mrs. Har- j ? Open j ri \ PEOPLE Southp The Only I Checking Each Accour FEDERAI | ( You Will Fir ; i J. V J. W. YATES, V, J. 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