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I5y this time 1 had my senses fully recovered. I ran to the nearest win dow and was Just In time to see two figures, one In while, the other Indis tinct, at the far edge of the lawn, run ning. They ran Into the woods, and while 1 stood at the window, trying with painful consciousness of stupidity and Ineptitude to decide upon a course of action, I heard an automobile en gine start In the Inne beyond the woods. Out of n stupor, In which I watched the two strange figures go from the moonlight on the lawn Into the dark of the oak grove, 1 was aroused pos sibly by the sound of the engine of the automobile with it course of nctlon suggested. It came of fears long entertained, now present with n threat of Imminent consequence. I ran for the stairs, flashing the light, up the stairs and to Jed's room. His door was open. As I have said, this wing was not wired for electricity. I turned my light about the room, saw that the fear which had caused me to patrol the house was realized and then bunted for the lamp, which I found and lighted. Jed's room was In the disorder In which a hard-working housebreaker, Intent on finding Jewels be knew the room contained, might have left It. It seemed almost ripped to pieces. On a table was a small pearl-Inlaid ebony box. The lid was open; the box was empty. As I stood In the midst of the ills array of the room, with the empty box the most significant thing In It, the marvelous unreality of Hartley house, a smiling dread, seemed to have visible token. The empty box, I thought, had con tained the manuscript which recorded Mr. Sidney's secret. The Hash of white which I had seen In the hall indicated the method by which It had disap peared. The two llgure3 crossing the lawn In the moonlight were further Indication. There was the sound of the automobile engine. I hnd n sore spot on my head. The manuscript, I know or believed hud been In the box which stood with significant emp tiness in the midst of the disordered room of Jed, who bad been kidnaped. If my surmises were correct, Mr. Sid ney's secret, upon which I knew the happiness of the family depended, was In the hands of men designing to make use of It. Jed, being a major-domo about the place, had In his room a telephone con necting with the various servants' qunrters. I used It to arouse the chauf feur. It took live minutes of ringing his bell to awaken him ; when be re sponded, I told him that the house had been robbed by a man and a woman dressed In white, who had escaped, under my sight, through the oak grove and had used an automobile waiting for them on the road beyond the grove. I told him to awaken one of the gar deners, take weapons and go as quick ly us possible south by the best roads. When this hnd been done, I called Mrs. Sidney's maid and told her to uwnken Mrs. Sidney and tell her, If "Oh, If We qnn, We Must!" She Cried. possible without alarming her, that I wished to bpeak to her on nn urgent matter. In a few minute the mold came back and Mild tl'it Mrs. Sidney could seo me, I found her In the sitting room of her suite. "It Is nothing serious, Mrs. Sidney," I said "nothing that we need now re gard us serious; and It does not con cern Mr. Sidney's health. There has been an Intruder In the house. More over, the purpose was to oreak Into i Jed's room, and .lod's room has been broken Info. I got it glimpse of the person who did It, n woman. I saw a man and a womau run Into the oak grove and I heard an automobile en gine start on the redd. I have sent a chauffeur and a gardener In cliuse, but 4hey nre traveling against o great a start that 1 bsve, no hope. What I fear Is that they have Mr. Sidney's mm, mPmi diary. Do you know wheru Jed kept itr "No, doctor," said Mrs. Sidney. "If there had been any chance of finding It we should have taken It away from him. In his absence we have searched his room frequently." "These people are after the manu script, and they are satisfied that they have It." I said. "I am sure of that. There was a small pearl-Inlaid box, open and empty, In the middle of the floor." "We never found such n box," said Mrs. Sidney. "Then It might have been theref "It might." "If It was, they have It nnd we must get It back." "Oh, If we enn, we must I" she cried, holding her hands so tightly clasped that the delicate bones made a crack ling noise. I tried to be encouraging and consol ing and, as a practical measure, gave her u bromide. CHAPTER X. Hartley house had a general ofllce where the business of the estate was handled. It was to one side of the main entrance. I bad promised to be an extraordin ary person In meeting extraordinary circumstances, but all I did was to go to the ollice and, lighting the lights, sit there. I was in the extreme dejection of n weakling when the door opened and Isobel came In. , "What are you doing, up?" I asked. "I'll ask the some thing of you. What are you and the whole household doing, awake and moving?" I told her that housebreakers had been surprised at work and had es caped. "If you have been disturbed," I sug gested, "probably your father has, also, ijou had better go to his room nnd tell him that the servants have been flus tered by n burglar scare, and then you had better go to your mother's room and stay with her until things quiet down." That seemed sound enough advice, but when Isobel had gone I was left wondering again what to do next. It was out of the question to notify the authorities. The thieves had stolen something which, from what I knew of It, I preferred to have In their hands rather than In the possession of the police. Our detective ngency I could trust, but I did not want to communicate with anyone but McGulre, the superin tendent, and there was no need of tele phoning him until later In the morn ing. The case, ns I thought It over, enme to this: The Spaniard nnd the attor ney, by the aid of a confederate, a woman, had obtained possession of the diary containing the secret of Hartley house. They would soon be heard from. They would not disappear. We did not have to pursue them. Thoy would pursue us. There was the possibility of dealing with them by forc extrn-legally. Any thing we did for our protection had to be done extrn-legally. I thought Mc Onire could and would attend to that, and I Intended to Instiuet him to con sider murder the only process not to bo thought of. I tried to reconcile mv Idas of Mr. Sidney's character with the facts of the family's terrible dllemn. i. What could a man of so Just and honorable, kindly and charming a nature as re vealed in his old age have done, even in a hot and passionate youth, which lie emild not face now? What crime could be have committed which not only constituted a danger to bis secur ity but remained a source of satisfac tion to him? I'or two hours I sat by the telephone, expecting momentarily to hear from the chauffeur who had gone in pursuit of the thieves. It was nhnut four o'clock In the inornit'g tle-re was a pale suggestion of light In the windows when Mrs Aldrlch, the housekeeper, came to the ollice. She was an Imper turbable lady of disciplinary habit ond ordinarily unruffled dignity, but now she was disturbed, "Doctor," she said, "Agnes, the new maid, cannot be found. She Is not In her room. Her bed hns not been touched. Most of her belongings and her suitcase are gone. 1 camu to you with this probably unimportant do mestic Incident, thinking that well, the occurrence of the night might have some connection with this edi'l." "I think Ague probably was In volved in the matter," I sulci. "We have always so dreaded to tnke a new servant," said Mrs. Aldrlch, "hut Agnes came recommended for the month by a very faithful girl who wanted n month's leave. Has anything of great value been taken?" ".Volhing of any Intrinsic value whatever, Mrs. Aldrlch. 1 Imagine the robbers were alarmed before they found nny Jewels or plate." "That's n consolation, In nny event.' said the housekeeper; "but wo never shall bo able to tako In n new servant again with any ease of mind," The chauffeur telephoned ns Mrs. Aldrlch went nwny. The chase in the night hnd been' useless, ns might be expected, nnd I told him to return home. Mrs. Aldrlch brought mo a light breakfast, and one of (he snrdeners cunio to say that the dogs hnd been found In the woods. They had been fed drugged meat and were sick and even now barely nbld to stnnd. 1 was preparing to go to Mr. Sid ney's room when the telephone rang again. It was a call from the village of Horwlch, forty miles east, a place of some repute, or 111 repute, for the number nnd character of Its drinking places and rondhouses. The man calling me said he was the, constable of the township of Horwlch and asked If he were talking to n per son of responsibility. I assured him ho was. Then he told me that an auto mobile accident bad occurred two miles out of Horwlch and that the only Identifying marks suggested Hartley house us a place to make Inquiries, lie asked If I could come to Horwlch. I endeavored to question him over the telephone, but he said there was little Information he could give, a i Had My Bottle of Beer. man and a woman In n cat: man past middle age, a young woman In white; the man was dead, the woman badly Injured, "I'll ho over as soon as possible," I said. "I'leuse keep the effects all to gether." There was no doubt In my mind that the quavering little rascal of a lawyer with his precise way and timid but controlling unscrupulousness bad come to the end of his rond and at the very moment when he had suc cess In his hand. There was no rea son to doubt that the woman was the maid Agnes whom I had surprised at midnight stealing down the stairs from Jed's room with Mr. Sidney's dlnry. l!ut If we were i.d of the timorous, grasping little attorney, we were In worse dlfllcultics. With the attorney nnd 1 Is Spanish client, wo at least knew the manner of dealing. It was disconcerting I might almost bo for given the exnggerntlou of saying It was horrifying to consider that the diary was hclng handled by r con stable, a sheriff rr a coroner or even any idler or report-keeper in the village of Horwlch. If the automobile, nccldent had dis posed Gi one Ingenious enemy only to make n half-dozen equally unscrupu lous ones, or to apprise (I was tempted to think this wns worse) one Incor ruptible ofllcer of the condition of Hartley house- In either event, wo were the worse for the change in clr eumstancp. One of the stablemen knew how to drive a car, and I asked him to bring out the automobile which I used when I went to town. The chauffeur, when he returned, would have been up most of the night. I did not want to lmposo on him. I might he gono most of the day. In n half-hour we were away toward Horwlch. I never hud been over the road, which ran by old furms with stone fences and wns little trav eled except by the people who lived along It. Originally the place had n respect able tavern. It wns called the White Owl. It was still respectable, but odd ly enough, It was the success of the Whlto Owl which had attracted the other places. ' I Inquired for the constable and was told that I should likely find him at the White Owl, he being a fiequentor of that place and now having a case which needed a great deal of drinking and talking over. I went to the White Owl und,on en tering tho barroom, which really had an attractive rather than a dlsieputa blo appearance, saw a group of men nbout a short, broad, square-shouldered fellow who was talking to the Interest, of half a dozen or more fel lows. My entrnnco made no diversion, and Judging, from what I had been told, mat the squat, talkative fellow was the constable and that ho was telling the story I wanted to know, I decided to remain uuldenillled, have n bottle of beer from tho bartender, who enmo half-heartedly from tho con stublo's narration aud thu3 as an eavesdropper get what I came to get In direct conversation. I hnd my bottle ot beer, nnd the bar tender went back to the group, domi nated by the squat, talkative fellow. He was not the comic type of con stable. He showed Intelligence nnd decision, but evidently he was fond of a story when he had It to tell. He wns saying: "I wns up late because there was n bad set at the Hnlf Day, and Rill Dalley thought he might have trouble with them before he got them on their way. About one o'clock they hnd a quarrel, without anything but tnlk, divided Into two sets nnd went awny In two cars toward the city. Hill nnd I split n bottle of hoer, nnd Hill sold he'd be going himself. It was nearly one-thirty then, and I thought I'd wait up for Number Eleven at two '.o'clock nnd see If nnyono got off. Rill gnvc me the keys nnd told mo to shut the place up. I hnd another bottle of beer nnd wns playing soli tnlre on the bar when Number Eleven stopped. "I went to the front door of the bar and looked over toward the station. A mnn hud got off, nnd ho wns headed toward the Half Day, which was tho only place showing n light. I waited In the doorway, nnd when he came up, I saw he was n foreigner. lie had gold rings In his ears. "He made as If he wanted to come In. Ho didn't speak enough English for me to make out what ho was say ing. I let him In, nnd he went up to the bnr, put down a quorter anil point ed toward tho whisky, I gave him the bottle, nnd he pointed to me and smiled. So I said I didn't mind If I did, and we hnd a drink together. I thought I'd like to know what this fel low wnnted In town, so I didn't sug gest It was closing time. "Then I was surprised to hear a enr coming nlong. The other fellow seemed to be expecting It. We both went to the door. The car stopped at the door, and ,i man helped a woman out, lie was a- little old shriveled fellow. She wns young and pretty. "The old fellow said something to my foreigner, nnd he threw his nrms lu the air, wriggled all over, laughed nnd fell on the old fellow and kissed him. The old boy struggled nnd kicked, but the foreigner Just picked him right up nnd kissed him on both cheeks. "That old boy wns mad when he got loose. 'This Is unthlnknblo,' he snld. 'It is beyond expression. You human pig! Pog of n man slobbering beast 1' Then he stopped speaking English and said n lot of things the foreigner un derstood, but It didn't make hiin mad. His eyes Just sparkled. He put a dol lar on the bar and pointed to tlie whisky ngaln. "'Hrinr; our drinks over here,' said the old boy, pointing to one of the tables In a far corner of the room. "They sat down, and the two men talked. The girl didn't seem to have the '.anguage. The foreigner wns ex cited. The old boy kept wiping his eyeglasses. Ho wasn't showing as much nervousness us the foreigner, but no was pleased over something. "I kept behind the bnr, as near their table as I -could, and pretended to play solitaire nnd wnlt for their or ders, wntchlng them as much as pos sible and trying to make out what thoy wore talking nbout. Pretty soon they wanted another round of drinks, When I served them the old boy wnnt ed to know If he could telephone to the city. He paid me the toll, nnd I showed him the telephone booth and heard him give his number. It was Itlvcr -1000. "When he got his party, he said: 'Is that you, Sim? Everything Is nil right. Ye?, ns expected Let him go,' "That was all. He went back to the table. I noticed that ho kept tlfht hold all the time on n lcnther case. When they got to talking iigain, the foreigner kept pointing toward th case end began to get more excited. As near ns I could make out what was happening, as they kept on talking nnd motioning, It wns the block leather case tho 'foreigner wnnted, nnd the other man wouldn't let him have It. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Meredith and Lady Macbeth. Lady Iiuteher In her "Memories of (icorge Meredith," recently published, gives the world not a little, new Infor mation about the novelist which Is Until significant and extremely enter taining. Here Is one of the passages she quotes from her dlnry which sho.va his ntuuzlng power to paint with words : ".Mr. Meredith went with father nnd me to see Irving and Mrs. Crowe (nee ISatemnn) In 'Macbeth. 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