Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 November 1895 — Page 6

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SYNOPSIS OP PREVIOUS CHAPTERS, CHAPTER L—The narrator of the story Minnie Trevor, tells how she get® her living aa a female commercial traveller. On arriving late one night at a town called Waybo rough, she finds that all bedroom accom modation is taken up. She Is offered, bowever. a bed in a room over the Assize Courts, a room which has evidently been used for spying into the Crown Court below. Minnie has a ghastly dream of a murder perpetrated In the court. One of the four men engaged In the murder wears a mask and has a curious star witbslx points branded on the wrist. She awakes with a scream.

CHAPTER II.—Falling asleep again Miss Trevor continues her dream at the point she left off. The body of the murdered woman is in her dream conveyed into a dungeon beneath the court, there to rot unknown. When she again awakes she persists In her resolve to fathom the mystery, being convinced that a murder has been committed years ago. After some opposition from her host and hostess, who somewhat rldloules her story, she finds on measurement that there is &8pace unaccounted for which would correspond with the dungeon she saw In dream.

True. But nevertheless, having got so far, I meant to carry it through. "There is one thing," I remarked "we can put out of our beads any idea of the concealed entrance to this yard being upstairs that reduces our investigations to the ground floor. Suppose we go round once more?"

Beele muttered something about din-ner-time, and I myself was recalled by his words to the remembrance of my neglected business, and the appointment which I had already broken. But I was too anxious and excited to allow any outside considerations to Interrupt me now so I overcame the old man's scruples, persuading him that his appetite would be the better for waiting, and he reluctantly accompanied me once more to the Crown Court. "We seemed to turn sharply to the left," I explained for the third time "and when wegot into the stone passage we descended one or two steps, and oould only then Just stand upright. We appeared to go under the floor of the Court is that possible?" "Quite possible there Is a considerable space under all the floors, I know why, juot look at the cellars on the other side."

I was feeling the while with my hands along the wall. "1 believe the door will be found just here," I said, indicating the spot where I was standing. "Allowing your supposition to be correct," said Beele, "I don't suppose it will have been a door at all. It was maybe only an archway, bricked up when this lath and plaster was put along the old walls to keep them a bit drier. And in that case the bricks would ring different you just watt a moment."

And he went off and fetohed a heavy iron bar, with which he proceeded to give sundry blows to the wall. "I declare it seems as though you were right, miss. Just you listen, now you notice the hollow sound here, in oomparIsen with the dull thud when I hit over there." "What does It mean?" "It moans that the workmen didn't even take the trouble to brick up the opening, but shored it up with planks. Only wood can give out that hollow sound It would be much more marked if it were not (or the deadening effect of this thick layer of plaster." "What do you advise me to do?" I asked, helplessly, feeling bewildered now my prognostications were being so strangely realized, my heart beating a tattoo inside my breast the while. "Well, I really think, now that there seems some likelihood of there being an opening here—mind, I don't say it leads to no dungeon—more likely than not it's only a roundabout way to the cellars —still, as you seem so set on it, I really think I should advise you to go straight to Squire Bayford. He is the Lord Lieutenant of the County, and the gentleman as has the power in these Assise Courts the application for leave to touch the walls would have to go to him in the end, so it's as well to go to headquarters at once," "How shall I get to see the Lord Lieutenant? Such an important personago will probably be most inaccessible." "Not at all he's the most affable, kind-hearted gent that ever stepped in shoe leather, ought to know, for didn't he, last winter as ever was, send me a pound a week regular to help buy extra food and dainties for my poor missus when she WM laid up with the rheumatism? And doesn't he, many a time and oft, give money to some poor devil of a prisoner on the quiet like, so as to help htm on his legs again and give him a start when the rest of the folks only look askance and pass by, like the Pharisee in the parable, on the other side? Ah, he's a downright good •ort, is Sqaire Bayford we shan't the likes of him again, when it pi the Lord to take him from us." "I had better write and ask for an in tervlew, I think." "Ay, do, miss heVi sure to see yonitnd oat of shear good nature I believe he'll allow yon to have this wall pulled down, for feaf of hurting your feelings by refusing."

In spite of this aasuranoe, however, did not ff»l at all oomfortable when, my ,letter having been favorably answered, jl was driving out In the solitary Way^bofpttgb fly, ^b4nt five o'clock, to Him, ^the country seat of the

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By H. F. Baly,

Author of "A Little Mistake," "An Artful Little Game," "The Van ishing Gods," &c.

^Copyrighted, 1885, by M. F. Baly.] "Squire"-—Lord Lieutenant of BJaok sblre.

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CHAPTER III. A

STRANGE QUEST.

Beele stared incredulously when I made this announcement he evidently did not believe me, though the facts spoke for themselves. "Now, what do you say, Mr. Beele am I right, or are you?" But Beele forbore to commit himself. •'Now you've found, or think you have, that there Is a square space In the center of the building, you've got to get permission to pull the whole place to pieces to find the way into it you'll find a difficulty there," he said, nodding his head •with an air of wisdom.

The Squire received me kindly, bmt will not record all the arguments I em ployed to induce him to allow me to have the wall examined. Suffice it to say that I reoeived an unexpected con Urination as to the existence of the stone passage from the gentleman himself "Found its existence by computation? Why, bless my life, you needn't have taken all that trouble, Miss—er—ah Trevor. I could have told you all about it if you had come to me in the first in stance, and for the matter of that, so could any of the magistrates. We bad the entrance to a atone passage blocked op nearly three years ago, before the good Beele entered on office, because it only led to a useless yard euolosed on every side, and the judges complained so of the draught in the Crown Court. We were fairly forced at last to have the place brioked up." "And the workmen must have soamped their work, Beele says, for he deolares there is only wood laid across the opening." "Ah, Just like them all, when one's back is turned. However, to return to the subject of your wonderful dream. It appears to me that, granted the exist ence of the stone passage, and the en olosed yard, everything hangs on the finding of the door in the yard leading to the dungeon?" "I would almost stake my existence on my ability to find that door, when once I am standing in the yard."

Well, the end was that permission was given to Beele to set men at work to open up the entrance to the stone passage, the squire most generously taking upon himself the cost, in case of our failure to find a dungeon. He profossed himself wholly ignorant of its existence, no record of it being in the town archives. "Of course, if your theory turns out to be correct," he added, kindly, "the town will only too gladly bear the cost of in vestigatlons, both of the finding of such an interesting place as the old dungeon will be and also of any orimlnal proceedings necessary to discover the murderers should the dead body be brought to light. Meanwhile, no doubt you will prefer that the whole affair shall be kept private for the present the, workmen need not be told why they are making the open ing, and I Bhall myself go over to Wayborough to-morrow morning to conduct the search In person. Excuse me when I say that you have a candid face, Miss Trevor, and I do not believe you would willingly put us to unnecessary expense. I am somewhat a believer in dreams,xnyself there have been some curious cases in our own family."

A shade passed over his kindly face as he spoke, as though the remembrance called up was not exaotly a pleasant one. I hastened to turn the ourrent of his thoughts by thanking him heartily for his co-operation, together with his great courtesy and kindness ,b,ut,he wp.u]kl have none of it. "Tut, tut, no thanks, I beg. If we all made ourselves slaves to the modern, craze for materialism, where would be the scope for the exercise of simple faith and belief in the unseen, so treasured by our ancestors? We must reserve a little to ourselves in this hard, work-a-day, unbelieving nineteenth oentury/'^fe

And shaking my hand cordially he bade me adieu, promising to meet me at the Assize Courts early on the morrow.

I hastened to report the result of my interview to Beele, and found he expressed no manner of surprise. "It's just as I told you, miss. The old gentlemsn would out off his right hand sooner than hurt your feelings, for he would be sure you firmly believed what you told him. Yours is just the kind of faoe to inspire trust. Well, I suppose that now I may go tell the workmen to come up to-morrow. Ten o'clook didn't you say that the Squire would be here?"

I had been occupied during the afternoon of waiting for the Squire's answer to my note, in visiting my long-suffer-ing customer, and trying to appease his smouldering wrath at my unpuncluallty. I soothed his ruffled feelings at last and secured his order, a rather large one so my conscience was set at rest for using my employer's time on my own affairs, so to speak—at any rate they were certainly not hers.

In the evening I wrote home, putting of! my return for a day or two on the plea of unexpected "business." I did not wish to tell mother the truth In a letter indeed, I reserved it for after consideration as to whether I should worry her about the matter at all. As it happened, luckily, Wayborough was the last place on my business list, so I should not be keeping any more customers waiting. My employers never expected me until they saw me, as I could never tell to a day or two when my work would be finished, but to mother I had written on the previous day, fixing the hour of my return.

My letter written, I took it to the post, and then, for it was only nine o'clock, and in these long summer evenings not yet dark, I wondered through the quaint old streets to pass the time away until I oould with decency betake myself to my bed. It was the last day of the agricultural show, and there had been a general exodus of visitors, so 1 was able to secure a room for the night at the hotel.

I did not mean to stop out long, for, truth to tell, I was unoommonly sleepy after my—I can hardly say wakeful—but disturbed night,

I had on previous visits to Wayborough seen the usual show places—the castle, church, Ae. so I turned nay steps In the opposite direction, down a winding street of most delightful old timber houses, which, like those In Chester, had been left Intact In all their picturesque ugliness—for there was not a straight

Honou rabls! line among the lot. I hat# grave doubts 'as to the interior comfort of eons* of these houses, the rooms aitf 'ifra1J#1fct»d

I must confess that now, when my wishes were on the point of fulfilment and the passage abont to be opened at my expressdesire, I began to feel qualms as to the wisdom of my proceeding, After moving heaven and earth, so to say, to accomplish what was now in progress, my heart suddenly misgave me. What if I failed to find the door to the dungeon? Or, if found, there was no body discovered? "It was only dream," I said to myself, now, when, only the day before, I was ready to slake my exlstenoe on Its prophetio character. My thoughts must have shown them selves in my face, for it attracted the attention of the kindly1 Squire, who, with fine tact, at once guessed the cause of my unhappy looks. "Cheer up, young fady," he whispered 'Never mind if we find nothing, after all there's no harm done, and we shall have done our duty. No one but you and I and the Beeles will be any the wiser."

By this time the archway had been sufficiently uncovered to allow of our passage through. Down those well-re-membered steps and along the dark gangway we went in single file, until presently we emerged into the enclosed yard. §11

And now the critical moment had come. My heart beat fit to burst, a9, summoning all my faculties to my aid, gazed at the walls trying to remember on which side the concealed doorway had been situated. Upwards, to the very roof had the ivy by this time grown, and the walls, from top to bottom, were unlighted by a single window. It" was strange why such an enclosed space as this should ever have been thus left in the centre of the block of buildings, and for apparently no purpose. 'The men must help us," whispered the Squire again

Beele in the meantime had been quietly pursuing investigations on his own account with his fingers and pocket knife on the same side by which we had entered, but in the opposite corner why he should have ohosen this particular spot for private research I do not know, but doubtless, intimately acquainted as he was with most of the underground working of the building, he had hiR own theory as to the probable position of the unknown dungeon. "I do believe it is here," he called out, in an excited tone. "See here, sir, my knife is stioking into something, either wood, or something very like rt—certain ly not stone."

To clear away the ivy at that spot was the work of a very few moments, and there, sure enough, was a door—the very door through which the men in my dream had carried their victim I Along drawn "ah" came from both Beele and the Squire the workmen did not seem so astonished. "I always said there must be more cellars in the old place than folks knew of," said one of them, scratching bis head in a meditative fashion. "It stands to rea son that such a place wouldn't have half the foundations filled up, it would make everything so damp." "Well, what we have to do now is to get In," said the Squire. "Come, my men, bring your crowbars and we'll soon manage it."

It was not long before the rusty hinges gave way before the combined efforts of the crowbars and hatches, and then, with one final mighty pnsh, the ponderous door was swung slowly inwards.

The Squire held op a detaining hand as the men were preparing to rush In then he looked doubtfully at me. "Have you strength of mind enough to enter?" he said.

But I drew back with a shiver of fear. "I cannot," was my faint answer. "I think will go and sit down In Boole's garden until yon return.

I dragged myself through the newly opened passage as wsll a* nsy shajdng limbs would aUow, burrisd with averted eyee through B# CSoiht tttikrt, aad si

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oramppd one oould with the greatest ease touch the ceilings with the outstretched arm. But for all that commend me to an old-world timber house to look at in my walks abroad. There is such an ar tlstio sense of pleasure in gazing at the quaint, little, orooked things, such an air of rest and repose about them, with their rose covered walls and rustic porches, that I, for one, should be per fectly content were my lot to be thrown among suob surroundings, instead of in the midst of the hideous brick abomina tions of the average London suburb which my soul abhorreth, and where alas, I have to live!

The next morning I betook myself in good time to the custodian's house in order to be beforehand with the Lord Lieutenant but I was not, for all that Early as I was, he was yet earlier, and together we proceeded aoross the wide courtyard to the Crown Court, where Beele informed us the workmen were ready to commence operations,

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matter to discover anything under the thick ivy on whioh Side had we batter begin, do you think?" "It seems to me that it must have been on the left but it was all so confused, I can hardly remember." "Never mind, it won't take long to cut away the ivy from all four walls, if necessary there is no harm in doing so, as the oreeper is neither useful nor ornamental in a place where It is never 7

Then he turned to the workmen. "We have reason to believe there is a concealed door leading to a dungeon somewhere in this yard. You have your hatchets with you, I see, my men, so you may help us by clearing away the ivy."

The men set to work with a will they were not above doing a job out of their particular line once in a way, and the Squire's generosity in the matter of payment for any service done was too well known to oause any hesitation, even on the score of expediency.

The first wall was soon cleared, but we looked in vain for any trace of a door. The next side was similarly drawn blank my heart went lower and lower, and I felt, if possible, more desponding than before. The men, too, I could see, were growing sceptioal, and did not put the same energy into their work but perhaps that was only beoause they were getting tired of the job—they didn't know what was at stake.

length reached the open air. Then deadly sickness overcame me, ana I sank down on the nearest seat, and knew no more until I beard the Squire's vole* saying, "She's better now,"

Istruggled to my feet and ldbked about me In a prazed kind of fashion. wonder ing what hid happened. Then I began to remember. "Did you—did yeu make any discovery?" I faltered,

The Squire's faoe looked very white, as did those of the others standing round. "Yes," answered the former, speaking very gravely "we found the poor glri, or rather all that was left of her body, just where you described it was an awful sight." And he wiped the drops of sweat from his forhead, seating him self the meanwhile on a bench by my side, as though glad of the support. "I will not shook you by describing what it looked like," he said, after h« bad recovered himself a little. "It will be many along day before I get the recolleotion of it from before my 6yes."

Just then Beele c^me up with a tray and glasses.

"I thought a drop of brandy would not come amiss, sir, if you'll excuse my lib erty it'* good stufi, the remains of what we bought when the missus was bad— we kept a in case of illness." "Ah, that WHS very thoughtful of you, Beele. And you, my mtm, a glass of something

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a sight h*4 that does tane it out of a man. Go to the King'w Arnix and have what you like at my expense. But not a word of this horror, mind the police must be told first of all." "I suppose there will have to be an Inquest?" I asked presently. "I wonder who she was it is strange no one seems to have been missed—though of course we don't know when the deed was done "Ah, I forgot to tell you one of the workmen declares that, judging by the colour of the hair, and what could bseen of the clothes, be believes the dead body is that of the wife of the former custodian here, Dalton." "Do you mean to say that a young woman could disappear suddenly from this town and no enquiries be made after her?" "Ah, there were peculiar circumstances connected with Daltou's leaving here I begin to recall them now.. About three years ago, as nearly as I can remember, I came to Wayborough one morning for the meeting of the magistrates, and was surprised to find a strange man in charge here. He came up to me and explained that Dalton had been taken suddenly ill, and thai the doctor had ordered him to go away for a few days, and that heSmith, I think he said his name was— would

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