OUR SERIAL STORY.
THE MOATED GRANGE.
CHAPTER XII.
By KATHARINE TYNAN. Author of " A'Mad Marriage," The House
uf Doom," "Donya tha Dreamor."
to
Lady FitzUlick's story about the man who had felt for the matches Dash slept now in Beata's room in the dark in the ghostly house on the rug in front of the fire.and had had them placed in his Beata loved to know that he was hand. She found the matches and theit her candle. She had a momen- there when she woke up in night, and the cheerful fire hid tary temptation call her fallen to blackness.
She had come awake in the dark.ather to which she would not yield. Nouse frightening mumsie, There was no moon and the window she must be brave as all those at her bed-foot was just a slightly young men in the War had #lighter blackness, She could hear cen brave."
her mother's soft regular breath-: ing in the adjoining room, and Dash on the hearthrug sighed a heavy sigh and turned over on his side.
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The kitchen was quite at the other end of the wing. That meant passage downstairs. She a long leaked from side to side fearfully as she hurried along, the corridor. Things she had not troubled about in the day-the bedroom off the drawingroom that no fire could WORKING CONDITIONS ever warm, the shadowy shape be- hind her mother when she played at dusk-shic had assured herself that it was an illusion of the fire light the figure of a woman by the lakeside when there was moon and a mist--had power "now" to frighten her.
IN INDIA.
SOCIALIST M.P.'s VISIT.
Penang, Jan. 2. Since his arrival in India he had seen sufficient to satisfy him that the workers' conditions were
The night was very quiet. There was a frost again, and the fregs did not crank when the water was half-frozen. While the ice lasted they would leave the pond and hop along all the little paths by the lakeside and the tracks the rabbits had made. Once, inadvertently, Henta had stepped on one, killing it; the memory of the soft, squashy thing under her foot, and the plop, had still power to make her feel Her heart thumpert in her ears rather sick, like the dairy-maids the hurried along, holding her a menace to civilisation, stated Mrs. de Burgh had talked about. candle high while the darkness Mr. A. A. Purcell, the Socialist Suddenly, in the stillness of the huddled away before.it, and hid itM.P., on his arrival at Colombo night, there. broke out
self behind clock-cases and down from Madras, particularly as re- gards housing, lack of food and monotonous voice. It grumbled.
Frooked passages. listened
A militant movement sit- Benta
hard,
she clothing. She reached the door At first she ..ting up in bed.
sought for, and peered fearfully was necessary to foster the spread could not make out what it was, through into the blackness. She of education, modern sanitation Then she thought she recognisedad expected stairs. Instead she and up-to-date housing methods. it for Crunch's voice... It was found something that looked like scolding voice although it was so a ladder; no, not quite a ladder, a monotonous.
It had not occurred to her toangway rather, with intersect ing crossbars. She went down wonder where the servants slept.fourfully, holding on to the rail at She had rot. explored the down- the side. At the bottom she found
Among the three works of ima- stair premises at all. Close to the not a passage as she had expected,
which have Water there was a line of half-but a cellar. There must be angination by women moon shaped windows that opened the way downstairs which she been selected by the Femina Vie inward just below the portion of had not discovered. She had come Heureuse British Prize Committee the house which they occupied the wrong way.
to go to the French Committee in She held That downstairs place would be
high Paris is "Goodbye Stranger," the candle dark and limy; in such a place at the foul of the gangway Stella Benson, who in private life looked above her. The is the wife of Mr. O'Gorman Ander- you might find cfts hopping about, and
ason, of the Chinese Custom Service cellar, not or rats, perhaps. The half-moonsi were so near the water that an wine cellar, but perhaps a cellar in Yannanfu. She has worked on enterprising rat might easily find for beer. Round the walls were a ranch in Colorado, been "help" in
place
was [L
Mr. Purcell and Mr. Halsworth have been sent to India by the British Trades Union Congress to study and report on workmen's conditions there.
by
his way in at a window left open. huge barrels that reached almost a San Francisco boarding-house, The Cronches must sleep just below to the ceiling.
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her bedroom, although she had The place had a cold, confinedShe also taught school and contri never suspected it before. Theyir. In the daytime it would be buted to local papers during a long had always been so quiet.
-lit by the one or two gratings residence in Hongkong, has shot Dash growled Cranch's voice
There was a tigers in India, and been under fire high in the wall. was uplifted. There was a scream musty smell, a smell of, rotten in the Chinese Civil War, while she -a sharp sudden scream. Then straw. There was straw under her was the first Englishwoman silence.
Were they quarrelling? Another feet, old rotten straw that oozed penetrate into the Indo-Chinese pro-
under the pressure of her light vince of Laos. sheweight. voice began, a
Dash broke out into bark- thought she recognised it for Mrs. She looked back for Dash. Hely.. Cronch's, although it was dis-had not liked the inclined plane ing, She had put the candle down guised by the sobbing that went down which she perceived now the behind her. With a sudden thought with it.
barrels must have been rolled. she glanced at it. There was not Then there was a dull sound as he remembered, now double doors much of it. Supposing that was though someone had fallen.
facing the door into the cellars not daylight in the sky, but only Beata sa up in bed. "Dush was opening probably on the courtyard. the, waning moon? It might come wide awake now. She flashed the when they drunk beer in great to it that the candle would go out electric torch which she kept beside quantities at the Moated Grange leaving her in the darkness..
Her ear caught a sound. What her bed his way, and saw that heit must have come that way.
He was it? A plop! Something had was listening, his head
Dash had not followed her. side, growling ever so slightly. was standing at the head of the plunged into the water of the moat Her "heart was in her mouth gangway, peering down upon her outside and was swimming. A rat. Had Cronch been drinking, and had and whining. She suspected he She had an idea that the moat was he struck his wife, and perhaps could see but dimly, if at all. He infested by rats. Mrs. Cronch hurt her badly?
was blinder than they had thought had said something about them The mere thought made her feciat, first, or the blindness was in-sitting on the windowsill, hugging rather sick. Then the sounds creasing. They had been talking the bars, watching her while the broke out again just below the floor, of velting him Somewhere washed up. Beata was frightened it seemed, a sound of someone sob-
where his
could eyes bing and meaning. Oh, if the
but examined,
Cronch poor woman was hurt, and
Perhaps there was an exit from brute had gone fast asleep! She thrown cold water on the idea.
was quite certain that Sir Hilary was ready to believe anything of would not wish the dog to be re- this place some other way. It oc- curred to her that she must be a Cronch, for whom she had an in-moved, nor meddled with. stinctive dislike.
As she turned back to encourare storey lower than that on which She must go and see. Benta's Dash he moved suddenly as though the Cronches slept. It was teeth chattered in her head. She
thought she was coming up, steep descent into the cellar. She its wondered vaguely if in heavy rain was oddly unwilling to go down pushing the swing door to into these unknown depths. She fullest extent. He barked joyously, the water in the moat ever spilt hud glanced one day through an linging back his beautiful head as through those gratings. She re- open dior at the steep stairs going though to express his relief at her membered now where the gratings "Striking tributes were paid to down into blackness, just beyond return from a place which he cer were, quite below the windows of the progress of the work of the the kitchen door. That must be tainly objected te. He had been the house and just above the level Far Eastern Bureau of the League the way. A cold and damp smell frightened of that strange descent of the mont she remembered, as of rotting to the dark. The door, released.
The little light of the candle of Nations in Singapore at the straw, had come up from it into swung to and clicked.
hardly pierced the obscurity. The annual meetings in Delhi. her face.
Stumbling in her haste, Benta cellar seemed a large place. As far
The Council considered an im- Now, #guin the moaning went up the gangway. She was as she could see one great barrel portant extension of its activities, broke
frightened without Dash. She felt followed the other.
including circulation of informa seemt under her feet. Sitting a though something followed her. Perhaps there might be some tion on International medical hunched up in bed, her hair falling Oh, why had she not kept him with other way out, though she hardly research, particularly plugue and in two long plaits either side her her? But the click could
mean haped it.'
for cholera. The programme face, she listened with dilated eyes, nothing. It was only the door Glancing fearfully about her she international plague research was After all, what was there to fear, shutting. She had but to open it went back and began to explore. adopted... -with Dash?
from within,
The cellars were bigger than she The moaning continued,
But there was no handle. On had thought. There was a groined though someone
her side of it the old lock was roof of arches over her head, wet pain. .She sald to herselfcrusted over with rust and cobwebs. and gleaming, as she lifted her that she must not be. The lor vet worked, but there was candle and went on between the coward. Probably, that
brute no wa,
I opening the door from barrels, hoping and praying that
there might be another way out. Cronch had gone asleep leaving the within once it had closed. poar woman where he had ong
In a brief space terror swept over her. A heavy woman like Mrs. her like a sea. How long was she Cronch might have sustained going to be imprisoned in this serious injuries in a fall. She place before she could make must not be a coward: she must anyone hear?
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Suddenly she pulled up short with a voiceless cry. Thoro was something at her feet, which she might have stumbled over. She had an odd memory of the long
not be. She ran over in her mind She wondered what hour it might corridor of Glen Assarpe, and a sod all the wonderful brave things she be: she had not looked at her of turf dropped by some careless had heard of during the War. She watch when she wakened. She housemaid on her way to make up had done that before when she felt thought the chink of light through the bedroom fires. Some childi disheartened. The blue eyes of the grating was a little paler than memory, perhaps. Anthony Napier came to her in the it had been: but there was a wan- She held the candle,to the thing darkness. They were keen using moon. It had been in the sky and it stirred. It squeaked and sword and stern, She did not yesterday morning at breakfast ran. She had caught sight of know why they should have been time.
bright eyes and a grey pointed stern, but so he would have.looked She did not want Cronch to let snout-it was a rat. going into battle: she was sure her out. Suddenly, for no reason
Then terror seized her. The of it. The eyes, had had nothing at all, she was afraid of Cronch whole place seemed alive with rata. but gentleness and something, al-It was as though she had always She began to acream and beat with most worshipping when they look- known that under his expression- her hands at the stone wall she had ed at her.
less face and palo oyes there lurked come up against. She got out of bed and felt about a brute..
(To be continued.) for the matches. She remembered She shook.
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