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OUR SERIAL STORY.

THE MOATED GRANGE.

CHAPTER XXII.

By KATHARINE TÝNAN.

Author of "A Mad Marriago," "The House

of Doom," "Denys the Dreamer.

Imatches on the floor. After all. why she was asking herself, About eleven o'clock Besta lock-should she be so mortally terrified ed the outside door and began to of Cranch-Cronch, who had wait- prepare for bed. Not for world ed on them low-voiced and soft- That would she have let her mother footed for months back? know that the prospect of sleeping, Cronch was not this Croneh, she This was a in separate, though adjoining, reminded herself. rooms had daunted her daughter. Crouch returned like a dog to his She had let her mother have Dash vomit. He must have been drink because she guessed that she, tou, ing for 11 good while. was nervy. She had laughed at strange, sickly smell, half stale the suggestion that they should (drink, half suggestion of an un- steep together, or leave open doors healthy stomach, seemed to come on the corridor, ao that they coull up against her face, to stifle her. call to each other.

Standing upright in the recess behind the bed she put her hands over her face as though she would shut out the evil odours.

The

4.

Croneh had antly given un as hopeless the attempt to light the candles,

It was so much gain

ed. She could hear him crawlin about on the floor at the side n' the Bed, pushing before him the chair on which she had left her matches and candle.

"You know that you will sleep like a humming-top," Beata said. fondly and so shall I. I have left the blind up so that the moon- light may keep me company. Wo shall miss the dawn in the rooms, but we shall have the sunset, and the sun will be round to us before the day is far advanced."

She had put the key of the eater Before dour under her pillow. she slept she had parted the enr

After a while he desisted." Te tains and, Fonked at the safe in the wall, as though she feared it was feeling about the bed now as might have vanished. She re-though he expected to find some-

er something there. Sh leeted while she lonked at it that one its speret might escape, even one might have Iwen fast asleep if her who had discovered the recess into panela had not remembered! The which it was built. It might passought brought Surh sickness of so easily for a panel in the wall,horror that she felt like ainting. ns its constructor had meant it to and she must not faint; she must do. The key-hole wins so cleverlykerp all her, wits about her. · God

Itel hidden away in the line of gift would not hot bar faint. bending, that surrounded it that would support, and deliver her she had to feel with her sensitive He would soul is angels: finger-tips for some time before she could discover it.

It was quite a long time for her before she slept..

She awoke some time during the i night to the knowledge of some spund that and broken. into her sleep, startling her wide awake.

She sat up in bed and listened, her heart beating fast. There was greyness outside the window; the young micer must have. set. What her staring eyes saw against

"Four great angels round my

bed,

Two great angels at my head, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and

John.

Keep the led that I lie on." The old rhyme was thumping Surely "God away in her brain. wonk not let her fall into the hands of this madman. He would send His angels."

There was a heavy thud and the bed shock. Cronch had climbed the greyness paralysed her for aon to the bed and flung himself second. The window was slowly down with an animal sound of being pushed up. The noise she satisfaction. He had hardly sub- had heard was perhaps the basp sided on to the pillows before he

She leant for snored. springing back. Ward a little to look, and for a By putting out her hand she second or two she could do could have, touches him. She' nothing. There was a darkness must escane from this place and The between her and the sky--the his terrible neighbourhood. thick-set shape of a Blai, of tale smell of drink, of an un- Cronch or some other. He ust healthy stomach, was rancid in She had smelt some- have been standing, on a ladder her nostrils. the window-sill He was stoopingthink like it once, on a sea voyage. now, kneeling on the sill, within where everyone was sick but her. few feet of her, coming into the self, and someone had been sick room. Her four angels had for-too suddenly to allow of decent unken her.

flight. There was a second in which In the narrow space where she she thought that her mind could stood the smell seemed coneen- not bear the terror, that it must trated as though it had no way give way. The next her faculties of escape. How lon. would she were all alert. She was quick and be able to hear it and not drop down in a dead faintness and sick. cunning.

news?

No use thinking of the door.

She had no chance of escape. Why, before she could reach it he The bed, low on the ground. would be upon her. She pulled afforded no passage underneath it the slenderest body. herself up stealthily, drawing the for even

bed-clothes with her, She had How long was it till morning? found the opening between the She could not guess. Suddenly bed curtains and had slipped the clock in the stable-yard struck) "through, while the man who was four strokes.

coming in through the window Three hours nearly before Mrs; had tumbled over the sill with Cranch should be about the house.

a crash on to the floor, and was It would be quite light by seven, alternately groaning and swear there was light the situation ing horribly.

need not be so terrible. At eight.

She had drawn ap the bed-Mis. Cranch would ring the out- clothes over the pillows, favoured side bell. Would he go on sleep- by that respite. Perhaps, heng and Mrs. Cronch go away would not notice that the bed had leaving her darling Miss Beata "to have her sleep out" as she had been slept in.

The curtains had hardly fallen done before?

The thought of the locked door into their place before the man

was was the last terror. Why had she had struck a match. He lighting the candies on her dress-locked it? Oh, if there was any If her ing-table.. What use was there way out any way out? hiding when everything in the angels would not help her she was room would betray her presence? in a very desperate case. And the door locked on the inside!

She began to wonder hażily why

Oh, why had she been so foolish Cronch was there. Did he know us to do it? She did not know of the safe and guess at what it contain? Her mother what evil designs he might have; might

I had

In the

but his coming like this was for should never have worn the pearls no good purpose. She remember to excite his cupidity. ed the blind fury with which he been a terrible mistake. had kicked the cat. When was it? jewel-case Yesterday--the day before? She emeralds.

was losing count of time.

there were the There was the spinel ruby set in a ring which had been The match flared and went out given to her great-grandfather by candles were lit, a Russian Emperor early in the before the

There was -Another match was struck and nineteenth century. sputtered out. Then there the old-fashioned set of diamonds

the noise

thin and sapphires, the stones of which of 3 shower of matches falling on the were very fine, although no one polished floor to the accompani-for a long time had thought of ment of the man's curses and wearing them. filthy language. At another' time

Was

It was an incomprehensible folly

Beata would have put her hands to have brought the jewels into over her ears to avoid hearing this lonely place, to have worn the it had what he said. Now, sheer. terror pearls. What insanity To be locked in been! paralysed her,

Cronch was turning about on with a thing like that! What vile Words was he saying? A hazy [the bed restlessly, making jumps memory came to her through the and starts as though the hag was terror of Mrs. Gronch's Baying riding him hard. Now and again that his language was "somethink he would snore and seem to fall And fast asleep only to renew his un- horrid." Poor woman!

movements. Perhaps hé poor little child who had had to easy escape the vileness by the door of was asleep all the time.

She was very cold; she was only Innocent death.

She was thinkir sub-conscious wearing a thin silk nightgown, hut while the man felt for the she was hardly aware of that dis-i

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