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“Somebody might haue been on the lookâ€"out near the Western Road entrance,” Steel suggested. “Possibly. I have another theory. . . . Here we are. The figures over the fanlights run from 187 upwards, gradually getting to 219 as you breast the slope. At one o’clock in the morning every house would be in darkness. Did you find that to be so 2” I “I didn’t notice a, light anywhere ‘hll I reached 219.” David followed wonderineg. The. houses in Brunswick Square are somewhat irregular in point of an chitccturo and Nos. 218 and 219 were the only matched pair thereâ€" abouts. Signs were not wanting, as Bell pointed out, that at one time the houses had been uccupied one. regidencg, The two entrance-halls were back to back, so to speak, and what had obvious!“ been a (limrway leading from one to the uthcr 11ml been plastered up within cmnpui‘aâ€" tiver recent nu‘zmx “:‘m you note another singular pmnt'l” B011 asked. “N0,” David said, melg'ntfully; “Iâ€" stop! The two side~sh11tters in the bay-\xindcw are closed, and “Well, here is 218, where I proâ€" pose to enter, and for which pur: pose I have:th keys. Come along.” David point-ed out, that there were no cobwebs on the first floor, though there were many elsewhere. “On the evening in question you were particularly told to approach the house from the sea front,” said Belln “Now come 3,1011.-.” he said. “We will go back to Brunswick Square exactw the same way as you apâ€" proached it on the night of the great adventure.’ ’ "You’re welcome to all the fun you can get; out of it,” David said, grimly. “So far as I am concern- ed, I fail to.s€:e the humor. Isn’t this the office you are after '1” Bell nodded and disappeared, presently to return with two exâ€" ceedingly rusty keys tied together with a drab piece of Lane. He jingâ€" led them on his long, slender foreâ€" fingerwith an air of positive en- joyment. Dzi-vid p/I'occeded to do so as they walked along. “Steel, 1 {1m going to enjoy this case ” said‘Bell, when David fin- ished. And then suddenly he had faded out as a star drops from the zenith. There had been dark rumors of a terrible scandal. a. prosecution bark-ed by strong influence, mysteri» ous paragraphs in the papers, and the disappearance of the name of Hatherly Bell from the rank of great medical jurists. Nobody seeinâ€" ed to know anything about it, but Bell was ignored by all except a. few old friends, and henceforth he devoted his attention to criminology and the evolution of crime. It was Bell’s boast that he could take a dozen men at haphazard and give you their vices and virtues pointâ€" blank. “It needs no brilliant effort on your part to see that,” David sald bitterly. “Besides you heard a great deal just now when youâ€"â€" you~” am profoundly interesth butuif 1m to aid you, you should tell me cvgrything.” A few people stuck to him, Gilead Gates amongst the; number. David Steel had been able to do the speci- alist some slight service a year or two before, and Bell had been pleasâ€" ed to magnify this into a great [fa- vor. “Listened,” Bell said, coolly. "But I did not gather from your that; with Miss Gates what your trouble was.” "Perhapa not, but Miss Gates kngyvperffrctly well.” “W'hat Miss Gates knows I am unable to say. But, this much I do know. You were not in the dining room of No. 219 two nights ago. I “Steel, you are in gréat trouâ€" ble,” said Bell. Time was when Bell had promised to stand in the front rank of opera.- tive physicians. lu- brain troubles and mental disorders he had disâ€" fiinguished himself. He had 3, mar- velous faculty for psychological reâ€" search; indeed, he had gone so far as to declare, that _insa.nity was merely a disease anu capable of cure the same as any ordinary malady. Prince Rupert’s 3mg; CHAPTPA VIII. , OR, THE HOUSE OF THE SILENT SORROW. a ukaytgl; 33:4?“ cure ‘_ the throat and land. u - :conIrheaii - 35 cum. “There’s the card,” Bell exâ€" claimed. “Made up to 25th June, 1895, since when the house has been void. Just a. minute whilst I read the meter. Yes, that’s right. According to this card in your hand, provided that the light has not been used since the index was taken, should read at; 1521. What do you make of the card?” As Steel spoke he snapped down the hall switch and no result came. Down in the basement by the area. door stood the meter. Both swibhh- es were turned off, but on Bell pressing them down Steel was en- abled to light the passage. “1532,” David cried. “Which means eleven units since the. meter was last taken. Or, if you like» to put it from that point of View, eleven units used the night that I came here. You are quite right, Bell. You have practically conâ€" vinced me that I have been inside the real 219 for 1410 first time- to- day.” “Let- us go down into the baseâ€" ment and settle the matter. There is pretty sure to be card 011 the meter made up to the day when the last tenant went out. See, the supply is cut off now.” ‘V‘What do you prnpose to do nrsxtl” , “Find out the name of the last tenant or nwner,” Bell suggested. "Disenvcr what the two houses were used for when they were occuâ€" “I confess that my faith has been seriously shaken,” David admit- ted. “But when 1 came here the other nightâ€"provided of course that I did come hereâ€"immediately upâ€" on entering the dining-room the place was brilliantly illuminated. Now, directly the place was void the supply of electric current would be cut off at the meter. So far as I can judge, some two or three units must have been consumed during my visit. These units must Show on the meter. “For the present, the way in which the furniture trick was workâ€" ed must; remain a. mystery. But there has been furniture here, or this room and the hall would not. have been so carefully swept whilst the rest of the house remains in so dirty a condition. If my eyes don’t deceive me I can see two fresh nails driven into the archâ€" way leading to the back hall. On those nails hung the curtain that prevented you seeing more than was necessary. Are you still inâ€" credulous as to the house where you had your remarkable advenâ€" ture‘l” "Now then,” Bell said, slowly. “Take this pocketâ€"knife, apply the blade to the right-hand lower half of the bottom of the 8â€"t‘0 half the small 0, in factâ€"and I shall be exâ€" tremely surprised if the quarter section doesn’t come away from the glass of the fanlight, leaving the rest of the figure intact.” The point of the knife was hard- ly under the edge of the percelain before the segment of the lower circle dropped into Steel’s hand. David complied eagerly. A sharp cry of surprise escape-d him. In- stead of the figures 218 he could read now' the change to 219 - a. fairly indifferent 9, but one that would have passeu muster. "Go ouitiinto the road and 100k atkthe fan1ight,” Bell directed. siziMzé C 1.113 David complied readily. Over his head werc~the figures 218 in elonâ€" gated shape and formed in white porcelain. ' “Exactly what I was coming to. I noticed an old pair of steps in the back sitting'roum. Would you mind placing them against the fan- light for me I?” there is the same vivid crimson blind in the centre window. And the self color of the walls is exactâ€" ly the same. The faint disc/{floraâ€" tion by the fireplace is a perfect facsimile.” “Impossible!” Steel cried. “The blind may be an accident, so might the fading of the distemper. But the furniture, the engravings, the number over the door.” “In fact», this is the room you were in the other night,” Bell said quietly. And yet, but for the mighty claâ€" mour of that hideous bell and that belt. of wildness that, surrounded it, Longdean Grange was a. cheerful- looking house enough. Any Visitor emerging from the drive would have been delighted mth it. For the lawns were trim and truly kept, the beds were blazing masses of flowâ€" ers, the creepers over the Grange Everything was ordered by teleâ€" phone from Brighton, and left at the portcr’s lodge. The porter was a stranger, also he was deaf and exceedingly illâ€"tempered. What the lady‘ of the Grange was like nobody coul‘d s’ay. She had ar- rived late one night. accompanied by a. niece, and from that moment she had never been beyond the house. ~ Nobody knew anything about the people at Long-dean Grange. The place had been shut up for thirty years, being understood to be- in Chancery when the announcement; went forth that a, distant relative of the famin had arranged to live there in future. For seven years this had been g-oâ€" ing on. From half-past seven till eight o’clock that hideous bell rang its swinging, melancholy note. Why it was nobody could possibly tell. Nobody in the village had even been beyond the great rusty gates leadâ€" ing to a. dark drive of Scotch firs, though one small boy bolder than the rest had once climbed the lichâ€" cn~strcwn stone wall and penetrart» ed the thick undergrowth beyond. Hence he had returned, with white face and staring eyes, with the inâ€" formation that great wild dogs dwelt in the thickets. A boll tolled mournfully. On winter nights folks, passing the House of the Silent Sorrow, com- pared the doleful clanging to the boom that carries the criminal from the cell to the scaffold. Every night all the year round the little valley of Longdean echoed t-o tlmt mournâ€" ful clang. Perhaps it was for this reason that a wandering Duet: chi-is- toned the place as the House of the Silent Sorrow. The more Steel thought of it the more muddled and bewildered did he become. No complicated tangle in the way of a plot had ever been anything like the skein this was. “I’m like a. child in your hands,” he said. “I’m a. blind man on the end of a. string. And if ever I help a woman again " He paused as ho caught sight of Ruth Gates’s lovely face through the window of No. 219. Him-leaâ€" tures were tinged with melancholy; there was a look of deepest sympa- thv and feeling and compassion in hCI‘ glorious eyes. She slipped back as Steel bowed, and the rest of his speech was lost in a sigh. pied by one merson. Also ascertain why on cart '.the owners are wil- ling to let a. house this size and in this situation for a. sum of £80 per annum. Let us go and take the keys back to the agents.” Q ‘ .2 Concrete Sidewaiks are Safe. Sighfly and Everlasting » CHAPTER IX. WWW: " ' The lady of the house made her way slowly to the dining-room. It And here, strangely allied, were wealth and direst poverty; the whole place was filled with rare and costly things, pictures. statuory, china; the floors were covered with thick carpets, and yet everything was absolutely smothered in dust. 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