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Attempts to dislodge me having failed, he was driven to breaking into his own house. The ladder in the chute, the burning of the stable and the entrance through the card-room window all were in the course of a desperate attempt to get into the chimney-room. Louise and her mother had, from the first, been the great stumbling-blocks.

I took a long breath, closed the door from the trunk-room into the hall thank Heaven, I did not lock it and pulling the mantel-door wide open, I stepped into the chimney-room. I had time to get a hazy view of a small portable safe, a common wooden table and a chair then the mantel door swung to, and clicked behind me.

Halsey must not tell the detective what he suspected until the money had been removed from the chimney-room. They stepped into the road in front of the car to stop it, and fate played into their hands. The car struck the train, and they had only to dispose of the unconscious figure in the road. This they did as I have told.

"Of course, if it is a chimney-room there cannot be any particular light. Shall we creep in? There is evidently a good deal of space." "By all means," cried Hildegarde. "But let me go first, to bear the brunt of any horrors there may be. Spiders I would not face, but they must all be dead years ago." She crept in on her hands and knees, closely followed by the two Merryweathers.

For three days Halsey lay in the box car, tied hand and foot, suffering tortures of thirst, delirious at times, and discovered by a tramp at Johnsville only in time to save his life. To go back to Paul Armstrong. At the last moment his plans had been frustrated. Sunnyside, with its hoard in the chimney-room, had been rented without his knowledge!