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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
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SYNOPSIS
Richard Exon, a poor young Englishman,
befriends elderly Matthew Gering, who at
his death, gives him a statement claiming
he, Gering, Is Rudolph Elbert Virgil, Count
of Brief, of ancient Austrian nobility who
was betrayed 20 years before by his twin
brother, Ferdinand, whose sentence for
forgery he himself served. Ferdinand ap­
propriated his title, property and daughter.
Before he dies, Gering telle Exon there is a
family secret, known only to the head of
the house, to be found in the great tower at
Brief, by a doorway none can ever find.
Exon inherits his uncle's fortune and sets
out to right Gering's wrongs.
En route
he encounters Percy Elbert Virgil, son
of the villainous Ferdinand and sees him
in conference with Inskip, a diamond
merchant.
He engages a valet. Winter,
who hates Percy and meets by chance at a
garage, John Herrick, who is a linguist and
who as a youth served as a page at Gering's
wedding, and had visited Brief. Herrick
agrees to aid Exon. They establish head­
quarters at Brenda Revoke's farm at
Raven, a few miles from Brief and make
their plans. They find the castle almost
inaccessible. They see a closed car oc­
cupied by Percy Virgil, a chauffeur and a
woman. Hearing a dog scream, they see
the chauffeur flogging it, just as a horse with
a girl astride bounds along the path and is
felled by a strung wire. The girl, uncon­
scious, is picked up carelessly by the
chauffeur and woman, who then run away,
after dropping her. Exon rescues the girl
and carries her to his waiting car. He identi­
fies the girl as Elizabeth, daughter of the
disowned Gering, tells her of her cousin's
plot to abduct her and takes her to Raven,
where he tells her the story of her father
and promises to go the limit to help her
right her father's wrongs. Incredulous at
first, Elizabeth gradually wins faith in her
benefactor. Percy Virgil brings the police
to Raven, announcing that two strangers
are being sought for the kidnaping of
Elizabeth.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
—7—
The sergeant swallowed, and Vir­
gil put in his oar.
“You may be strangers,” he said,
“but that doesn’t put you above the
law of the land.”
“Nor, I trust,” said Herrick, “be­
yond the traditional courtesy of its
inhabitants. What is your rank in
the police?”
Virgil flushed.
“I am not in the police,” he said.
“Then why,” said Herrick, “did
you presume to address me?"
“My name is—”
“I have no desire,” said Herrick,
"to hear your name.” He returned
to the police. “You were saying
that the matter was serious ...”
Virgil looked ready to burst, but
the sergeant went straight to the
point.
“I will be plain,” he said. “A lady
has been abducted—a lady of high
degree. She was kidnaped early
this morning upon her father’s es­
tate ... at Brief . . . some ten
miles from here.” He held up our
map. “I think you will hardly deny
that you know where that is.”
“I have known where Brief was,”
■aid Herrick, “for 23 years.”
The others stared.
Then—
“We are dealing with the pres­
ent,” said Virgil.
Herrick raised his eyebrows.
“Allow me to suggest,” he said,
“that you should keep to yourself
such, er, discoveries as you may
make.” He turned again to the po­
lice. “Yes, gentlemen?”
The sergeant cleared his throat.
“In view, sir, of what has oc­
curred, I must ask you to explain
the markings upon this map.”
“With pleasure,” said Herrick.
“And I sincerely advise you to
tell the truth.”
“You will find,” said Herrick,
"that we have nothing to hide.” He
fingered his chin. “I stayed at
Brief, as a child, in 1912. My moth­
er and the Countess Rudolph were
very close friends. Happening to be
at Innsbruck a week ago, I felt a
strong desire to visit the castle
again. For various reasons I did
not wish to leave cards. Much has
happened, you know, in 23 years.
My mother, the Count of Brief and
the Countess Rudolph have died,
the Lady Elizabeth has been born
and, worst of all, I'm told that a
vulgar blackguard, the son of an
uncle of hers, has the run of the
place.”
A ghastly silence succeeded these
moving words, the police regarding
the gravel with goggling eyes and
Virgil, dark red in the face, sur­
veying Herrick with the glare of a
baited beast.
Herrick continued agreeably.
“We, therefore, came here from
Innsbruck on Sunday last. On Mon­
day we started out to try to dis­
cover some spot from which we
could view the castle, without go­
ing into the grounds. We only found
one, and that was—too far away.
Determined not to be beaten, we
tried for the next three days—with
the aid of that map. And all in
vain . . . Last night we reviewed
the position, and found it this—that
we must either trespass or else go
empty away.
“Now I do not like trespassing:
but neither, I frankly confess, do I
like going empty away. And in the
end we decided to rise very early
this morning, enter the psrk from
the north and have a good look at
the castle before anybody was up.
And so ... we did.”
For a moment I thought that Vir­
gil was going to faint. All the color
was out of his face, which looked
peaked and thin, and he did not
seem to be breathing, but might
have been turned to stone. Then a
shiver ran through him, and a hand
went up to his mouth.
But the police had no eyes for
him. The two were staring at Her­
rick as though they would read his
soul.
“At what times,” said the ser­
geant, “did you enter and leave the
estate?”
“We entered at four and we left
about half past six.”
There was an electric silence.
Then—
“I am bound to inform you,” said
the sergeant, “that what you have
just admitted makes your position
most grave. The outrage was com­
mitted this morning at six o’clock.”
“Perhaps,” said Herrick, “it was
not committed by us.”
The sergeant shrugged his shoul­
ders.
“I shall have to—”
“I think it is clear,” said Virgil,
“that this gentleman is telling the
truth.” The two police stared upon
him as though he were out of his
mind. “I mean, if he were guilty,
he would scarcely have made an
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As the answer went down, I saw
Virgil wipe his face.
“One of the three,” said Herrick,
“was a woman. She had a dog on
a lead.”
“A dog?” cried the police, togeth­
er.
"A long-haired, black-and-white
dog: a mongrel, about that size.”
Struggling with his emotion—
“Sir,” cried the sergeant, “I beg
that you will forgive me if I have
seemed something short. I have to
do my duty, and your interest in
Brief seemed strange. But now I
know that you are telling the truth.
The dog you describe was found at
large in the park.”
Respectfully thanking Herrick and
handing him back our map, the ser­
geant begged that he would describe
“the delinquents you so providen­
tially saw”—and Herrick complied
with a gusto which did my heart
good.
His picture of Percy Virgil was
actually taken from life. Lazily sur­
veying his victim, he drew -a merci­
less portrait of that unprincipled
man: and I find it hard to believe
That Evening We Spoke of the Past and Present.
admission which put the rope round
his neck.”
As soon as he could speak—
"But, sir,” cried the sergeant, “a
rope round the neck is harmless,
unless it is tight. It every rogue
was believed because he told such
truths as could do him no harm—”
“These gentlemen,” said Virgil,
“have not the appearance of rogues.
It only remains for you to beg their
pardon and make a fresh cast. Good
God, man, when time is so precious,
do you propose to waste it in prying
into two strangers’ private affairs?”
With a manifest effort, the ser­
geant controlled his voice.
“Sir,” he said, “if you do not wish
to wait, you must leave us here.
I have a sow by the ear, and until
I know it’s the wrong one, I will
not let go.” With that, he returned
to Herrick. “You have said too
much or too little. You were at
Brief this morning from four until
half past six. Kindly relate what
you did there—from first to last.”
“With very great pleasure,” said
Herrick, folding his arms. “We left
our car at the mouth of the northern
drive—after instructing our chauf­
feur, first, to seek some petrol, and
then to wait in a wood a little way
off. You will understand that we
did not wish to be seen.”
“Is your chauffeur here?” said
the sergeant.
“He is. If you would like to see
him—”
“Proceed, if you please.”
“Before we had walked very far,
we heard a car coming behind us,
using the drive. At once we lay
down in the bracken until it had
passed.”
His face like a mask, Virgil took
out his case and selected a ciga­
rette: but I saw a bead of sweat fall
on the gold.
“It was not your car?” said the
sergeant, plainly impressed.
Producing a notebook, his fellow
made ready to write.
“It was not our car,” said Her­
rick. "Others were abroad this
morning . . . within the confines of
Brief.”
"Describe this car, if you please.”
“It was closed and its blinds
were drawn: its number-plate was
obscured—I imagine, with oil and
dust.”
The sergeant turned to his fellow,
pencil in hand.
“Have you got that down?”
The other nodded and Herrick re­
sumed his tale, relating how the
car had been met and had then
been backed down the drive and
into the track.
"There three people got out. and
the man who had met them came
up."
"Would you know them again,
sir?”
“I should."
that a rogue was ever so trounced.
Virgil’s tormentor then repeated
the horribly damning words which
Virgil had said to his creatures be­
fore they had entered the wood,
and when the sergeant seemed puz­
zled about the use of “the wire,"
suggested that it might have been
used to trip a galloping horse.
Protesting their gratitude, the ser­
geant requested our names, and
while Herrick was writing these
down, turned and exhorted Virgil to
enter and start the car.
“If you’ll take us to Gabble, sir,
I can get on to Innsbruck from
there, and in less than two hours
from now every police station in
Austria will be alive with orders to
search for the people we want.”
"Splendid,” said Virgil, somehow.
He turned to Herrick and bowed.
"Please believe that I shall not for­
get today . . . and that I am a
man who invariably pays his debts.”
“Is that a threat?” said Herrick.
I saw the police open their eyes,
and Virgil in desperation let himself
go.
“It’s a warning," he snarled. “I
do not believe your tale of the num­
berless car. That you saw a dog
this morning proves nothing at all—
except that you were at hand when
the outrage was done. And who
would think of so using a coil of
wire — except a man who had
planned to employ it that way?”
“Come, come, sir,” said the ser­
geant. “You said yourself just now
that these gentlemen—”
“I have changed my mind,” spat
Virgil, “as you have changed
yours.”
“I have just remembered,” said
Herrick, “that one of the men was
called Max. Not the leader—the
burly man, who got out of the car.
The leader was sharp with him, as,
indeed, with them all. I think that,
if you could find them, they might'
give the leader away.”
“And the name of the leader?”
sneered Virgil.
“Quite sure you
didn’t hear that?”
Herrick raised his eyebrows, be­
fore he returned to the police.
“You would not believe me,” he
said, “if I told you the leader’s
name. And so I prefer that you
should apply to Max. But I’ll tell
you what I will do. I’ll write it
down for you, and I’ll seal it up.
And when Max has opened his
mouth, you may break the seal.
Thus I shall corroborate him, and
he will corroborate me.”
“Sir,” cried the sergeant, “I be­
seech you to tell it us now.”
“I will write it down,” said Her­
rick. “Or, better still, Mr. Exon
shall write it down. You will ob­
serve that I have not mentioned
the name: yet he will go off and
write it—which goes to show that
he knows it as well as I.”
With that, he turned to me and
asked me to do as he said . . .
When I returned to the drive, Vir­
gil was back in his car, beside him­
self with passion and shouting down
the sergeant who seemed very much
surprised.
“And if you choose,” he conclud­
ed, “to take your cue from a couple
of lying hounds who, if you had done
your duty, would now be under ar­
rest, you can take it alone.”
With that he started his engine, let
in his clutch and swung the car vio­
lently round. With storming gears,
it squirted between the chestnuts
and on to the road of approach.
The police stared after the fellow
with open mouths: then they turned
to see Herrick with a hand to his
chin.
“I gather,” he said, “that you
find his behavior strange.”
“I can’t understand it,” said the
sergeant. “Ten minutes ago—”
“Quite so,” said Herrick. “In fact,
ten minutes ago he did his very best
to get you away—because, when he
heard the hour at which we had en­
tered the park, he did not wish you
to hear what I might have to tell.”
He took the envelope from me and
held it out. “You may open that
now, if you please, and read the
name of the leader whom Max will
betray. After that, you shall have
some tea, and then, we’ll drive you
to Gabble to take what action you
please.”
The sergeant ripped the envelope
open, and he and his fellow together
peered at the sheet.
Percy Elbert Virgil
I thought they would never look
up.
When at last they did, they
seemed dazed; and Herrick called
for Brenda and told her to give them
some tea.
It was strange to sit down to sup­
per later on with Lady Elizabeth
taking the head of the board, but
she seemed so glad to be with us
and fell so naturally into the ways
we kept that, for my part, I soon
forgot how she came to be there
and began to accept a relation which
seemed too fair to be true.
Enough is as good as a feast, and
after supper that evening we spoke
of the past and present, but left the
future alone.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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How high do birds fly in their sea-1
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