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CHAPTER XXI. ?*** The Stairway of Silver. Hat stillness of tie moment that followed waa tense; hen thickly the young men anawerel something Ir? relevant about a clown, a bottle and a loaf; with cap drawn down and half averted face, ho lurched a little for? ward In the darkneaa. and the eentt nel's weapon fell. "Oh. that's you, If it. Henri?** bo aald In a different tone, otepplng back. "How did you leave the fellow r "Kating the bread and calling for more!** Aa he spoke, the other ?topped, swaying uncertainly; above the arch, the wick, ill trimmed, bright* ened and darkened to the drafts of air through break and silt of th*? old lamp; and briefly he awaited a favor? able moment, when the flame blew out! until almost eatlngulahed; then with | hand near sword-hilt, aomewhat over briskly, but In keeping with tbo part, he stepped toward the arch; through It, and quickly paat the sentinel, f "Tow aeem to have been feasting and drinking a Httle youreelf. tonight, com radar* called out the latter after him **1 noticed It when you went In, and? But aren't you taking the wrorjr way?** Aa the other, after start? ing toward the barracka, atralghtened, and then abruptly wheeled Into the road, running up the Mount 1 "Bah!" A moment the young man paaaed. "Can t a soldier," articulating with difficulty, "go to aee hla sweet? heart without?** "Eh blent" The sentinel shrugged r'* ehoulden "It Isn't my business. 1 think, though, I know where they'll put you tomorrow, whan they find out through the guard at the barracks.** To this ominous threat the other deigned no response, only, after the fashion of a man headstrong In Inso? briety, aa well as In affairs of gal? lantry, continued his upwsrd way; at first, speedily; afterward, when be? yond hearing of the man below, with more stealth and as little noise as pos? sible, until the road, taking a sudden angle, brought him ebmptly to i - * the root gl k great HtLt 01 stone stau*. Broad, wide, broken by occasional platforms, these steps, reaching up ward 1u gradual accent, had designed ly. In days gone by, bee.i made easy for broken-down monsrehs or corpu? lent abbots. Also they had been planned to satisfy the discerning eye, Jealous of every addition or alteration at the Mount My lord, the ancient potentate, leisurely ascending In ec cleslaattcal gown, while conacloua of an earthly power reaching even In I England, could atill fancy he waa go? ing up a Jacob'a ladder Into realma su? pernal. Saint Louis with gaze be? nignly bent toward the aerial eacaller de deetelks of the chapel to the left, might well eiclalm no royal road could compare with this Inspiring and holy way; nor Is It difficult to understand a sudden enc.isn? inert here, or be yotd. that drew to the rock on three pilgrimages that ocher Louis, more aln TSer than aalnt. the eleventh of hli name to mount the throne of France. But those stones, worn In the past by the footatepa of the tlluatrloua and the lowly, were deserted now, and. for the moment, oulj th? moon, which had escaped from the cloud, exercised there the tight of way; looking square? ly down to efface time's marks and pave with silver from top to bottom the flight of ?talra. It payed, too, on facades, towers and bit laments on either aide, and. at the spectacle?the dtak directly before him?the Black Seigneur, about to leave the dark and sheltering byway, Involuntarily pauaed. Angela might walk unaeen up and down In that effulgeuce. as. Indeed, the old *M9a**J atoutly averred was their habit; htai a m.irtal Intrusion on the argent way could be fraught only with visibility. To reaen the point he had In mind, however, no choice remained; the steps had to be mounted, and, lower lng hla head and looking down, delib? erately he started. As he proceeled his solitary figure seemed to become more distinct; hla presence more ob trualve and hla echoing footatepa to rewound louder No Indention he had I been seen or heard, however reached him; to all appearance* espionage of hla movem^f ta was wanting, and only , the aalnt with the sword at the fop of the ateeplo igSJSfSHSB spirit of the rock?looked down, aa If holding hl^h a glenmlng varnln* of flat unwonted tatreaiog Y. r, UtSSafU IM knew It not, m?t eye had lot g bees on him. peerli froM a window of Ifha abbot's brldj ? spanning th?? way and Joining Dtfl long untis?'' Im ra, next to th i Oovernor'a palac#?. with try Ifjdy's abode Against th i selber background of Usil ciiv. sd pei s of franitOi the face looking oat. would Htlll have r<< matned unseen. ??%?? n had th<? ft man, drawing nenr. Hrt???-1 his gl Thla, however, he did not do; his ? wllu the pale reflections dancing In them, had suddenly fastened them? selves lower; toward another person, not far beyond the bridge; some one who had turned In from a passage ou the other side of the overhead archi? tectural link, and had Just beguo to come down. An old man, with flow? ing heard, from afar the new-comer looked not unlike one of the ancient Druids that, in days gone by, had lighted and watched the sacred flre3 of sacrifice in the rock. Ho, too guard? ed bis light; but one set In the tall, pewter lamp of the medieval watch? man. "Tw elve o'clock and all's?-" be bo gau when his glance, sweeping down, caught sight of the ascending figure, and, pausing, he leaned on bis Staff with one hand and shaded bis eyes with the other. A holf savage exclamation of disap? pointment was suppressed on the young man's lips; bad he only bo.n able to attain that parallelogram of darkness, beneath the abbot's passar? , be would have been better satisfied, bis own eyes, looking ahead, seemod to say; then gleamed with a bolder light "A. a word and blade A drab and a jade; _d'a on? to the King's man of the army!" be began to bum softly, as with a more reckless swing, quickly be went up in the manner of a man assigned some easy errand. At the same time the patriarch slowly and rather label ously resumed his descent, and just below the bridge, without the bar of shadow, the two came together. "Think you it Is too late for his Ex? cellency, the Governor, to receive a message?" at once spoke up the young er, breaking off In that dashing, bu. low-murmured, song of the barracks. "That .. ou may learn from the guard at the palace," was the deliberate an? swer, as, raising bis lamp, the watch- j man held it full In his questioner's face, "Thanks! I was going to inquire " As he answered, at the old abbot's window in the bridge above, the face, looking out, bent forward more in? tently; then quickly drew back. "Good night ! But the venerable guardian of the Inner precinct was not disposed thus lightly to part company. "I don t seem to know you. young man/' he observed, the watery, but keen and critical eyes passing deliberately over the other's features. "NoT" Unflinching in the bright glare of the lamp, the seeming soldier smiled. "Do you, then, know all a: the Mount?even the soldiers?" "I should remember even the:n," was the quiet reply "Those, too, but lately brought from St Dalard?" 'True, true I There may be some of those?" uncertainly. "No doubt! 80 if you will lower your lamp, which smells rather vile? ly?" "IVwa ?i 1 fbl twauti It bai hik. cut," answered the old man grimly, but obeyed; stood as if engrossed in the recollection his own response evoked; then turned; walked on, and, Twelve O'clock, and All's?" a few moments later, his call, sudd< n ly remembered, rang, belated, in the droway air: "Twelve o'clock and all's well! A new day, and St. Aubert guard us all!" A sword and a blade; A drab and a Jad?>? The words, scarcely begun, above hin breath, died away on the seeming sol? dier's lips, as the watcher on the bridge, looking down to follow first the departing figure of the old eu:uo dlan, crossed quickly to tho opposite window, and, from this point of var.t uge, gazed up after the young man rapidly vanishing in the track of the moonlight. A moment the onlooker stood motionless; then, ert; the figure, so vividly defined in shine and shim* mer, hod reached the top of tho stair? way, made an abrupt movement and swiftly left the window and the pan* age. At the head of the steps, which 1 HI.out furrier ln'l.'.ejit or IntefTttp tion, he reaooed, law Wach Bel vim or, stepping U the shadow <?f a small bnih stains the well, glanced ab bin; with kalt brows and the resolute manner of one who has come to sot * **< unite eon luslon, he left tho spot 01 observation, almost the ni>ex of th< Mount, nnd plunged diverging to th< ri :.t IK 11 glint and glimmer to darl noes unfathomable! For some tint ). ? ajid ?' '.? grop und f? el his way ufter ttw I ishlon 11 the Mind; form ttately however was the paih narrow although tortuous, fairly well paved m go serloui ml hap 1?? fell him even when ha walked forward regard V ?iy, in feverlah haste, beset win the conviction ti.at time meant all I fall, and delay the closing of the tolls arid the fa hire of a desperate adven? ture. Heverul times he struck against the stones; once fell hard, hut picked himself up; went on tho faster, only, after what seemed an interminable period, to utop. "Am I, can I bo mistaken ?" But the single star he could see plainest frDm the bottom of the deep alley, and to which he loo!:ed up, an swered not thn fierce, half muttered Question; coldly, enigmatically it twin? kled, and, half-running, ho continued hla way, to emerge over-suddenly Into a cooler well of air, and?what was more* to be welcomed!?an outlook whereof the details were in a measure dimly shadowed forth. On one side the low wall obscured not the panorama below?a ghost-like earth fading into the mist, and near? er, the roof of the auberge des voleurs, a darkened patch on the slope of the rock; but In this direction the man hardly cast a glance. Certain build? ings ahead, austere, Norman in out? line, absorbed his attention to the ex? clusion of all else, and toward them, "with steps now alert and noiseless, he stole; past a structure that seemed a small Balle des gardes whose window afforded a view of four men nodding at a table within; across a space to another passage, and thence to a low door at the far corner of a little tri? angular spot, alongside the walk and near a great wall. At once the young man put out his hand to the door; tried it; pushed it back and entered. Before him a wide opening looked out at the sky, framing a multitude of stars, and from the bottori of this aperture ran a strand, or rope, con? necting with an Indistinct object?a great wheel, which stood at one side! - . CHAPTER XXII. The Whirling of the Wheel. As old as church or cloister, the massive wheel of the Mount had, In the past, played prominent part in the affairs of succeeding communities on the rock. It, or the hempen strand It controlled, had primarily served as a link between the sequestered dwellers, and the flesh-pots and matorial com? forts of the lower world. Through its use had my lord, the abbot, been ever enabled to keep full the mighty wine butts of hia cellars; to provide good cheer for the tables of the brethren, and to brighten his cold stone interiors with the fresh greens of Flemish tap? estry, or the sensuous hues of rug" and fabrics from seraglio or mosque. Times less ancient had likewise claimed ta services, and even in re? cent years, by direction of his Excel? lency, th<? Governor, had It occasional? ly been used for the hoisting of goods, wares, ft giant ca:jks, overcumber some for men or mules. j Toward this simple monkish con? trive..oe, the summit's rough lift, or elevator, wherein serfs or henchmen had TTalTred llk^ squirrels in a cape to bring . icuarat on* o* Inflated dwellers, the Black Seigneur had at 1 first stepped impetuously; then Btopped, h ?dly breathing, to look over hla shou der at the door that had been left unfastened. An Involuntary ques? tion flashing through his brain?the cause ol this seeming carelessness? , found almost immediate answer in his mind, and the certainty that he stood i not thero alone?a consciousness of some on*? clce, near, became abruptly t confirmed. ' "What are you doing, soldier?" A voice, rough, snarling, drew swiftly his glance to\ ard a presence, intuitively divined; an undersized, grotesque fig- , uro that had entered the place but a few morn nts before and now appeared ' from behind boxes and casks where1 he had been about to retire to his ? mattress in a corner. | "What do you want?" repeated toll person, the anger and vlciousness on , his distorted features, revealed in tho moonlight from the large opening, like I that of some animal unwr.rrannr dly I disturbed. "You, landlord Of the thieves' inr !" j And inaction givin-. way to movement J on the Intruder's part, a knife that had 1 flashed back in the hand of the hunch- 1 back, with hia query, was swiftly twlsied from him and kicked aside, | while a scream cf mingled pain and rage became abruptly suppressed. Struggling and writhing like a wild? cat, Jacques proved no mean antagon? ist; with a strength incredible for one of his site, supplemented by the well known agility of bis kind, he scratched, kicked and had managed to get the other's hand in his mouth, when, mak? ing an effort to throw off that cjlaglng burden, the Black Seigneur dashed the dwarf's head violently against the wooden support of Ine place. At once all belligerency left the hunchback; and, releasing his hold, he sank to the ground. An Instant tho intruder regarded the inert form; then, going to the door, latched and locked it with a hey he found inside. Having thus In & meas? ure secured himself from Immediate interruption without?for anyone try? ing the door would conclude the wheel room vacant, or that the dwarf slept there or in th<* store-house iieyond? the Black Belgnour walked to the np cii ire, and reachir : up, began to pay out lh\s rope fr u pulley tbove. Ai he did bo, ,( f braced, he leaned ( vet" ? ? t II ? ;i ? <!" ?? ? .,t n ^niall ui' ? p ; i>endlculaf plai I ? rem the mouth or the wheel room to the rocks, several hundred r<s t bei i ? A sudden slackening of tho rop?? assurance that the car, at the end of the Ii: o, had reached tbe loading ?pot below without the fortifications? and the youns, mm straight ned; In an attitude of attention stood listen Ing Bui the stillness, Impregnated mly with a fain! underhreath, the faraway murmur of \y.\u r, or the Just audible droning of Insects near the Hk trees on the rocks, continued un broken. An Impatient frown gathered on his brow; more eagerly be bent for? ward to gaze down, when through tho air a distant sound?the low, melan? choly hoot of an owl?was wafted up? ward. Upon him at the aperture, this nicht call, common to the Mount and Its en? virons, acted in magical manner, and swiftly had he stepped toward tho wheel, when an object, intervening, stirred; started to stagger to Us feet. At once was the young man's first im? pelling movement arrested; but, thus forcibly drawn from his purpose, be did not long pause to contemplate: his hand, drawing the soldier's sword, :ield it quickly at tho hunchback's throat. "A sound, and you know what to ex? pect!" With the bare point at bis flesh, Jacques, dully hearing, vaguely com? prehending, could, indeed, guess and tho fingers he had involuntarily raised to push the bright, blade aside, fell, while at the same time any desire to attempt to call out, or arouse tho guard, was replaced by an entirely dif? ferent emotion in his aching brain. Never before had he actually felt that sharp touch?the prelude to the final thrust. At the sting of it, a tremor ran through him, while cowardice, hia besetting quality, long covered by growl and egotism In his strength and hldeousness to terrify, alone shon-o from his unprepossessing yellow fea? tures. "You were brave enough with the soldiers at your beck!" went on a de? termined voice whose Ironical accents in no wise served to alleviate his panic "When you had only a mounte? bank to deal with! But get up!" con- ! temptuously "And,' as the hunch-1 back obeyed, his crooked legs shaking in the support or his misshapen frame, "into the wheel with you!" "The wheel!" stammered the dwarf. "Why?what?' "To take a little of your own medi? cine! Pardi! What a voluble fellow 1 In with you, or?' With no more words the hunchback; staggering, hardly knowing what he did, entered the ancient abbot's ma? chine for hoisting But as he started j to walk in the great wheel at the side of his captor, a ricture of the past?j the times he, himself, had forced pris? oners to the wheel, stimulating witb jeef and whip?aro?e mockingly be? fore him, and the incongruous present seemed, in contrast, like a black wak? ing dream. That it was no dream, however, and that the awakening would never oc- ; cur. he well knew, and malevolently thou ,h fearfully he eyed the rope, com? ing in over the pulley at the aperture; to be wound around and around by a smaller wheel, attached to the larger, and?drawing up what? An inkling of the sort of merchan? dise to be expected, under the circum? stances, could but flash through hie mind, together with a more vivid con- j Ccioutnt^J of the c:;ly c.ta cpen 'r: him?to cry out, regardless of co:.se? quences! Perhaps he might even have done so, but at that instant?as if the other had read the thought?came the cold touch of a bare blade on his neck; and with a sudden chill, the I brief heroic impulse passed. , More stealthily now he began to j study his companion in the wheel, while a question, suddenly occurring, reiterated itself in his brain. This man?who was be? And what did he i know of the mountebank, or his, Jac? ques', dealings with the clown? That j his captor was no scldier of the rock, or belonged there, the hunchback felt by this time assured, and a growing suspicion of the otherj identity brought home with new force to the dwarf tho thankless part chance, j cr haps, had assigned to him in that night's work. And at the full realiza? tion of the consequences, should 1 it surmise prove correc"?what must ul? timately happen to himself in that event, when unwilling co-operation at the wheel should become known?al? most had he again reached the des? perate point of calling out; but at that moment a turn In the wheel brought to the level of the aperture the car. In it, or clinging thereto were a number of?figures who, as soon as the rone stopi>ed, sprang noiseless? ly to the platform. "Seigneur, we hardly dared hope?' "We obeyed orders, but?" Gazing through the spokes of th<! wheel, and listening to their whispered exclamations, any lingering doubt ae to who his captor was could no longei be entertained by the hunchback. These new-comers took no pains tc conceal it; even when the dwarf's presence became known to them and unceremoniously was he dragged forth ?they displayed a contemptuous dir regard of him a^ a fact )r to Interfere, not calculated to dull the edge of his apprehension! Too late now might h< regret that pusillanimity that hud caused him to draw back from an Sin mortal role; already was the car again d< sccndlng' It came up loaded; went down once more, reappeared. On tho little plat-1 form row w< re more than a d< l n men assembled, but to Jacques thi* force looked multiplied. Amid the confusion of his thoughts, vaguely1 noulfl he hear orders given; caught por.'.ethipg ol ?' tho need for quiet, host*, overp'?w*?vl"g the guard; !h*ri .? V ;\\(\ (<?-.. j # ?. ' ?' mou, 111*.'* . ad wb; *jo out; leaving nun s I i No; with two black figures; ominous; armed. He could see the glitter of their weapons, and ventured to move j his thick tongUO, when, fiercely si? lenced, he crouched down; waited, wiUi bands clenched, an Interminable period; until faintly from afar sound ] ed the note of a night bird Roughly Jerked to bin feet, between them he walked to the door; heard it close; st? pped out into the night Many times had be made bis way b?> tween wheel-room and guard-house,) but now the route seemed strange, and, looking around near the struc? tures at the entrance to his dungeons Jacques shook his head as if to rid his brain of some fantasy. But the scene did not change; the guard-house remained?familiar; unlike, with un? known faces peering from It, and an "Seigneur, We Hardly Dared Hope?? Imperious voice Issuing commands to r/him, once unquestioned commander here! And comprehending what was being said, he struck his breast violently; with curses would have answered that the keys were his own; the dungeons, too, and what they held, and that he would never lead them there; never open these doors! But this grim, sav? age, determined band beat down his arms, and his courage; and, with the shadow of the grave again before nlm, tne dwarf walked on; past the stable into the guard-house, where fa? miliar forms once had been seated, and into the passage leading to the dungeons beyond. ITO BE CONTINUED) FARM PRICES DECLINE. Producers (letting I^ess for Their Crops on Account of Great Yields. Washington, Oct. 10.?Farm prices! of the important crops declined 8.6 per cent between September l and October 1 against a decline of 2.5 per cent in the same period last year, and a dec line of 3.1 per cent during September of the past four years. The Department of Agriculture re? ported that 10 days ago the average of farm prices of corn, wheat, oats, I barley, rye, llaxseed, potatoes, tobac? co, cotton and hay, representing three-ft urths of the value of all the crops, was about 6.8 per cent lower than on October 10, 1911; .9 lower than in 1910; 1.5 per cent lower than 1909, ami 1.1 higher than in 1908 on like dates. The average prices on October l compared with three years ago were ' respectively: Corn 70 cents and 67 I cents per bushel; wheat and St I cents a bushel; oats 33 and 41; barley i B4 and S3; rye 70 and 72; buck? wheat 89 and 7."; flaxseed, * 1.47 and I $1.22; potatoes SI and ?'. 1 cents; hay $11.7?; and $10.03 per tons; cotton 11 and 12 cent- a pound; butter 2r> and 2.r?; chickens 11 and 11 cents per pound: eggs 22 and 22. These Hgurej do not take into ac? count the tenths of a cent. Buter in? creased six-tenths and chickens two tenths, while eggs declined one-tenth I of a cent in the three years. $ioo Reward, $io<?. The readers of this paper will be 1 pleased t<> learn that there is at least one dreaded diseases that science has 1.n aide to cure in all Its stages. and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh. Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Ca? tarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a coaatltutlonul treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Intern? ally, acting directly upon the blood ami mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitu? tion and assisting nature In doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address P. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, <'hio. Sold hv all druggists, 75c. Take Hail s Family rills fer consti? pation. Wreck on Itoucl?No One Injured. A special train from Florence pass? ed through here at l" o'clock Fri? day morning taking the through Pullman fron, the north to Augusta. The through train from the north was delayed by a wreck near Fayette viiie and the regular train did not wait on it. an extra train being run out to take the Pullman on to Au? gusta. The only Information ob? tained of the a*reck was that the passenger coach whs derailed. N*" on was Injured. \ liog on the Track of the fast express means serious trouble ahead if no! rem? ved, ae doe loss of npp< tlto. M means lack of vitality, oss of strength and n< rve weakness it appetite falls, take Electric i'itt-rs quickly to overcome the cause by toning up the stomach and curing the Indlgentlon Michael ! Hesshelmer of Lincoln, Neb., had I.n [ sick over three years, but viv bottle* of Electric Itlttera put nlm riu'u on hla feel again. They have helped thousands. They give more Mood, 'strong nerves, good digestion. Only 50 cents at Slbert'a Drug store. MAN I VJl iu;j> IN DITCH. i W milting ton Ream* lias !'?.?<-k injur? ed Wlien Earth Cave* in oa llin?. Thursday a few minutes before noon Washington Reams, colored, ? was Somewhat bruised and his back w;.s sprained when, in working in the ditch which the men are digging for , the gas pipe, the e?*rth caved in on him burying him up to his waist in the pick and dirt of the street. He was speedily dug out and medical at , tention was given him, but be was jj-till let ling too sore f rom the occur j rence to be at work Friday. The accident occurred on H?user Street just opposite the BuInter IJot l thng Works where the men are en I gaged in putting in tho gas main. The surface of the earth Is covered ' with rook to depth of six inches at I this point and it was the falling rock which covered and bruised him. 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