We were out in the corridor now, Smith showing the way with the light of his electric pocket-lamp. My mind was clear enough, but I felt as weak as a child.
"You look positively1 ghastly, old man," rapped Smith, "which is no matter for wonder. I have yet to learn how it happened that you are not lying insensible, or dead, as a result of the drugged wine. When I heard some one moving in your room, it never occurred to me that it was you."
"Smith," I said—"the house seems as still as death."
"You, Kâramaneh, and myself are the only occupants of the east wing.
Homopoulo saw to that."
"Then he——"
"He is a member of the Si-Fan, a creature of Dr. Fu-Manchu—yes, beyond all doubt! Sir Lionel is unfortunate—as ever—in his choice of servants. I blame my own stupidity entirely3, Petrie; and I pray that my enlightenment has not come too late."
"What does it all mean?—what have you learnt?"
"Mind these three steps," warned Smith, glancing back. "I found my mind persistently4 dwelling5 upon the matter of that weird6 rapping, Petrie, and I recollected7 the situation of Sir Lionel's room, on the southeast front. A brief inspection8 revealed the fact that, by means of a kindly9 branch of ivy10, I could reach the roof of the east tower from my window."
"Well?"
"One may walk from there along the roof of the southeast front, and by lying face downwards11 at the point where it projects above the main entrance look into Sir Lionel's room!"
"I saw you go!"
"I feared that some one was watching me, but that it was you I had never supposed. Neither Barton nor his man are in that room, Petrie! They have been spirited away! This is Kâramaneh's door."
He grasped me by the arm, at the same time directing the light upon a closed door before which we stood. I raised my fist and beat upon the panels; then, every muscle tensed and my heart throbbing12 wildly, I listened for the girl's voice.
Not a sound broke that deathly stillness except the beating of my own heart, which, I thought, must surely be audible to my companion. Frantically13 I hurled14 myself against the stubborn oak, but Smith thrust me back.
"Useless, Petrie!" he said—"useless. This room is in the base of the east tower, yours is above it and mine at the top. The corridors approaching the three floors deceive one, but the fact remains15. I have no positive evidence, but I would wager16 all I possess that there is a stair in the thickness of the wall, and hidden doors in the paneling of the three apartments. The Yellow group has somehow obtained possession of a plan of the historic secret passages and chambers17 of Graywater Park. Homopoulo is the spy in the household; and Sir Lionel, with his man Kennedy, was removed directly the invitation to us had been posted. The group will know by now that we have escaped them, but Kâramaneh …"
"This way!" he snapped. "We are not beaten yet!"
"We must arouse the servants!"
"Why? It would be sheer waste of priceless time. There are only three men who actually sleep in the house (excepting Homopoulo) and these are in the northwest wing. No, Petrie; we must rely upon ourselves."
He was racing20 recklessly along the tortuous21 corridors and up the oddly placed stairways of that old-world building. My anguish22 had reinforced the atropine which I had employed as an antidote23 to the opiate in the wine, and now my blood, that had coursed sluggishly24, leapt through my veins25 like fire and I burned with a passionate26 anger.
Into a large and untidy bedroom we burst. Books and papers littered about the floor; curios, ranging from mummied cats and ibises to Turkish yataghans and Zulu assegais, surrounded the place in riotous27 disorder28. Beyond doubt this was the apartment of Sir Lionel Barton. A lamp burned upon a table near to the disordered bed, and a discolored Greek statuette of Orpheus lay overturned on the carpet close beside it.
"Homopoulo was on the point of leaving this room at the moment that I peered in at the window," said Smith, breathing heavily. "From here there is another entrance to the secret passages. Have your pistol ready."
He stepped across the disordered room to a little alcove29 near the foot of the bed, directing the ray of the pocket-lamp upon the small, square paneling.
"Ah!" he cried, a note of triumph in his voice—"he has left the door ajar! A visit of inspection was not anticipated to-night, Petrie! Thank God for an Indian liver and a suspicious mind."
He disappeared into a yawning cavity which now I perceived to exist in the wall. I hurried after him, and found myself upon roughly fashioned stone steps in a very low and narrow descending30 passage. Over his shoulder—
"Note the direction," said Smith breathlessly. "We shall presently find ourselves at the base of the east tower."
Down we went and down, the ray of the electric lamp always showing more steps ahead, until at last these terminated in a level, arched passage, curving sharply to the right. Two paces more brought us to a doorway31, less, than four feet high, approached by two wide steps. A blackened door, having a most cumbersome32 and complicated lock, showed in the recess33.
"Freshly oiled!" he commented. "You know into whose room it opens?"
Well enough I knew, and, detecting that faint, haunting perfume which spoke36 of the dainty personality of Kâramaneh, my anger blazed up anew. Came a faint sound of metal grating upon metal, and Smith pulled open the door, which turned outward upon the steps, and bent further forward, sweeping37 the ray of light about the room beyond.
"Empty, of course!" he muttered. "Now for the base of these damned nocturnal operations."
He descended38 the steps and began to flash the light all about the arched passageway wherein we stood.
"The present dining-room of Graywater Park lies almost due south of this spot," he mused39. "Suppose we try back."
We retraced40 our steps to the foot of the stair. In the wall on their left was an opening, low down against the floor and little more than three feet high; it reminded me of some of the entrances to those seemingly interminable passages whereby one approaches the sepulchral41 chambers of the Egyptian Pyramids.
"Now for it!" snapped Smith. "Follow me closely."
Down he dropped, and, having the lamp thrust out before him, began to crawl into the tunnel. As his heels disappeared, and only a faint light outlined the opening, I dropped upon all fours in turn, and began laboriously42 to drag myself along behind him. The atmosphere was damp, chilly43, and evil-smelling; therefore, at the end of some ten or twelve yards of this serpentine44 crawling, when I saw Smith, ahead of me, to be standing45 erect46, I uttered a stifled47 exclamation48 of relief. The thought of Kâramaneh having been dragged through this noisome49 hole was one I dared not dwell upon.
A long, narrow passage now opened up, its end invisible from where we stood. Smith hurried forward. For the first thirty of forty paces the roof was formed of massive stone slabs50; then its character changed; the passage became lower, and one was compelled frequently to lower the head in order to avoid the oaken beams which crossed it.
"We are passing under the dining-room," said Smith. "It was from here the sound of beating first came!"
"What do you mean?"
"I have built up a theory, which remains to be proved, Petrie. In my opinion a captive of the Yellow group escaped to-night and sought to summon assistance, but was discovered and overpowered."
"Sir Lionel?"
"Sir Lionel, or Kennedy—yes, I believe so."
Enlightenment came to me, and I understood the pitiable condition into which the Greek butler had been thrown by the phenomenon of the ghostly knocking. But Smith hurried on, and suddenly I saw that the passage had entered upon a sharp declivity51; and now both roof and walls were composed of crumbling52 brickwork. Smith pulled up, and thrust back a hand to detain me.
Silent, intently still, we stood and listened. The sound of a guttural voice was clearly distinguishable from somewhere close at hand!
Smith extinguished the lamp. A faint luminance proclaimed itself directly ahead. Still grasping my arm, Smith began slowly to advance toward the light. One—two—three—four—five paces we crept onward54 … and I found myself looking through an archway into a medieval torture-chamber18!
Only a part of the place was visible to me, but its character was unmistakable. Leg-irons, boots and thumb-screws hung in racks upon the fungi-covered wall. A massive, iron-studded door was open at the further end of the chamber, and on the threshold stood Homopoulo, holding a lantern in his hand.
Even as I saw him, he stepped through, followed by on of those short, thick-set Burmans of whom Dr. Fu-Manchu had a number among his entourage; they were members of the villainous robber bands notorious in India as the dacoits. Over one broad shoulder, slung56 sackwise, the dacoit carried a girl clad in scanty57 white drapery….
Madness seized me, the madness of sorrow and impotent wrath58. For, with Kâramaneh being borne off before my eyes, I dared not fire at her abductors lest I should strike her!
Nayland Smith uttered a loud cry, and together we hurled ourselves into the chamber. Heedless of what, of whom, else it might shelter, we sprang for the group in the distant doorway. A memory is mine of the dark, white face of Homopoulo, peering, wild-eyed, over the lantern, of the slim, white-clad form of the lovely captive seeming to fade into the obscurity of th passage beyond.
Then, with bleeding knuckles59, with wild imprecations bubbling from my lips, I was battering60 upon the mighty61 door—which had been slammed in my face at the very instant that I had gained it.
"Brace62 up, man!—Brace up!" cried Smith, and in his strenuous63, grimly purposeful fashion, he shouldered me away from the door. "A battering ram2 could not force that timber; we must seek another way!"
I staggered, weakly, back into the room. Hand raised to my head, I looked about me. A lantern stood in a niche64 in one wall, weirdly65 illuminating66 that place of ghastly memories; there were braziers, branding-irons, with other instruments dear to the Black Ages, about me—and gagged, chained side by side against the opposite wall, lay Sir Lionel Barton and another man unknown to me!
Already Nayland Smith was bending over the intrepid67 explorer, whose fierce blue eyes glared out from the sun-tanned face madly, whose gray hair and mustache literally68 bristled69 with rage long repressed. I choked down the emotions that boiled and seethed70 within me, and sought to release the second captive, a stockily-built, clean-shaven man. First I removed the length of toweling which was tied firmly over his mouth; and—
"Thank you, sir," he said composedly. "The keys of these irons are on the ledge71 there beside the lantern. I broke the first ring I was chained to, but the Yellow devils overhauled72 me, all manacled as I was, half-way along the passage before I could attract your attention, and fixed73 me up to another and stronger ring!"
Ere he had finished speaking, the keys were in my hands, and I had unlocked the gyves from both the captives. Sir Lionel Barton, his gag removed, unloosed a torrent74 of pent-up wrath.
"The hell-fiends drugged me!" he shouted. "That black villain55 Homopoulo doctored my tea! I woke in this damnable cell, the secret of which has been lost for generations!" He turned blazing blue eyes upon Kennedy. "How did you come to be trapped?" he demanded unreasonably75. "I credited you with a modicum76 of brains!"
"Homopoulo came running from your room, sir, and told me you were taken suddenly ill and that a doctor must be summoned without delay."
"Well, well, you fool!"
"Dr. Hamilton was away, sir."
"A false call beyond doubt!" snapped Smith.
"Therefore I went for the new doctor, Dr. Magnus, in the village. He came at once and I showed him up to your room. He sent Mrs. Oram out, leaving only Homopoulo and myself there, except yourself."
"Well?"
"Sandbagged!" explained the man nonchalantly. "Dr. Magnus, who is some kind of dago, is evidently one of the gang."
"Sir Lionel!" cried Smith—"where does the passage lead to beyond that doorway?
"God knows!" was the answer, which dashed my last hope to the ground.
"I have no more idea than yourself. Perhaps …"
He ceased speaking. A sound had interrupted him, which, in those grim surroundings, lighted by the solitary77 lantern, translated my thoughts magically to Ancient Rome, to the Rome of Tigellinus, to the dungeons78 of Nero's Circus. Echoing eerily79 along the secret passages it came— the roaring and snarling80 of the lioness and the leopards82.
Nayland Smith clapped his hand to his brow and stared at me almost frenziedly, then—
"God guard her!" he whispered. "Either their plans, wherever they got
them, are inaccurate83, or in their panic they have mistaken the way." …
"They have blundered into the old crypt!"
How we got out of the secret labyrinth85 of Graywater Park into the grounds and around the angle of the west wing to the ivy-grown, pointed86 door, where once the chapel87 had bee, I do not know. Light seemed to spring up about me, and half-clad servants to appear out of the void. Temporarily I was insane.
Sir Lionel Barton was behaving like a madman too, and like a madman he tore at the ancient bolts and precipitated88 himself into the stone-paved cloister89 barred with the moon-cast shadows of the Norman pillars. From behind the iron bars of the home of the leopards came now a fearsome growling90 and scuffling.
Smith held the light with a steady hand, whilst Kennedy forced the heavy bolts of the crypt door.
In leapt the fearless baronet among his savage91 pets, and in the ray of light from the electric lamp I saw that which turned my sick with horror. Prone92 beside a yawning gap in the floor lay Homopoulo, his throat torn indescribably and his white shirt-front smothered93 in blood. A black leopard81, having its fore-paws upon the dead man's breast, turned blazing eyes upon us; a second crouched94 beside him.
Heaped up in a corner of the place, amongst the straw and litter of the lair95, lay the Burmese dacoit, his sinewy96 fingers embedded97 in the throat of the third and largest leopard—which was dead—whilst the creature's gleaming fangs98 were buried in the tattered99 flesh of the man's shoulder.
Upon the straw beside the two, her slim, bare arms outstretched and her head pillowed upon them, so that her rippling100 hair completely concealed101 her face, lay Kâramaneh….
In a trice Barton leapt upon the great beast standing over Homopoulo, had him by the back of the neck and held him in his powerful hands whining102 with fear and helpless as a rat in the grip of a terrier. The second leopard fled into the inner lair.
So much I visualized103 in a flash; then all faded, and I knelt alone beside her whose life was my life, in a world grown suddenly empty and still.
Through long hours of agony I lived, hours contained within the span of seconds, the beloved head resting against my shoulder, whilst I searched for signs of life and dreaded104 to find ghastly wounds…. At first I could not credit the miracle; I could not receive the wondrous105 truth.
"The leopards thought her dead," whispered Smith brokenly, "and never touched her!"
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