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We had established the practice of barring all the

gates and doors at nightfall There was no way of

guarding against an attack froer froht patrol to prevent a surprise from

that quarter I ell aware that I must prepare to

resist the

would no doubt invoke to aid him, but I intended to

exhaust the possibilities in searching for the lost treasure

before I yielded Pickering ht, if he would,

transfer the estate of John Marshall Glenarm to Marian

Devereux and make the most he could of that service,

but he should not drive me forth until I had satisfied

randfather's fortune

If it had vanished, if Pickering had stolen it

and outwittedoff with it, that was another

matter

The phrase, "The Door of Bewilderment," had never

ceased to reiterate itself in my mind We discussed a

thousand explanations of it as we pondered over the

scrap of paper I had found in the library, and every

book in the house was exae between the house and the chapel seemed

to fascinate Larry He held that it must have so it

He caririn on his

face I had spentin the towers, where it