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"I hope I haven't killed him," whispered, Lorry "Quick! Here is his bottle of ether Hold it beneath his nose I auard crosswise on top of him He will not be able to arise if he should recover consciousness"

All this was done in a moment's tiate was ajar two or three feet With turbulent hearts, they stole through

"Keep along the wall," whispered Lorry, "and trust to luck The castle is to the left"

Without hesitation they crept over the noiseless grass, close beside the wall Directly they heard sounds near at hand The abductors were binding and chlorofor for solide away in the darkness, and followed The body of the guard was lying just outside the mouth of the arbor, and the odor of chlorofor arbor, the Areater caution There was a diht in a basementahead Toward the front of the castle and in the second story a faint glow cauessed it to be from the Princess' rooures steal past the diht One of them halted near the , and three crept away in the darkness Presently one of the How near it was to two o'clock the watchers could not tell They only knew that they ithin twenty-five feet of Geddos and Ostroht little blaze of light crossed the base a second tiain The soft shuffle of a foot, the rustle of arbor vines, and the form of a man crawled up to theWith inconceivable stealth and carefulness it glided through the aperture, followed by a co a second or two later, lying flat on their stoht was still there, the as open, and there was a sound of whispering Lorry raised his head and peered through, taking calculations while the light made it possible He saw an open door on the opposite side of the low roo upward Between theand the door there were no obstacles Up those steps he saw three ht The door was left open, doubtless to afford uniuish touched Lorry's arm