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Below the castle and its distressed occupants, in a dark, damp little rooht of the eighteenth, or rather near the break of dawn on the nineteenth, Captain Quinnox guided hie, and he was safe for the tih a skillfully hidden opening in the wall that enclosed the park A stone doorway, so cleverly constructed that it defied detection, led to a set of steps which, in turn, took one to a long narrow passage This ended in a stairway fully a quarter of athis stairway one ca, the interior of the castle was reached The location of the panel was in one of the recesses in the wall of the chapel, near the altar It was in this chapel that Yetive exchanged her oeeks before, and the servant who saw her co believed she had gone there to seek surcease from the troubles which oppressed her

Lorry was i and to end all suspense, but Quinnox dee until the night of the nineteenth, when, all things going well, heseen It was the secret hope of the guilty captain that his charge could be induced by the Princess to return to the monastery, to avoid cohness of his presence in the underground roo The e to confess his disobedience to his trustingnear, approaching and then retreating, and had wondered not a little at his peculiar h a long day of suspense and agony Quinnox had brought to the little roo, but he utilized only the former The hours went by and no su with the desire to hold her in his ared aniinia, the scene in her bed chamber, the day in the throne room and, more delicious than all, the trip to the , he had seen the slim soldier, had heard the muffled voice, and had felt the wohts of love and fear, distraught with anxiety for her and for hi with the awful consequences of the hour that was upon them What was to become of hiht, theabout?