"Very good; but the ravine is all on the Glenarm side

of the wall, isn't it? Now when we get under the wall

I'll show you something."

"Here we are," said Larry, as the cold air blew in

through the hollow posts. "Now we're pretty near that

sharp curve of the ravine that dips away from the wall.

Take the lantern while I get out the compass. What

do you think that C on the piece of paper means? Why,

chapel, of course. I have measured the distance from

the house, the point of departure, we may assume, to

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the chapel, and three-fourths of it brings us under those

beautiful posts. The directions are as plain as daylight.

The passage itself is your N. W., as the compass

proves, and the ravine cuts close in here; therefore, our

business is to explore the wall on the ravine side."

"Good! but this is just wall here-earth with a layer

of brick and a thin coat of cement. A nice job it must

have been to do the work,-and it cost the price of a

tiger hunt," I grumbled.

"Take heart, lad, and listen,"-and Larry began

pounding the wall with a hammer, exactly under the

north gate-post. We had sounded everything in and

about the house until the process bored me.

"Hurry up and get through with it," I jerked impatiently,

holding the lantern at the level of his head. It

was sharply cold under the posts and I was anxious to

prove the worthlessness of his idea and be done.

Thump! thump!

"There's a place here that sounds a trifle off the key.

You try it."

I snatched the hammer and repeated his soundings.

Thump! thump!

There was a space about four feet square in the wall

that certainly gave forth a hollow sound.

"Stand back!" exclaimed Larry eagerly. "Here goes

with the ax."

He struck into the wall sharply and the cement

chipped off in rough pieces, disclosing the brick beneath.

Larry paused when he had uncovered a foot of

the inner layer, and examined the surface.

"They're loose-these bricks are loose, and there's

something besides earth behind them!"

I snatched the hammer and drove hard at the wall.

The bricks were set up without mortar, and I plucked

them out and rapped with my knuckles on a wooden

surface.

Even Larry grew excited as we flung out the bricks.

"Ah, lad," he said, "the old gentleman had a way

with him-he had a way with him!" A brick dropped

on his foot and he howled in pain.

"Bless the old gentleman's heart! He made it as

easy for us as he could. Now, for the Glenarm millions,

-red money all piled up for the ease of counting it,-

a thousand pounds in every pile."




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