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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. ’ 16 and came up into the chamber as if it that pressure is removed the flood will were a miglity fountain. probably go down again.”’ With one glance as he cameup through; He had not been wet as high as his the floor Trim saw Schruggs lying hud- waist and the matches in his vest pocket dled in a corner of an almost unfurnished | were therefore dry. room. ? | He struck one and descended the steps A candle was burning in a socket set alittle way. By its light he could see against the wall. It burned but an in- that his judgment was correct. The stant after the rushing air entered the , water was already beginning to flow back. room. ‘That instant was enough torev = The tunnel was flooded from end to the situation to Trin. end just as his highness had pianned that “God help me!’’ shrieked Schruges i in it should be, but: the cold-blooded rascal added terror as he saw the young detect- had forgotten that the water would con- ive bounding up from the tunnel. dense the air ahead of it and thus blow In the same glance in which he saw the open the trapdoor. wounded criminal Trim also saw the | Perhaps his highness had thought of door in the wall through which his high- | that, but had not supposed that the victim ness had gone. of his villainous scheme would be where The water was pouring into the room |he could take advantage of that fact when with such force that it seemed evident the crisis came. Trim breathed easier. : that it also would be flooded in another, ‘‘It’s all right now,’’ he said to him- second, * self. ‘His highness has skipped, believ- Trim bounded across the floor, caught ing that both Schruggs*and I are dead. 1] Schruggs up in his arms, and made for shan’t have to hurry away from here.’’ the door. | “This was a very ‘satisfactory thought, It was locked! e for if the situation had been such as to He had managed to get one fresh car- compel him to leave the cellarat once, he tridge in his revolver. This he fired in-. night thus lave exposed himself to, his stantly into the lock, and as it was an or-, highness, who for all he knew might be dinary contrivance it was shattered by on the watch somewhere in the vicinity. - the shock. Soa It was then the work of but an idactaxt | ; CHAPTER Y. to hurl the door open, half drag and half SCHRUGGS DEPARTS. carry Schruggs through it aud upa flight . Trim returned to the ¢eHar and Gad. - of stairs, where he came to a room that ; ing an empty barrel:set it-on end, ‘stood was dimly lighted from outside. upon it and looked through the one nar- =O erase The light came through a small win- ow window. acetes dow set near the top of the wall. It was after sunset Sa ‘he Hight out- oe Trim ‘Saw that he was in au ordinary side was almost as dim as that within. es ~ cellar. a -. He could see clearly enough to observe “Sel rugys | groaning | upon the that he was looking out upon an. unoc-. =, : oked back down the stairway _cupied hillside. The ground sloped away ‘Lee ad just come. All was jn front of him for perhaps a hundred . - age » bu Le heard the hissing and yards. - Then there were trees, and jn the we bles f the tide. He wondered gloom he could distinguish beyond them Se swbcthcedt rot d rise higher yet. . the outlines of a higher hill. _ - He recalled the statement of his high- There was no house or light in sight. = ge me that the level of the underground = “*T think I understand this,’’? he re- m era, on the level of the flected. ‘*The tunnel was dng straight <7 through the hill which lay to the north ow : = probaly sielit ” of the Tigers’ headquarters, so that it “Under ordinary cir- ends on the farther side of that hill. rt wou ae =< “This 1 is quite likely the most northern or, It house in Balmain. The next thing to do _ 4 back will be to find whether it is occupied.”? ee ' that. | Hew ‘was SO anxious to proceed with his. 3