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IT WAS BOBBIE who found Dick Hallowell, lying huddled against the inner wall of a small bastion. He was unconscious, and Bobbie lifting him to his shoulder, carried him back to the guard-room and laid him down on one of the plank beds, whilst men of the guard went off in search of the doctor and the Colonel. Colonel Ruislip had not retired; he was sitting. in the drawing-room, waiting for the return of his wife, when the guardsman came to report, and he was by Dick's side before the doctor arrived. And now he heard from the sergeant of the guard the strange story of the three doped sentries. It was some minutes after this that the sergeant of the "spur" guard discovered the fourth sentry on the wharf Curiously enough, the robbery was not immediately discovered; for the thief had coolly locked the outer door before he had fled with his booty.
"But they were after the regalia, that's certain. My God, what a dreadful thing to have happened!"