"Then, for the last time, will you open?" "No." Ted swung the sledge and brought it down with all his strength on the lock of the door. There followed a crash, and the door flew open suddenly. Then came another crash; this time from a revolver, and a ball whistled past Ted, penetrating the brim of his hat and burying itself in the door casing. But it was not repeated, for before the guard could wink twice a tan-colored figure shot through the opening, and he fell to the floor with a smash that shook the house, and looked up to find a stalwart youth astride of him, slowly shutting off his wind with strong and inexorable fingers. Then he was relieved of his revolver, and before he could indicate that he was willing to surrender he found himself trussed like a fowl, with his arms behind his back, and the hall full of young fellows. "Why didn't you let me know that you had brought a regiment with you?" he said sullenly. "Maybe I'd have let you in." "You had your chance to open, and was a fool not to take it," said Ted. "I believe you." The major had left the party and walked into a room on the left, and in a moment they heard sobs issuing from it. He had found the remains of his sister, and, at a signal from Ted, the boys hustled the deputy marshal into the back part of the house and retired, leaving the major alone with his dead sister. In a few minutes Ted heard his name called, and went into the room where the major was standing beside a bed, on which was a form covered with a sheet. "We must get ready to remove her to my house," said the major, in a hushed voice. "Leave it to me," said Ted. "I will take charge of everything." "And I want you to help me search the house, for I intend to remove all the valuables she left to Bubbly Well until such time as the courts can handle her property. I don't propose that it shall fall into alien hands." In the room at the foot of the bed was a small steel safe, which Ted found was fastened with a combination lock. He knelt before it with his ear to the lock, turning the handle of the combination, listening to the click of the tumblers, while the major searched the drawers of the handsome dressing case and other articles of furniture in the room. Everywhere were evidences that Helen Mowbray had been very wealthy. On top of the dressing case were sets of gold and silver toilet articles, and ornaments, boxes, and bottles handsomely chased in silver and gold, and set with jewels. In one of the drawers the major found a bunch of keys, probably to open other drawers in the console and other articles of furniture. "I have it, major," said Ted quietly, as he flung open the door of the safe. "See what is in it, Ted," said the major. In the bottom of the safe lay a pile of gold ingots representing a value of many thousands of dollars. A drawer was filled with bank notes of large denomination. Other drawers were crowded full of the stocks of mines and other enterprises.