THE MYSTERY OF GLYN CASTLE by Leonard H. Brooks

Author:Leonard H. Brooks [smartin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: THE SEXTON BLAKE CASEBOOK
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Shanghaied!

SEXTON BLAKE paced his dungeon cell impotently.

He was feeling furious and enraged at the way things had turned out, and he was chafing enormously at his inability to make any headway in connection with the mystery which he had undertaken to solve.

He had been confined in the dungeon only a comparatively few hours, but to him it seemed as if he had been there for days and days. The position was made all the more uncomfortable by the knowledge that escape was entirely out of the question. It was absolutely useless for him to even make the attempt-for he knew before that any such attempt would be doomed to failure. he was therefore deprived of even this slight consolation, and had perforce to remain in the cell, totally inactive.

There was nothing he could do to ease the position of himself and his companions, and the great detective fumed and fretted like a caged lion. The cell was pitchy dark by night and by day, and not even the faintest glimmer of light penetrated so far beneath the old castle floors. The uncanny silence, too, was well-nigh unbearable to a man of Blake’s active mind, and it was no wonder that the detective patrolled his cell in a fever of angry resentment.

“Oh, this is intolerable-unbearable!” he muttered to himself, for the hundredth time.” Blake had been imprisoned by his enemies many times before, but never in such a hopelessly impregnable place as this. There was not even a sporting chance of freeing himself, and he scarcely contain his impatience.

Moreover, he was curious and greatly puzzled as to the cause of it all. Why had he and his friends been cast into the dungeons in this fashion? What was Jarrow’s object in acting in this manner? What, indeed, was Jarrow doing at the castle at all?

All these questions, and many others, passed through Blake’s mind as he paced his cell, and he promised himself that they would be answered at the very first opportunity.

Tinker and Spalding and Glyn, all separately imprisoned quite near to Sexton Blake, were undergoing very similar sensations in their respective cells. They were all mystified and angry at the unexpected turn of events, and were wondering when their uncomfortable imprisonment was to cease. Their isolation was the hardest part of their burden-for each was unaware how his companions were faring. The whole position, in fact, was becoming intolerable, as Blake had said-but they were totally helpless to move a finger in their own aid.

And while the luckless captives were bewailing their fate in the cruel dungeons, old Llewellyn, the caretaker, was comfortably seated in his little room above, calmly scanning the pages of a newspaper. He was evidently looking for some particular item of news, for he made no attempt to read more than the bare headlines. Presently, however, he found what he sought, and he commenced chuckling over a certain paragraph which gave details of the mysterious disappearance of four individuals from London.

Several similar reports had appeared in the papers regarding the sudden vanishing of Sexton Blake, Tinker, Spalding, and Glyn.

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