CHAPTER XXISHOWS HOW THE GREAT SWORD SPOKE TO SCANLON
BUT the automobile voyagers had not returned when the two men reached Schwartzberg.
“Campe is taking plenty of time, as per request,” observed Mr. Scanlon, as they settled down to wait. “Unless,” and he looked at the other, “you think something has happened to him.”
But Ashton-Kirk shook his head.
“No,” said he. “Just at this time I think Campe is perfectly safe from Alva and his crowd. When you first came to me with the story I felt that the matter was one of life and death—that it would not wait an hour. But after studying things hereabouts for a little I saw that in this I had been mistaken. The criminals will not be in a hurry to murder Campe. He is the last of his family, and they want what he knows, or can give, more than they
