CHAPTER XXIV

The Great Adventure Julius waited until the reporter was out of sight, and then, keeping in the shadow of the castle wall, which formed one side of the village street for a few hundred yards, he strode out in the direction of Lady's Manor. It was a fairly long walk, for the Manor House lay to the north of the town, and it seemed longer because he was in a hurry to get through with his mission. He was reaching out his hand to open the gate when he became aware that somebody was standing in the shadow of the yew hedg…