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f you fail.
JARVIS. (Breath being taken away) If I fail--Say, hold on a minute! Things are coming too fast for me. I--you--how do I----
PRINCESS. (Interrupting) He may come back any minute--and I don't dare tell him what happened at the Manhattan Hotel--but he will want to know who you are and why you are with me.
JARVIS. That's what I want to know. You forget I am completely in the dark.
PRINCESS. (Looking out of window) The police can't be on board now. (Down stage.)
JARVIS. (Going to window beside her, and then back again) You can't tell until you see who goes ashore with the pilot. They may be working on Rusty as a clue, but it won't lead them to anything so long as they don't connect him with me. We'll take no chances until we get past the danger line. Now let's get down to business. What is the matter--and what am I to do?
PRINCESS. (Hesitating) I hardly know how to begin--it seems absurd in this broad daylight to talk of ghosts--but the fact is, my castle is haunted.
JARVIS. (Laughing) Spooks?
[Illustration: "THE GHOST BREAKER" See Page 34]
PRINCESS. (Very seriously) Call it anything you like, but the castle is haunted, just the same. My grandfather was one of the wealthiest nobles in Spain. When he died my father went to take possession of his estate in Segura. He found the town full of weird stories of uncanny happenings--the castle was deserted, everyone had fled and all told of something in armor that stalked the halls at night.
JARVIS. O-o-o-o-o-o-o-h!
PRINCESS. My father laughed at the silly natives and said he would go into the castle and show them how foolish their fears were. He went, and was never seen again.
JARVIS. (Naturally deeply interested) What happened to him?
PRINCESS. No one knows. He disappeared--vanished utterly, without leaving a single clue--and the treasure's gone.
JARVIS. (More