But once back in the Colonel's rooms, he hurried.

Feeling in the dark corner where he had kept the axe ready for just such an emergency as this, he grasped it and rushed out.

Tiptoeing down the hall, he found the narrow door, stole down the black stairway and entered the main hall.

Here he paused, suddenly checked in his hurry.
"This won't do," he thought, and shook his head.

"Much as I'd like to kill those two dogs I can't--I can't....