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CAN DOLLFUSS KEEP CONTROL?-

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MRS. AMWORTH

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stairs, and I found her white as a ghost and utterly exnausted. She

I was now eleven of the fore had been to sleep, it seemed-But This, they assert, is because the

"One countryside feels that Dr. Dollfuss noon, and presently I went across you will excuse me."

moment, Major." said Ito his house for a twelve-hour vigil has naeonstructive economic

while he slept. to come on duty Urcombe. "Was there any mark on polley, and is bringing Austria

that for the her throat?" again that night, so under the protectorate of an allen

hours either! "How did you guess that?" said next Lwenty-four

one of those Italians in order to rombe or myself was always he, "There was; rn:tu -tlhe (keep them apart from their Ger the room where the boy, now get-beasty gnats must have bitten her

man brothers.

One of the great difficulties with stronger every hour, was lying, twice there."

The day

Saturday "And there's someone with her?" following was which Dr. Dollfuss has to contend and a morning of brilhant. pellucid asked Urcombe. is that despite the thousands of weather, and alrenny when I went "Yes, I roused her maid." divinossals and arrests of disloyal

He wem off, and Urcombe turned across to his house to resume my officials, the Civil Service and the duty the stream of motors down to me. "I know now what we have! gendarmerie are still honey-combed Brighton had begut. Simultaneous to do," he said. "Change your with Nazi adherents, especially ly I saw Urcombe with a cheerful clothes, and I'll join you at your to the ceme- among the higher ranks who con- face, which boded good news of his house. We're going sider that it is they who are loyal patient, coming out of his house, tery"

He carried a pick, a shovel and to the ideal of a united German and Mrs. Amworth, with a gesture race, which they accuse Dr. Doll of salutation to me and a basket in a screwdriver when he rejoined me, fusk of betraying. Another obstacle her hand, walking up the broad and wore round his shoulders a long is the lack of a slogan to capture suip of grass which bordered the coil of rope.

"What I have to tell you," he the imagination of youth in the road. There we all three met. I

to you Catholic towns. The appeal to

now too saw that Urcombe said, "will seem noticed and Isentiment

proving sucessful

credence, but before dawn we shall see whether it out- PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY among the peasantry, but noticed it, ton) that one finger of fantastic for

her left hand was bandaged. Jamong the urban population the

"Good morning to you both," said strips reality. By a most fortunate' Berusading fervour of the Nazia.

she. "And near your patient is happening, you saw the spectre, the their ductrine of a great self-

I have astral body, whatever you choose to Mr. Urcombe. doing well. |sacrificing Teutonic brotherhood. fires the imagination and stiffens come to bring him a bowl of jelly, call it, of Mrs. Amworth, going on and to sit with him for an hour. its grisly business, and therefore, the determination of the young.

The kernel of Dr. Dolifuss's pro-He and are great friends. I am beyond doubt, the vampire spirit which abode in her during life blem is that he is engaged in overjoyed at his recovery."

Urconibe paused a moment, as if animates her again in death. That the tank of trying to cast out the idevil by Beelzebub-8 brown making up his mind, and then shot is not exceptional-indeed, all these weeks since her death I have been black. His strong out a pointing finger at her.

"You expecting 11." Fascism by a

he said. "I forbid that." since the Heimwehr-have

only the shall not sit with him or see him. known one

"If she had been dead two years 1 do." Social Democrats, with whom theyAnd you know the reason as well as usually coupled the Jews.

at would still be so, if the vampire so horrible a Compelled to rely on the Hem- I have never spen

has possession of her. So remem. wehr from the start. Dr. Dollfusa change pass over a human face as ber; whatever you see done, it will from raising the that which now blanched here to the be done not to her, who in the na- was precluded

would now be feeling tural course banner of democratic liberty and colour of a grey mist. She put up.

hand as if

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a spirit of untold evil and malig- German freedom, where the spirit from that pointing finger, which of democracy would be preserved drew the sign of the cross in the

nancy, which gives a phantom fr against all aseaults and from air, and shrank back cowering on to

to her body." wild hoo which it would one day issue forth the road. There was 4

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to liberate the German people from from a horn, a grinding of brakes, a tyrannical dictatorship. All his shout-too late-from a passing Appeals in the name of "liberty," in car, and one long scream suddenly!

their rut short. Her lone much of

body rebounded now, at this moment, the vampire! |consequence.

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the roadway after the first clad in her mortal semblance is out; dining out. But it must get back allies and the greater part of his wheel had

gone over it,

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the full vigour of the dreadful have been rejected, alwishes she had told me that she had nutriment she has received pulsing though their acceptance would devised about her interment, and

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didly organised machine of the some etching. I had just Austrian Socialist party were opposlte the house which Mra.sky, when five o'clock of the morn placed at the service of Dr. Doll-Amworth had occupied, where there ing sounded from the turret. fuss in advance.

was a board up telling that it was few minutes more passed, and then A fortnight ago, when the danger to le, when I heard the click of her I felt Urcombe's hand softly nudg of invasion was felt to be parti-front gate, and next moment I saw, ing me; and, looking out cularly acute, there were even con-with a sudden chill and quaking of direction of his polating finger. 1 versations concerning possible my very spirit, that she stood there. saw that the form of a woman, tall: frontier district. Heimwehr head-turned to me, and I could not be from the right. Noiselessly, with a

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a Naxi invasion or rising would fail My breath was coming in short see her face and recognise ite to cause an immediate occupation pants as if I had been running features.

She drew her band. across her of Western Austria by the Italians, and now indeed I ran, with fearful| with the probability of simultane backward glances, along the hun-mouth as it wiping it, and broke oua action by Czechoslovakio and dred yards that separated me from into a chuckle of such laughter as my head, perhope Hungary and Yugoslavia.my house and Urcombe's. It was made my hair slir on

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Dollfuss's Position So far Dr. Dollfuss can be con- gratulated on having done much

"Not it's no guess. She has tion to keep still, but now he reThe eyes, once closed in death, were simultaneously from those red lips better than anyone thought pos-

open, the cheeks were flushed with came one long, appalling ery, swell sible in the spring. Tire question come back and you have seen her. moved it.

"Coma," he said.

colour, the red, full-lipped mouth ing up like some hooting siren, and tenable 'over a long period is still Tell me about it."

With pick and shovel and rope seemed to emfle.

dying away again. With that, in whether his position will provi I gave him my story.

That's Major Pearsall's house," we went to the grave. The earth The general ona,

"One blow and it is all over," he stantaneous as a lightning flash, Even came the touch of corruption on her fooling Is that in the long run he he said. "Come back with me there was light and sandy, and boon after

six we had delved down to the said. "You need not look," will be forced either to form a 're-at once." aetionary nationslist coalition,

A minute later we were opposite come lid. With his pick he loosen as he spoke he took up the pick face, the colour of it faded to ash,

dropped. with a purged Austrian Narf party the House. When I had passed it ed the earth round it, and, adjust again. And though I knew what the plump cheeks fell in, the mouth Thank God, that's over," said which will be content to work for before it was all dark; now lights in the rope through the handles by was coming, I could not look

he, and without pause" slipped the The Nazi ideals within an indepen- gleamed from a couple of windows which it had been lowered, we tried away, ', dent Austria, or to yield to the upstairs. Even as we faced it this to raise it. This was a long and He grasped the pick in both coffin lid back into its place, 51, pressure of Prince Starhemberg for Tront door opened, and next moment laborious business, and the light hands, raised it an inch or two for Day was coming fast now, and, 100 per cent, Fasciam on Italian Major Pearsall emerged from the had begun to herald day in the east the taking of his aim, and then with working like man possessed, w

before we had it out,

full force brought it down A lowered the coffin into its place lines; or (and only deadly peril gate.

from Germany could lead him to "I'm on my way to Dr. Boss," he With his screwdriver he loosed fountain of blood, though she had again, and shovelled the earth over adopt this solution) to accept the said quickly," "My wife has been the fastenings of the lid, and alld it been dead so long, spouted high in it. The birds were busy with proffated support of the Social- taken suddenly ill. She had been sside, and standing there we look the air, falling with the thud of their earliest pipings as we went

in bed an hour when I came up-ed on the face of Mra, Amworth, heavy splash over the shroud, and back to Maxley,

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