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THE HORRIBLE GOD
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He wanted to throw it away, orftables and they decorated half a mild and amiable man, but could, burn it. or drop it over one of the dozen glass cabinets, tribal work as mild and amiable people can, be |bridges, but whenever be reached mainly, all of it bizarre. The capable of ferocity when really the point of setting out to do it. horrible thing was not resting in roused and when there was some the collecting instinct masteredļone of the glass cabinets. It was concrete object of his ferocity. * him. If the thing had been emît-in an old lacquer cabinet-a-nest; Such as a man who insisted on ting an evil sinell into his room of drawers three times concealed having the window of a railway he still wouldn't have been able to within other drawers. He had carriage closed on a warın day. screw himself up to throwing it just opened-it`and had reached" But against intangible hostility, away. So he kept it locked up the drawer containing the thing or against anything unfamiliar, he and only took it out now and then, when, without conscious impulse.was a reed. His heart didn't give | which made him feel more guilty he went to the window and movedį way, but his nerves did. None of If a friend was announced he the curtain aside. He moved it the incidents of the last four days would hurriedly hide it If he aside casually; be dropped it had made him afraid, but they had heard his housekeeper's step out-swiftly.
brought him to the edge of a break- İside the door he would throw On the opposite pavement under down. He needed a drink.
Sitting there in the midnight newspaper over it. When he had the overhanging trees of a front
figure. silence he began to hear, or toll had it for three weeks his de- garden, was a motionless meanour had become almost fur-The figure was dressed in a rain-think he could hear, odd noises Įtive.
coat and its soft hat: had the from the street. Little soft noises, brim turned down And then began that feeling of
face was impossible. but some-each other in whispers "What's being followed and its climax of
Once or twice without thing agout the pose of the figure that?" Ithat
Hei muttered message.
the conveyed to Mr. Rainwater the knowing why be looked over at the wished he had never seen
He turned lacquer cabinet, and found him- wretched thing, or, having seen it, sense of alien ideas.
a
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had resisted the temptation to buy from the window, shut all the self relieved to see that it was it. The thing itself was a horror drawers and doors of the cabinet, still there and still and now it was leading to this without looking to see if his trea-cabinet
He wanted to go to the window this un-sure was there, and dropped into uncanny following and
again, but couldn't. He wanted to. canny message delivered in ala chair by the fire.
He had scarcely dropped when know if the figure had gone, but crowded street. He didn't know
he got up again; found a glass, and there was the possibility that he
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It wasn't the threat that dis-mixed himself a drink. He went would see it standing in the same turbed him so much as the stealthy back to the chair with it, and position; and he didn't want to see dropped again. He wasn't #jit. There was nothing in the following and which the threat had been deliver-coward and he wasn't a man of figure itself, or in its attitude, to It was just a ed: If it was the ju-ju of some stout nerve. He was like most of disturb anyone. tribe or creed with representatives in between, and ready to admit solitary and motionless man yet. when he was shaken. He was its mere presence conveyed a Ham-in London why couldn't they come
stream of menace and portent and to him openly? Why the follow-
alarm which was the more potent ing about which had begun ap
for being obscure. moment hel parently from the
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skin which man always knows be- & lowed to hię home? And how
fore the nameless peril. In its could be put the little hideous god
immobility it was horrid, and Mt. back in his own place when no-
Rainwater didn't want to see it body. not
(Continued from Page 5).. even scholars, knew
Also, he had a feeling that, horrid whence it came?
He walked on in some distar-
Hunt, picking up in the loose as it was in stillness, it would fil bance
Every now and then be forced his way over for a try for him with more horror if it moved. He wanted to go to bed, but looked back or stopped by a shop Swansea, but Harris missed with
|couldn't. He had half an idea of London, Ham-whose side-window reflected
the the kick.
taking the horrible idol from the path behind him, but he saw no-i Brilliant Breakaway
cabinet, opening the window, and body who might be the follower.
the watcher. and did not expect to.
Davies broke through brilliant-flinging it out to had been following him the lastly. and Claude Davey, taking his But if it fell in the roadway it few days was 20 experienced well-judged pass, raced clear of might smash and that might the defence to ground the hall mean more of this furtive perse- shadower; clever enough" to con-|
And he felt that he could- rey the horrid sense of his neigh- under the bar. This time Harris cution
n't stand much more of It. improved. bourhood and clever enough to
The tourists retaliated. and was accustomed to a peaceful life. remain unperceived
following a serum in the home and he could not adjust himself to twenty-five, Gilbert ran clear and this invasion of his peace.
Somehow or other he must get sent in Ball for an easy try that
rid of the thing. He couldn't give shocking than a revolver at the Swansea
means it to a museum, because that were by no head or a knife at the throat done with, and towards half-time might bring persecution on the There is nothing to grasp; nothing Davies led to another try. He museum's curator, and if 8,000 22nd Nov, Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and to combat; only a persistent nascut through in dazzling style, burnt it or dropped it in the river, ging at the nerves, which in time passed on to Ron Williams, and he still wouldn't be free of their can wear you down.
saw Claude Davey put on a third attentions. And he couldn't hand And Rainwater was being word try to enable the Welshmen to it over to them because they down. If they wanted their god change ends eight points in front, never came near enough to him they could have it, so far as he a lead they retained to the end. If he took it out now, and went was concerned. He couldn't throw Although there was no score in downstairs to give it to the soli- an artistic treasure away, but if the second half the Welsh team tary watcher, he was certain that it meant something more to pec- were as much the better side as the solitary watcher would have
vanished.
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Mr. Rainwater was beginning to realise that there is something in
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?
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welcome to it, if only they would come and ask for it. They must know his address or they wouldn't be able to follow him as they did. Why, then this menacing and mut- tering of vengeance?
On reaching home he learned
2 1/2D-A-MILE PLANE
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But about three o'clock in the Imorning, after his third drink, which had done his nerves little good, an idea came to him. A simple idea which should have come to him when the persecution Among other attractions is its began He would pass it to the that they did know his address. low cost of upkeep, the total yearly people most able to deal with the His housekeeper met him in the cost-including depreciation, in-situation. He would resell it to hal. She held a grubby, piece of surante, garaging, petrol and oil the shop where he bought it, at any pink paper. I don't know what maintenance, etc.-being estimat price they cared to give. It was
Ied at 5272 for 26,000 miles, or an this is, sir, or how it came.
a dim little shop, kept by two found it on the mat under the average of 241⁄21⁄2d per flying mile swarthy old men who looked as evening paper. Would it be any similar mileage for a 20 hp though they could understand and thing you know about?"* She sports car works out at nearly 3d answer any roundabout messages. passed it to him. It bore i per mile. words in 27. ungainly scrawl: "Imbrolu waits. You have been i warned.".
Endurance Record
On that resolution he went to bed, not caring whether the house Aeroncas are flying regularly in was surrounded, or whether he the northerly regions of Canada, was to be burgled or assassinated, Mr. Rainwater made a noise of at times in a temperature of 30deg or not He was beyond caring. irritation
below zero and at altitudes of His nerves had jittered so much He passed it back to her. “No. 10,000ft across mountains. More under the persecution, and had it pilots have been trained in these developed such a side-jittering I don't know anything about Some odd bit of waste paper that machines in Canada than in any from the three heavy drinks, that
blew in, I should think.” But he other
they were now exhausted. Any went upstairs feeling a little sick. The Aeronca tripled the former thing could happen, but Mr. Rain- When be got to his room he went light aeroplane endurance record water was going to bed. first to the little cabinet in which by flying Thr. 43min. continuous Nothing did happen and after be kept the horrible thing.
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"WYNDHAM STREET
1. A standard model flew from a miniature breakfast he took the Rainwater bought it
and walked away a though
The zoom was filled with results Havana to Mexico City, a distance (horrible god from the private Mr. Rainwater asked: would liberated from clanking chains. of his collecting" mania. They of 1,112 miles, in two stages in drawer of the cabinet, packed if they make an offer? They replied He walked all the way to his club,
hung on the walls, they stood on 14hr. at a fuel cost of £3
Girl Turns Herself
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carefully in tissue-paper, put it that they would hardly dare. The and did not once have the feeling into his overcoat pocket, and set offer would be too ridiculous. of being followed. This restara- out for the shop, followed, he was They really did not want it, the tion of his normal life filled him sure, all the way.
small demand for such things with the holiday spirit, and. he He did not get rid of it as made it impossible to offer a price spent the ten, shillings, and more, easily as he had hoped. The at all relative to the artistic value in a super excellent lunch. partners were not in a buying of the thing. -
That evening in the little shop mood. When he offered it, saying Mr. Bainwater said sternly:
the partners smiled at each other. that he was tired of it, and that "Name a price.”
one, we have done Hollywood.thereby financed a trip to Holly it was not in keeping with the rest Under compulsion they named,
well with this thing which the One of Hollywood's register-wood and an assault on movie of his collection, they besitated with confusion and apology, tea English sailor carved for us ed companies is about to be fame. She declared her first They answered - as: curio dealers shillings. absorbed in a merger
dividend a year later
always do they did not want it. "I take it." He pushed the Eight times we have sold it; and zight times, we have frightened The company consists entire Now she announces to her Those things, they said, were not horrible god across the counter the buyer into bringing it back
stockholders her impending easy to sell When they could sell They tendered, across the counters In a mocking sing song he recited-
other organisa that kind of thing they got - a sadly and with deprecation, a ten- man concern good price but they might have shilling note. He took it, said tson of Mr. to keep it in stock for a year, two Good morning?" and walked
five years, before findings into the morning' sin mer They had had it in Outside, he fook a deep breath, Istock for three years before Mr said, "That's that, thank God,"
y of one asset the beauty and acting ability of Miss Velma Gresham, a young society
who in 1932 of incorporation) for herealf She sold stock in the company to her friends and
from
fled
ver #Fried
The vengeance
his own
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