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THE CHINA MAIL.

MRS. AMWORTH

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Then came that evenlug when, as gnats, the bite of which was very full blast; here was 1 suffocating in I see in the light of subsequent irritating and virulent. They came the airless room, and whichever events, began the first twitching of sailing in of an evening, settling on window I opened Mrs. Amworth's the veil that hid the secret horror one's skin so quietly that one per-face would float in, like those noise- from my eres. I did not know it ceived nothing till the sharp stab loss black gaats that bit before one then, though I noticed that there announced that one had been bitten. was aware. The nightmare rose to after, if she rang up to propose com- They did not bite the hands or face, screaming point, and with strangled ļing round, she always asked not only but chose always the neck and throat | yells I awoke to find my room cool at I was at leisure but whether Mr. for their feeding ground, and most and quiet with both windows open Urcombe was with me. If so, she of us, as the poison spread, assumed and blinds up and a half-moon high said, she would not spoil the chat of a temporary goitre.

in its course, casting an oblong of

two old bachelors, and laughingly Then about the middle of August|tranquil hight on the floor. But wished me good-night. Urcombe, appeared the first of those my even when I was awake the horror jun this occasion, had been with me sterious cases of illness which our perstated, and I lay tossing and for some half-hour before Mrs.ócut doctor attributed to the long turning. I must have slept long be- Amworth's appearance, and bad continued heat coupled with the bite fore the nightmare seized me, for

insects. been talking to me about the medse of these venomous

The now it was nearly day, and soon in; ival beliefs concerning vampirisi. patients was a boy of Bixteen or the east the drowsy eyelids of morn-i

There he sat, grim and eager, seventeen, the son of Mrs. Am-jing began to lift. traving, with that pellucid clearness worth's gardener, and the symptoms I was scarcely downstairs next which had made him in his Cam-were an anæmic pallor and a languid morning-for after the dawn 1 slept bridge days so admirable a lecturer, prostration, accompanied by great inte~when Urcombe rang up to the history of those mysterious drowsiness and an abnormal appe-know if he might see me immediate visitations. In them all there were tite. He had, too, on his throat two ly. He came in, grim and preoccu- the same general features; one of small punctures where, so Dr. Ross pied, and I noticed that he Was those ghoush spirits took up ila ennjectured, one of these great gnats pulling on a pipe that was not even jabode in a living man or woman, and bitten him. But the odd thing Glied.

conferring supernatural powers of was that there was no swelling or "I want your help," he said, "and batlike flight and glutting itself with inflammation round the place where so I must tell you first of all what nocturnal blood-feasts. When its he had been bitten. The heat at happened last night. I went round host died it continued to dwell in this time had begun to abate, but with the little doctor to Bee his the corpso, which remained undecay the cooler weather failed to restore patient, and found him just alive, ed. By day it rested, by night it him, and the boy, in spite of the but scarcely more. I instantly left the grave and went on its awful quantity of good food which he sojaiagnosed in my own mind what this jerrands. No European country in ravenously swallowed, wasted away anæmia, unaccountable by any other

the Middle Ages seemed to have es-to a skin-clad skeleton.

[explanation, meant. The boy is the coped them; earlier yel. parallels I met Dr. Ross in the street one prey of a vampire. ware to be found, in Roman and afternoon about this time, and in "Now about last night. I insist. Greek and in Jewish history. answer to my inquiries about his ed that he should be moved from "It's a large order to set all that patient he said that he was afraid his father's cottage into my house. vidence aside as being moonshine," the boy was dying. The case, he As we were carrying him on a be said. "Hundreds of totally inde- confessed, completely puzzled him: stretcher, whom should we meet but pendent witnesses in many ages some obscure form of pernicious Mrs, Anworth? She expressed have testifled to the occurrence of anemia was all he could suggest. shocked surprise that we were mov- these phenomena, and there's no ex- But he wondered whether Mr.ing him. Now why do you think planation known to me which covers; Urcombe would consent to see the she did that?" full the facts. And if you feel in-bay, on the chance of his being able With a start of horror, as re lehned to say: "Why, then, if these to throw some new light 011 the membered my dream the night be jare facts, do we not come across case, and since Urcombe was dining fore, I felt an ides come into my them now?' there are two answers with me that night. I proposed to mind so preposterous and unthink- 13 can make you. One is that there Dr. Ross to join us. He could not able that I instantly turned it out

were diseases known in the Middle do this, but said he would look in again. Ages, such as the black death, which

later. When he came Urcombe at "I haven't the smallest idea," ] were certainly existent then and the other's disposal, and together said. which have become exunct since, they went off at once.

into

"Then listen while I tell you about.

but for that reason we do not as- Being thus shorn of my sociable what happened later. I put out all sert that such diseases never existed, evening, telephoned to Mrs. Am-light in the room where the boy lay, Just as the black death visited Eng-worth to know if 1 might inflict my-and watched. One window was a land and decimated the population self on her for an hour. Her abs- little open, for I had forgotten to 01 Norfolk, so Ière in this very dis- wer was a welcoming affirmative, close it, and about midnight I heard trict about 300 years ago there was and between piquet and music the something outside, trying apparent. certainly an outbreak of vumpirism, hour lengthened itself two. ly to push it farther open. I guess and Maxley was the centre of She spoke of the boy who was lying ed who it was yes, it was fully My second answer 18 even more conso desperately and mysteriously ill, twenty feet from the ground—and vincing, for I tell you that vam and told me that she had often been peeped round the corner of the pirism is by no means extinct now. to see him, taking him nourishing blind. Just outside was the face of An outbreak of it certainly occurred and delicate food. But to-day--and Mrs. Amworth and her hand was on in India year or two ago."

her kind eyes moistened she the frame of the window.

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Very At that moment 1 heard my spoke--she was afraid she had paid softly i crept close, and ther bang- knocker plied in the cheerful and her last visit. Knowing the anti-ed the window down, and I think 1 peremptory manner in which Mrs.pathy between her and Urcombe, just caught the tip of one of her Amworth is accustomed to announce did not tell her that he had been fingers." her arrival, and I went to the door cutied into consultation; and when] "But it's impossible," I cried. I returned home she accompanied "How could she be floating in the "andine to my door, for the sake of a air like that? And what had she blood breath of might air, and in order to come for? Don't tell me auch-

been borrow a magazine which contained "I am telling you what I asw,"

to open it.

"Come in at once," I said, save me from having my curdled. Mr. Urcombe has trying to alarm me."

an article on gardening which she said he. "And all night long, until Instantly her vital, voluminous wished to read.

it was nearly day, she was fluttering presence seemed to fill the room. "Ah, this delicious night air," she outside, like some terrible bat, try-

"Ah, but how lovely" she said. I said, luxuriously sniffing in the cooling to gain admittance.

Now put

"I delight in having my blood cur-ness. "Night air and gardening are together various things I have told died. Go on with your ghost story, the great tonics. There is nothing you." Mr. Urcombe. J adore ghost so stimulating as bare contact with He began checking them off on stories."

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"It wasn't a ghost-story exactly," ao fresh as when you have been "Number one," he said: "there Bald he. "I was only telling our grubbing in the work-black bands, was an outbreak of disease similar host how vampirism was not extinct black nails, and boots covered with to that which this boy 18 suffering yet. I was saying that there was mud." She gave her great jovial from at Peshawar, and her husband, an outbreak of it in India only a few laugh.

died of it. Number two: Mrs. Am- years ago."

"I'm a glutton for aid and earth," worth protested against my moving There was a more than perceptible she said. "Positively I look for the boy to my house. -Number pause, and I saw that, if Urcombe ward to death, for then I shall be three: she, or the demon that in- was observing her, she on her side buried and have the kind earth all habits her body, a creature power- was observing him with Axed eye round me. No leaden caskets for{ful and deadly, tries to gain admit- and parted mouth. Then her folly me--I have given explicit directions, tance. And add this, too; in laugh invaded that rather tense But what shall I do about air? medieval times there was an epide- silence.

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"I always sleep with my windowa He would certainly not have been storyteller in the bazaars must have open," said I.

|allve if he had been visited again. invented it; they are famous at I went straight up to my bedroom, And what do you make of It?”

[of Which one of the windows looka "I have something to add,” I said,

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the boy is stronger this morning.

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9th Oct. after a couple of games. Urcombe that both my bedroom windows you of deadly, danger, For two

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The hummer was unreasonably hot rushed to the second window on the ndi inimhan sitesdrizma ficarnate and rainless, and Maxley suffered other alde of the room, and, there, danties What steps we shall have to much from drought, and also from again was Mrs. Amworth's face tako Iv

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