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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1934.

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(Continued from Page 10.)

Uime there was nothing he wished to read. le pulled out a book from above his head at random, and saw that it was the old Latin book in manuscript.

As he turned over ita atiff and yer low pages, he noticed with pleasure the emell of corruption that had first re- selled him in these decaying volumes. small, be now thought, of ancient and secret knowledge.

•

Dempsey's Christmas Dinner.

This idea of secrecy seemed to affect him personally, for on hearing a step in the hall he hastily closed the book and put it back in its place. He went Po the schoolroom where Dicky was do

ing his homework and told him die re- [quired his Latin grammar and die- tionary again for an old law report To his annoyance he stammered and ut his words awkwardly: he thought hat the boy lanked oddly at him and be cursed him in his heart for a sus nicious young devil, though of what he should be suspicious he could not say. Nevertheless, when back in the dining- room, he listened at the door and then turned the lock before he open- softly ed the books on the writing bureau.

The script and Latin seemed much

Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dempsey (former Hanna clearer than on the previous evening,

Williams) who were among the movie crowd that celebrated Christ- able to read at random a and he

mas at the Coconnut Grove, the piular Los Angeles night Club, · massage relating to a trial of a Ger. man midwife in 1020 for the murder

ed to have grown twenty yours young and mut and dissection of 783 chidren.

and must go to bed, and he would Innered to be

ofler, stronger, brisk and cheerful, and now take his turn at comforting Jean to be a recount

with self-confidence in business that She was now much quieter. He took selety whose netivities | and ritual were of nature

obstruck them as lunaey. They waited her on his knee, where at first she And when

with a not unpleasant excitement for shrank from him. Mr. Corbett re- not, so vile and ter scure, and

membered with an another sense of rible, that Mr. Corbett would not at the inevitable crash, but his every ape- Arst believe that this could be a record culation, however, wild and harebrain injury that she never now sat on his of

knee, and would have liked to pay her any human mind. He read until far later than his us He never stayed in town for dinners out

Home

A

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he had to coax

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in

She and Nora had kent Mike with them all the evening and taken him

Tan

sure

Every morning he found that a few ink in the bulk of the book; on words had been added since the eve- Jose inspection he would have said ning before, and always they formed, hat it was of modern manufacture as he considered, injunctions to him to sleep in their room for a treat. These were at first only with He had lain at the foot of Jean's bed and written quite recently, were it not self. for the fact that it was in the same regard to his money tramanctions, giv- and they had all gone to sleep. Then rubbed late seventeenth century handing assuranen to his boldest fancies, Jean began her old dream of the band writing.

and since the brilliant and unforeseen moving over the books in the dining- This, however, did not explain the success that had attended his gamble room book-case; but instead of herplexity, even dismay and fear he with Mr. Crab's money African out a book it came across the

teit as he started at the last sensory, he followed all suih advice un room and out on to the stairs. It &tence. It ran: "Contine te in parenhesitatingly.

came up over the banisters and to the ibu studiis," and he had at once re- Bot presently. Interspersed with door of their room, and turned their were others of a door handle very softly and opened it engused it as a Ciceroniaa tag that had these commands, been dinned into him at school. He meaningless, childish,

At this point she jumped up yet revolting At

wide could not understand how he had fail character, such as might be invented awake, and turned on the light, call- &¦ed to notice it

yesterday.

ng to Nora. by a decadent imbecile.

The door, which had Then he remembered that the book He al first paid no attention to these been shut when they went to slep, had ended at the bottom of a page directions, but found that his new was wide open, and Mike was gone.

She told Nera that she was But now, the last twa achtences were speculations declined no rapidly that written at the very top of a page he became terrified not merely for his something dreadful would happen to and him if she did not go and bring him However long he looked at them, he fortune but for his reputation

vari- back, and ould

down into the hall. that they had been added since

ou come lo ma ather conclusion thanjeven safety, since the money of var where she saw him just about to driste

thelous of his cliente was involved. previous evening,

was made clear to him that he must be looked up, but d'd not come, so sh

from his dish. She called to him and Re

commanda now read the sentence before the follow the

In the book imperfecta mortuus eum,"altogether or not at all, and he began inng with her when her nightdress Pan ran to him and began to pull him last: "Re and translated the whole as "I died to carry out their guerile and scous was clutched from behind and then with my purpose unachieved. Con- sque blasphemies with a a contempiaous tinue, thou, the never-ending studies." amusement, which, how

inally she felt hand seize her arm. gradually

She fell down and then clambered; With his eyes at fixed upon it, Mr. changed to a sense of their monstrous Corbett replaced the book on the writ

rit-signulcance. 10ey became more cap-pstairs as fast as she could, scream-I ing bureau and

and stepped back from it ricious and difficult of execution, but ing all the way. the door, his hand out-stretched be. This now never hesitated to obey blind- It was now clear to Mr. Corbett that. and hind lam, groping and then tugging atly urged by a fear that he could not Mike's dish must have been upset in

the door handle. As the door failed to understand.

She

was again crying, but open, his breath came in a faint, hard-3 By now he understood the effect of his time he felt himself unable y articulate scream.

Then ho remem-this book on the others near it and comfort her. He retired to his

nis room. bered that he had himself locked it,

it, the reason that bad impelled its where he walked up and down in an and he fumbled with the key in fran-mysterious agent to move the books agitation he could not understand. the ineffectual movements until at last into the second shelf, so that all in

I am not a bad man," he kept say it and banged it after him turn should come under the Influenceing to himasif, "I have never done ne opened B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for as he plunged backwards into the hall of that ancient and secret knowledge, anything actually wrong.

For a moment he stood there look- In respect to it he encouraged his are none the worse for my specula- ng at the door handle; then with a children, with jeers at their stupidity, tions, only the better." stealthy, sneaking movement, his hand to read more, but he could not observe Presently he added: "It is not wrong crept out towards it, touched it, be-that they ever now took a book from try and kill a dog, an ill-tempered It turned against me." It EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, gan to turn it, when suddenly he pull-the dining-room book-case. He himself brute.

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He noticed that he had thought of The There he hid his face in the pillow, things that all his Life he had Longe

onged her as Jeannie which he had not done cried and ravovi in meaningless words, to do when he should have enough for same time; it must have been be repeating: "Never, nover, naver. money now cemed to him insipid. cause he had called her that to-night.

u never do it again. Help me never His most exciting pleasure was the He must forbid her ever to leave her: to do it again." with the words "Help smell and Louch of these mouldering room at night; he could not have her ne," he noticed what he was saying-pages, as he turned them to find the meddling, It would be safer for him ney reminded him of other words, and last message inscribed to. hlm.

One evening it he began to pray aloud.

was in two occide," But the words sounded jumbled, they only: "Canem pernisted in coming into his head in a He laughed at this simple and

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www "I've come to bed late, that is all, and awakened by terrified scream pro- Jean lying very still in her bed, too

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ceeding from the stairs. Mr. Corbett

four, shuffling in

per ton. said Mrs. Corbett, and he was the first to hastea there, prompt on the

his bedroom slippers Henry

and down the stairs. noticed that she had not heard him:fed by the instinctive cantion that was along passage and "Henry, didn't you hear it?"

always with him these days. He A bright Are still burned in the "What?"

saw Jean, in her

dining-room grate. A glance at the bling up on to the "That laugh?"

on her clock told him 1 WA

was not yet 12, Ho He was silent, an instinctive caution hands and knees, clutching at any stared at the book-case. In the second warning him to wait until she spoke thing that afforded support and shelf was a gap which had not been again. And this she did, imploring him screaming in a choking, tearless, un- there when he had left. On the writ

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"It was not a human laugh. It was the room she shared with Ner, hirs, see what was written in the Then, as pests that could make no difference to frantie geature of a man falling from like the laugh of a devil."

they were quickly followed by sco He checked his visiont inclination to Corbett...

before, words that hedid not intend man of sane reasoning power such great height, and he stumbled to laugh again. It was wiser not to let Nothing coherent could be g

crying came sobbing

He seized, the book and time it her know that it was only his laughter Jean.

that. Never, Jean had sided with, Kiku against Nora sald that she must have muttering “No, no, not th laugh again. It was wiser not to let been having her old dream again: never, never." But he crossed the room him. All that are not for me are the fire. A violent sensation of chok.. she had heard. He told her to stop when her father demanded, what this and looked down at the hook. As last against me, he repeated softly. Being overcame him, he felt he was bas belog

fanciful, and Mr. Corbett gra-was, she said that Jean sometimes the message was in only two would kill both dog and child with ing, strangled, as is a nightmare he dually recovered her docility. woke in the night, orging, because words: "Infentem opeida,

The next morning, Mr. Corbett roshe had dreamed

a hand passing

He slipped and fell forwards against the white powder that no one know to tried again and again to, shriek alone,

be in his possession.

but his breath "would make no sound, before any

of the servants and crept backwards, and forwards, over the the bureau. His hands clutched, at thelle laid down the book and went His breath ould not come at all; He downed the dining room. As before. dining room, bookcases until ut do the book lifted it as he recovered Himself, we the door. What he had to do he fell backwards havingd

for again that the dictionary and rammar alone reja certain book and took it out of the and with his Anger he traced out the would do quickly,

where he lay At this point she was always words that had been written. The sation of

wweeping In the mained on the walling baresu; the book shel

morning the maid who was back on the second whell no feightoned that she broke into trils,1fe bold himself that he was do it tonights last night it would found

corruption crept into his now over him. He wished he had not to down to the dining-room

daad. The opened it at the end. Two more lines On hearing this, lean bake into trils. had been added, carrying the writing fresh screams, and Mrs: Corbett would not a snfvelling dotard

but men

she tion

by that wiser his down to the middle of the page. They have no more explanations. Mr. stronger, and

at on his knee and' sendt

Lust given by In the Corbett went out on to the states to superior to the common emotions of He imagined her lying very silil in simraltaneous collapse ball NË And what had brought the child there humanity, who held in his hands, the

her bed

Corbetta recent speculations, Lop still

the door-handle, But

that he most have Znstantly, assumed from her bed. On looking down into sources of ancient and secret power, fe held on

went down to Out of the money of the crab the lighted bak se o di Hei had known: what the mekage bis finger seemed to have grown had previous knowledge of this

He committed suicide and shivering. orical thing

stumbling block of

medical report de Bued Fround his handomnestil the handle the cause of Mry Corbett

Yen ha still clotched, with uprated strangulation of the windpipe by the andard Buddenly, the handa camera pressure of a hand which had left the wined and hang outwarde with the marks of Ita-fingers on his throats

Lran:"

Euro

b. In dentem, siophantis, Which he translated msrp

HAPE bean saxler, but him "afraid;{.

ATest

Into the tooth of the elephants Overturnér. Radom that the, water be park, was after all, the only numb could

and

she

ww

From this time on, his sequr island had poisoned must have been upast and had hequreddington, knowledge. ces in the City noticed a change in the absorbed by the rough doormat, She was spy, an antagonist. 15

aders, rather Babby, and unentar: witch quite web site: girls was fight years ok prising "old Corbett," Kia recent, Bour depression dropped from him; he some room told his wife that she was tired Zaypuries child, (when

not turn