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My mind reverted to the three old and distorted people down- stairs, and I tried to keep it upon that topic. The sombre reds and blacks of the room troubled me:' even with seven candles the place was merely dim. The one in the falcove flared in a draught, and the fire-flickering kept the shadows and penumbra perpetually shifting and stirring. Casting about for a re- medy. I recalled the candles I had seen in the passage, and, with a slight effort, out into the moon- light, carrying a candle and leaving the door open, and presently re- turned with as many as ten.

These I put in various knick- knacks of china with which the. room was sparsely adorned, lit and placed where the shadows had lain deepest some on the floor, some in the window recesses, until at last my seventeen candles were so ar- ranged that not an inch of the room but had the direct light of at least one of them. It occurred to me that when the ghost came, I could; warn him not to trip over them.

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Ellsworth Vines

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The room was now quite brightly went on, and the shadows I feared "that the room is haunted?" illuminated. There was something and fought againist returned, and spoke no longer as one who greets me. Friat a step an intruder, but as one who grieves very cheery and reassuring in these crept in upon little streaming flames.

and gained on this side of me and then for a broken friend.

"the room snuffing them gave me an occupa- on that.

“Yes,” said I; tion. and afforded a reassuringi It was like a ragged storm-cloud haunted."

"And you have seen it. And we, sense of the passage of time. sweeping out the stars. Now and

Even with that, however, the then one returned for a minute, who have lived here all our lives, brooding expectation of the vigil and was lost again. I was now al- have never set eye, upon it. Be- weighed heavily upon me.

with the horror of cause we have never dared....Tell most frantie

candle in the alcove suddenly went session deserted

It was after midnight that the coming darkness, and my self-posts, is it truly th old earl who

"No," said I; "It is not.” me. I leaped,

"l tod you so," said the old lady fout, and the black shadow aprang panting and dishevelled, from

back to its place. I did not see the candle to candle, in a vain struggle with the glass in her hand. "It is candle go out; I simply turned and against that remorseless advance. his poor young countess who was &saw that the darkness was there, I bruised myself on the thigh

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"Well?" they said. "The wurst of all the things that haunt poor mortal man," said I

as one might start and see the un-against the table, I sent a chalr expected presence of a stranger. headlong, I stumbled and fell and Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London."By Jove!" said I aloud: "that whisked the cloth from the table "and that is, in all its nakedness

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Abruptly this was blown light nor sound, that will not bear all rose.

with reason, that deafens and leisurely manner to relight the out, as I swung it off the table, by

the wind of my sudden movement, ed me through the corridor, it darkens and overwhelms. It follow-

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My first match would not strike and immediately the two remaiBfought against me in the room," and as I succeeded with the second light still in the room a red light I stopped abruptly. There war something seemed to blink on the that ataved off the shadows from an interval of silence. My hand wall before me. I turned my head |

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sighed and spoke, "That is it," and relight it! Areplace were extinguished. I rose

sald he. "I knew that was it. A I turned to where the flames were Power of Darkness. To put such. at once to my feet,

"Odd!" I said. "Did I do that dancing between the glowing a curse upon a woman! It lurks (myself in a flash of absent-minded-coals, and splashing red reflections there always. You can feel it even upon the furniture, made two steps in the daytime, even of a bright| the grate, and incon-faummer's day, in the hangings, in I walked back, rellt one, and as tinently the flames dwindled and the curtains, keeping behind you I did no I saw the candle in the vanished, the glow vanished, the however you face about. In the right sconce of one of the mirrors reflections rushed together and dusk it creeps along the corridor wink and go right out, and almost vanished, and as I thrust the candle and follows you so that you dare. immediately its companion follow between the bara darkness closed not turn. There is

ness 7"

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Fear in that

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"HURRAH FOR THE FASCISTS"

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ing the wick neither glowing nor from my brain. The candle fell smoking, but black. While I stood from my hand. guping the candle at the foot of the bed went

I flung out my arms in a vain out, and the shadows effort to thrust that ponderou wards me

blackness away from me and, lift- “This won't do!" said I and first my

ing up my voice, screamed with all might once, twica, thrice. one and then another candle on the Then I think I must have staggered that Britain has ever had. But the mantelshelf followed.

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My head was roughly bandaged into existence were to return the But then, in a volley there and the man with the withered Rump of extreme Socialism to pow Vanished four lights at once in dif-arm was watching my face. 1er, all hope of this country's re- ferent corners of the room, and I looked about me, trying to rememcovery would collapse amid the con- struck another match in quivering ber what had happened, and for a fusion of Communist experiments., haste, and stood hesitating wither space I could not recollect. I tart At this next vital election Bri- the Blackshirts! They are a sign]. They will soon lose any lingering among ; ides that this campaign is trying to ed to the corner and say the old tain's survival as a Great Power that something is stirring As I stood undecided an invisible woman, po longer abstracted, pour will depend on the existence of the youth of Britain. They are the introduce foreign methods and prin- hand seemed to sweep out the two ing out some drops of medicine wall-organised Party of the Right, symbol of that, new

pu- ciples into our country. candles of the table. With À cry from a little blue phial into a glans. ready to take over responsibility for buc life which alone can roums It of terror. I dashed at the alcore, "Where am I?" I asked: "I seem national affairs with the same from its torpor then into the corner, and then into to remember you and yet I cannot directness as Mussollal and Hitler Hundreds of thous the window, relighting three, as remember who you are, have displayed,

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