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{'ALL RIGHTS Reserved.7 THE BLACK MAN'S. HAND.

VIOLET JACOB (Author of "The Shoopstealers,

terloper," sto.).

Bank Villa,

*The In.

I was quito a young man when I first made the dormaintance of my Aunt Bessie Arnot thirty years ago, and went to stay with her at

had

Scotch relations, and Aunt Besio, ray mother's sister seldom left the Bootch country town in which I was to spond the next three months sa her guest. I had Bnished my last university term and was preparing to read for the Bar, but my plans werd brought to a standstill when I strained my heart in a cross-country rice, and every. ing had to be left to slide in the general collapse which followed. The destor said I canst make up my mind to rest in some quiet bracing place,

My home was in the West of England and to myself and my parents, who were anything. but rich, the question of where I was to go was a diffionit ozie to answer, Bat Aunt Bessie answered it by suggesting that I should come to Bank Villa, where I could get strong low- land air and the good feeding. I needed. Accordingly. I started for the north...

Ann, Bessis had forbidden me to appear at breakfart, and she came upstairs when her own was over to see how many eggs she could make me enteraan KAM

That's your 1 great uncle Julias," she said, when I questioned her about the ploture,

I'm glad he's not my grandfather or your father either," said I, "for I don't like him.

(By this time I was sure that "I liked aunt

my very much.)

Well, I'm afraid nobody did,” replied the laughing, except, possibly, that man standing behind him; and I only grasss he did because he came all the way back to Sectland with him. How to managed to exist in this climate I san not understand, and why, having saved his master faithfully for so many years she ended as he did I cannot imagine either."

* What did he do ?" I asked eagerly. "It's a long story," said Aunt Bessie, sitting down on the foot of my bed."Uncle Julius was my father's oldest brother, and I can re member him as an old man living in this house, He had gone to India in his youth and settled in Madras, as your grandfather did, where he made a moderato fortune. I was dreadfully afraid of him so a child, I remember. He had a loud voice, and used Indian expressions which I did not understand, and whisk frightened me because they seemed to my childish mind like some sort of magie."

"And did you know the black man broko in

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"No," said Annt Beside. “He was gone years bly want, who met me on the platform of before I knew Unclo Julius, and the only Dalbraith station, was as much unlike the hard-person I over saw when I came to visit Featured Scotswoman dest to fiction as anyone him WBE... a Man called Thomas, who could be. Everything about har was soft. She seemed to be the sole creature about the place had soft eyes, a soft voice, noft grey hair, and I suppose there was a cook somewhere, but the she wore an old-fashioned Indian shawi with a black man had done all the cooking until he pattern of soft colours, the lacked at me with disappeared, for his master liked Indian dishes. interest as we walked together to our destins Thomas was short and strong, with a scar on tion, and I know now that she was debating his face which went down one chook bone and gave how much good food she would be able to cram his mouth the look of being caught up one down my throat.

aide in a wry smile.

my aunt.

a

When Uncle Julius came home for good he brought a box with him containing a number of very valuable pieces of Indian jewellery which he lodged in the bank here. They were not his own property, but had been so it home with him by a friend who had died in India, to be kept un- til the owner's daughter should come of age. Once a year he used to take them from the bank to examine thom, for there were many unset stones which he would made a list of and count over to satisfy himself that all were safe The block man was the only creature who knew where he kept them; for Uncle Jallas trusted since he landed in India. People said that he him implicity and had been served by him over never forgave himself for this, for one night when the box was in his possession hero, the dian disappeared and the jewels with him.

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My next sensation was of waking with the same jerk, and as I had submerged my head in the sheets as before I peeped out from ander thest. A light was again showing in a patch behind the purbing, and as I asswait I remembered with a pang that the moon was but threstags ok nad that I had been the orscont go down in a rift of cloud as I walked home in the dust. God only know what that light might be. It was not the moon, beesuse there was no moon there and then the certainty rushatever me that whatever it was, the native was pointing at 14.

that despair.

makes

Tarda, brave, but be that at it may, it is suspense that makes many people mad I struck a light and sat up. One glance at the wall was erongh to show me what I dreaded to sea. He was - pointing steadily at the curtains, courage an

There is no terror so appalling as that of the unknown, and I sprang out of bed, dashed to the window and pulling back the heavy mereen, saw that there were people in the garden.

The reality of the sight struck a new note and almost banished the saportitions miasma that had gathered round me. In tangible things I do not think I was a odward, and the notion that some naprincipled persons had broken into my aunt's little domain stirred my wrath. I mover. denbted that the light under the apple trees was, the light of a lantern, though there was no lantern to be seen and I merely took its presence for grouted. A mist soomed to hayo stisen at the bottom of the garden which made a diffused shine through the apple boughs and their arms stood in sharp angles above the luni- nous mass,

In the midst of it the figures of two men wore working at something in the ground. Their backs were towards me, and their move ments made me fancy they were digging; but I could form no idea of what misoner of men they were, nor could I be absolutely certain of their occupation. But in any case they were after no

The reaction from my morbid fear caused by the sharp surprise was strong on us and I slip- pet on my shoes and an overcoat, and let myself softly out of the house. The laminous laze under the treas was so steady that I crept for werd guided by it, taking cover from bash to bush till I reached the grass on which the trees stood:

A heap by on the ground hidden under what looked like a table-cover, and the strange bug?, gestion of its outline made in patise, taken by sudden panie. I stood stock still, my quees lunge was choked in my throat. shaking under me, and the ery that rose from my

The men were stooping, but they turned to- Inwards me. A deep hole yhried behind them st the foot of the largest train, and I saw that they worked neither by torch nor by lantern, but by the subdued glare of the laminous mist

We took our way mesoma tiny publio plea sure ground and up a road ascending between long wall and the deep cloft laid out in nursery gardens which formed the past boundary of the town.

That's Bank Villa," said my W

were passing under a small stone house standing on a mound which rose so steeply on the other side of the wall that the Villa was perched above our heeds. It was an odd-looking ittle place and the horrid word Villa, bad prepared me for something much more modern and leas solid. On that grey afternoon its dark stone and the dark shrubs emrounding it were all merged into a damp monotone of vol ours, and its laurel bushes pressed close about itin's way that was both exclusive and protect tug; a few larger trees surrounded it, too, and it had a slice of garden which crowred the back

“Your great-uncle was a sour, hard man, but and ended in a double row of gnarled apple he grew user and harder after the ostastrophe, trees. It was dull, sombre, and early Victorina; his honesty had been unimpeachable, and it was What humanity he had seemed to go from him, and though it stood at right angles

the road to and I could not see its windows, I somehow said that the blow struck him to the earth, knew by instinct that it had Venetian blinds. He shut himself up here and led the life of a What made it wausub was the sanalle semi-elus. hermit. He would be seen pacing about under sio porch supported by Faladian pillars which the windows or sitting alone in the porch, look- sprnug from its sile, leaking down upon un ing down over the bank; at last he did not through the tree-stems. It reminded me of a even do that, but took what exercise he needed mnaleam. I had once seen in a wood, I among these old apple trees at the end of the gor thought how bally my aunt and her house on whores at lust nearly eighty years could not be seen from the road.

old-his brain was tormented by the idea that the black man was pointing at him; for this was his room, and the picture hang where it does now. Ton-see that the land 48 stretched this wayne T

matched each other, fed

I went upstairs early that night, for my journey

had tired me more than I fancied, hot though my belongings were unpacked, and everything was in order I did not get inte bed at once. My little room was very comfort able, and I sat down at the Bro, as tired people so aften do, to enjoy the pleasant feeling that my next move would land you between the shoots,

I made no comment as my suht stopped, for strange feeling was creeping over my skin which even the sunlight coming into the room did not dispôl. – Thể hours in lich I had toss Every room worth the name, whether ancient ed hot trying to get, the hand of the native -or modem, has its own expression, ita distinctive into his

in the picture came back place propor atmosphere. Some rooms are churlish, some to my mind with an added horror. Uncle parky, some tragic, some stiranlating. This one Julius had no instilistion for suppos- was both sang and uncouth. There were hobing that he pointed: at him, but why on either, aide of the grate, and the one window had to whom the Indian was nothing. was hidden by dull red moroon curtains. The been perturbed half the night by the contrary armchair that I est in would fetch nowadays a large som at a sale, and the bed, which stood along the wall opposite to the window, had a chintz valance with a various pattern of po godae. The paper wea of an old-fashioned, nondescript design which I cannot now recall but which wore the quist, non-committal look of everything else. The dominant suggestion of it all was an unobtrusive secrecy.

There was only one object between the four walls which made any demand on the cocupant, and that was the picture hanging above the mantel-piooo. I lay back against my cushions, and, streteling out my feet into the fender, began to study it g

It was a three-quarter length portrait of two people, one of these pictures which, as paint ings, are neither very good nor very bad, rop resenting an Englishman and an Indian whom, from his subordinate position behind the form er's chair, I took to be his servant. The master sat squarely on his red velvet seat, & stout, hard-mouthed individual, wearing the high neckcloth of the early nineteenth century, His eyes were small and set close to a large nose, and his gold watch chain with its tassel of hanging seals, stretched ostentatiously across his stomach. He did not attract me at all,

dirtotion of his hand P. It ang too foolish, too senseless and I felt that I could not make myself ridiéulous by telling my aunt about it. Had I experionood no thrill of misgiving I might have spoken, but the gooseskin or my body kept me silent from shame. Because I knew myself for a fool I would not share the knowledge,

I

got up, drasssil, and want out of the house se guickly as I could, for I wanted to be away from any influence, which could remind me of great nule. Julius and his servant and with the clear air the feverish notions of might plaskened their hold upon me and I was ready to jeer at my own folly. I was got till bed-time that say uncomfortable feelings came back

dif.

There was nothing for H.but to put away by force of will the silly creepiness which the thought of that plature gave me. Even could I have brought myself to tell my aant of my foulty there was no other room in the little house that she could have given me must make up my mind to live with the black and his master for the next three months and the sooner I got used to doing so the better. When I turned in that night I avoided so much as glancing at the wall while I undressed,

Perhaps it was the fatigue of my sleepless hours, perhaps the day I had spent out of doors in any case. I slept without waking; and hav

I ing, I thought, overcome my nerves and

my nonsense, went to bed with ut misgivinga, and for whole week ate, thought and rested like the healthy man I hoped soon to be nynia, But

I know enough about Indian types to guess that the native was a Mudrassi, for though he was only moderately black, the out of his smug, mution-chop whiskers and his pugares bore the stamp of southernmost India, as I had seen it in the Indian piotare books which were took care to look at the picture as little us poss the delight of my youth, and which had been sent home by my mother's father, who was a I supposed by the end of that time I hað | Madras marchant. I wondered if it were he who hung on the wall, though the portrait did not tally with descriptions of him I had

any heard.

sible.

grown overbold, I was so much stronger and the walks I took daily were clearing the cobwebs ont of my head. I was able to catch the black man's eye anmoved, and look at his ring-decked hand as if it had never come between me and sanity. I was in this comfortable mood that I put my head on the pillow one night and blew out the candle

It must have been some time, after midnight

whe

when. I awoke with a jerk. The flickering relight was dancing over the room, and some thing stronger than myself directed my eye to the wall above it. The native was looking to wards me as he always did but my host almost stopped as I saw his hand side

The servant was gazing into space with his dull liquid eyes his left hand wes on the back of his roaster's chair, and he pointed with his right

to something outside the picture, some thing which ought to be standing just where my bed stood. There was a heavy gold ring on his little finger set with a red stone, which was remarkable from its conical shape, for it stout up a high point above the setting. Behrad the pair was a landscape with a white building that looked like a pulsos and a row of palm- trees. The date on the painting was 1933. It was painting straight at the window.

I may it to my shame, but without another Imaginative people and those who are în s nervous state have no business to sit with their look in the fatal direction of the mantelpiece, minds fired on one particular object the last I felt back in ked and drew the cloth over my head, Dee o'clock struck and then two, and

in

thing at night. If my aunt had only known still I lay with only a little corner of the sheet how late it was when I tarned my eyes from turned back near my month that I might the couple in the tarnished gilt frame, ale

breathe. +

I was damp all over, and when at

would, I verily believe, have come up and put last I ventured to look out the fire had died

to bed like a naughty child. I lay down st last, still thinking of them, and when I fell down, sind I felt easier beginse there was noth saleep I dreamed of them all night at least ing now to reveal those figures on the wall to I think I dreamed, for I dropped into one of my terrified sight. A patch of light shone in those fitful slumbers in which one can never the window, but the moon, whose beam I took be quite sure whether one sloops ar wakes. But it to be, would show me nothing through the all night long I saw the man and his Indian ser moreon curtains. I turned over to sleep, and Fant. The strange thing was that the native no sleep found me at last. longer pointed to my bed but to the window... All next day I wrestled with my fears. I did Idid not strike a light in my wakeful intervals, not believe I had dreamed and could not con- for I was wearied out with the perpetual vislou of the two men and had no desire to give it reality. But my overwrought nerves strove the

|

One was my great-uncle Julius and the other It was by that light that I know their faces,

was a man scarred from lip to cheekbone..

I remember the sound of my own voice as I fall-nothing more

When the world stirred next morning I was picked up from the grass where I lay insonsible and barried In, and for maty weeks I hang be- tween life and death. My aunt nursed me, and was that she would have the ground under the when I was able to speak, my one prayer to her

apple trees dug up. It was the doctor who per- sunted her to consent, assuring her that hor

sal might cost me my life.

Three feet under the surface they uncovered man's skeleton, which lay with one hand out- stretched. On the third inger was a gold ring with a coniosi rad stone

I never went back to Bank“ Villa after Thy recovery, and five bars later Aunt Bessie died, leasing, everything to me. All her possessions are mine now, except that one portrait. which I burnt with my own bands, and Bank Villa, which I sold. It was when the new owner was doing up the house that he discovered a strange thing. Just behind the bed that I had slept in Uncle Julins' bad-they came upon a hole in the wall which had been papered up.

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