| . Extraordinary Discovery That SES Young Mrs. Grossman's Midnight Visitor Is an Ape That Has Been Trained to Be a ""Second- "A visage human, yet inhuman; little deep-set eyes, shining with J ; 5 ER k ! Story 23 phosphorescence; long hairy arms and clutching talons of hands." p> ih i : A x) Burglar sound asleep in her bed, Beside her lay her husband. The bedroom was at the front of their pleasant little Detroit flat and the bottom of the hed itselt was close to the wall. Beside it was a window opening into the street four stories telow. "Another hairy hang An' Hour before, Mrs. Grossman had . pushed this window up six inches trom the grasped the sill, Mrs. bottom to admit air. This was her nightly G ma duty after putting out the lights, because : Foss n broke the she slept on the outer side, close to that nightmare spell that window. After she had raised it she had stood there for a little time, looking at held her and sat bolt the tall tree close to the house. Its upri hi i » naked branches were beginning to show prig n her bed. promise of duds. She had thought how pretty the tree would be when Spring's touch had clothed it with leaves. Then she had tiptoed over and crent under the covers, quietly, so as not to awaken her husband, who was already asleep, And soon she was asleep, too. Then she began to dream. Tt seemed to her that she saw the room fust as it was when she had gone to bed, with the faint light from the street glimmering through the window. But--the window sash was arising slowly and silently! With the helplessness of nightmare she watched it slide up, slowly inch by inch. Then out of the semi-darkness beyond she Saw appear a great ugly hand, hairy and knotted. It was followed by a long, sin- ewey, hairy arm. The hand reached cautiously up and raised the drawn blind! . Mrs. Grossman struggled against ihe deepening of the nightmare terror. Now the sash had reached the top. She saw, apparently floating in the air behind where it had been, a pair of huge, staring ; A eyes, in the depth of which phosphores- d ¥ - . cences burned as they do in those of a dog. ! Even while the police were reason of its agility At first all she could ake out was the ig searching for its owner, J. and habits could | eyes. Then gradually a face became vis- K. Seeman, manager of a scale walls and oth- | fblel. It was human and yet not human; ) v ] : ' . Tl, | larger than & man's and evil, cunning and wba 1 x y oil concern, made report that er places that a brutal. . : a large ape belonging to him man could not. It | Another hairy hand. grasped the sili and--- 4 y ( i ] 8 had escaped the night be- would make a per {| the leering face drew closer and closer to An ; : fore. He came to the police fect "second-story" i outh twitched and she smelt . . ii station and identified the burglar. With a tremendous effort Mrs, Grossman : animal there as his own. Mr. With that thought broke the spell that held her and sat bolt " ; ; Seeman told the police that In mind detectives upright. But the thing that she had be. he had bought the monkey a made an examina. head, phat, the Bad Shou: har vii ho tow dave previous trom Lon of window ail, visions do when he pts awakens! on man whose name he could bureau drawers and It was still there! TE not recall. The creature had Jewel cases in And fits Mdacus jate was a far Ri attracted him by its un. houses and apart from her and a dar ¥ crouched upon ; : usual intelligence. ments recently rob- the window si with the long arms stretch- ? It had been docile and ex- bed. To their dis- ng out to her and the talons bent to seize teptionally well behaved, he appointment they her. . The nightmare had merged into reality-- Mr. Frederick Grossman, said, until the previous night. showed no prints and such a reality! Then it had been sittingata. that could be com- Mrs. Grossman fell back, fainting. As - . swered Swift, grimly. tap h husband across the face. He auekinsy TOU"E Mrs. Grossman, Who Had Such a Dis. Jerri, grimy whiskey. Whilols master shack wacnomerh Torch £ he finger usband across 'the ° ed. : . : " Z ' ey. . Fils eyes caught at once the shape of the tressing Experience with the Ape. Sout be ina, I won't the ape had poured out from this decanter But under the thing now almost fa the room, He saw ria ® He was rummaging 2 glass full of liquor and Seeman, as he bedroom window of the face with the malignant shining eyes Tras there? cried Sl about for his revolver when five policemen turned, saw it drink this down. A window one apartment that peering at him over the body of his wife, ceasad 0 answer. The knocking who had answered the call from the Gross. Was open behind it and it had leaped had been looted a Grossman jerked his pistol from beneath Cautiously t d th - fan apartment came marching through the through it, apparently to escape an ex- few weeks ago they his pillow and fired straight at it. Hones ' e farsa the knob and goo. By the aid of flashlights from the pected punishment. He had called and found an opal rin, There came an inhuman shriek. But Ing thro A oor a - eight inches, peer- Grossman window they had seen spots of searched for it in vain, part of pb when, an fnstant ater, hs eyes had cleared at Tush © crack into the lighted cor blood upon a branch of the tree near the Mr. Seeman's home is a good mile from which had vanished - from the flash of the pistol, the Thing was "Phere's nobod t thera!® Window. They had followed these spots the Grossmans' apartment, The ape had on the night the Sone! : 4 mystifieg, coo E08 ere!" He turned, from the bottom of the tree trunk along a made its way unseen through the Streats Place was entered Grossman jumped to the floor. One The e. cement walk that led fo the basement en- between, It is probable that when Mrs. It was thinly cov- quick glance showed him blood spatterel trance to the apartment house, Grossman stood at the window looking ered with earth 2 7 upon the bed. He saw hat the window J : +1t dodged into the kitchen," said Swift. out hing Soiree that it was even then . which only recently MEESSSEmm . " Jas raised to the top, and as he leaned ou door flew o ~ The police took away the barricade and crouching on the Opposite side of the had been mud Its " Drawing sy Bea " abe ting his hand rested upon another red, slammed shut, but in the brief Instant of ciUHONSIY dpened the door. From inside Street and was attracted ave Toenbite of position showed A Ming = Abe Rue rd i Ma? splotch. He scanned the tree, There was its open} came a moaning and a frigh Ler robe. It might even have been | ng Swift a g and a frightened chatter Nn have been in the that it had been o pening saw. silhouetted in it a tree at the time. Certainly something thrown from the Grossman's Experiences So Closely Paralleled. nothing in it. He looked down at the ing. Revolvers ready, one officer flashed street. It vas deserted, Be nis aaa Mideous Rgure, long armed, shaggy, stand. 15 light around the itle sour." - drew it up Wo that particular window. window, Grossman turn, ° v y " up i ] voluntarily he closed his eyes to shut He shut the door with a bang, the ape had succeeded in entering the Just where we would expect to find it The tests were made again and again, phoned to the police and strove "It ain't a man!" he shouted. "Get a Grossman apartment without havin k- it " « Grossman to consciousness. > he Spin and ropuigine. haogl, Strange. big crate." . ened the occupants, what would rye fatled ny re . wih Ing be fo a arr oo wor did rnd been given As he worked he heard far below a loud own Lae AM pon A heavy crite was found and pushed De result? Would Poe's Story of the Rue articles, it had been th d Quor did it go through with the - , step. He heard his wife Abies the fhe fh) or sted Morgue have then found its parallel in fact ," sald the wn uy by the ery. At other times it was exception: : 3 . and the bodies of husband , 3 . . . . . so } an Surned to or la Je had a, Bio 0 $2 And os on Tiont of Siscaverad next a -- P's ees theory. They ren decided to te gp poo Tokyit a] Mee Hyde! § fou monkey Dr, Ho i ta ot thie. Tn the floor and under the Sofa. , dark figure mse upon its feet and hands lated, as Were the women in*that dark ro liquor and placed it alone in a room con- It was now plain that the beast had re. which ae ann. apartment is hou py [00uth open in terror, wag leaning against nd shamble toward him. As the figure Wor was it : taining a set of bedroom furniture, Watch. ful Joseph Swift, his wie and Seep chilies. the jamie Faring at the nang that had en- Approas Bed he Sloss TotaNted. pally fat? Was Its purpose in entering that ne ulough olen they a. Be ape 80 \ . Ted. e caught another impse of the e back ol e crate an " 8 . was! no FE Re EE THOR TSE hi bas ae Som TY Sal teh a ITIL mee rr Eine whe eal Jou0L. aftr' tae Febery husband by the s! 3 shape, ose arms th m 0 If the aftimal had spled Mrs. Gross. et! 8 ward! " . a, she sald. "There's somebody ae hed ienaciagly aga inst Ain kL] Be. gd aid sank dows, whimpering and ,,,.'% Polk hero pred te window: : Anyang smaller Sruwers at the Sop. oh Path wis i fusgested br She ! cr048 : « grea 1 A cunn or & training boxes cases, mast . Soeatse ol Doing at ene oor". rhieh nd ah Sima "Bit eapeq ned, Kitch door," closed Them tape Tore human than apelike. It must only when oe po ne sore catch ald ho th Towed he Fae The mas Cant 'el [Ee 1 1 tn SAS Sed 4p) Tek from on of lo into 16 climbed up. Furmermara lish fmocesd in opening her Then ahd PA in is curing i ¢ . R clim up. rtheérmore, the w 8 articles in each hand, it crept te that Mr to a rapid, loud, ppug $ quickly was fastened and cafried away 19. Jojice opening of the window had been silen 3 wi ean A ' "Something's the, matter! fe, moaning and headquarters. a o guarded. the fast that it had sough ing the sunnerved by the shook. Astonis similar r . a Lys on ry om: iS rt Bi ane SESE = i : The two children, a in : <2 e Rue "4 Seemed to the police highly < from their room and clung to the shits 3 it, fhe Bad Man, pop?" fone. been its exploits--iacking only the tragic All thie implied t training their mothers nightgown, : ; n't Know what t was, som" ah. end of that classic. 4 for what? Well, for instance, an ape by YY oune Mrs. Frederick Grossman was knocking as of fists upon a door.