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THE HAILEYBURIAN THURSDAY, JULY 3lst, 1930 | by CHAPTER I The House of Silence jlard. The ruts seemed to slant -- jaway j E he emer- The wet road sloped steeply |2"Y: I jammed on t before me as the car lurched over gency brake, the roadster canted the rise jalarmingly over to one side, Rain streamed out of the saree eee Bt mars ice ing darkness into the radiance of}, es Tee ye? Ee i ke "a the headlights, drummed on the| Ste Saar top of the roadster, splashed and, 2° : : ad i aaiee ae leat would have tipped and gone gurgled in the ditches and mud-| , dy pools. The known world had) burtling down the embankment. resolved itself into a jouncing When I found pe ie. peice area of light which presented no|4s settling comfortably into the more tangible goal than a strip | mud, with the left wheels in a rut of yellow mud with gleaming | that ype Pau ae black ruts beyond a drenching|PeTmitted myself my first deep : |breath in five minutes, turned off screen, ; pio bop Down the hill went the can, (ie ee ees consoled myse i i j ] ii La e . swerving and skidding in the|W1tn 4 Cigarette greasy mud. The road was nar-| Rain drummed a triumphant row and dipped sheer to the right | tattoo on the top of the Cat walt into a black void.; even in dry|streaked in the light like a host weather it would have been tick-;0f dancing spears. _And there I lish going, but now it was peril-| was at ten o'clock of a drenching {night, stranded on a dreary coun- ous. My hands were stiff from|try road leading to some obscure clutching the wheel. My foot|country village of which I had pressed on the brake. The car | quite forgotten the name, tobogganed almost to a stop and|_ "This," I _sal d, wrathfully, then, as the rear began to swing| "serves me right." ; dangerously toward the em- A gypsy motor tour, with no bankment, slipping on the trea-|particular destination in view cherous surface, it leaped for- and no plan save that of explor- ward and muddy water showered|ing any highways and byways high in the air. | that might look interesting, had The roadster skidded crazily on|seemed all very well when I was the descent in spite of all my ef-|in Toronto. There, the countless forts to keep it to a straight|restrictions had lent glamor to course. The hood swung about|such a holiday. It wasn't so gla- and a wet green mass of trees|morous now, with rain pouring leaped into the glare of the head-|down and the carrup to its hubs lights. I bore down on the|in mud. ; wheel, righted the car, and it} I didn't ip just what to do. went sliding and swaying down|I had no wficlination to get out ( ' the village might be Yet, on the the slope again. It was a light/and walk; roadster, there were no chains,|severél miles away. and traction was wretched. I other hand, the prospect of spend- could only trust to luck and my|ing the night in the cramped con- own skill to bring it out of those | fines of the roadster was not ap- breath-taking swerves toward|pealing. It appeared as though the black embankment. |I must choose one of these two Again the gleaming treetops/evils, and it was difficult to de- leaped into the glare. I gripped|cide which was the lesser. the wheel tensely. The carseem-| I was reflecting on the advisa- ed quite uncontrollable on that|bility of settling the matter by greasy hill. The hood came slow-[the toss of a coin when I saw a Leslie McFarlane ly around but the rear wheels yellow. gleam of light, through |slipped as though they were in|the swaying trees far ahead, to A few inches more and the} t the left of the road. It shone for a moment, vanished, then re- appeared. A fresh gust of wind swept the rain roaring down the road and the light was again obliterated as the intervening trees bowed and shifted to the gale. In the next instant, to leave no further doubt in my mind, a wild glare of light- ning wrenched the whole coun- tryside into momentary view and beyond the tossing branches I saw the slanted roof, the high chimneys and the angled gabels of a house. For a moment, it was silhouet- ted against the livid sky, with its foreground of wildly © waving branches, and then the night blotted it out once more and even the yellow gleam was hidden. But the fleeting glimpse had been sufficient. I switched out the lights, stepped out of the car into the soggy mud, and splashed off through the downpour. One accustomed to city life has little conception of the absolute blackness of night beneath a wet and cloudy sky; out here on this lonely road the darkness knew no degree, it was simply and ut- terly black. The night was full of the roaring of wind and rain, the earth and the trees and the sky became a profoundly unfah- omable unity and I floundered a- lone the road like a blind man. More than once, IT-wandered into the ditch, the pelting rain quick- ly drenched my clothes until the garments stuck clammily to my body. Worst of all,I could catch no further glimpse of the light that had gleamed to beckon me from the shelter of my stranded car. After about five minutes of this I had just about decided to give up in disgust and make my way back to the roadster, which at least offered a dry refuge, when a violent flash of lightning abruptly revealed two huge stone pillars at either side of a wide driveway at right angles to the road. not altogether against made my way between the pil- lars and went up the drive, grate- ful for the firm gravel underfoot. Soon I saw a light shinit.g be- yond the trees. for the light I had seen before, but then I saw that it-was mov- ing, and in another moment the bushes flanking the drive sprang into mammoth eyes glared suddenly from the rainswept gloom. 4 automobile sped toward me, with a swift crunching of gravel. high rate of speed and as it bore down on me without slackening pace I scrambled into the under- growth. car must have seen me, but the automobile did not stop; on the contrary, it seemed to leap ahead. swept past I had a glimpse of a dark figure crouched over wheel. one pressed forward against the window. lights on the instrument board T saw completely mask. had barely time to register on my mind and then the car was gone, plunging down the driveway in the rain. bobbed up and down; the beam of the head lamps illuminated the wet green trees and the white road. self that I must have been mis- taken, but I was certain that I had seen aright, fleeting though my glimpse of that masked head had been. gazing into the blank darkness of teeming rain that had swal- lowed up the sinister car. was only the wind, the threshing of the trees, the drumming of the storm. was almost as if nothing had hap- pened. ally turned and went on up the drive. It wound about among the trees and in a few minutes ¥ came within sight of the house itself. It was a huge stone buil- ding of the type popularly de- scribed as "rambling" and, al- though it may have possessed a certain quaintness in daylight, just now in the pouring rain with thunder rumbling and growling overhead it was ponderous and gloomy, as forbidding as a prison. The upper floors were in dark- ness but a few scattered rectang- les of light from the downstairs windows indicated that the occu- pants had not yet retired for the night. A dim and solitary glow illum- inated the front door and I as- cended the steps into a_ small porch. The shaded lamp reveal- ed a massive door; a brass wolf's head grinned at me from an old- fashioned knocker. [I seized it: and struck sharply, twice. Silently the door swung open. But the shadowy hallway be- yond the threshold was_ utterly deserted. The episode of the mysterious automobile, the masked man who had peered at me in his swift passing, the generally sombre as- pect of this lonely mansion and the dreariness of the dark and gusty night had combined to tighten my nerves and I admit that I gave a convulsive start when the door fell open before me before the brazen echoes of my knock had died away. And when I confronted nothing but an empty hallway, a most un- pleasant shiver went over me. However, common sense quick- ly asserted itself. The door had simply been left ajar and had Clearly, the storm gods were mers aot The walking was easier now. At first I took it a vivd radiance and two An The car was travelling at a The occupants of the It was a heavy sedan, and as it the In the rear seat, some- In the faint glow of that the face was almost hidden by a black This astonishing circumstance Its crimson tail light The car swept between the stone pillars, turned to the opened before the impact. That left and disappeared. was all. I felt an odd little tingling at} 1 waited. 35 = my spine. No one came. I listened. The house was in absolute silence. : Id ¥ pee comed abated eel eeu Not a voice, not a footfall, nota sound of any kind. Outside the porch, the rain streamed relentlessly. After an interval I stepped for- ward, seizing the grinning wolf's head, and knocked again. Still there was no response. I was certain the house was oc- cupied, else why were the lights turned on and the door unlocked? stepped into the hall and shout- Ede For a full minute I stood there, There howling of the It "Anyone home?" No answer save the echo. I seized the knocker and raised a clamor that would have awaken- ed amummy. Then I called out Puzzzled and disturbed, I fin- Manitoba Celebrated Diam ond Jubillee on Tuesday . again, and listened expectantly for some sound of movement in the depths of the house, but the silence was profound. It was more than profound--it was un- canny. 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