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Lmtr-- my daughter, Miss Soulhley." forbidding. The" in Idnll 1lttt that Ink“ ham he. unbition nad might have“ n mound otheethttteainhuertts. "ti-taatt,andth.uemnasnabo. "uut--brtutu.gt-ed Emma-"mt Bowulumihbmovn mmlhmhtbmtot ammmm.mmum, dnrhfae.--rerh-atritureve% 'h.m'dtth*ttr, "r-d-ta-tttr. 2‘32“.“th “1". I we!" candles. Ind Pd have , m 'itrt-rtuttt-iGfe.u. “a. “M‘IHWIQ *m‘dl‘. _ - n Im‘kwihhhr" Juno... nh\thI.doe-‘ octet-glue hf'nhw-nu. 'Aunhm mambo-um". P .t._rt--t-iru". lint ”Manchu-1* '"""lFiiiire"i'i7.u7"L"a'."Jdl'l'"l ”will: uni“ 1t'.'2S'gr.rE?jLiitttiiiFicitiiii7ieh"Te'il *“m‘fiu-d-imummn.‘ t*ie2t-"ltui'"i6fFiG"iGGic%"'=""iiia". Brey.yv-elt*-mrukiu Ana-m 'i"auaiasieitesemstt?tt81u,!'.; ,“T_V~_ tlto1l.l'd2h'f8.fsTuM.tie She smiled at me, took me )/5.,t,'.t.e' some of the gnu. down-stairs rooms) of the manor house. The place my almost Georgian. There were manyf little ateoves-the best of hidingu puee.--lrtd long corridors and a), definite tlight of stairs. I was amaz- ed at the size of it. "And what traditions it must have."' I exclaimed. "You tii?) Miss Southley. You were going toL tell me about the ghost." , She paused and looked at me. I'vei decided I hadn't better." 1 "Pm so sorry. It would give an added test to this vuit--" "Bat you wouldn't believe it--" "And you wouldn’t want me to.' Ghost stories aren't meant to be be- Ahmad Du left the room, and I spoke in the deadly quiet that fol- lowed his departure. _ "What is it, Miss Southley'!" I uk- ed her is gently " I could, "What has frightened you?" “I must be ill," we said. Nt was put §hmad Dis." " know-and that wild light in his eyes was natural. It was just the gill? from he Candie." 5 I did not forget that this was nut-f and in the man. But by some Saunici conniving of tate and circumstance; his cartdie-iight had found a reneetior/ in his eyes. I am a cold-blooded, setCl disciplined man. Ind it was not just; imagination, not just delusion on moon-madness thnL revealed to me N “um, greenish glue, not unlike the light to be seen in the eyes of “F7 tain gran beasts of prey in the black depths. , as I saw. Her eyes were fixed on the form of Ahmand Das, the servant, who was doing some household task at the end of the long room. For an instant I also followed his millions with a senseless feusrination. He was on his hands and feet on the rug, evidently cleaning a soiled place on th-- 'rarpet. And even in that awk- ward position he seemed to move with a stanza, feline grace, I lithe sinuousncss beyond Ill words. ‘ Very slowly I tdraed. I don't know what I expected to Bee. But I certain- ly expected nothing as commonphce She was watching something just over my shoulder. Her gaze was " most trance-like. The light went out of her eyes, and they widened, too. And A no less perceptible change came in the set of ha lips. There is no other word. In . mo- ment. the via-hm and mystery that an all lilo in; Win; in her eyes And dancing in her smile. Her color m at its height, and I was drinking it like wine. In the next it was wholly gone. Probably my first impression was that her color was fading. “Pull-do!“ Ivy-myo- nutm- 'qmamttekt-ithitst-rismhte 'it-eh-x-io-ss tt.rNem.ermermh.dorttiher ens. thedaueioat_aadfanittekttse euetrirxhereheeu. Bhewaainthe 1tuduof-t"tse-tuitttines also were forgotten. Thea, ley unm treatments utterly died “Murine. "Indiana-Mulch“ down was In. Ind all“. I "htaehaireetrur.asdtirGsv- as 'tri'titi.iliiiitt4 . muvuum ,"l=hlt'ig,t,tt Ilr,tet um .4 on a. 'N ““ . would fol- years uk told a - negrm That "Tr-- I Let's '""i Nf y "That is substantially the legend, F b Dr. Long. or course I don't want you "to think twice about ib-if you do you r would take your bag and co. For . years and years the story was just told at intervals, and not even the negroes were afraid. But two years _ "Tr-- But gou've heard enough. iLet’s talk of something else." I Nf I'm to cure this house of its (troubies, you’d better tell me all."j " told her. I l She braced herself and continued." ',Stte was a sensibie, cool-humid JAmerican girl; and I had no doubt[ (but that the story was hard for her in) tell. Already l was groping for, {some natural explanation for the le- f "The stories all agreed on one point. l The beast was always seen either on ‘or about this hill on which the house [is built. And then, one midnight, a ‘negro camp with a qandle on some [errand into the library. the room we l, are now in. He told rather a straight istory afterward. He couldn't see at (lril He just heard. something bounding about in the shadows-- lplaying with the curtains. His can- ‘dle-light showed him something big Ins an enormous hound-and Fellow E ind black in color. "Two years ago Sam, one of our colored men, came wild-eyed into the house and said that he had seen the thing just below our veranda-. and all of us laughed at him. Pen haps a month later one of the house, maids came with almost an identical Btorr--eshe and one of the young col- ored men had been walking about the hillside. Ind it had suddenly emerged from the Ihmbbery. It nukes such th story particularly disquieting, doc- tor. to have two people verify it." (Continued next week) ivague. Now and again they would “at a glimpse of something tawny “and alive in the thickets. Everybody lLauzheu ac first. But as time went Hm it got increasingly hard to laugh. l; TI," many people told the same story. I And (me night. a traveler stopped at “he home" simply speechless with {fright He said that a tiger, clear 93ml tawny in the moonlight, had fol- }lowt-(l his horse. tint-mm mqlgii8ttuttyt "Ot course that’s just a detail. The legend that has grown up deals with tht. stories that the belated people told-about something they saw thereafter." "When morning came all the ne~ goes and my father and the Hindu tracked the tiger down-and finally killed him in the thickets. And when they trot back Ahmad Du was born. On the very day, 1nd the same hour, that the tiger died. “They say that they will pin, for litenlly hours with their human my --Nat u a at play- with a mom. with the molt terrible cruelty than an be banned. The bent attach- ed pr father then, amrleaped through the window And escaped. into the marshes. “In AG if“)... Inn-um: an. ml- a... Ian-u Put tion that she “a, her would: we: even mm thM than the, other- wiuwonldhv-hun. hit-In- qunstic-hlv tho brawn mum to wry her A-and mart" you hum laughing about dun. nuleW' Huh-4 p... ”Hulk-Dun DI. B. 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