money out of and that the seal would go to a hot place when he died was nearly crying with fear and old age he kept walking up and down the room in the half light repeating his son s name over and over again and asking if the seal ought not to make a in the case of his own landlord pulled me over to the shadow in the recess of the carved the boards were up and the rooms were only lit by one tiny oil lamp there was no chance of my being seen if i stayed still presently the groans below ceased and we heard steps on the staircase that was the seal he stopped outside the door as the and at the chain and he told to blow out the lamp this left the place in jet darkness except for the red glow from the two that belonged to and the seal came in and i heard throw himself down on the floor and groan ht b r breath and backed on one y the house op the beds with a shudder there was a cl of something and then shot up a pale blue green flame near the ground the light was just enough to show pressed against one corner of the room with the between her knees with her hands clasped leaning forward as she sat on the bed face down quivering and the seal i hope i may never see another man like that seal he was stripped to the waist with a wreath ot white as thick as my wrist round his forehead a salmon colored cloth round his middle and a steel on each ankle this was not awe inspiring it was the face of the man that turned me cold it was blue gray in the first place in the second the eyes were back till you could only see the of them and in the third the face was the face of a demon � a � anything you please except of the sleek old who sat in the day time over his turning downstairs he was lying on his stomach with his arms turned and crossed behind him as if he had been down his head and neck were the only parts of him off the floor they were nearly at right angles to the body like the head of a at spring it was ghastly in the centre of the room on the bare earth floor stood a big deep brass basin with a pale blue green light floating in the centre like a night light round that basin the man on the floor himself three times how he did it i do not know i could see the muscles ripple along his and fall smooth again but i could not see any other motion the head seemed the only thing alive about him except that slow curl and of the laboring back muscles from the bed was breathing seventy to the minute held her hands before her eyes and old at the dirt a house ofi sl that had got into his white beard was crying to the horror of it was that the creeping thing made no only crawled i and remember this lasted for ten minutes while the and shuddered and gasped and cried i felt the hair lift at the back of my head and my heart like a luckily the betrayed himself by his most impressive trick and made me calm again after he had finished that unspeakable triple crawl he stretched his head away from the floor as high as he could and sent out a jet of fire from his nostrils now i knew how fire is done � i can do it myself � so i felt at ease the business was a fraud if he had only kept to that crawl without trying to raise the effect goodness knows what i might not have thought both the girls shrieked at the jet of fire and the head dropped chin down on the floor with a the whole body lying then like a corpse with its arms there was a pause of five full minutes after this and the blue flame died down stooped to settle one of her while turned her face to the wall and took the in her arms put out an arm mechanically to s and she slid it across the floor with her foot directly above the body and on the wall were a couple of flaming portraits in stamped paper frames of the queen and the prince of wales they looked down on the performance and to my thinking seemed to the of it all just when the silence was getting the body turned over and rolled away from the basin to the side of the room where it lay stomach up there was a faint from the basin � exactly like the noise a fish makes when it takes a y � and the green in the centre revived in the house of i looked at the basin and saw in the water the dried black head of a native baby � open eyes open mouth and shaved it was worse being so very sudden than the crawling exhibition we had no time to say anything before it began to speak read s account of the voice that came from the dying man and you will realize less than one half of the horror of that head s voice there was an interval of a second or two between each word and a sort of ring ring ring in the note of the voice like the of a bell it slowly as if talking to itself for several minutes before i got rid of my cold sweat then the blessed solution struck me i looked at the body lying near the doorway and saw just where the hollow of the throat 