The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-07
THE MAN-EATER.
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\ story uf india.
There were two entrances tn the draw
ing room this must bs. horne i'm mind.
The ho.ss. itself was Old-fashioned, n
large and ~nany-Rablcd one. standing
quite alone and solitary i'm u spacious gar
den; all the windows has been closed and
the ~jalousies shut and secured from the
outsidc; the tatty-grass blinds ON tine
piazza had been rolled up and pat away
until another blazing morning called for
their refreshing shade.
The locality was near that part of the
delta called the Sundcrtunds. through
which the Gapgcs expands its branches sss
il approaches the sca-a labyrinth of
creeks and rivers. 81 jungle and stagIant
water. The might was perfectly fine,
rapidly falling. like misty rain. which,
i'm hot countries, IL "a perfectly natural o~-
~currcncc.
might bc called the back duDr. as il led
into the hack Ira wing-roon, and smaller
one OF the two; tln. otia.r' = Tar larger
by great folding doors of gold and white.
The back drawing rnoni was very full Of
was carrying am arrnful Of books, and in
my discngagcd hand a; lamp, proceeded,
with tolcrable security. though slowly. hut
could have gone tn my destination i'm the
dark. What struck nc as both curious
and irritativc was the fancy that the room
furnitur... dark. old fashioned rose
wood furniturs.. which had been
made tai match the piano. The
various articles locked as IL they had
hps.u dragged uIrmIt tie room. Possibly
the darkness above and around me helped
pearanc.. Uf having been gradually spread
toward tho center of the room round a
that 1 wished tn uo to. walked very
slowly, rartIy tss.a,Is.. did mot wish to
spill tho books which 1 had spent the last
hour in collecting and partly because of
an un.urountahIy horrible feeling which
had come. over me. This mart of tl.. houIsr
was u,iit,. silent indeed in w,s of,.n so
rf nn "vc,inv' Nv hrn,h.r had n.....i
me on his way up stairs, having been ali
day az Mair,.porr. and no doubt being
few stairs ut ali. AS tl,.. house was pr.,cti-
cally "A ouc-.torioaI one. rambling and full
of angles. having been built and added To
at vario,is times; here. and tlrr. little
stairs.lss.s str.am.al out, I,n,ljuu to- long
passages and Icxp.rtssI .upI,oarsls: Tie
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from a, silc-Hiuht of five stairs. AsI had
two small CHAIRS and am over
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front of me; as I paused amid the conn
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