The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-05

shape In either these might be found explanation
of the mystery.
Breakspear packet which
might contain unusually cut in half Off
LAYER of brown to show another Of white
Within old, soft damask Napkin with initial
crest in before had quite
moved this Jim vent exclamation.
Had he been nervous woman he would probably have
broken it in dozen pieces for it was Of an exceedingly
shabe nature AS it the faint ejaculation the only
expression of his emotion.
cuary horrible plaster model knowing
thing of the subject longer told him that the thing
which had fallen his possession
death mask taken from the died in
anguish
Jim Breakspear had a friend who was sculptor and
from this friend he knew how having been spread
the prevent being
away plaster mould is taken: later the mould is
filled with plaster original being removed
model of the face remains with feature exact
The proof that this had been taken this
gruesome for the hairs of eyebrows
lashes the delicate imperceptibe
grown on the cheeks and forehead pulled y the mask
had rooted themselves plaster grim
Two eyebrows grown longer than
the others and hung down over the horrible ewes
with their struggling
grin of showing the
mole with three great gray thing
hideous, it fascination Breakspear could
scarcely withdraw his the hoows
dropping lids that out of the shadows
answering glance, dreadful gleam must in
be forth.
Somehow the face was like an accusation It seemed to
"Murder' very changed by presence
conjurng up horror
match the expression of the mask over there in the alcoye
where the
fancy the outline straight counterpart
with such head as this denting the pillows.
"By Jove, the
violent thought Breakspears
awful faces he had once seen in the u
Pompei put away a
slight sensation of sickness The thing horribly
He not know what he should do with it, The thought of
keeping it in his ar attractive one
Glad to put it from his mind well from
took the naid box-hs last chance finding hidden
from the portmanteau which empty
trick box which made resemble books with
red and blue backs fitted into case The way of onening
mDlel CON
vance such buys eight francs Naples
secret slipped tiny panel
turned it in the lock- the backs the
slide Inside thin packet Of fastened
gether with band.
slipped off released the papers. A
envelop something to the floor and
began looking papers waiting to
pick There sheets, each
which them a sepa-
memorandum.
Breakspear hand have
game of poker beginning to read one
which had lain at the bottom, and taking each
"Reckgasse 40, Budapest, January 1st 1897
dred pounds WORTH what the first had to tell.
Jerusalem House Rest, February 18th,
thousand one hundred the record of the second
Corsica, Mostaccini Agaccia,
difficult said the third paper.
Capri the Ruins Castle March 2oh 1900
thousand without the aid of IT. probably impossible
the mysterious record of the fourth.
On the fifth and last slip reference to the arz
had been heavily scored and something else substituted
in the clear space below.
"satans Dartmoor, April Oath, 1901"
"satans Tori" Breakspear repeated. why that must
be- And then picture before the of his mind
bleak lonely stretch of moorland purple with
heather burning like torch along the line of the
himself little Of three
holding his nurses hand and listening
ancient Druids he gazed awestruc, great
nonolh of dark granite pointing solitary giant finger
the The humock Of volcanic rock which
monoth crowned, called Satans Tor
that distinctly But then,
might be than Saans Tor the wild wastes
almost impossible that the desolae
spot habitation to which he
taken during visit he had been allowed to make with
his att Dartmoor,
place named in this strange memorandum.
Still, it all strange One item little stranger than
What meant the reference to
Corsica Budapest to Capri and the dates fol-
other yearly distances? Had the writer
places make payments of to receive
did he to visit Saans Tor in the heart of
Darmoor the representatives that purpose
might be?
wish began to insnuate itself into Breaxspears mind
where perhaps the