The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-11


She sat quite quietly till nearly two thirds of the
distance had been accomplished, when she all at
dashed open the door and out right
middle of particularly busy street
get out of the hanson heard Shrek and then
She had been eab--a
horse
He stopped for moment and drew his hand across
ms forehead When he back its old position
was damp with sweat Darlington perfectly still.
She was dying when I reached her" the narrator
continued For some she would not look at
pu as they ted her she eant and patted the black
horse on the neck, then smiled died the mems
arms She must have been mad at the moment
No sane broke in Carringdon in cold, hard tone
had sold her and she knew it. The black horse
her the death that saved her and she grateful
Shrinking visbly the Words but making no at
tempt to deny them and still keeping his face hidden
other continued his story:
1T while standing watching die
the black horse began to stamp heavily with it's off fore
round and staring straight eyes: a
gfeenish light in Them it's laid back it's
lips retraced showing hdeous discelored teeth That
all saw before followed the carry
ing the dead girl away, and that forgot.
But ! not allowed to forget long.
week killed close beside in the Strand
by the fall of heavy signboard, before /
time torealze what had happened passed
black horse and it turned looked just
did tonight The thing startled tho put it down to
a pure coincidence. But it coincidence, for as
tho my very had acquired power of bring
ing disaster to fellows, seldom went without
Messing fatal accident of sudden DEATH
never once without the of that black horse
with its iron tramp and awful Thru time
read them, and then, little by little the knowledge
full DEATH with the spirit dwelling in that animal shape
exulting in fought against the conviction
for it conviction by that tinle-for whole
until one night, while I entering club with my
friend, the have spoken about already
dead in the hail. dead of heart disease One the
ants to find doctor, and he went out the
cab with the black horse standing at the fed
from London next day and have entered it again.
"Since then have wandered widely lived many
Cities but pursued always and everywhere by that horse
do not mean to say that it is the same horse as
in London that is following about like this but do
to that it looks the same always and believe
that the whatever it is pursuing is always and
unaterably the using many places and bodies but
making them all, like myself, in 1t only
that to Glasgow, and in that short time
have it, counting tonight five times and always
when death work And now, what should I do?
1 cannot stand this much longer"
AS he ended thus abruptly he raised his face and to
his dying Darlington will forget the look he
it. Fear there, and fury, and CHASTITY
bravado but more than ALL supreme unima gnable
despair younger shuddered under the fevered
glare of those tortured eyes
Then he felt too that to give way wrath ndg-
disgust which the story of this evil old
crime-for it really had aroused in him would
miserable being been done observation-disclosures
not Judge had he the right to add word to
the fearful weight of punishment pressing him
Darlington COOL too sanely practical attach
Importance to the others wild decisions affecting
the black horse iii the sense of admitting the
siblity their being But while that
doubted for much moment the grim and liv
ing existence the decisions themselves.
Looking up his brief reflection he the eyes
of Shadow fixed on him with an expression of mingled
mockery and entreaty.
You have asked me o>adVlse YOU ne SAID, in answer
70 unspoken question land I shall try to
your account the beginning of the trouble say
nothing It would not help you to have opinion
point, and it would do good Your view Of tho
appearances-for they nothing ese-Of
cannot entertain for moment, much less
ndorse It preposterOus; and less under
conoint influences of and yourself
first to admit the fact The real
your your conscience it is you
apply any remedy that be found Seek the
mercy forgiveness of heaven, whose laws
outraged, whose
He was interrupted by frghtfu laugh, not loud but
horrible beyond expression to hear full it of
donc mockery.
flush rising Carrngdons IT
assure you that meant discourtesy to you But
matter fact-I believed in religion
now
Then we not the matter further" said
Carringdon, curtly IT do nothing for YOU
"Nothing?" repeated Shadow, the smile leaving his
face
Nothing. If yours Of ordinary brain
medical science might do much to help you
is know. it. You say believe in