The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-11-22

tissues the physical appearances Of
protracted vice. He shall know to-
day how his body win BE- discovered,
and how his memory will Be forever
d~iscredited in the eyes Of the world.
And I shall tell him to-day that he is
bound and in my power. wearing the
helmet Of brass which robs him Of
his own power of secret thought, I am
going up stairs to watch his agony in
pictures. and that Marjorie will be
with me-that she is utterly under my
influence-and that VI shall laugh to.
gether as we see each thought, each
agony, chasing n another over the
screen. We shall be together, I shall
tell him, my arms will be round her,
her lips will seek mine, and for the
first time in the history Of the world
80"
He stopped for a moment. His hand
went up to his throat as If the torrent
Of words were choking him. Then
Guest cut into his insane ecstasy.
you are a fool, William" came
from the ~pink-faced man, in an icy
litter. "Of course, when you tell him
why and how we have used him, he
will believe it. But l don't think that
he will believe in your pleasant fiction
of you and the girl as a sort Of latter
day LAGOON in one armchair, laugh
ing together as you take our supreme
revenge"
Gouldesbrough strobe up to Guest.
He clutched him by the shoulder.
"Give me the keys" he said-"the
keys, the keys!"
Guest was not at all dismayed.
Laughing still, he put his hand into
his pocket and took out the pass key
of the strong room. There you are,
William" he said; now go down and
enjoy yourself. Our friend is still
tied down on the couch-he's been
like that for several hours, because
I've forgotten to go and loose him.
I'm going to have some more whisky,
and then l shall go to the big labora-
tory and switch on the current. If
I'm not very much mistaken, our
friends brain will provide a series of
pictures more intense and vivid, more
sharply defined in both outline and
color, than l have ever e before
during the whole of our experiments"
Gouldesbrough took the key and was
out of the room in a flash. Guest
CROPPED for the decanter.
His hair was quite gray now. All
the gold had gone from it, just as the
youth had passed from his face, which
was now the color of ashes and CASH
ed with agony.
And he lay there, trussed and tied
in his material letters of i%ndiarubber
and aluminium. On his head the
cleaning metal cap was clamped. He
was supine and an old nan All the
sap had gone from the fine athlete Of
a few weeks ago, and the splendid
body that had been was just a she'll
a husk.
But the soul looked through the
eyes still, tortured but undaunted, in
agony but not afraid.
In the lower silence OF tnaI Qeep
cellar where Gerald suffered there
were but two sounds. One was the in
sistent whisper of the electric fan.
the other was the voice which came
from the body of Sir William Gouldes-
brough, as he bent over the recum.
bent figure-the broken, motfonless
figure in which still, brave eyes were
set like jewels.
$50 now you know-you know 1t all.
You realize, dead man, all that I have
done to you, and all that I am going
to do. Down here in this little room,
you have thought you were alone.
You have imagined that whatever had
happened to you, you were yet alone
with the agony of your thoughts and
with your Maker. But you were not.
Though you ley knew 1t until now
you never we're. Each prayer that you
thought you were sending up to the
unknown force that rules the world
was caught by me-. For weeks I have
daily seen into your soul, and laughed
at its irremediable pain. I have got
your body, and for the first time In
the history of the world your mind
your soul, are mine ALSO"
ITO Be Continued.)