The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16

him with a new grief. William, the pet of the household, the youngest and best beloved, had been murdered.
 He had gone walking with his father. Ernest and Elizabeth In some woods near their country place at some dis tance from Geneva, and had strayed away from them. When they called to him he did not respond and after long search they found next morning his life less body. Upon his neck were the marks of fingers. He had been strangled. miniature of his mother. which the child wore around his neck, was gone, and it was supposed the setting of the minia- ture, which was of some value. had been the motive of the crime. An old servant of the family, who had been away on a visit to friend tfrat day. had been ar rested for the crime, as the miniature had been found in her pocket, and she had been seen wandering near the place where the body was discovered. Jus tine was the name of the woman and even though the evidence seemed to be against her. Elizabeth believed in her in- nocence. Leaving Clerval. who was to take a course of languages at the uni- versity, Victor hastened to his stricken home
 On his way to Geneva Victor visited the place where the body of William had been found. Night was coming on rapid ly and a great storm gathered suddenly and broke with fury from the Alps and the Juras With nasty step he started to seek a place of shelter when, by a flash of vivid lightning, he saw gigantic figure standing near him. With horror unspeakable he recognized the filthy be- ing to whom he had given life. The figure passed quickly, and was lost in the gloom and the storm Another flash discovered to Victors eyes the monster scaling the perpendicular ascent of a mountain inaccessible to ordinary nor tals. The presence of the monster near the scene of the murder, the look of malignity which had been upon its face, all told Frankenstein too truly that Will Hams death had been at tho hand of this frightful being. It was borne in upon him-he could not doubt it. And he him. self had been the primal cause.-the real murderer of the child he so adored. Vic- tor thought of how he had neglected his family to pursue this dreadful work of creating life and of the terrible re- suits already flowing from that occupa- ton, while before him loomed the horror of disasters yet to come.
 Alas" thought he, why did dabble in these forbidden things-forbidden to mortals? The condition of mind into which fell while engaged upon my work should have warned me- If the study to which one applies himself has ten dency to weaken his affection and to de- stroy his taste for those simple pleas ures in which no alloy can possibly mix. then the study is certainly unlawful, tiHr is to say. not befittius the human mind. If this rule were observed al- ways-if no man allowed any pursuit whatever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections-Greece had not been enslaved: Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually and the empires of Mexico and Peru not been destroyed" It was now two years since Frankenstein had endowed his monster with life. What had the thing been about all this time. What was 1t plan ming?
 It was a sorrowful home to which Frankenstein returned. Justine. the faith full servant, was convicted Tor the murder of William and executed. Victor saw he could not save her. Had he told his story it would have been taken as the rawlings of madman. But as time went on and he saw no more of the monster Victor began to take a renewed hope and new pleasure in the revival of the old love between himself and Elizabeth. Now and then there came over him wild desire to see the wrstch of his own creation again that he might destroy him and .venps the deaths of William and Justine. 1 About two months after the execution or | Justine the fami1y departed rom oenevA en 3ouznsy te the Sese oe n