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

chamber, unable to compose himself to sleep. At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult he had endured, and he threw himself on his bed, dressed as he was, endeavoring to seek a few moments of forgetfullness. But 1t was in vain He slept, indeed. but his sleep was filled with the widest dreams. He thought that he saw Elizabeth walking in the streets of Ingoldstadt in the bloom of health. but when, delighted and surprised, he strove to embrace her she changed to a corpse in his arms.
 He started from his sleep In horror and by the dim light of the moon, which forced it's way through the shutters, he beheld bending over him. the hideous monster had opened and he uttered some inarticulats sounds. while his face was distorted by a horrible grin. One hand was stretched out to detain Victor, but Frankenstein leaped from the bed and fled wildly to the open air, where he walked about as in a terrible dream until morning. Oh, no mortal could support
 
 monster. Now that the muscles and joints had become capable of motion 1t had become such a thing as even Dante could not have conceived, but Franken- stein did not dare to return to the house he had left lest he should encounter the lend of his own handiwork. He went to an inn and saw the diligence iron, ,switz- erland stopping there.
 On the door of the dlligezce being opened out stepped his bothood friend. Henry Clerval. who upo9@seeing Victor. cried out. How glad 1 Am to see you. How fortunate that ybu should be here as arriver' Nothing could equal Frank enstein's delight stfthe sight of Clerval He grasped his Hand and for moment forgot all his horror and misfortune, while his thoughts flew back to home, and aud he asked thousand questions of Elizabeth, his father and his brothers. Henry informed him of all the dear home news. and told him that, while all there were well. they were uneasy at having heard from him so little. ''But I will not lecture you, as I was going to do,"
 
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 "Oh. have been very busy of late." replied Trankenstein, ''but I sincerely trust that my employments are over now and shall be able to rest and recuperate that I am at length free" Even as he spoke a horried fear grasped his heart Clerval would insist upon returning home with him. and there waited that hideous creature to which he had indeed been able to give life but nothing else. But risk 1t he must. When he reached the house at the college which he occupied he bade Henry wait a moment below, and then, trembling in every limb, en- tered the room where he had left the monster. To his delight the thing was gone He could scarce believe his good fortune.
 Clervars stay at Ingolstadt he had in- tended to be short one, but it was pro- 1 longed into a lengthy one because of the 1 illness of Victor, who, unable longer to withstand the ravages which his recent labors and experience had made, sank into a fever, from which, afte rhanging for some time between life and death he only recovered when several months had passed. Spring came with all that won- drous revelation of awakening life which had once so delighted Frankenstein the buds were opening on the trees, the peasants danced among the sprouting vines The monster of his own creation had. apparently. vanished forever, and Victor felt returning health.
 At the command of Victor. C1erval had not informed his family of the seriousness of his illness, and had, in his letters, put them off with one or another excuse when they wished to visit Ingoldstadt. Many more months passed before Frankenstein decided to return home to forget the past and try to make his future efforts con- form to the limitations which nature and naturs's God have set upon human achievement Before starting he received frsm Elisahsth msssaes whiah alled