The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
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One day, while wandering alone among the mountains, Victor suddenly saw, striding across the ice of glacier. the fiend of his creation. His heart filled with loathing and hatred and as the monster came near he sprang upon him with the idea of hurling him over a precipice. But the creature easily eluded him and after listening to Victor's vituperations for while said 'T expected this greeting. All men hate the wretched; how then must expect to be hated who am wretched be- yond all living men? Even you who are bound to me by ties only absolute by the annihiliation of one of us. detest and spurn me. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty toward me and I will do mine to- ward you and toward the rest of man. kind If you refuse my terms l will glut the maw of death until 1t is satisfied with the blood of your remaining friends. Rememberl everywhere see bliss from which alone am irrevocably excluded. Misery has made me fend-"
 "Begonew cried Frankenstein, ''or let US try our strength in a fight In which one must fall"
 Hear me- replied the monster, you accuse me of murder and yet you would destroy the work of your own hands. Hear my tale-it is long and strange"
 The monster then told how. when he awoke to life under Frankenstein's hands and saw that the man who had made him fled from him, he had wan dered forth into the forest. Gradually he became accustomed to the phenom- ena of nature, to sunrise and sunset; to light and darkness; to fire and water, and learned to distinguish between the senses. He felt hunger and found that roots and berries stayed it. He felt thirst and learned to know that water quenched it. The first human beings whom he met fled from him in Hild alright. He wandered into a village, and of the inhabitants some assaulted him and some fled from him in terror. Pursued from the village, he wandered about. avoiding mankind. until one day he found a small closed shed built against the falls of remote cottage, and laid down to rest himself in it and escape the severity of the elements. Cold he had felt on the night Frank enstein had deserted him at 1ngolstadt, and before setting out on his wonder ings had put on some clothing he had found in Frank kenstein's room. In the forest he had found large cloak. which still further afforded him de- cent covering.
 As he lay there in the refuge he had found against the cottage wall he heard voices on the other side of the parti- tion, and, through chink in the side of the house, he had been able to see the inmates. They consisted of an o1S man who was blind and his son ana daughter. The youth was stalwart aNd comedy and the daughter of great beau ty. For a long time the monster made this she his home unknown to the people of the cottage. At night only did he leave it, and then he stole forth to forage for his food. Every evening when the little family were assembled he listened to their voice, and at last learned the meaning of human speech.
 After while there came to the cot tage a young woman who became the wife of the young man. The family were French exiles, and had formerly lived in affuence in Paris. The strange woman was an Arabian girl whom the youth of the cottage had been engaged to in France and who had discovered this retreat in Switzer- land to which the family fled after they had lost their fortune, and she had fol- lowed her lover to share his lot. Though she had lived for some years in France she could but fmperfectly speak French. and 1t now became the youths duty and pleasure to instruct her in that language. Also he in- structed her nightly in history and all of the commoner branches of learning. So the hidden monstsr. by listening ct tha ahank h ths wan had ths a4-
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