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


 young man supplied to his bride.
 The family were wretchedly poor but | Frankenstein's monster was so pleasant | ly affected by the sight of human love and companionship that he used to steal out at night and gather wood for the household fire; he would work at night also upon the little garden, and thus the youth was left free to engage with neighboring farmer, and the poverty of the little family materially lessened. This stack of wood which they saw every morning at their door. this strange, mid night cultivation of the little garden. filled the members of the fa1niy with wonder. and they ascribed the work to benevolent spirits, lacking any other way to account for it.
 The monster now felt that he could bear his isolation no longer. All the feelings and passions consequent upon a state of life and being stirred within him and he resolved to reveal himself to the family with which he had so long lived unseen. He chose time when the youth and his bride were away and the daughter of the house had gone on some errand to the distant village. The old man, being blind, would, he thought, be more likely to hear his tale, as his sight could not be shocked by the horror of his visage. So he knocked at the door of the cottage and the old man bade him enter. Rapidly did the monster pour out his story and tell of his loneliness, his yearning after hu- man companionship; of how he had long Iai i, Io1 In ba cd ond of what he had done to help the family In their needs.
 The old man was replying in a kindly and commiserating manner when the door opened and the young man entered, accompanied by his wife and sister. The sister tainted at sight of the hideous mon- ster and the wife fled shriekng from the room. The young man rushed upon the stranger and struck him over the head torn him limb from limb, but his heart sank within him with bitterness at his disappointment and he refrained. Leav- ing the house without a word he wan dered off into the forest in despair Rage against all the human race now took pos session of him and he raved like a mad man.
 Then he determined to procure by force that human companionship which he seemed unable to acquire in any other way. Roaming about the woods near Geneva he came across William Frank enstein on the day the boy had wan dered away from his father. Here" thought he, "is child too young to re- gard me with the horror which my ap- pearance inspires in older persons. will carry him to some inaccessible retreat and rear him to be the companion of my solitude.
 But the child struggled hard and heaped upon his captor words of childish scorn and loathing Tn his rage the monster strangled the boy. He took the minia- ture from the body, and then, seeing from his hiding place in the bushes Justine evidently searching for the boy. he had stolen upon her unawares and slipped the trinkets in fold of her dress, fend- ishly calculating that it's possession would lead to her conviction for the crime which he had himself committed. Since then he had lived in icy caves and mountain wildernesses. He now sought out Frank enstein to demand of him that he make another being, as he had made him, a woman this time who should be his mate He swore that if Victor complied with his demand he would repair with his com panion to the recesses Of South America, and. living in the companionship of a being like himself would never see Flu rope or vex mankind more If Victor L and for the monster perpetual feud against the human race Appalled, at the possibilities of the alternative, Frank enstein consented to the monsters terms. And I will be with you until your task is accomplished" said the horrible crea- ture as he strode away.
 Upon the return of the family to Geneva victor's father, who was in failing health and felt that his days were numbered. urged upon his son speedy marriage with Elizabeth. But with his awful task before him Victor felt that he could not n>arry until it's accomplishment should have set him free. Therefore, he said that while he dearly loevd Elizabeth, and longed to call her his wife. he would first like to travel in England. a country he much desired to see before settling down as a married man. As a matter of fact, some discoveries by British scien-, lists which had lately been made would, Victor believed, much facilitate the work he had before him, and he desired to con- suit these scientists personally upon some chemical questions Inducing Clerval to accompany him as travelling companion, he journeyed to England, obtained the knowledge he sought and then, leaving Clerval, who wished to make trip to Ireland, Frankenstein repaired to one of the most remote of the Orkneys and there established his laboratory.
 As he worked as the new being he was creating assumed shape and substance be- fore him, he experienced revulsion of feeling. which caused him to determine that come what would he would not iM- fict upon the world another monster such as that with which he had already cursed It. The being of his creation had said that he would retire with his partner to the recesses of South America but was 1t sure that the ''she he was to create would go there?
 1 Again if they did-if in that remote re- ]. zion they founded new race-what a menace that race would ultimately become , to the world! He shuddered as his i'm agination pictured it's possibilities. In