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


 a fate or to what land he did not care get away from that hateful place he must.
 After rough experience and narrow escape from drowning he was cast upon the shores of Ireland. The inhabitants of the little village near which his boat was cast ashore immediately arrested him and brought him before a magistrate charg- ing him with murder. The night before a stranger had been found dead on the beach near the spot where Frankensten had landed. A solitary man in strange boat had been seen to put off from the shore at the scene of the murder Just be- fore the body was discovered. The strange boat and the strange man. they said, must have been Frankeinstein, who, like other murderers, had returned to the neighborhood of his crime. victor's &C., count of himself was received with fn-. credulity.
 They took him to the presence of the dead man. He gazed and fell to the earth with 8 cry. The murdered stran- ger was Henry Clerval. He knew who had killed him; he knew that the prom ised vengeance of the monster had begun to work He fell desperately i'll; he was acquitted of the murder of his friend and with the elder Frankenstein. who had been sent for, started on his re- turn to Geneva At London he received with great pleasure a letter from Eliza< beth. But as he read, a circumstanc9 which he had forgotten flashed across his memory In their long conversation hA crax .f ster had said. If you do not as I bid l will be with you on your wedding night" Dare he marry Elizabeth and expose her to the destruction of this n-ons'er? He resolved to marry her at all hazards.
 So, soon after his return to Geneva, the two were wed, and after the mar riage ceremony went to a little village on the shores of the lake. Leaving his bride, who was about to retire, alone in her chamber. Victor descended to the lower floor of the inn. Scarcely had he reached 1t when a shriek rang through the building. He, with others of ths people Of the inn, rushed to the room from, which the terrible cry came and there, lying dead upon the bed. strangled. was Elizabeth. When the excitement had sub sided and Victor was weeping alone over the body of his murdered bride he hap pened to look toward the window and saw there, grinning at him with fendlsh malevolence. the face of his hated crea- tion. He rushed to the easement only to see the monster disappearing In the di- rection of the mountains. victor's fa- ther, unable to bear this latest biowh died of stroke of apoplexy in his son's' arms. Victor himself told his story to A magistrate and was confined for a while madman in consequence. When at last he regained his freedom he swore to devote the rest of his life to the pursuit of the demon he had made and to destroy him or himself perish.
 A weird, wild chase such as never be- fore or since the world has seen, then be- gan. With an ingenuity as craft and as vengeful as that of the monster himself Frankenstein obtained clues to the where abouts of the enemy he had created and sought him. The monster fled and from country to country Frankenstein pursued The monster exultingly led him on. leav- ing taunting messages behind for his pur- suer. All that was now left for Victor was to catch the fiend he had created, de- stroy him and then die himself. All the monster sought was to make the man who had created him suffer. Cut in the stones or written on the bark of trees the monster left continually those mes- sages which guided the course of Frank enstein and stimulated his fury. AS pur- suer and pursued passed northward over those frozen plains which In the desolate land of Siberia border the waters of the Arctic sea such messages as this would be found from time to time by Franken- stein: My reign is not yet over; you live and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ice of the north where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will find near this place if you do not follow to tardily dead hare: eat and
 
 have yet to wrestle for our lives, bS many hard and miserable hours mtst you endure until that period arrives"
 One day the members of polar ex- petition out under the Explorer Robert Walton saw. as they looked over the side of their ship, caught in the ice of that for northern ocean, a sled drawn by train of dogs pass rapidly toward the north over the frozen sea- On the sled sat a being of apparently gigantic stature He was enveloped in furs, bundles of sup plies were strapped to his conveyance and he passed with great swiftness in the di- rection of the pole. The next day the ice began to break up, and upon noe which drifted to the side of tho vessel they saw another man-exhausted and half frozen. He sat on a sledge such as that which they had seen pass to the north the day before. All but one of his dogs were dead, but in spite of his peril ous condition he refused to enter the ship til he was assured that it's intended course lay north. Eagerly did he inquire If they had seen another person crossing the Ice in northerly direction ,and upon being told of the gigantic stranger, became much excited. The members of the ex- petition were filled with wonder at en- countering two travellers so many hum dreds of miles from the nearest land.
 The first traveller was, of course the fleeing monster and the second VictoH Frankenstein Victor did not live long after being taken on board the ship. He told his weird story to Walton before he died As Walton that night entered tho cabin where the dead body of Franken- stein lay he started back appalled, at the sight of huge and terrible figure which stood bending over the corpse. It was tho monster, who had turned back to see what had delayed his pursuer and had en- tered the cabin through port from the field of ice winch had again caught the ship in its grip. His presence confirmed the tale. before only half believed. which Frankenstein had told the explorer. Rap- idly did the monster tell of his story and then said: "This Is also my victim. In his murder my crimes are consummated. shall die now and what feel and have felt shall feel no longer. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. go to the pole to build my funeral pyre. shall ascend it triumphantly and exult ipfths agony of the torturing flames Thekight of that confagration shall fade awaA my ,cboo cho1I ha cxvopf into tho son h~v