Evening star., 1911-06-04

"You have papers, my papers, hidden there in your
dress, he calmly went on Yet he was quite close to
her, and towering over her as he spoke.
The two heads, different in appearance, staring at
each other closely, in way reminded Skeel of
Zoo visitor face to face with Gagged man killer But in
this instance with the knowledge that no barrier stood
between then1 curiosity ecipsed by rising terror
The woman suddenly thrust hand into the bosom of
her gown and drew forth handful of crumped papers.
Her fingers shaking vsby she held these papers
out to her captor. "You can have them back!" she
gasped "Take them, and let me go!'
His large white hand slowly lifted itself toward the
papers But instead of cutchng them his fingers closed
the woman's wrist.
"Now let go!' she sobbed, scarcely realizing what
his movement meant. He had crowded still closer to
her as she crouched back against the wall.
IL will never let you go!' he murmured.
She writhing and twisting in his grasp by this
time trying II & to wrench her R Rgloved hand free:
cover them with own, he said.
Skeel could no longer the mans face but there
must have been something horrifying in it, for the
woman, she stared up at it, emitted audible and
repeated Oh of terror with each quick rise and fall of
her bare shoulders.
"stop!' she painted; astop, or I'll call to them! I'll
call for help! For hep!'
Her voice that repeated word of "Help" until
it became call in itself, until it mounted into actual
cry of terror to be cut off by the sudden and cyconc
movement of the figure towering above her.
CKEEL, shaking with a palsy like movement of the
- knees, could that huge figure it Unexpectedly
swung forward The smaller figure its sheathng of
pale blue seemed be enveloped absorbed swallowed
up, by the shagger above it. Skeel could
the bearded face boted the white and upturned
face of the woman, the communicating gross mouth
met and slenced her terrified lips.
There seemed something unspeakably revolving and
animal like in the shaggy haired jacket that
cred the larger figure something that seemed to make
it one with animals still in the feral state, something
that shudder through Skeels body and brought
blur of red before his eyes.
He had distinct memory of how he wrenched the
glass towel bar from the white tiled wall beside him. He
had no memory OF swinging open the door and vautng
out across the carpeted floor of the larger room.
But indebly fixed in his mind the picture of that
huge and shaggy figure menacing and communicating
the frazier There seemed something unspeakably
odious about it, something antedil,vian and Adamc.
He remembered the white lights of the polished skin
that gistened through the thin and carefully combed
tendrs of hair trained the bald skull He
bered that smooth and shining SKULL but he had
memory of raising the bar of glass in his hand aiming
his blow.
He remembered the sound of the impact muffed and
nauseating; but it seemed that in way hand not
his had brought about. He remembered how the
head fell forward and the body, in going down, forced
the figure in blue back against the wall He remembered
dropping the rod of glass and throwing out hand to
catch her; how fact he had to hold her there shak
ing and painting while the of them stared stupidity
down at the PROSTATE bearded figure.
dull horror spread over the young womans face.
She became almost dead weight Skeels sustaining
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