The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-04-05

answered the little CROOK.
"GoOd Lordl It's terriblel" NUT
tered Sebastian.
make yourself at home, Louie"
cried Sebastian in exultation. "Help
yourself to the cigars. I've got to go
out. I'll be back in couple of hours,
and then we can go a little deeper
into matters"
Sebastian FASTENED TO Bianca's
house. A little surprised at another
visit from him so soon, Blanca never
theless put on her prettiest dress and
entered the reception room in which
he was waiting.
'Bianca, am Free" he cried, catch
ing her by the hands. "My wife has
just been killed in an accident. viii
you marry me now?"
eyes, will be your wife, Sebastian"
she answered, putting her arms about
his neck. Her head dropped forward
upon his shoulder. She raised her face
and smiled into his. Sebastian caught
her in his arms and kissed her madly.
Suddenly a look of terror came over
Bianca's face. She was staring into
q far corner of the room. Look
there! ~ she almost screamed.
Sebastian started round. He saw
pair of eyes and white hand that
had apparently arisen out of nothing.
The eyes were glaring at him, and the
fingers of the hand, raised threaten
ingly, were outstretched toward him.
Then, as he watched, the vision was
dissolved.
For a moment the man and the
woman covered in terror.
Blanca staggered y his side. "What
does it mean?" she whispered, shak-
ing with terror.
Sebastian put his arm about her.
II don't know, Blanca" he answered.
"But I'm not afraid of it, whatever it
is. 1t hasn't harmed me yet, and
guess it never WILL"
"Then-you have seen 1t before?"
Blanca whispered.
"And your" demanded Sebastian in
establishment
And, as they looked at each other,
the past of each rose up and confront
GU luClll, anu tic lNO lANCo ottAiCh ~
be linked in the same destiny.
Louie was not in the house when
Sebastian returned. Tired of waiting,
the little crook had gone to his hotel.
| And there he, too, was linked In with
the web now being swiftly woven
about his confederate.
1t was on the next night that Louie
| received a brief note from Sebastian
announcing the latters marriage on
the following evening to Blanca, and
inviting him to attend at his brides
house. Louie read the note and grinned.
II guessed as much. Well, he amt
lost any time," he said to himself.
Nevertheless, he felt pleased at the
invitation.
Suddenly his eye caught something
in the opposite corner. 1t was the
mystic hands and eyes, and the eye
balls moved as if strung on wires.
Louie rushed frantically into the
corner, striking out right and left with
his fists, dashing them fruitlessly
against the walls. The eyes and hands
had disappeared. He drew back and
stared in Amusement at the wallpaper.
Suddenly he saw the hand again
the hand, no longer the eyes. 1t seemed
| poised in the air above the table at
which he'had been seated. 1t descend
| ed, picked up a pen, and began to
write something upon the letter from
| Sebastian.
Louie rushed over to the table. As
he reached 1t the pen was flung down
and the hand vanished. Louie picked
up the letter. In a different writing
he found the following postscript:
eff Sebastian marries Blanca you
will die"
| Louie shrank back in overwhelming
terror. Then, assuming an air of bra
| vado, he picked the letter from the Ia
BILE and crumpled it in his hand.
Suddenly q hand inserted itself in
the back of his collar and forced him
to his knees. Louie screamed as he
fought in vain in the grasp Of his in
visible assaAant. And as suddenly he
was released and sent sprawling upon
the floor.
AS he tried to raise he saw the fin
ger pointing to the postscript of the
letter.
He rose from his knees and stood
staring like one bereft of reason at the
supernatural writing.
|
Nobody had missed Louie at Bianca'S
house, or thought anything Of his alb
sence. The invitation which Sebas
tan had flung to him in the exuber
ance of his happiness had already
passed from Sebastian's mind. He was
about to start with Blanca and the
wedding party for the church wher
Louis Lamb was announced; and Bi
anca waited in poorly concealed Inn
patience for the little man to enter.
"You two amt going to get married,
he announced truculently.
"Why not Louiep inquired Sebas
tan, thinking that the crook had al
ready begun to celebrate the occasion
Ill a.