White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-13

bedclOthes and to cover himself COM
pletely, as far as the top of his head.
for the old man was but II of the
monsters that threatened.
Burglars.
Burglars were creeping through the
halls upstairs and downstairs, the
mir of the whole house became MUIR
INJURIOUS with the whispers and rust
lings.
Penrod. still not moving his head,
pulled the AK and the camphor bottle
beneath the sheet slid the gun of the
eoyerlet, and pushed 1t as far under
the bed as he could. Burglars might
be more merelful II they believed him
but a little lonely sleeping child IL
tending no resistance.
He gulped lamentably. and a polg-
nant bitterness began to form no In
considerable part of his condition.
What kind Of parents were they (he
asked hlmselO who could So blithelJ
OFF and leave a little lonely child 10
be found by burglars-and other
things-in a great, horrible, hollow,
empty house2 Probably his father and
mother were somewhere with a whole
crowd Of people. I'm brightly lighted
rooms: no doubt at this very mo.
ment they were both talking and
laughing.
Laughingl
His indignation extended to cover
the cases Of his nineteea-year-old
sister Margaret, and Of Della, the
cook, and Katie, the housemaid. Most
likely all three of these marble hearts
were also somewhere, talking and
laughingi
Big, strong. old grown people
every one of them-well, maybe they
would be sorry tomorrow Besides,
he would get even with them-if he
lived.
He was making up his mind In what
manner a general revenge should be
accomplished upon the household
when the handle Of his door clicked
| family. and yet distinctly; was softly
turned, and the door opened a little
way.
Periods heart did not stop, but rs
breath did. lie lay moionless.
The door was closed again, gently.
Then heart and breath both bound
ed. There was no doubt about It
/ something had certainly opened his
door-and had looked at him. lie had
felt 1t.
1t was too much for closed eyes
Penrose lifted himself on his elbow
and stared whiriingly about him until
his gaze became fixed in utter hor.
rOr upon the threshold of the door. \
thread of light gllmmered wanly alops
that threshold.
Shaking to the verge Of spasms, Pen
rod gathered his weapons again.
Then the light disappeared, ant
there was -darkness-and silence, ant
silence, and silencel
And whatever the color of the CLEAN
beneath the door, the thread that re
NAMED upon the fixed retina of Pen
rods eye. after the actual light ha'
gone, was green.
Now. indeed. out of the darkness
over the frenzied boy did Chirner'
peer and monster hoverl The greer
thread broke and twisted into shapes
bodlless, faceless eyes came closer ant
closer and closer, while animal
breathed hot upon his cheek.
The silence grew tenser with noises
Just about to burst forth; the dark
ness becnme charged with unthi4kablt
visions just ready to make themselves
visible; raw heads and bloody bones
blenching phantasm n ravenlnl
vampire, bugbear, bugaboo. mummy
and nightmare, CHASTITY thing that has
ever got into Penrod's head was ISSUED
forth and now hung over him.
And outside the door were the bur
glars. There were burglars rampaginf
all through the house by this time, IL