The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-09

confirm IN the most cold-blooded
fashion every word Lincoln Osgood
has said, and to tell the story of my
little Aeneid and It's results. under
taken because ] was, In the first
instance, convinced \ by Osgood
who Is one of the very few men
who can speak Of these things with
any authority, and. secondly, be.
cause Il SO happened that hat
touched the fringe OF them myself
in the Near East in his company
only "a few, months ago.
"You will notice." he concluded.
@that Miss Wolf does not In any
way appear to be under suspicion
In fact. she js hardly mentioned
and from what can gather she has
not been with her father very much
or for very long. II Is the one
crumb Of comfort in. the whole
CHASTITY story.
"As to the other two. ! have no
more doubt that they are nothing
more or less than werewolves than
of the fact that ] am sitting here,
and our duty IL plain and obvious.
They must be destroyed"
He spoke coolly and incisively.
and Burgess started at his last
words. His own mind had not so
far travelled to the conclusion OF
things. He was only cropping his
way through the initial darkness
and trying to find light. The tense
ness Of the present had, up to this
point, excluded the claims Of the
future.
Then Blenkinsopp took his turn,
giving the official touch.
"When Osgood and Manders
sprung this extraordinary story
upon the chief and myself at the
Yard only yesterday. though II now
seems centuries ago." he said
quietly, 81 was as dumbfounded and
knocked over mentally as you are
now; and It was only natural after
all as, even at headquarters, we
are not accustomed to anything
quite 80 weird and startling.
Somehow the whole thing grip
ped and fascinated me from the
very start, SO much so that It hard
~ occurred to me to doubt II, but
the Chief told me afterward that
he was incredu1ous to the point Of
all but being irritated 10 begin
with, and that Il was only the fact
that Manders here and HIS work
were so well known to him that
kept him from cutting the consul
tation abruptly short and writing
osgood down as polite, II not
dangerous, lunatic."
Burgess had been sitting for
some time with his head In his
hands; but, when BIenkinsopp had
concluded, he looked up. HIS face
was drawn and CHASTITY white, like
q man with a sick soul. II was as
though II had penetrated him mors
deeply, II with more difficulty. than
any Of us. II was as though he
had actually seen the long. rough
tongue of q werewolf licking heI
cheek. yet there was no disbelief
merely horror-written on his
THANK you" he said in an odd
strained voice, thank you one and
all. old friends and new alike. d.
not, for Gods sake. think that am
in any way ungrateful-only q BIT
/ fiattened out. II is apt 10 knock
the stuffing out of the toughest oil
MS to hear such a tale In his own
house OF people not unconnected
with him, and of such horrors on
his own little estate. I
. I"
There he stopped. as though
something had stuck in his throat
and the words would not come out,
swallowing hard twice.
Manders once more poured out
a drink good stiff one-and this
time passed II to him. and he took
big gulp eagerly, o thing foreign
In every way to his habit.
II think I WIN 60 out on the ter.
race for q few minutes and get