Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-14
The Great CIPHER
Benin Hero IndaY

1t was c ening and a group 'oi
imen were seated on the porch OF
the Executive Mansion listening to
M. JONQ Ellie, greatest u French
detectives, tell the story of
CHAUVANNES, the explorer who
was killed in Africa, and who left
the record that caused everyone
bslie. q was mad.
E But he was not mad" eXclaii ID
Jonquelle, turning to the chief Ex-
ecutive.
Then Jonquelle told how Chau-
yannes had gone into the Congo with
cree worthless white men, had
Iund the precious emeralds and had
len begun to write the diary which
fused every reader to doubt his SAN
y-partfer- rly when he wrote of
he creature which entered his tent
that strange creature which he
alone could see.
III Go ON With the Story
CHAPTER III
1T was on the third night, after
The two men had departed and he
was alone in the tent with The sleep
eng Lecture that Chauvannes saw this
creature. He says it was about 8
pollock In the morning. He had been
awake through the entire night, his
Eyes usually closed. He does not
know how he happened to open
them. 1t was precisely II minutes
20 ), by the watch which he wore on
his wrist.
He opened his eyes precisely at the
moment when the creature entered
the tent-a thing 1t did without dis
turbing the flap and without making
any sound whatever.
"Chauvannes says that he saw it
distinctly. 1t paused for a moment
after 1t had satcred, remaining for
some seconds quite motionless. He
says that in proportion to the other
parts of the creatures body, the
head was enormous. 1t was cubical
In contour. The outline was ier-
fectly clear, but what we would call
features were hardly distinguishable.
The thing seemed to lack features.
That was one of the distinguishing
horrors of it-a head big in proper
ton to its body, cubical in outline
and lacking featuresl The chest
ard abdomen were also big, e5ti a.
ting the creature by its own proper
hons. The limbs were long, narrow
md jointed. The whole creature
was a repulsive. reddish color. and
without any of the usual covering of
a4tkA3tdAS WALL WAA4NA4 L4lC 44uI4IdA1 Law
Is familiar. The body seemed to be
of some hard, red substance. Chau-
vannes said-frozen and polished
flesh, after the skin had been re-
moved. was the idea he got.
The creature remained only a
moment visible to him; then it dis
appeared. 1t seemed to Chauvsnnes
that 1t disappeared merely by turn
ing about. He was unable to see it
again, although the doorway where
II entered was clear in the moon
tight, and there was only the grass
floor of the tent"
Monsieur Jonquelle stopped here
In his narrative, like enc who would
wish a hearer to grasp the whole
conception Of the story before he
went on. But he did not seek a COM
ment. Tho man beyond him waited
tor him to go on, and he presently
continued:
Fl shall not follow the detail CT all
the experiences noted down by Chau-
yannes. and which. finally, brought
to the conclusions at which he
length arrived. He was able, ar
Ter this night, to observe the creature
md q number Of its companions, al
the man Lecture, who was al
Ways with him, seems never to have
observed it.
HE was also able to discover, al
he does not give all the de-
OF that discovery in the journal,
that these creatures lived under
and that one of their under
cities was very close to the
camp. He had, in fact, by some
sinister hazard, put down his camp
almost at the doorway of the under
ground habitat of the extraordinary
one could call a creature
this character a being in I'LL
sense.
Nov, these are among the dis
tinguishing incidents of C-hauvannes'
that led Your Excsllency.
and the Paris authorities, to believe
hat Chauvannes was mad. The Gull
Of events seemed to estab-
lish it.
you know how the journal goes
on, giving the minute details hat
ChaGyannes observed during the
week that he was alone with Lecture,
while the American b-eachcomber
Dix and the Finn made their journey
to the Nyanza. And you know low