The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-24
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CHAPTER VIII

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CHAPTER VIII
n. vas alone IN the room where
- t,~r,h iav--not even Effle. One
.s.,,..k ThlS wari lie had thought
nm, 4, away for n night. aud here
=. N. lnconccivahle occupation 10
-s,sh n had brought him; alone In
her~--
~. doctor had been ana was com
a. again IN tho morning. There
- nothing TO be done. he had said:
srs watch her.
witch herg How hong had he
-. .tandlur at the foot OF tho huge
1919 biggest bed he had ever
.s.p---and what was there 10 watchf
81. rave no sign. she scarcely
r.ensd 20 breathe lie would not
,.x. recognised her faee- IL had
,hs spreararec 81 mask. sinking, .
me Doctor had said. In process here
h.f,r, MS eyes. but not to be seen
~ them. awful and mysterious
,s.nss. Death with praetised fingers
sheut his awful and mysterious sur
e,rv Of separating tho spiris from
,hs nesn. the soul from the body.
ne ,nocrruptlbls from the corrupt
NE
n could net bel There was not .
AGA: there was not a sound. and
vat should he b, doing 60 b. alone
Asr-. bind watcher % such a finAi.
fsxf II was not real. II was an
hslsucinstion. he was not really
here. The morning and days and
weeks and years would come. and
b would know that this never had
rally happened.
pus Young Perch Vas dead Young
psrrh was killed. II wAs real lie
vas here This wari
II
He had gone downstnsrs with the
Ibe<cr and had remained there some
MT, time after his departure. Effis
I'D been left kneeiinx by the bed.
When he carns back she was sound
ssieep wher. she kncl,. worn out
ne rexs had coma on the previous
sweating. This was Effic's second
sixhs without sleep. Now she wnx
swrroms: collapsed: suffocafed and
<<sund and gagged in the opiates and
Spcds she had for thirty hours TO
snsrd lie touched her. she DID rot
ar. He shook her gently. sstli no
rprenss. lie lifted her ur and car
nd her along TIE passax. 20 the
room h. knew 10 be hers. laid her on
hsr bid ard covered her with q Quilt.
Ircruresvasls occupation. Was all
sAa really happ~ninxs
r~o O'Clock ". went 20 look AZ
Efr.. s,ll IN profound -lurs.r. why
suxksn her' Nothing could be done.
eaiv watch. lie returned TO hts vigil.
Yss. Mrs Perch was sinking. More
Yncuncee now that mnskiiks a.
psrs 81 her faea Tee. dying. IT.
spsks shs word 10 hims~ff. "DyfnT.-
- u IRE IN tbs crate gons 90 one
al spars Among tbs greyfng ashes.
IL d cut u cannot burn again.
= kfs here too far retired. too deep
b susk to struggle back and vitalixs
ssain that hue. those iips. that mask.
nzs esfigy.
rrrscand ana awfui mystery.
Within that fern va IN process .
ncs dreadful activity. The spirit,
vss preparing 20 vacafs tho habtta.
Dor n Rad 80 long occupied II gave
- nEn- The better to hsis iss prep
Nations II had drawn that mask
seoui ths faca Seventy years n had
otournsd hare now 10 was bound
aszy. Seventy years u had been
morn 70 passerr by thru tho door
Ard windows Of this iss habitatinn:
sov. deeply retired within tho inner
shsrsb>rs. 4 ct its house I'm order
70 b guns. Profound and awful
mystery. Dresdfui and nnom~nsous
axtivity. From the windows Of her
eyss turning of the lights: from the
erxfnss Of her powers cutting off fts
fsrces: drawing the furnaces. dis
e<Terirg the contacts A lifetime with.
= this home. now passenger into an
esrnify. A lifetime settled. now
pfeparfng 10 Be away on q journey
inconceivably tremendous. unimaR.
iazs!y awful Did ~ shrink DID n
pause IN ifs preparations TO peer and
pssp and shudd~r7
Tff
ne fer very cold. He moved from
ne e~f and repIenished the fire and
upuched bexid. II.
This war; He said beneath his
breath. Young PerchI Youns
FsrrhT Young Perch was killed.
Fsalizs the thingi He was never
fosns to zee Young Perch again He
vss never going 10 see old Mrs.
rsreh again. He was never to come
INTO Pgnchsr's again. Another place
mis- lie was to be walled up. Ills
n''ne IKE an empty house. the office
ne an empty house; now no refuge
ners. Things were crowdlng In about
ssm' things were closing In upon
nm. And he was just 90 i've on
hsrs, out Of the war. yet insupport-
so1 oeset ~ The war. Bcset by the
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