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BY FREDERICK SLEATH Author of “Snipes- Jackson,"

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CHAPTER u. 'I'IHE yc-Lrcns A-PPEARS '

A light had flared up in the cel- lar, tlugeing the thick brocade of the chang-lus with faint phosphor- escence. There was t-he sound of movement, the falls of naked feet. the swish of loose garment-ta; and ‘still the voice of the am sphaker. high-pitched, authoritative, kept calling forth responses. He was on- discovered. Carefully he took a inch of the hangings between his fingers, cut a hole and placed his eye to it. A man of lesser self-coll- trol might well have pitched for- ward in fright, or amazement, at what he saw‘.

He looked into an inferno; into a swirling red chaos of light and shade, fed, illumined, and energiz- ed by a crescent shaped group.of flaring crimson centres; wl-th mas- ses of blackness pressing in all

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Tenders for Purchase. of Convalescent Home Bldg. and Equipment

TENDERS marked as above will

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Connecting at Bonaventure Statiomililflr 0f Jkgriflifitllre- Pfflvilwial Montmai “ihih [he [among Building Charlottetown, up to the 22nd. day of May, 1925. at 12 o'clock. noon for the purchase of the follow» lng:

i. The Building known as iRena hiclman Memorial Hospital ialternatively in the whole or in

sect-ens as shown by a plan to be ‘seen in the office of the Minister 0f

Agriculture.

_ 2. A quantity of heating. ndumb- ing and electric lighting supplies, specifications of which can be seen at the above office.

3. 62 feet of hardwood topped work-table. suitable for counters in; country store. '

Dated 12th, day of May, 1925.

J. W. Boultcr. . ‘ Secretary. Department of Agrlculiitnre.

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Canada Highways Act, separate Sealed Tenders marked “Tenders for Grading and Concrete Structures. Projeta No. ." will be received by the undersigned until noon on Saturday, ay rd, ‘i925, for gradilng, construction of concrete struc- tures, and other necessary work on the following roads:

Project Ne, 73, New Haven to Long Creek.

Project No. 74. St. Nicholas to Mt. Pleasant via Tyne Valley. Project No. 76, 46 Road-Plsquld Corner to Baldwin Road.

Project No. 7'6, Georgetown Road-County Lino to New Perth. Project No. 77, Palmer Road-Mlimlnigaah to Tignlsh, , Project No. 7B, Murray Harbor Road-Grand View to Murray Rilvor.

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Plans. specifications and Forms of Tender may be scan at the office of the Provincial Engineer, Charlottetown, at the offices of the Honorable J. A. McNsllI, Summorslde, J. A. MacDonald d 00., Cardigan, and Kennedy l. Co, O'Loary,

A cortlflul cheque payable to the order of the Mirslfler of Public Works, Prince Edward Island, for the bum of Five Hundred Dollars must accompany eseh tender. ,

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

L. B. MeMILLAN, Boorftary of Public Works.

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mcred a multitude oftiny specks of fire. He could see nothing else at first, nothing more'deflnite; ev- erything was nebulous and shift- ing, except the centres of fire which never ceased to flicker and flare and cast off into the confus- ion their spouts and puffs and

Iswirls of crimson fumes. lt was the

hell of his boyhood fears.

But gradually his sight became more accustomed to the glare. A cosmos merged. The scene became less fearsome, though even more amazing.

He saw in the dim outlines of an underground chamber, similar in shape and size to the cellar irom which he had come, but richly adorned; heavy rugs carpeted the floor; the ceiling was panelled with a deep toned polished wood, in which were inlaid mirror frag- ments, arranged to reflect fantas- tic designs; the gllmmering specks

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atrophied, and his kitowledge was gone. Ileliberately be bud set him- self to forget, that the past might be forgotten. Now be set himself to remember. Slowly, word by word. he began to understand.

Before complete understanding could come, the priest had ceased speaking; for a minute or two he stood bowed in adoration before his fires; the kneeling men stop- ped their stranings and sniklngs, and bent forward till their fore- heads touched the ground. in the silence the process or remenr

were spangles in the hangings; the crimson centres were brazier fires; some unknown, pagan deity. the gun. Round a small, high stage that protruded from the deepest shadow the chamber, the fires were grouped; a priest was tending them, a tall dignified figure. From

T419 lone to the other he passed, feeding

them with a fuel which burst into crimson scintillations and flared till his return. His was the voice that kept calling forth the respons- es, Those that made them knelt

some distance away; first two uak-i

ed men alone, garlanded with marl golds, their bodies shining from ointment~at least one of them was a Hindoo; then, well pug the centre of the room, twenty or thir- ty others, garbed in lossely fitting calico robes. Their eyes gleamed through the glare, excited. watch- ful. Eagerly they were snlflingthe fumes that floated away from the fires. Fragrant those fumes. The air ws laden with perfume. sweet and alluring. iHe found himself sniffing also, and, as he breathed of the frangrance, felt an ecstasy growing within him, his heart thrii, ling with queer intimate desires. And it seemed that. some part of the meaning of the ceremony was clear to him. Whatever the pur- pose. fanatics were being bred be- fore his eyes.

What was being said. he could not understand, though the words sounded familian- Once ‘he had known them. - ~ Once he had’ known many Eas- tern dialects. He had had the. gift hi’ tongues. and their acquisition had been easy. Yet the gift had

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.rid shape was As clearly as ever he had hcirdl

brance worked more swiftly in

‘he was kmkmg “m, the temple o; John Henry's brain, When again

the high-pitched voice broke forth,

i Ii be received a; we om“ only“, Mm. practice of whose cult. had just be,sgezzilgslnthsugenifisgfvnofifinglzie

"The great bird spreadeth its wings over the land, it cometh. Yea it cometh. Blessed are ye, ob. .ye Children of the Vulture."

Clear and distinct the words fell on his ear. As clear came the re- spouse-

“We are blessed." ~ _

lie had remembered just in time A climax of the ceremony was ap~ preaching. The fires had burned low. The chamber was almost in darkness. But, in spite of the dot":- ness, be saw the worshippers cra 4 ing eagerly forward, as pilgrims looking for an expected sign; and when the priests voice rung ou-t again, its note oi certainty was un- mlstnkeable, A prophet wus deliv- ering a phophecy whose fulfilment was at hand.

"lt shall fill the land with blood. Ye who are worthy shall drink and wax strong. The great bird calleth its children to the feast, It cometb. Yea! it cometb. Ye who are wor- thy shall see it revealed."

Shouting wildly, he started to whirl back and forward in front of the stage, pouring handful after handful of fuel into the braziers us he passed. Flames shot through his fingers, great crimson tongues that licked the ceiling, Like a de- mon at the furnace door of hell, he ‘danced before them; their glare filled the chamber; their fumes be» came almost overpowering. Yet swifter and swiiter llc whirled at his stoking, louder and louder he howled.

Then all at once the flames went out, blackness swirled into the room, an his voice was silent, his frenzy out short us though a beust of the night had leaped with the blackness an slain him. The thud of his body sounded loud us he fell to the floor. iThe effect was tre~ mendous. The blackness seemed charged with evil. A howl came from the worshippers. Sharply lt

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.1118 evil presence; then it was gone. John AHQDTY blinked ""1 blinked his eyes. and lodkiul l!!!" darkness. it was the cleverest ihcce oi stage trickery hi: hi“! 9"‘ er seen, and anteater-actor in the igu-ise of a priss: bud prepared the way for its playing. lEven he him- |sen, an ouiouker, an uubeiiever. ’not in the least susceptible to tn.- priests's appeal, had felt startle-i for a little while. To the superstl tious, half-drugged P8511115 W11" knelt in that chamber it was, wllat obviously it was meant to be, a personal manifestation of their god. Not a murmur came from them, not a rustle. Even their brea- thing was stllled.

At last a brazier burst into light. The priest appeared bending over it and stoklng. Its flame burned dim and steady; he passed on, is niting all the others and tending each in the same way. And as he lit, and stoked, and lit, he crooncd a melody that woke answering har- monies from unseen singers and players. until the chamber was fli- led with music, strange and bar- baric, with long languorons caden- ces tull of sex appeal.

Another spell was being cast, an- other and baser depth stirred in thosp worshippers, Tracking the music to its source John Henry suw two sections of the hangings cn the wall opposite his psyhole lit-lug slowly drawtfasitle, and as he watched in wonder, a space was disclosed, a tiny room behind the hangings that might have been re- constructed from an opium-eatefis tireatu; an alcove of soft blue light \vlth couches hulf hid in slumbrous shadows, and- houris, beautiful girls who came tripping out into the chamber, their bodies swaying lu the music, bells tinkling about them as they swayed. into tho dim light of the brnzizrs tin-y danced, and thence round the two gnrlanded figures. On the‘ it-rge oi‘ the radlatice two men lay: prone, drugged sleepers. As sleetrl ers ivakenlng in the paradise of tin-Ir dreams, they reared up s-utl-

‘denly on their knees, hands flung

wildly out, eyes glaring; and a bowl broke from them, instantly echoed from the midst of the fcv- cred eyes that shone in a cluster behind; their bodies started to quiver; they clutched at the flying draperies as the girls s\vnycd with-i in their reach, clutched and mis and, clittched and missed, and went lolllng on their backs, on their sides, on their faces, half stupe- fled, helpless, yet gripped by an; controllable desires. '

John Henry turned away from the sickening sight and stti dawn in his tunnel. 'l'hc girls were wliitei the men were colo-ured—and‘he had served ‘in India. it was the be- ginning of an orgy, an evil rite that would make those two devo- tees capublepf any madness, any act of violence, whatever their su

perlcrs decreed. That was its pur- ‘

pose, he had no longer any doubt. He had stumbled on the.nest of some secret religious association; he had been witnessing the prepar- ation of two of its members for some deed of crime.

And up above was a house ylcit- ed by u prominent politicluni-nnd by half a dozen other men not a whit less prominent and respect- able.

He bad seen the latter as be spied on the place before taking up his quarters in Number l5. Sometimes they entered alone. more often accompanied by those beautiful girls. These were the nautch girls o fthe upper chamb- ers, the counterpnrt of the danc- ing-glrls below. What was the coun terpart oi‘ the en-tertaiumen-t, he wondered, to which those men came, or were lured? Ami what was the association of which they were members, or the dupes‘!

Again he felt that vague appre- henslon which had seized him as he listened to the purr of a limou- sine and the trend oi’ the police- man passing by. It come to him now as u warning to go. Whatev- er the gang was, '-it was powerful. He was on no safe hun-tlng-grottnd. And there as something else bid- ding him go. something vaguer than the apprehension, yet more potent.

ifhe music was still sounding. the cries of the men. the linkiim; of the bells, the inviting laughter of the girls. Hence this second

ceased, cut short also, as u new terror stalked into the chamber. A

them. John Henry felt his scalp stiffen. his feet and hands grow cold. High over the stage

anything clearly, there sounded the beating of great wings.

The blackness was broken as a-t their impact, it tossed and swirled round the shape~round n glowing. formless Thing, that steadily grew as though sucking life from the turmoil, until, leaping forth from the midst of dead shadows, it hung revealed against a motionless background, a gleaming red bird. a

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Ipsges of his past. and threatening a bor-ito write where a story hnd been manifesting ltself.,left unwritten. H“ remembeflnl! 0|’

warning came. His disgust at the scene had been but the forerunner of a deeper and more personal feel- ing. Fate was fingering again the

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set other tncniorics stirring. ’l‘l|<- longer be stuycti, the more potent those stirrings would bctamnc. And. for twelve years his sole object had been to ikccp them coniiiicd! lie rose, his face turned towards his barricade, his intention forni- ed to go, But as he rosc the ilabcl ceased, the priest begun illltllllPI‘ invocation.-