| Show ft ff I Ii i THE MENACE i I 1 fey Dy FRANCES E. E GOODRIDGE 1 I i. i I j 1 I tt 1 Iii flu nn br by 1 I G GHANT GnANT RANT ALLEN ALLE pressed his tense body closer against the great boulder and strained his bis eyes Into the thick grayness The horror had hod closed I about him again with the coming of the fog tog There was something out oat there here In im the darkness that stretched groping hands toward him and watched him with Invisible eyes lie He had tried with e every ery atom of ot will power be possessed pos pee OIo messed to fight the unreasoning fear of ot that unseen danger but at last he was almost ready to admit his bis failure For or a year ear he had be been n desperately Ili III and with the return of physical strength had come the fear tear that claimed him during the hours of darkness darkness dark dark- ness and In the heavy beavy fogs togs that so frequently swept the city He lie thought of the girl he loved a ahe ashe as a alie he lie waited It ell there In the Melon Helen was nl always so calm and strong would she laugh at him If she knew the desperate fear that held him vic vie vIctim victim tim tin or would she help him fight It ItT lie Ill wondered If It together they could coull conquer but he had resolved never tn to ask her to link her life lite with his while while- he was a n slave to the dreadful hallu hull II As swiftly as It had come the fog I rolled awn away nod the sun shone alone ann on the sand and onil the ocean lie He looked about with a u shudder disgusted with his own weakness yet not knowing I how bow successfully to combat It ft That night Grant sat reading In UN hll room The lights tights were shining brightly and In the distance he lIe could hear the sound Round of human voIces For the he was content shut In from the t lurkIng lurk turk lurkIng Ing menace that was on only I In III the dark lark ties ness DeI At last he laid down his honk and turning the lights tights tow low went to the window and looked out It had been such nights as these these still still and aud warns wallI when he had delighted to tu II fly aloft In his beloved belond plane fearless and trl For Tor n long time he stood there then turned back Into the l' l room Jom and turned the lights high A knock knock- suddenly sounded on his door and he opened It to had ind one of 01 lit his fellow guests of the hotel Mr 1 Allen an nn urgent call for a doc dw doctor I tor has line come from the West Island 1 Ii and we e wondered If It you OU couldn't got get Doctor Bentley Dentley and take him down I f there In r Anne iP There Is nothing available n lu In I the III shape hap of u II boat I arou 1 i Item el mud mid Mia Ia Ura Uray I said there thre was no one on the island I whom she could send In a boat to get gel I the doctor I Grant Allen leaned weakly against the door The They were asking him to go goo o out t there In the darkness alone with the terrible thine thing reaching out deadly hands to him lIe He wet wrt his hie dry lips conscious that his neighbor r was watch watch- lag Ing ng him curiously Surely there must b be some gome way to get Doctor Bentley there by boat he managed to stammer at last As I 1 sold said before every boat hue bus bt been en taken by the young people who went to a dance on the other shore This Is a matter of life lite or death Mr Allen and I t should not think It win was such luch a greut great thing to ask uk of you rOil Shall I t telephone to bits Mis Ora Gray that you will bring the doctor or not noU I cannot There are reasons why I cannot groaned Allen And the other num mun with a look of ot utmost scorn turned away In his room Grant Allen Alien struggled ltd with his dual self Then he made his hla decision If It he had bad got t to lire live this tills cowardly life any longer It were better to end It all right nOlie nO now He lie left his room by a side door that led lell Into a garden At least IMst no one should see him and watch and wonder Ills breath came ame In short suffocating gasps gast's lie He was through the garden and Into the wood w that was so friendly and cool b by da day but was a wilderness wilder ness of horror now lie He felt lingers fingers touching him the breath of strange things on his face anc and finally he could bear It no longer and with a cr cry ru rushed towards toward the shed that held his plane With shaking hands he made reads for the start He lie believed that If It he did succeed In getting Into the lire air fear would take Nake ake him lose control and he be would crash crush to the earth Now he had left Idt the ground rounel and was rail going higher and higher He lie looked up at the stars that reached nearer ne to him Gra Gradually 1110 II h h be became conscious that the trembling had hud left his bOOr body Slowly but surer the old triumphant feeling was as coming to him Then he laughed aloud and Increased his speed Of Ot course he would get Doctor Bentley Rent Bent J ley there In time As Grant waited beside his plane In Inthe Inthe In the darkness while Doctor Bentley Dentley worked over o his hie patient he knew the miracle had been ell done There was wn no nl longer an any fear only a great thankfulness thankfulness thank thant that he had been from his thralldom |
