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I know the psychology of the Gael is a curious one and that deep in all their hearts their a

if ever there was one, appreciative of most unmystical Broadway, and yet soberly and earnestly attesting to his belief in banshee, in shadowy people of the woods,

ntly and ran a hand over his e

But it takes me that way now and then. It's the Irish i

e moon, now nearly a week

I've always wondered what kind of a noise a disembodied spirit could make without any vocal

oked at me

hen his hand shot out and gripped my shoulder, and I stiffened like stone in my chair-for from behind us, like an echo, and then taking up the cry, swelled a wail that seemed to hol

e said. "It's for me. It found

had located it. It came from my room, and it co

" I gasped, and made

ese ran up and took it from his hands and the little Portuguese pattered down toward us. My hand on the door, ready to throw it open, I stopped. What if the Dweller were wi

ithin it. I saw an automatic flash dully in his hand; saw it cover the cabin from side to side, following the swift sw

s; in them great tears slowly gathered and rolled down his cheeks; from his opened mouth came

the leashes I had buckled round him and faced us, his eyes glaring, his yellow hair almost erect with the force of the rage vis

cksson, and his voice was like the

gently and stood

reda. We follow the sparkling devil that came down from the moon. Do you hear me?" I spoke slowly, distin

out a sh

ngly. "You know where to follow? Where

" I answered. "Just that! I pl

rue, Olaf. You go faster on the Suwarn

him. "I know you, Da Costa," he muttered. "You are all

"Soon you see her. But now lie down an' tell us, if you can, why

vil came it will help us all when we ge

he giant shifted his own tense look from me to the Irishman. A gleam of approval lighted in his eyes. He loosed me, and g

shook-"Mine Yndling! She loved the moonlight. I was at the wheel and my Freda and my Helma they were behind me

at night-with my Helma and my Freda, and the Brunhilda sailing like a swan-boat, ja. I heard the child say, 'The nisse comes fast!' And then I heard a scream from my

se to me, and I heard him pa

shone like-like stars in a whirlwind mist. There was a noise in my ears. It sounded like bells-little bells,

face burned into my heart. Because it was full of fear, and it was full of happiness-of glaede. I tell you that the fear in my Helma's face m

lives! Christ lives!' I said. But the sparkling devil did not let my Helma go. It drew her to the rail; half over it. I saw her eyes upon the child and a little she broke away and reac

nd mine Yndling had gone. My boys crept up and asked me to turn again. But I would not. They dropped a boat and left me. I

s as though I heard Throckmartin asking that same bitter question. "I have left Him as He left me

t when we found you. You shall go with me to its home, and there we will try to take from it your wife and y

thing which souls must see in the eyes of Him the old Egyptian

said at last slowly. "

e lay back and soon he was sleeping. I turned toward Da Costa. His face

Goodwin," he said. "So well tha

k of his story, Mr

most painfully br

t. "I think he's crazy, Dr. Goodwin," he correc

ittle Portuguese

n," I said. "Take my word for it. You need some

he answered gratefully. "Tomorrow, when I

ixed him an opiate of considerable streng

few questions as I spoke. But after I had finished he cross-examined me rather minutely upon my recollections of the radiant ph

o you think of

a while, looking

tain-you and your friend Throckmartin and this man here saw-something. But-" he was silent again and then continued with a

-"I pray in my heart that we'll meet neither the Dolphin nor anything with wireless on

Doc, and call me plain Larry, for whether I think you're crazy or wh

ck hammock he had insisted upon having slung for him, r

ose pride was my scientific devotion to fact and fact alone! Superstitious-and this from a man who believ

arry O'Keefe's comradeship on my venture, I arranged a couple of pillows, str