Brood of the Witch-Queen

clever, and the other to a girl, pretty and inexperienced, there is laughter in the hells. But, to the

f Myra Duquesne to a grim Scottish manor in Inverness upon a visit of indefinite duration. It

e doctor frequently met Ferrara in society, for a man at once rich, handsome, and bearing a fine name, is not socially ostracised on the mere suspicion that he is a dangerous blackguard. Thus Anto

ite his winning manner, his wealth and his station, every door in London, from those of Mayfair to that of the foulest den in Limehouse, woul

men's destinies; then, as comprehension is about to dawn, we lose again

Street, took Dr. Cairn asi

t on to you, Cairn," h

, thoughtfully. "I

England-you may have heard?-and brought

eard tha

outhern type-is probably less than twenty. They are an odd couple. T

red hard a

Antony Ferrara, is

oes everywhere. I don't know

chambers are like a scene

red the other curiously.

He looked simply ghastly, but the man would give me no account of what had caused the attack. It looked to me like sheer nervous exhaustion. He gave

life and his peculiar studies he will proba

s of his adoption; you were with the late Sir Michael in Egypt at the time. The fell

omething about Lord Lashmore

erate way in which his companion had changed the conversation was unmistakable.

ast Monday, at about two o'clock in the morning. I found the house upside-down, and Lady Lashmore, wit

ttempted

at it might have penetrated the internal jugular; but the external only was wounded. I arrested the flow of blood and made the patient

ore remaine

t nine o'clock that morning, and found him progre

und

that he fell forward almost into the fireplace. There is a rather ornate fender, with an elaborate copper scrollwork design, and his account was that he came down with all his weight upon this, in such a way that part

n concealin

s-related in confidence, but he wishes that you should know. He was awakened by a sudden, sharp pain in the throat; not very acute, but accompanied

se his wife, he did not enter his dressing-room, which is situated between his own room and Lady Lashmore's; he staggered as far as the b

n coughe

ttempted suicide after

atically. "I think it was something

tempted

hey number four. There is a small boudoir, out of which opens Lady Lashmore's bedroom; between this and Lord Lashmore's apartment

t Chambers came i

'excepting Chambers.' But Chambers has been with his present m

ndo

balcony, and ov

o clue to t

are t

are

t something was in the room at the moment of his awakening. Third:

Good God! Wit

y and before any damage had been done. He says that some soft body rolled off the bed. He uttered a loud cry, leapt out and switched on the electric ligh

Lash

ring her husband's cry, I assume. There had b

Tuber

roduce hemorrhage in the case

is head. He was o

Lashmore?"

lower on the neck. But they were quite superficial. He ha

ha

tly covered with long, silk

Cairn-"these wounds;

fangs," replied Sir Elwin;