Brood of the Witch-Queen

n. Lord Lashmore sat staring straight before

hird baron developed-certain q

nity. The fourth baron-son of Paul Dhoon-turned a deaf ear to these reports, until the mother of a child-a child who had died-traced a man,

n-in the Middle Ages a torture-room; no cry uttered there can reach the outer world-and was submitted to the a

, "the strain came from Mirza

e's eyes sho

a sorceress?" he asked, hoarse

. Her husband surprised her in certain detestable magical operations and struck her head off. He had suspected her for some considerable time, and had not only kept secret the birth of her son b

will prevail until the Polish Jewess who origina

. He died without revealing the secret. Do you mean that the taint,

the unclean, awful spirit of that vampire woman, is still earth-bound. The son was freed, and with him went the hereditary taint, it seems; but the mo

assed his hand

Cairn. In brief,

onging to seek incarnation in a human body. It is such awful pariahs as this, Lord Lashmore, that constitute the

hat the spirit of

eem to remember a tradition of Dhoon Castle, to the effect that

t on the night-I be

was known, in life, as

ut

to gain control

hat m

do not hesitate to employ them. The danger o

y, covering the facts of my recent e

evidence, I should like to call at your place this eve

was watching

old whose suspicions you do no

ll we make it

come to

think it would serve my purp

ned alone together in Ha

t Street to-day," said. Robert

aised his h

" he

fraid that he might

o Myra Duquesne

ot have sur

me, Rob, but I think he is st

rn looked

shmore,"

rompted h

Planet yesterday, linking Ferrara's name with Lady Lashmores.' Of course we didn't use it;

of t

Lord Lashmore in all probability will outlive F

an utterly unscrupu

tain

re appear to be

fect

A

f some considerab

It is tragically funny to think that in our new wisdom we have abolished the only laws that could have touched him! He could not have existed in Ancient Chaldea, and would probably have been burnt

eriously to-morrow, Ferrara would be legally immune. We must wait

an manage to

ate your record of those events which we know

nt last evening

day will be a weapon to destroy an unnatural enemy. I