Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1929, Page 19

THE EVENING -STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1929, THE WCAR N_—By Gardner Hunting (Copyright, 1928, by Public Ledger) In the year 1935 there gathers in the studio of Radley Brainard a group com= sisting of his sweetheart, Phyllis Norman, Rer father, mother and brother, Joh John's sweetheart, Carol Gould, ard Ra lev’s Aunt Relief. By means of an int tion which he has just perfected Radley projects om to @ pauze curtain the be- n- ginning of a murder which occurred three years previously. with the “actors” seemingly real versons speaking with their matural voices. INSTALLMENT IIL BELIEVE,” said Brainard, smil- €€ | ing at her again, “that what we see—all of what we see—is de- pendent mainly on two things: Light—and destiny of what I may call the etheric substance.” “Oh, words of one syllable, Rad!" in- terrupted Carol. “I don't know,” went on Brainard, “whether what a man still is, after death, can come back and show itself to us, under any circumstances. But I do know that what he was can come back, and does, visibly, audibly, tangibly to every sense—no, tangibly is not the word, for I haven't succeeded in touch- ing him!” Phyllis sought her chair again. She began to be angered at the effect this thing was having upon her. She was ley,” Mr. Norman answered. “I ad- mit, though, that I would prefer not believe you have all the power you say you have. And there may be pow- ers in this you do not know.” Brainard tried to laugh pleasantl: but he did not make a pleasant sound. “Go on, Radley!” urged his aunt again. The others laughed uneasily. A restraint was upon them all now. Brainard shrugged away some of his irritation. “Forgive me for being hypersensitive to suggestions of criticism,” he said, with a return of one of the qualitics in him that Phyllis loved. “Too many late hours—and cigarettes instead of i]or)d!" he added, and smiled across at er. But Phyllis was | watching him_as | some one she hardly kn A mo- | mentary return of the old Radley | could not efface the impression of the | challenging look. An aching sense | that he was changed indecd made her unable to respond. Then anger flamed | up in_her in; not at the fact that | he might have stumbled upon power, | but at the use of it which had first occurred to him. Why had it occurred to him? What sort was a_man who did not instinctively respect the privacy of others?—not mere physical privacy, on which any Pecping Tom might in- trude, but the infinitely more intimate thing, to spy upon which was violation. “Who are you?” she asked, uncon- sclously usurping the questioner’s right. “I—don't know,” came back the husky answer. The figure groped for the doorpost with a thin hand. Then a pitiful thing showed itself. A flicker of an ingratiatmg smile crossed the creasing face. “Nobody seems—to know,” he added, his voice clearing slightly as if with use. “I guess he isn't dangerous,” Mr. Norman said from behind Phyllis. “He looks to me like a man in the extremity of distress—starvation, maybe.” Brainard went toward the visitor. “Where did you come from?” he asked. “Do you know that you are a strange- looking object to come thrusting your- self- e He had reached out and taker® hold {of the thin arm, his fingers closing around it with an unsure grasp that instantly conveyed to Phyllis the thought in his mind. He had suspected that here was something that he could sec and hear—but could not touch! Something out of control! But his hand did grasp the arm of the figure in the doorway, and his voice trailed off to nothing as he feit the contact. And abruptly the other flung out his own hand and caught at the young man's neck. Brainard leaped back to escape what seemed at- tack. 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Women’s Corduroy Lounging blue. 81x99, perfect quality, full $1.79 Bleached 7~ assuredly mot superstitious; yet this foar at the demonstration of unknown Jaws could be called nothing less. She sat down, determined to take herself n d. E ‘Wh?lgt, had been more ghostly in their tim> than the discoveries Radley had mentioned—the ray by which a camera sess through things opaque to the eye—the device which brings sound across distance and through barriers that otherwise deaden it to the ear? And these had become commonplaces. SHN, here was something more. Was it then the fact that Radley assured 7 = SreSEr 7«/ WHEN BRAINARD STOPPED, THE OTHER MAN SANK LIMP AND SLID TO THE FLOOR WITH A GASP. them they had looked back at life that was pastior was it the undefined im- plication against which her nature re- belled? ‘The sense of menace in it seemed inexplicable, as she listened to the voices of the others; but ler lithe young muscles went weak before it at every glimpse her imagination allowed ftself. But Radley was continuing. “No,” he was saying again, “nobody acts these scenes; can't you grasp that? The day of actors is past.” He laughed. “What will our friends of the colossal Com- plete Tlusions say to that?” He glanced at Phyllis, but his eyes again were full of other things. “No, no actor can compete with life; and no audience, having once seen life relived as here, will tolerate anything else. As for material—try to realize that every- thing man has done is to be accessible to us. That's a big order, isn't it? I can’t grasp it myself, though I've been spending sleepless nights over the con- ception—and seeing it demonstrated here every day for months!” The white room was still again. “You have seen enough so that you will begin to place some credence in | Se€n? more startling things. Suppose I tell you that I have looked into the secret sesslons of the peace conference at Versailles! Suppose I shock you by asserting that I can look into my neighbor’s bedrodm, across the street. Suppose I show you—yourself, as you see yourself in the mirror in the privacy of your own chamber—no, not as you see yourself, but as you actually were at a given moment, or during a given hour, when you supposed you were alone!” He stopped, looked from one to an- other of them, the triumphant sense of power flaming in his face. Again his gaze came to Phyllis and lingered on her. But now it was with a strange inquiry. It was as if he had asked her to look at a transformation in human “ relations that might touch their own. It was like a challenge. A challenge to her. The sense of weakness fled out of Phyllis Norman; flerce resent- ment sprang up in her. The swift crystallizing of vague apprehensions which had come with his first sugges- tions in this revealing speech formed 2 substantial, concrete thing to Yace. Her character arrayed all its forces instinctively to meet that. But he seemed to read things in her face also. “Don’t dream that I have | :::;:fng :Lllrluybod_\xr's privacy,” he said astily. rather hastily. I am only asking you “Radley Brainard, I'm ashamed of | you!” cried his aunt. “You needn't be—yet, Aunt Relief,” he answered her. “Besides,” he added with a slow grin, “suppose we do all got to looking at one another’s private lives! Who will have the, nerve to throw the first stone?” g “Horrible!” exclaimed Aunt Relief. “You'd find it unspeakable dear, if you had anything to hide,” said Carol saplently. “I think, Rad, you're getting in a little deep. Do you remember a chap called Frankenstein and the thing he did?” “I have distinctly shown you that I hold what I have under a key,” said Brainard. “But,” said John that what you did nof from you.” “Well, I'm no male Pandora, either! But just reflect that all knowledge is a dangerous thing unless controlled, like all force.” “If I believed you have what you say you have, I'd be scared into con- vulsions!” exclaimed Carol suddenly. “Wait a minute,” put in Mr. Norman. “People have been known to get into trouble by confining forces.” “Ignorantly, ves replied Brainard, with a touch of impatience again ting- ing his tone, “But confining a force doesn’t mean controlling it “Exactly,” assented Mr. quietly. uickly, “you said show us escaped Norman show you what I've shown you in this studio tonight has the forces he deals ! manded. “The two are easily confused.” | “Don’t you think a man who can| And yet, if this thing he had shown them tonight were a genuine phenome- non, product of newly discovered laws controlled and manipulated, what was the essence of the result? Again the girl's temples throbbed. But a rude interruption broke in upon her thoughts. A clatter arose at the entrance door of the studio. It was M open, and all the little group within turned to look. Brainard's Jap- anese servant, Ushigi, rushed in, hi dusky eyes wide with excitement, his prominent teeth gleaming white through wide-open lips, “Look! See! Quick!” he cried, and whirled to point back at the open door. In contrast to the light within the white room, that in the entrance hall outside was dim. The open door offered a-dark rectangle to Phyllis’ eyes, like an opening abruptly flung wide to the out- side night itself. Ushigi was clearly frightened. But nothing came in at the door. * Brainard strode across to the Jap. “Look here!” he demanded. “What's the matter with you? What have you But Ushigi was trembling. He point- ed again at the door. “There!” he whispered. 'S there!” His sibilant hiss alone would have sent chills racing over the spine. “Don't be a fool!” Brainard flung him aside and started toward the door him- self. “What the devil do you think you've let in out of the night that scares—" ; But he stopped short as he came opposite the open entrance. For a moment he stood still, staring. Then slowly he took a backward step. Miss Brainard screamed. A chair fell with a crash as some one ‘leaped up. It was John. He rushed across to Brainard’s side. There he, too, stop- ped, and stoed gaping at something in- visible to the rest. “What—what is it?” he gasped. Wave upon wave of cold swept over Phyllis. All the bizarre occurrences of that night seemed uniting to some climax that made the blood congeal. Carol, at her side, caught her arm, and the contact brought a cry from her. Then the two girls clung frankly to each other in terror. “Whoever you are——" It was Rad- ley's voice calling out through that dark rectangle over there. “Whoever you are—or whatever you are, come in here where we can see you!” he de- No sound came in from the hidden Nothing appeared to justify e attitudes of the two young men who secemed to see. Then® both abruptly drew away another step from the door. Something stirred there. Phyllis’ straining eyes caught a glimpse of a gray figure ying, wavering, as the outlines of heat waves waver above a flame. Then it k form, as it drew slowly into better light. Human form—the figure of a man! Or some- thing that had been a man! It had feet—knees—hands—a mouth —cyes! It had the beard of a pic-| tured troll hanging in a matted cas-} cade over its breast. Its slowly moving limbs were half covered with the tat- ters of some wasted garment that mere- ly clung in shreds. Its flesh was gray as sun-bleached dust. Bat it moved— and its hollow eyes blinked blindly in the light and starcd at them from un- der its ragged hair, But Brainard rclaxed and took a; step forward. ) “Look here,” he said, “what is this? A masquerade?” The strange being stood still and hif gaze slowly centered upon the young man. *“Por—for God's sake,” he whispered huskily, “tell me—where I am!" “Teil' me who yon are,” demanded Radley, clearly believing that some trick being practiced on him now, “and maybe I can. Don't try to get away with anything here.” The smoky eyes in the gaunt face turned slowly and went over them all. As they encountered Phyllis' gaze they stopped. To be so singled out had the with under control?” K of them, undoubtedly, Rad- ged behind him. When Brainard stop- ped the other man sank limp and slid to the floor with a gasp. “He's human, all right!” said John, stepping to ‘Radley’s assistance. He stooped and picked up the thin figure. “I think Dad’s got it right; he looks like a man at the last gasp for food and drink.” 5 He carried the now Helpless form across to the chairs and propped it up in one. “Ushigi, bring the decanter off the sideboard,” said Brainard. He came and bent over the man in the chair, whose head John still supported. “All right, old chap,” he said; “you're among friends.” The old Radley again! Even in the excitement of the moment Phyllis was sensitive to his tones. There had | always been a special flavor for her in | Radley’s kindness, He was sympathy itself—when he was sympathy at all. But the man in the chair was re- covering a little. He turned his head again, and again he looked up into Phyllis’ eyes. “It's you!” he sald, just above his panting breath. “He's off his head, of course” sald John, glancing up at her. “But who wouldn’t be? Look at his hands.” Phyllis looked. The hand nearest her was long and clawlike, fleshless almost, trembling. Abruptly it turned over nndl opened its palm appealingly. “Help me!” he pleaded. “Tell me it isn't true! I don't know where— maybe I'm dead! Am I dead? I never saw——" ‘Weakness stopped him. His lips went, on forming words dryly but inaudibly. Ushigi came running with the de- canter of liquor. Brainard took it and tipped it up to the whispering lips. They stilled at the touch of the glass. Then the man drank, a sip, and an- other. They watched. The stimulant took hold with amazing suddenness. He stirred his head and looked again at Phyllis. His eyes widened and his gaze | seemed to concentrate. “But,” he began, his volce returning, «“you are not a—a day older! Have I been sick? Haven't I been away? Suddenly he struggled up out of John's hands, his thin elbows rapping the arms of the (fi;éflr painfully. He bout the white room. Sle‘l‘éfllr‘flfls—where am I1?” he sobbed. “He_seems to w.fil fi:u to talk to im, Phyllis,” said Mr. Norman. i ‘l;‘hylllsybent over him. 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