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24 THE GRUMBLER N uriosity Kiilect the Catn Tom K. Pequegnat. A XIII A OW I got here isn't very im- portant, but to know that I'll never get out alive .... It all started last night on my way home from work. William Jenkins, my employer, sent me over to Queen's Park to post a For Sale sign on an old abandoned house. I didn't mind at all, because in the first place, I lived out that way and then, well, - old houses have al- ways intrigued me. After turning in the sweeping drive. my suspicions should have been aroused by the fresh tire marks, but they weren't. Instead, I mounted the huge portico and set about the task of placing my sign on one of the massive white pillars. It was after this that I made my mistake. To appease my curiosity I decided to investigate the grounds rather than go straight home. That in itself was safe enough. but when I came upon an unlatched shutter and a slightly raised casement, my curiosity knew no bounds. Climb- ing cat-like along the railing and up the drainpipe, I managed to raise the window and pull myself through to the inside, where I found myself standing in a long dark corridor, - dark owing to the panelling of the walls. I thought, as I stood there wonder- ing which way to turn, that the silence was unusual. It held some- thing of that same oppression that an empty house does when the owners have just gone away. I opened a door at hazard, and found a room in total darkness. no chink of light coming through the closed shutters, while I could see dimly the outline of furniture swathed in white dust sheets. The room smelled close and stale. the smell of a room seldom if ever used. I shut the door softly, and went un- certainly along the corridor, flank- ed on either side by doorS, HH Of them closed. I turned the handle of another door and went inside. It was dark, of course, because of the shutters. I was standing in a little ante-room and at the end of this room was another door, open, leading to a much larger room. I went through to this room, and my first impression was one of shock because the room was fully furnished as though in use. I had expected to see chairs and tableS swathed in dust sheets. Nothing was covered up. There were flow- ers on the table beside the c0uCh and flowers, too, on the carved mantlepiece. I stood there aS though waiting for something to happen .... , I heard the door behind me open. and turning around I saw Her. VN e stared at one another for a moment without speaking. and then She went to the window and swung back the shutter. I could see her clearly now, and in her hand she held a small black automatic wlth a lustrous jade handle. She WQS slender, tall. and very beautiful . . she was an Oriental. I don't know whether I was too surprised to be frightened, or too frightened to be surprised. One thing I know. I had made a terrible mistake. She mo- tioned me to a chair, but I waS frozen in my tracks. My actions did not deter her plans in the least. for she coiled up snake-like on the couch and just watched me. Finally she spoke. Why have you come here. and who sent you '? Her slanting eyes tContinued on page 164-l
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