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 By ANTHONY RUD Weird Tales-1934-05-Bellowing Bamboo.png "Inarticulate horror, choked screams burst from his throat."

ROM the moment Lieutenant Natheshire of the British Guiana Provincial Police heard of Selwyn Landrigan's coming, the officer frowned and became moody. Still, as guardian of the peace on the upper Mazaruni and Cuyuni Rivers, Natheshire could do no less than make a pretense of welcoming Landrigan—and then stick dose to him.

Landrigan was hated, with suffident reason. In spite of that fact he had become a personage in the affairs of the trading company. And this company, which handled most of the foreign trade of British Guiana and Venezuela, and also owned more than a hundred stations on the jungle rivers, could make or break men like Natheshire. Rh