Page:Weird Tales Volume 4 Number 4 (1924-12).djvu/159

 sured him, ‘‘He says that you may have another thirty or forty years of comparative youth. Of course he is rabid on the subject. But at that I wouldn’t be surprised if you outlived me here, and I’m only forty.’’

"... outlived me here!" The words stuck in Martin Zucker’s mind. ‘‘Here.’’ Just what did the warden mean? -Certainly not the hospital, for the doctor had promised him that. he would be disabled only a week or two.

But ‘‘here!’’ That certainly didn’t mean the odorous pine woods of the north; it didn’t mean the place where he would find the beautiful fairhaired successor to Hilda.

‘‘Here!’” Martin Zucker’s face aged; a terrible thought brought the cold sweat to his brow. He groaned and turned his face to the wall. ‘*Here!’’

Ah! A long time “‘here!" For Martin Zucker, to whom time had meant nothing and to whom the future promised nothing, had suddenly been shown the pricelessness of time and the promise of the future.

The operation had done that. The operation had made him young, too. And the operation promised him...

Another life time in prison. For Martin Zucker was serving a life sentence.

What Do YOU Know About Spiritualism ? Read the Astounding Exposé of Fraud Mediums— “The SPIRIT FAKERS of HERMANNSTADT" By HOUDINI, The Master Magician The Most Miraculous True Story Ever Written The master of escape relates in this thrilling story his adventures when He fell into the hands of an unscrupulous band of blackmailers and murderers, who threw him, naked and landcuffed, into the black dungeon of an old castle on the Maros River in Hungary.. HOUDINI tells how -he exposed their leader, the notorious charlatan medium Poplens, teacher of Rasputin, the Black Monk of Russia. This gripping true story, crammed: with excitement and surprizes, together with many other startling stories, was published serially in fhe 1924 March and April numbers of WEIRD TALES. We havé a limited number of these on hand, and, while the supply lasts, will mail both copies, postage’ prepaid, to any address for FIFTY CENTS Address: WEIRD TALES, 325 I N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. pt. H-