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Rh He crossed to the edge of the platform and quickly let himself down to the deck of the cruiser. Lim followed and for a moment the two stood looking up at the figure huddled om the wharf.

IX MONTHS after this final scene in the affair of the Evening Wolves, Ah Wing received at his New York address a letter from On Wong, the banker. Several items of business were discussed, and then On Wong added this paragraph:

"You will be pleased to know, most worshipful Son of Heaven, that the pensioner to whom monthly I paid over in your name the sum of twenty dollars has passed on to the hell of his most honorable fathers. He died in great misery, crying out the name of one Madame Celia, Mother of the Friendless!"

THE END

The sun's heat is the cause of the wind. It shines for a time on a portion of the earth's surface and heats the air immediately beneath its rays. This air expands, and, thus becoming lighter, it rises, leaving a partial vacuum. When the surrounding air rushes in to fill the exhausted space, we say that the wind blows.

The most powerful poison in the world is a certain toxin produced by the germs which cause botulism, a peculiar kind of food poisoning. A single teaspoonful of this substance would be sufficient to kill all the people on the earth. Fortunately, this terrible potion is very difficult to obtain, and loses its efficacy when kept a short time.

THE CAULDRON

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chair so that the top of the back was under the doorknob and felt sure that should anyone try to open it, the noise would awaken me.

I was soon in bed and asleep. To show that I was not in an imaginative state, I recall that my mind was principally impressed with the details of an invention about which I was journeying to Detroit to see the chief engineer of one of the big firms. I had no particular thought on any other subject, that I can remember. I must have been asleep for quite a while, when I awoke suddenly and started up in bed.

Standing in the door, which was wide open, was the form of a woman. I could not distinguish the features, as the glimmer of light was behind her. I could only see that it was a tall woman with light hair. She stood very still with one arm raised, the other hanging limp at her side. Her dress or gown was of a light, almost transparent material. I tried to speak, but I think I succeeded in ejaculating "Oh!" or "Ah!" and the form vanished instantly.

Jumping out of bed I ran to the door and looked out. The hall was empty, the parlor was empty, no one was on the stairway, and the two men in the next room were evidently fast asleep. I went back to my room and closed the door. Then I thought of the chair. There it lay overturned on the floor; the noise of its falling having been the cause of my awakening. I sat down on the side of the bed and considered. By my watch I saw that it was twenty minutes past two. I must have been dreaming, I thought. That seemed the natural conclusion. And so I should think to this day were it not for the overturned chair and open door.

The thought that a sleep-walker might have entered my room was quickly dispelled. Had such been the case, I would have seen her somewhere in the hall as the time between the form’s disappearance and my investigation was a matter of but a few moments.

Who the woman, or apparition, was, I have no idea, but should be inclined to think it was my wife, if anyone belonging to me at all, as we were devotedly attached to one another, and she had been dead for several years.

MATT. BYRNE AP'RHYS. C. E.

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