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The Penalty 1 A victim of the city traffic.

2 It was young Dr. Ferris' first serious case.

...Charles Clary

3 The injured child is still unconscious of his fate.

4 "I dared not wait any       longer."

5 "I amputated both legs   above the knee."

6 "There is a contusion at the base of the     skull."

7 "Good God! You should not have amputated!"

8 "You've mangled this poor child for life."

9 "His father and mother -"

10 "My poor boy, I'll do what I can for you."

11 "I shall lie for you, and may God forgive me."

12 "Only immediate ampu- tation could save your  child's life."

13 "I heard them say --"

14 "He imagines he heard us. It's the effect of     the ether."

15 "He lies! He lies!"

16 Twenty-seven years later - San Francisco is the richest city in the western world.

17 She has one hideous blemish --

18 The Barbary Coast.

19 Barbary Nell.

...Doris Pawn

20 Frisco Pete.

...James Mason

21 Blizzard -- lord and master of the underworld.

...LON CHANEY

22 Lichtenstein, of the Federal Secret Service.

...Milton Ross

23 Rose, his most daring operative.

...Ethel Grey Terry

24 "Rose, this detail I'm offering you is so dangerous - I hope you'll turn it down."

25 "It's always Blizzard - that cripple from Hell."

26 "Do you remember sweet Barbary Nell who wandered from   our fold?"

27 "She's dead!"

28 "I could get him for theft, arson, murder -- but his criminal machine would still grind on."

29 "Through the Master I must reach his slaves - the underground powers   of the Reds."

30 "He's gathered up his dance hall girls and he's put them to work in his house - making hats - thousands of hats."

31 "I must know why!"

32 "I believe Blizzard is hatching something so big, it endangers    the city."

33 "I must find out what!"

34 "By the way, Barbary Nell, who strayed from us, now sleeps upon a marble slab --"

35 "-- in the morgue."

36 Blizzard's favorite for the moment.

37 "A woman who enters that den risks worse   than death."

38 "That's all in the day's        work."

39 "-- and I shall walk    as men walk."

40 "I shall be the master    of a city!"

41 "And for my mangled years the city shall    pay me --"

42 "-- with the pleasures of a Nero and the powers    of a Caesar!"

43 "But you won't live to see it -- if you don't    pedal better."

44 "It means living in that devil's house till you find out what he's up to."

45 "Of course. Well, I'm      game."

46 Dr. Ferris, now the most famous surgeon in his line.

...Charles Clary

47 Dr. Wilmot Allen, his assistant.

...Kenneth Harlan

48 Blizzard had agents in strange places.

49 "Barbara asked me to  call for her."

50 The surgeon's daughter, Barbara, had dedicated herself to Art.

...Claire Adams

51 "I'm dreadfully discouraged."

52 "I've done nothing worth        while."

53 "Someday she'll realize that this is all nonsense."

54 "Sorry you have to go."

55 "Haven't I waited long enough? Why don't you chuck it, Barbara?"

56 "Not until I've done at least one thing that is    worth doing."

57 "And I'm going to do 'Satan - after the fall'."

58 "If I fail --"

59 "-- I'll marry you."

60 "Rose has been there a week - and she's learned nothing."

61 "You're a find!"

62 "You aren't afraid of me - you look me in    the eyes."

63 "How could I be afraid - when you play like       that?"

64 "You're a find!"

65 "Be in front of that studio tomorrow and see that no applicant but myself   enters it."

66 "Everything comes to  him who waits."

67 "You've mangled this poor child for life."

68 "Do I look like Satan?"

69 "Before I am through with her and her father, they'll think I'm the devil himself."

70 9 A.M. -- Barbara's Studio at 32 Institute Place.

71 "Model already engaged."

72 Bubbles, a street waif whom Barbara has befriended.

73 Whenever Blizzard was absent, Rose hunted for clues.

74 "Some excellent judges think that I resemble      Satan."

75 "If there is enough       of me."

76 "I seem to please."

77 "I knew about him when I was bummin' the streets - cut-throat's his   middle name."

78 "You oughtn't to touch  him with a pole."

79 "Gawd! Look at that      face!"

80 "If I could catch that expression in the clay -   I'd be famous."

81 "How do you happen to know so much  about Art?"

82 "My father, who shall be nameless, was a distinguished man."

83 "But he detested little boys with their legs clipped off. So at fifteen I hobbled out of his life."

84 "I could write a better treatise on sculpture      myself."

85 "Why do you live in  the underworld?"

86 "When Satan fell from Heaven he looked for   power in Hell."

87 Hugely satisfied with his morning's work.

88 "Rose, my dear!"

89 "Under the piano, my darling - we'll have  some music."

90 "I have a feeling I shall waft you into Heaven."

91 "A death song, Rose!"

92 "Rose was my best bet -- so far she's learned nothing."

93 "I couldn't have played that way without your        help."

94 "Go back to your work - I can murder anything    but music."

95 Days passed and the clay grew into the image of the man who was like Satan --

96 Into a face clothed with evil intent.

97 In time the man would mangle the soul of the daughter, even as her father had mangled the body of the man.

98 "If you say it's good, I know it's good."

99 But she hesitated, for this would mean the end of Blizzard.

100 "I know of Dr. Allen - and of his great master,   Dr. Ferris."

101 "I will come tomorrow at the same time."

102 "What an admirable pair of legs."

103 "I gave mine to science."

104 "That monster ought to be chloroformed and put out of the way."

105  "He shows me only courtesy and helpfulness."

106 Doctor Ferris investigates.

107 "May I talk with Mr. Blizzard alone?"

108 "I have followed every step of your career, and you have indeed profited by your early    mistakes."

109 "You were the child whose life I ruined?"

110 "Don't let that trouble   you too deeply."

111 "It's now in your power to repair your error."

112 "Command me in any way ... But don't come here any more."

113 "Only your daughter's request can keep me away. She is making a masterpiece."

114 "Barbara, let me tell    you a story."

115 "He lies! He didn't have   to cut them off."

116 "Behind his visits there is some sinister motive. I can read it in his eyes."

117 "If you have made him what he is, it is all the more our duty to help        him."

118 "Blizzard's man, O'Hagan,   is back in town."

119 "He has organized thousands of disgruntled foreign      laborers."

120 "Hats and men - what's the devil up to?"

121 Blizzard's chief lieu- tenant, O'Hagan.

122 "You have worked in the dark long enough -- this is the plan I have been developing for two       years."

123 "At twelve noon on that day I shall loot the City  of San Francisco."

124 "Your ten thousand foreign malcontents will filter into the city in small detachments."

125 "The signal will be an     explosion."

126 "By fire and riots I shall draw the police and military into the     suburbs."

127 "The heart of the city will be left defenseless - ours to loot at will."

128 "And then we shall vanish with our treasure."

129 "You talk as if you had legs! By God! You've gone mad!"

130 "Perhaps - but with the madness that  succeeds!"

131 "Better come out of that closet or I'll begin to       shoot!"

132 "Crying won't help -  talking may."

133 "What's the use -- you're going to kill    me anyhow."

134 "I doubt it - you're the best pedaler I ever had."

135 "You see, you haven't been allowed to do  much damage."

136 "I think I'm glad."

137 "Don't you see?"

138 "Master!"

139 With exultation he felt the power that his mind was gaining over Barbara.

140 "You are the best critic     in the world."

141 "Live your own life - go where I shall point - to your place among    the stars."

142 "How am I ever going to thank you for the help you have given me?"

143 "When you have finished that, don't give me up."

144 "I love you, Barbara, with my whole heart   and soul."

145 At her laugh his Hell- born passions broke loose.

146 But almost instantly he knew that he had blundered --

147 "-- and like a good general tried to retrieve   his mistake."

148 "I am the unhappiest beast in the world."

149 "Forgive me for having dared to lift my thoughts      to you."

150 "Laughter burns a cripple like acid."

151 "I don't know why I laughed. You frightened        me."

152 "Will you forgive me?"

153 "I've come to prescribe a little drive, Barbara."

154 "Call me a cab."

155 "True women need love, a home, children. He has made you forget      that."

156 "I'll marry you, dear, whenever you wish."

157 After a night of jealous fury, the Beast takes action.

158 "Hello, Doctor, this is     Bubbles."

159 "It's about Miss Barbara - she's gone to Blizzard's        house."

160 "I don't know why she went. She was cryin'."

161 "He'll run all the way - on those magnificent      legs."

162 "Once before a woman surfeited me with her     caresses."

163 "She's dead!"

164 "Rose just shows herself at the window and nods - and that's all."

165 "Where is Miss Ferris?"

166 "She is probably in    her room."

167 "Shall I search your house, or will you take me to her?"

168 "Listen, my baffled hero -- if you wish the lady to go free -"

169 "- you must hand over to me your superb legs."

170 "Dr. Ferris will cut them     off for you."

171 "Then he will graft   them to me."

172 "They will be very    becoming."

173 "Your daughter is in my house. She has been hurt. Come at once."

174 "That fairy tale about your daughter was merely to make certain that you'd come."

175 "You've played the trick with apes - now I'm putting human beings at your service."

176 "Your victim is fulfilling destiny in making you the master surgeon of    the world."

177 "You must make it possible - unless you would have your charming daughter married to these."

178 "Out of my house isn't out of my power --  that's here."

179 "Suppose you and your assistant should disappear - then your daughter and I --"

180 "Give me legs and I will be a model son-in-law."

181 "Then I'll be a tower of strength - I'll be a     Caesar!"

182 "You're right - you'd be a superman. I'll      do it!"

183 Doctor Ferris' sudden decision to operate brought about startling results.

184 "I've waked from a terrible dream!"

185 "I was a devil -- I did things that I shudder   to think of!"

186 "What's happened -- you didn't do what he     wanted?"

187 "That was a madman's request -- I operated   on his head."

188 "There is a contusion at the base of the     skull."

189 "That caused pressure on the brain - he has never been wholly responsible for his acts."

190 "This man, let alone, may become as great a power for good as he was for evil."

191 "He shall have the     chance."

192 The tyrant's hand relaxed - the whirl- wind breaks.

193 "He's got religion - that means he'll raise Hell!"

194 "How do we know he won't snitch on us?"

195 "If we don't finish him,  he'll finish us."

196 The New Man -- and his wife.

197 "We shall do great things       together."

198 "Fate chained me to Evil - for that I must pay the Penalty."

199 "That is a great puzzle. Perhaps I am going to   see it solved."

200 "Don't grieve, dear -- death interests me."

201 "All that's left of him - an evil mask of a great       soul."

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