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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-5-3, Page 6Delicious R 814 HAS THE LARGEST SALE OF ANY PACKET TEA IN NORTH AMERICA. The Stealer of Sight BY LUCK WILLIAMS. PART II. I looked at him wonderingly, per- haps a little frightened. "You with sight cannot understand that," he continued, now angrily. "I learned to play with my violin so that I could feel color. Thera is no sound so beautiful or awful that I cannot achie^Je. And to me every sound is colored." He stopped, and recom- menced abruptly with what I thought was another topic. "Have you ever heard of the Secret Note of Tibet?" Ile paused again and then went on. "It is practiced in Tibet, in the Hidden City. There they have secrets centuries old. Sometimes, to punish a criminal, they place him in a cell, and every so often a certain curious note is sounded. The constant repetition of that note is so awful that in some way it destroys the optic nerves. The man goes blind forever * * * I know that note!" Then and not until then did my befogged brain realize this was a madman speaking, "For some years I have been search - The Great Canadian Sweetmeat provides pleasant action tor your teeth, also pelceptrs ttuj the crevices mad cleansing therm. 'Alen, too, it aids digestion. Use WRIGLEY'S after every meal—see how much better you will Icel. irg, .Etr ico n :rwo t An INVINCIBLE Treat Everyone in the family ;will enjoy the delicious desserts made from McLAREN'S INVINCIBLE Jelly Pow- ders. Sixteen Fruit Flavorings. Easy to teaks Economical. 1 Package Serves Eight People. Ask for MCLAR.EN'S INVINCIBLE MA& by TcLARENS LIMITED, Tier dton and Winnipeg. -: •.�;An m y f ing for that sound, and at last I found it. I did it by the colors I feel. Ahl you can't understand, but you will soon. I am going to sound that note again and again and again until you are blind. It can't hurt me, !low could it?" He gave a laugh that was born of something blacker than mere blindness. "And why you?" he went on. "It is not just because it is you. I've been waiting, preparing months for some one to come into niy web. You happen to be the one. But you will be only the first. You should live in darkness. All the world should * * * Yes, I am going to drag you into the pit with me, where light never conies. Then you will know." He went to the window, and, pulling aside the blinds, drew across the old- fashioned windows their heavy wood shutters. "No one will hear us now," he mut- tered. Without another word he took up his violin and bow and stood facing me. He was full in the glare of the gas, which was well behind me, and the silver of his hair and beard and the varnish of the violin reflected back the light. But his lustreless eyes seemed to absorb it. He drew the bow slowly across the strings of his instrument. It is hard to describe what I heard. Beginning with a Mc:l-pitched sigh, it gradually rose and rose to a repressed painful shriek, ending in a discordant crackle that made me think of diabolical chuckling. It set my teeth on edge, it was in such a high register. The note, if such it could be called, lasted about six seconds. He paused for about the same length of time before repeating it. After the first unpleasant shock my feelings subsided into those of faint irritation as he continued to produce the note, punctuating it with evenly timed intervals. Then I laughed at him for the madman he was. What harm could that do? The minutes sped on. I had no idea of the time or how it passed. Then I became aware that instead of the monotonous repetition of the sound having a soporific effect on me, it was riveting my attention all the time. During the pauses I was restless. I followed the rise of the note to the climax, and after the crackle was over I felt a temporary sense of relief. He stood before me in the same position. His arms and fingers never seemed to tire, and never once did his staring eyes blink. ' ., He must have repeated it many hundred times before my exasperation began to get acute. Why could I not get away from this madman and his less it seemed in the air, "Oh, God," I prayed frenziedly, "cause• him to stop." His arm rose and fe11, his fingers crept the same as before. The set face betrayed no feeling, though the curve of his bitter mouth might have been more pronounced. )'. Then I thought I felt a:burning pale at the back of niy eyes, and a tight iron band seemed to compress my temples. I was becoming exhausted;' and I prayed for forgetfulness 'to come .over me, But the sigh, the crackle, held me firmly .to conscious- noss. Not once was it fainter or louder, always the same sound, pierc-, ing, searing through my brain; one continual, awful dote. The pain at the back of 'my eyes grew more intense. Then—was it my fancy or was the light in the, room less brilliant? "Not: that! Not that!" I mumbled to myself,1 "It can't be: It's impossible." I closed my eyes in fear. Sigh, scream, crackle. Sigh, scream, crackle. Could the light in my eyes be really darkening? I opened them again. The pain behind them was scorching. My brain wasall afire. At that moment had the gag per- mitted it I should have shrieked aloud. My eyesight was failing. The varnish on the violin threw back no gleam u it had done before. The madman's eyes were no longer visible to me.; they were just two black sockets. My vision became dimmer and dimmer. I could barely perceive the figure standing in front of me now. Sigh, scream, crackle. It was ever sound- ing. - In the violent movements of my mouth to speak, the gag slipped away, and I cried aloud. The terrible note stopped suddenly. My glance flicker- ed here and there, but the roomwas growing darker and darker, until at last blackness pressed against my eyes, thick and impenetrable. "You've done it, you devil !" I cried madly. "You've driven me blind!" I heard a laugh ring out, fiendish in its triumph. My head fell forward, and, my mind reeling in that blank, stifling blackness, I remembered no more. "Yes," a voice was saying, when I came to; "his nerves seem badly affect- ed. But he'll be all right presently. Of course, old. Gettle will have to be put away. He's completely gone." "He wouldn't let me come in the room at first when I went up after hearing the shouting," my landlady said. "And when I did get inside the room was in darkness." But I noticed the gas tap was on. It's a slot meter, and the light must have failed gradu- ally, as it always does. Of course, Mr, Gettle wouldn't know it had gone out, and as for this poor young man—" Then I opened my eyes once more to the glory of perfect sight. (The End.) Liquid Air Explosive. 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I can appeared to be less lengthy, and as write my name in the dust on this the Tibetan note commenced it would .table;" ciuteTi soinething in my brain and Annie grinned. bear it up to impossible heights. It "It be a grand thing," she was a genuine relief when the crackle "t'ave a eddication." was over. "Quit fooling, madman," I tried to say, but the gag in my mouth per- mitted only a gurgle. 'The mail before me continued un- moved. Again and again,,he drew the bow across the strings, always pro- ducing the same sound. I watched his arm now to tell when the sound was going to begin. I anticipated:it with dread. "04, for heaven'ssake, stop!" I tried futilely to say. "It's unnerving." But he never .stopped. Slowly, subtly, I believed he had._ reduced the pause until there was . no more of it. But, no, according to my eyes his arm stili continued to rest the six seconds. My brain then was repeating the note to itself in the brief silence, like Lan echo. Would his arm never tire? Would he never cease? On it went. Sigh, scream, crackle. But those three words of varying sounds cannot describe the horror . of it. Five to the minute, five periods of intense annoyance, if not pain, five dull repetitions in my brain. And on, d'n, It went, I was becoming angry, uselessly, wildly angry. The note was begin- ning to scratch the diaphragms of my ears like a red-hot needle; it was burning itself into my brain.'" "Is there something in it?" I began to ask myself.. "Will it really send lie blind?" Mad,eertainly he would drive me eventually. 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