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Some time ago Mr. George tris all:cd by au iuterviewe•r: "What is tour
favorite amusement?" The novelist replied: "Loafing about a great city be-
tween midnight and dawn." His reason he gave as follows: "`4t ndght.it is
the unexpected that happens. The few people about you would be in bed, were
it not for some unusual•cause: love, purpose of crime, agony of apprehension,
or black poverty. Lonely under the stars, these' people seek company; they
willingly confide in you; and even enlist you in their schemes." Thus Mr, W.
L. George has wandered hundreds of nights in London, Paris, Barcelona, New
York, Chicago, etc. He has participated in several exciting adventures, which
he relates here, altering the names and details for the sake of his strange com-
panions of the night. Three of these adventures actually happened to Mr.
George: three are slightly amended. They make up the picture of darkness
and passion which stands behind the face of every great city, and represents
a hidden world into which the daring can penetrate.
THE SHOT IN THE NIGHT
PART I
I do not, as a rule, seek nocturnal
adventure in the suburbs. There is
about the suburbs something too well
established, too respectable, for me
to be able to hope to come there
easily upon those turbid mysteries
which entangle human beings so
fatally in the coils of avarice or love.
Thus, when one fine September night
I' was slowly walking back toward
London from Woolwich I felt dis-
heartened and disappointed. In in-
dustrial Woolwich I had encountered
only two men too drunk to find their
way home, and made most uninter-
esting by that fact. Otherwise, the
streets were so deserted that I lost
paience, aria instead of waiting for
the first workman's train, made to-
ward Blackheath. It was about half-
ast five, and as -summer time had
just been done away with, it was still
dark. There was a hint of thunder
in the air. Thus, as I passed through
the quiet streets, along their little
gardens, and cast a negligent gaze
at the shuttered houses, I could not
help feeing that among these peace -
r
a long, low house, built perhaps a
hundred years ago. Its architecture
interested me, for it had only one
floor. It was one of those old coun-
try houses, George III perhaps,
which London has absorbed as it ate
up the fields. The front was cov-
ered with white stucco, and tall
French windows led into the garden,
a portion of which was flagged. Upon
the flags stood old plastered jars, in
each of which grew a massive bush
of chrysanthemums. I could not per-
ceive details, but I guessed that the
lawns were well -kept; the distance
between the house and its two neigh-
bors showed that it stood in exten-
sive grounds. Here again, I thought,
as I leant over the low wall which
separated the garden from the street,
here again wealth, and a life where
nothing happens.
At that moment, as I stared at one
of the French windows, I realized
first that here burned a light. It
was faint, because it had to struggle
round thick curtains. Half -past five!
Someone awake? Curious. Lights in
the night always interest one; social
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ful little lives there must be just
one, an ambitious boy, a love -lora
girl, feeling disturbance, the painful
electricity of the air. If only
one could see through walls! I stood
for a moment looking over the gar-
den gate of a. house where the front
gr rden was filled with a plantation
of flaunting dahlias that shone
white in the darkness. No, nothing.
Nothing there but wealth, or at
least comfort and ease. In silence I
went an, The street endlessly
wound on its way. Garden after
garden, comfortable houses, one
after the other. At last, dispirited
:and very tired, i' stopped for a mo-
ment to rest against the gaterost of
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By J. T. Findlay, Architect.
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fallen back, and one 'arm hanging ,
lax by his side. So .there was the l
victim. In such an attitude no man !
could sleep. I listened. No, there
were no footsteps; there couldbe no-
body in the room.
There the man lay. I knew that I!
could do nothing, that I could force'
myself only into peril, but the lure of
the open room, the smell of tragedy,
were too much for my resolution. • felt that I ought to do something, if
This was no murder for the sake of ;perhaps he were not dead, but a phys-
theft. There was no sign of the desk ; ical disgust filled me. It was my
having ben ransackedeas There was ' conscience made me think of taking
nobody about, searching. Drawing a' out a pocket mirror, which I always
deep breath, I forced the curtains 'carry to remove flies or dust from'
open a little more and stepped into my eyes, which are delicate. With
the room. It was very much the • a trembling hand I held out the mile
room one might have expected to ! ror toward the still lips. I must
find in a mansion of this kind. The a have held it there _along time, taking
roof was low, supported by old :it back suddenly and finding, as I
beams; over the tall wainscoting of i expected; 'that no haze had been left
carved black oak spread the brown • upon its smdoth surface. The man.
paper, upon which hung a few prints !was dead. Now, what was to be
of George Morland. The desk was done?
covered with papers, and a heap of 1 had been so occupied with his es,
manuscrips still lay under the dead appearance that I spent several min -
man's hand. A table lamp with a ute,s in this room, unconscious of
'something which now suddenly forced
itself upon my consciousness. The
house was not silent- after all. There Stains.
was a sound in it, a strange, regular
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rife, love, sickness, death, a:1 these
call lights into the windows. I stared
at it for a moment. Then, just as
I was about to pass on, I start-
ed, leaping away from the wall and
coming back: the sound of a revolver
shot had impressed my eats.
I listened acutely for nearly a min-
ute. Groans, the sound of a strug-
gle, another shot, any of those would
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confirm what i had discovered. But
there was nothing, nothing -'but
silence. In the far distance I heard
the horn of a motor car, which sound-
ed loud and near, so taunt were my
,nerves. But nothing came, and still
'I stared at that window. What had
happened there'? Who there lay
dead? The fact was such a shock to
me that for a moment I proposed to
find a 'policeman as quickly as I
might. Then I felt ashamed: it is a
'poor adventurer of the night draws
the commonplace police into the ex-
traordinary.
So, looking about me, and finding
myself unobserved, I lifted the latch
of the gate, tiptoed up the flagged
walk, where my feet, trampling the
gravel, seemed to make the noise of
a machine gun. A broad lawn lay
before the window; for a moment,
standing at the side, I tried to see in
between the curtains. But I, could
perceive only a small portion of
brown paper upon the far wall. What,
should 1 do?, 1 couldn't rause the
house. If J. did, perhaps a bullet
would find its way to rue, the Neon- I
venient witness. At that moment,
as 1 made an effort to rise higher
along the wall, where the curtain lay
more ajar, I felt,_ with an effect of r
extraordinary suddenness, the glass
of the window give,ivay under lny
hand, the window was•ajar• only its,
great weight had prevented its giv-
ing Way I
before.
Trembling with excitement, 1 went
on pressing. against the , gloss that
pushed back. the curtains 'with im-
perceptible slowness, until a line of
light appeared between them, a lint
' of light which enabled me to see,
' focused like a small picture, the figure
!focused
a man ;fitting ata desk, his head
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reflector concentrated the light, but
he was visible, with his face 'set, his
the pose, the uncomfortable hitching
eyes half open.' There was no doubt Home's not merely four square walls,
that he was dead. The laxness of Though with pictures hung and
gilded; Home.
against the hard back of the chair, Home is where affection calls—
all this spoke of death. All the same, ; Filled with shrines the heart hath
in those days never had I before seen builded;
a dead body, so a repulsion came to Home! Go watch the faithful dove,
Niel I couldn't handle him. But 1 Sailing 'nett* the heaven above -us,
Home is where there's one to love,
Horne is where there's one to love
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door, which I now saw had been
left ajar. Once again T felt an im-
pulse to flight, but now the sobbing
was so violent that I knew I should
never respect myself again if I left
this creature uncomforted. So, staid-
, igg across the room, I pushed open
;the door.
I found myself in a dressing -room.
Another open door led into what was.
evidently a bedroom. With queer de-
tachment I figured the geography of
the house. I had 'came in through
i:he study or library, and was look-
, ing into the room which faced the
back garden. But Mille my brain.
, worked coolly, my heart was stirred,
by theeight before me.
(To be continued)
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