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UT OF THE biackness before her it came, tall and obscene, the light that emanates from rotting things upon its bare-boned face, a green reflection as from pools of stagnant water in its foul eyes. A winding-sheet, all smeared with atches of grave mold, was flung around it. Teeth, long and sharp and gleaming as a wolf’s fangs gnashed in fleshless gums. A groan—half-harrowing outcry of pain, half-wicked, triumphant laugh- ter—came from the lipless mouth. She stopped abruptly, as if she had run full tilt into a solid wall. One hand went to her throat. Her mouth opened. for a scream that refused to come. Every- thing inside her seemed to knot and con- tract. Her eyes were starting from their sockets. Her heart gave a cold nause- ating lurch as a great blaze of blinding light: flared in her face. Then darkness, eae as an enveloping cloak, closed on er. She did not feel the impact as her body struck the ground, for she was almost past sensation. Faintly, as if it were miles off and looked at through a dense shadow, she saw Paul’s face above her. Around his shoulders was a wisp of flim- sy cotton fabric. Torn aside and hanging around his neck by an elastic was the remnant of a skull-faced mask. “Valborg!” he was whispering. “Val- borg dear, it’s all right. It was a joke, a gag to get a picture of you when you thought you’d seen a ghost. It’s all right now, I tell you, Val! This is Paul— Paul.” With an effort greater than she’d thought she could make, she raised her heavy eyelids. For just a moment she looked at him in the flashlight’s glow. Love was in her eyes and forgiveness. He had hurt her cruelly, mortally, but she was just amazed to find him unkind. whisper breathed from between her ips. “Oh, Paul, how could you—and I loved you so—” Then darkness fell—final, ab- solute, eternal. “Val!” He bent above her, hands ressed on the seared grass where she ay. “Valborg, listen to me, please! It’s all right.” Suddenly he knew it was no use to call, to plead. Those ears that never [Turn page} AS A BONUS And Pay You Well Besides tf You Wilt Show Them And Take Orders From Car Owners in Spare Time Only! Want extra money—plenty of it day after day? Then rush your name and address at once for Free Sample Outfit that will start you taking orders from car owners everywhere for Key expertly tailored Auto Seat Covers. EXCLU- IVE NEW PATTERNS to fit every make and model car. No one can compete with you, in wide choice in quality—and in expert tailoring that makes cov- ers fit like a pair of gloves—and when you quote prices that are only a fraction of what the customer expects to pay, brother! You make money hand over fist writing up the fast orders! Line includes nationally advertised sen- sations like BLACK EBONY Saran, beautiful BAMBOO, brilliant FIESTA, colorful BULL FIGHTER PLAIDS, plus many other exclusive patterns to choose from, all at unbelievably low prices. RUSH NAME FOR FREE OUTFIT Give MAKE, YEAR and MODEL of YOUR CAR erience needed. Make all the extra money you need eres by showing! Ev: 4 ND S$ Y PROFITS. No investment to make, Actual seat covers given to hapless as a bonus for OWN USE! Write for Free Selling Kit valued at $2.00 and actual samples TODAY! KEY PRODUCTS CORP. 800 N. Clark St., Dept. 34-0, Chicago 10, It. No easil If You Want to Stop Smoking try NO-TO-BAC Lozenges. See how the aromatic flavor of NO-TO-BAC helps you give up the craving for tobacco. Rush $1 te NO-TO-BAC for 7 days’ supply. (For heavy, smokers —16 days’ supply — $2.) Money refunded if not satisfied. Write: NO-TO-BAC, Dept. S$, Stamford, Conn. [ca AN EXPERT a z Executive Accountants and C. P, A's earn $4,000 to $10,000 a year. Thousands of firms need them. We train yan choeois 5 home In apare time for C. P. A's examinations or executive accounting positions, Previous experience unnecessary. Personal training under supervision of staff, of C. P. A’s. cement counsel an a iy Write for free book, *‘‘Accountanoy, the Profession That Pays."’ SALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St. A Correspondence Institution Dept, 8329H, Chicago 5, Ill. 29 ee LEARN AT HOME ® Practical Nurse @ or Infant Nurse Prepare in spare time for a fascinating, high-pay career, Thousands of men and women, 18-60, are graduates of this physician-endorsed course. High school not required. Easy payments; earn as you learn. Trial plan. 54th year. CHICAGO SCHOOL OF NURSING Dept. 428, 41 East Pearson Street, Chicago (tf, Ul. Please send me free booklet and 16 sample lesson pages. Name OU a ite Age CoOMmicloo S (C(O)