will be satisfied. You and Doris can escape."
In spite of his great strength the door was moving a little. I wrapt one arm around Doris protectingly. No matter what I saw, I must not let fear overpower reason. I repeated to myself that it must be natural in some way, even if it were something man had never seen before. Poor Nielson had already yielded, a victim to superstitious fears, and I must not follow.
"Will you promise?" demanded Nielson again, and once again I saw that door move threateningly just a little more. I promised, a promise which, alas, I had no intention of keeping. But in his present state of mind it would be dangerous to excite him further.
"Then good-bye, and God bless you both," he said huskily.
And almost as he spoke the door gave way, forcing him to leap to one side. A black shadow crept into the moonlight and for the first time I saw it.
Words are but futile inadequate things at best. How, then, can I express to you the paralyzing horror of what I saw? In shape it was not unlike a man, if such a twisted, misshapen creature could be said to have any resemblance to a man. It was short, not over four feet in height, but this was more than counterbalanced by a pair of enormous shoulders. A coarse black beard almost completely obscured what would have been the face. That is, save the eyes: little piglike things sunk deep in the cadaverous head. But the nauseating repulsiveness, the instinctive loathing it engendered, are beyond description.
As I watched, the thing leaped upon Nielson and was striving to draw him down with a pair of long skinny arms. And Nielson, standing as firm as the mighty Thor himself,
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