bruising it in the hope of inducing a physical pain that would deaden my intuitional alarm. To think of you, so unsuspecting, waiting for her to pounce upon you!
"That night I told her calmly that I would kill her with my own hands, rather than let her continue her evil courses. She laughed at me. She reminded me that she would be freer dead than living. Then I foolishly told her that I had prepared to lay that evil spirit and free her soul from the curse she had herself brought upon it.
"And then she was afraid, and became crafty. And now—my God, I have let her escape me! She will be able to take flight as she has so often threatened, and she will hide her body, and she will roam free over the face of the earth. And your poor brother, my Bessie, has been infected, and she can call him to her at will!"
What Gretel did to accomplish her revenge will be narrated in
the closing chapters of this story, in next month's
WEIRD TALES. The tale rises
to a crashing climax.
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ELDORADO
(Reprint)
By EDGAR ALLAN POE
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
But he grew old—
This knight so bold—
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.
And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow—
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be—
This land of Eldorado?"
"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied,
"If you seek for Eldorado!"
