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J. C. OTTS,
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THE
SHADOW
OF
DOOM
By Howard Fielding
Copyright, 1001, by
Charles W. Hooke
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The shadow
swayed
from side
to side.
ERRY had been at his desk sine*
8 o’clock, but he had not accom
plished much. At midnight he
was engaged in drawing circles
on a sheet of paper. lie covered the
sheet and two others, and the absurd
occupation seemed to take an increas
ing bold upon bis attention. At the
last Jiis eyes were wide open and star
ing. and the palms of Ids hands were
wet with perspiration. Ilis head hung
forward, and lie licked his lips as one
does who is sick with fear.
An observer might have said that
these circles were spells of the blackest
magic and that Perry had succeeded In
raising the arcli liend.
Presently lie got upon his feet, as if
animated by a sudden resolution, and
assumed a military altitude, with his
back to the chair In which he had been
sitting. The light from the cluster of
electric bulbs hanging over the desk
was thrown strongly down upon it by
a reflect on but enough escaped to cast
a giant shadow of Perry upon the wall.
The shadow swayed from side to side.
The unfortunate man opened his eyes,
and perhaps be caught a glimpse of the
moving silhouette, for
the breath came out of
him in a pitiful cry. and
he pressed a hand upon
bis forehead that was
wot with visible drops of
cold sweat.
“It can’t be true.” be
said and then laughed
nervously. "Talking to
myself! That’s another
symptom.”
He stretched out his
hand toward the desk.
There was a numbness
in ids fingers, and queer little pains ran
up and down his forearm. lie picked
up a bundle of proof sheets and glanced
hastily over the printed lines.
“It certainly is a coincidence,” he
said, "that 1 should have written this
story. I was not conscious of portray
ing myself when I drew the character
of Langham, but everybody will think
so after tlie book’s out, and Pm—done
for.” He swallowed a mouthful of air
at these last words. “In a hurry to get
ricli was Langham. He bad too many
irons In the lire. He thought all the
time, even when he was asleep. At
that he had the best of me. because 1
don’t go to sleep. Rut paresis got him.
and it’s got me. I’ve had two profes
sions. either of them enough to drive a
man crazy. I’ve been a broker and an
author. I’ve gambled with my own
brains and other people’s money. The
money bet won and the brains are lost.
I’m done for!”
He paced the floor with uneven
strides There was a band of pain
about his head just above
bis eyes, and tbe lingers of
bis right band twitched
with little nervous throbs
that extended to the elbow.
Suddenly tbe tears sprang
into his eyes. His lids
were wet In a flash, and he
was ashamed.
“I must take this thing
as a man should,” he said.
"She shan’t know, nor any
one else. Thank heaven
that it has come upon me
now, when I can bear it
alone! It won’t be noticed
in me right away. It’s slow, but sure.
Don’t i know tbe symptoms? Didn’t 1
stuff myself full of them while I was
writing that cursed story? All right.
1 can hold it off for a month or two,
while I settle my affairs, and then it
will be summer, when a fellow can go
out sailing alone and jibe her over with
the sheet made fast or swim out a little
loo far from the shore at Coney Island.
Meanwhile not a word to any one.”
Ilis cheerful soliloquy was Interrupt
ed by a rap on the door. Perry admit
ted a young gentleman named Ham
mond. whose apartments were upon the
same corridor.
"Alone, Jack?” queried Hammond,
entering cautiously, for he was very
Imperfectly clotlii d. “1 thought I heard
you talking to somebody.”
“I was talking to somebody who is
now nobody,” said Perry. "He’s dead
and done for. Don’t bother about him.”
' "I don’t see any corpses,” said Ham
mond, glancing round the room, "ex
cept myself. Pm dead-
broke.”
"Money Is a small mat-
i i ter, a trifle.” replied Per
ry. “A man may be poor
one day and rich the
next, but there are treas
ures which, once lost, are
never regained.”
.‘‘If you have such a
contempt for money,”
said Hammond, “you
might lend me a hun
dred. Tbe experience
will prove to you that
money Is one of tbe things that can be
Irretrievably lost But what’s tbe mat
ter? Have you got stuck In your story?”
Perry made an impatient gesture and
continued to pace tbe floor.
"I suppose this Is tbe new writing ta
ble that Ethel Bertram gave you,” said
the visitor. “Amd that’s the banging
lamp that used to be in the library at
her boose. You must be very solid
with the family, or they wouldn’t let
her rob them for you. When were these
things pot In here?”
He paced
the floor
with un-
e v e n
strides.
* * A 1 o n •,
J ac k T”
queried
Hammond.
"When were
these
things put
in here?”
"Yesterday!” groaned Perry.
“Well, tliey’H come in handy for
housekeeping when you quit these
bachelor quarters. Let me see. When
is the wedding?”
"Never.”
Hammond, who had been examining
the chair that had been a part of Miss
Bertram’s gift, slowly straightened up
and looked at his friend.
“In the name of heaven,” he cried,
“you don’t mean to tell me”—
“I didn’t mean to tell you anything,”
replied Perry, “but there’s no way out
of it now. Swear that you won’t whis
per it to a human creature. Frank,
I’ve worked myself to death. I have
offered up my nervous system on the
altar of Mammon. Here! Look at
these circles I have drawn. See how
the lines are wavy and uncertain, as if
a drunken man had made them. That's
paralysis, general paralysis of the in
sane—paresis, as it’s now
commonly called.”
“You’re wild!” exclaim
ed Hammond. “Why,
J o li n n y. you are
the healthiest fellow 1
know! There’s nothing
the matter with you ex
cept that you sit up till 4
o'clock In the morning
writing your confounded
stories. As for these cir
cles, nobody can draw
them except artists.”
Standing by the table,
he took a pencil and rapidly traced cir
cles on a pad. ’They were not very good
ones, but they hadn’t the wavy outline.
It was impossible not to see the radical
difference.
“I tried to stand steady with my eyes
shut and couldn't do it.” continued
Perry in a husky voice. “That's a sure
sign.”
Hammond hastily closed his eyes, but
he stood up like a tree.
"I haven’t got it. that’s sure,” he
said. "Have you seen a doctor?”
Perry smiled wearily.
“I don’t need to,” he replied. “I’ve
been studying the subject for weeks.
Character In a book, you see. Queer
coincidence. Isn’t it? Hello! There’s
some one rapping at your door.”
Hammond looked out into the hall.
“Some of the boys have come around
to play cards." he said. "I suppose you
won’t join us. You never touch a card.
It's al! work and no play with you.
Good night and cheer up, old chap.
This tiling may not be as bad as you
think.”
It is utterly hopeless.” responded
Perry. "Pve looked up all the authori
ties. Mind! Not a word about this. I
shall teil no one.”
Hammond made a gesture that pledg
ed his soul and body,
but about 3 o’clock in
the morning, uuder the
influence of a beverage
that is known as a club
cooler, he contided to
the other fellows that
Perry was n wreck.
"It’sa dreadful thing,”
he said. He was a bril
liant man. He made
money in the daytime
and fame in the even
ing. And he was en
gaged to the prettiest
girl In town; rich too.
Isn't it terrible? Well, deal the cards,
Jim. and let’s thank heaven that none
of us will die of overwork.”
Left alone in his room. Perry tried to
think, but the common sense where
with he had made money was captive
to the imagination of the story writer—
an imagination overstrained by too
much struggling with the troubles of
the fletitious Langham. His mind was
a prophetic panorama wherein he saw
a short future full of grief. When at
last he sought his bed, it was to find
ten thousand nightmares stabled under
his pillow, and in the morning he 'was
unrefreshed and tremulous as a drunk
ard.
Upon leaving the building he went to
the barber’s shop where he was’accus
tomed to be shaved. The cheerful artist
of the razor gave him good day and as
sured him that he was looking well.
“I'll give j-ou a dollar,” said Perry
sharply, •“if you’ll tell me honestly how
I do look.”
“You don’t mean that there’s any
thing really the matter?” he asked In a
tone of real sympathy.
“Nothing hut paresis,” replied the
young man.
“Go way.” said the barber. “You
don’t mean it.”
"I mean just that, but you needn’t
r | tell anybody. I shouldn’t
/j have mentioned it.”
Perry’s partner In busi
ness was a ebeerful, emo
tional young man named
Joe Lynwood. He was
an expert in all matter
relating to the stock
market, and It was really
due to him that the mod
est enterprise had thriven
so well. But Lynwood
never would htsve said
so. He had an infinite
admiration and affection
for Perry and believed that every word
he said was directly Inspired.
“Joe,” said Perry as soon as he enter
ed the office, “what is my share of the
business worth? I want to sell out”
Lynwood was speechless. Wonder
and grief held him helpless.
“You’re crazy!” he gasped at last
Perry glanced over bis shoulder nerv
ously.
“How did you know?” be whispered.
“Do I show It?”
Tbe explanation which this remark
necessitated was extremely painful.
Lynwood could not believe tfie terrible
news, yet be had so long been accus
tomed to put Implicit faith In Perry’s
Infallibility that be was greatly alarm
ed.
“Yon must see a doctor right away,”
was all that he could say. And Perry
at last promised to do so, though he as
sured bis friend that all the doctora In
town could not help him.
Hammond
rapidly
traced some
circles on a
pad.
Tho cheerful
artist of the
razor gave
him good
day.
m
. -J
Perry glanc
ed over his
shoulder
nervously.
“I didn’t Intend to tell anybody,” he
said, "but I have mentioned it to one
or two people—in fact, confound me.
I’ve told every man, woman and car
horse that I’ve met. It’s one of the
symptoms. A few more won’t make
any difference. I'll have Dr. Fessenden
come over to my place this evening.”
Perry got through the day fairly
well. Indeed at times he forgot that
lie was doomed. In tbe evening, how
ever. lie began to feel bad again.
He was sitting at the desk writing to
Kthcl. He bad not the courage to go
to see her. Of course, the engagement
must be broken, but he knew that be
couldn’t do it face to face. It would
be better to send a clear,
written statement.
All the worst symp
toms came back to him
as lie wrote—the pain in
his head, the dizziness,
the dreadful, ominous
trembling of the fingers
and arm. The change in
his handwriting was
enough of itself To re
move the last doubt as
to his condition.
When he arose, with
the sealed letter in his
hand, his head reeled, and he felt faint
and weak. He went out to mail the
letter, and, happening to meet some
friends, he remained nearly an hour.
Dr. Fessenden had sent word that he
would call about midnight, and it was
only a few minutes after that hour
when Perry got back to fiis room. The
doctor hod been there quite a long
time, having arrived earlier than he
had anticipated. When Perry entered,
he was pacing the floor, holding his
right elbow in bis left hand.
“I’ve taken the liberty to write some
letters.” he said. “Where in blue blazes
did you get that desk?”
“My flancee gave it to me,” replied
Perry, forgetting for a moment that he
no longer had a flancee.
“Isn’t it a beauty?” ■
“It’s handsome enough,"
said the doctor; “but.
sainted Jebosbapbat, it’s
a terror to write on!
Why. man, that little
molding on the edge
catches you right on the
crazy hone, and yon
can’t get away from it
no matter how you sit.
My arm is full of the St.
Vitus’ dance.”
Perry stopped with wide open eyes.
His jaw dropped.
“And that lamp!” continued the doc
tor. “The blamed thing concentrates
the beat right on top of a fellow’s head.
When I got up. 1 was so dizzy that I
nearly fell in a fit. I should think a
man who had written as much as you
have would have had the sense”—
“Miss Bertram gave me the desk, and
she arranged everything,” stammered
Perry.
“And so you thought it must be per
fection!” sneered the doctor. “That’s
just like a man in love. Now, what’s
the matter with you? Why did you
send for me?”
“Heaven be praised that I did!” cried
Perry. “I—I’m all well now. I say,
doctor, Is there any way
to get a letter back from
tlie mails? I’ve sent one
to Miss Bertram, and 1
wouldn’t have her see
it”-
“Bribe tbe butler to
steal it,” growled the
doctor; “that’s my ad
vice. It’s not profes
sional. and I can’t ren
der a bill."
"You’ve saved my
life,” said Perry. “Charge
whatever you think it’s
worth. You see, I’d been stuffing my
imbecile mind with symptoms of pare
sis because I wanted to put a victim
of it into a book. Then that desk—
I—I thought I was crazy.”
“We’re all crazy, more or less,” re
plied the doctor cheerfully, “but some
of us have sense enough not to say any
thing about it. Good night.”
When
arose,
head :
ed.
•Why did
you send
tor me?"
Many Are hut Few Get Up.
The old Yale graduate sat up In bed
and rubbed his eyes. It was not his
own room at home. Then he remem
bered; he was back in New Haven,
and be had been out the night before
with some of the boys who were going
to be graduated soon.
Had be left a call at the hotel office?
lie had, and remembered it distinctly.
Seven o’clock was the hour.
He looked at Ids watch. It was 10:37.
Ilis face began to swell, and he for
got that bis head was aching. He
called the hotel people a few names.
As he buttoned bis collar be told the
mirror what be was going to do to that
clerk just as soon as he could get
down stairs. By tbe time be was
dressed his rage and righteous indig
nation were too great for words. He
felt like killing some one.
As he threw open the door a slip of
paper fluttered to the floor. It read;
“Boom 8. Called at 7 o’clock by No.
12.” Then be read a printed line at
tbe bottom of tbe notice: “Many are
culled, but few get up.”
He paid bis bill meekly and went his
way.—New York Tribune.
Pat’s Teat.
A good story is told of an Irishman,
more patriotic than clever, who enlist
ed In one of the smart cavalry regi
ments. The fencing Instructor had
experienced rather a difficult job In the
matter of explaining to him the vari
ous ways of using the sword. “Now,”
he said, “bow would you use the
sword If your opponent feinted?” “Be-
dad,” said Pat, with gleaming eyes,
“I’d just tickle him with the point to
see If he was shamming.”—St James
Gazette.
Carry enough eunllgbt In yottr life to
last through the dark days.—School
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Despite tlie hard time's my sales on buggies have exceed my
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I also have Corbitt, Goldsboro and Studebaker buggies, a
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Buggy Harness $6.50 to $15.00 per set.
Wagons? Well yes, I’ve got the Taylor and the White Hick
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A few dozen fruit jars left which will be sold at the old price
notwithstanding the price has advanced $2.00 per gross recently.
Fruit jar rubbers in abundance.
Highest market price paid for all kinds Scrap Iron, Steel,
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