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"Brooks, close that door!" she said, pointing at the terrace door in the alcove which still stood ajar after the entrance of the Unknown

Bailey moved to obey But just as he reached the alcove the terrace door slaht in Cedarcrest blinked and went out again

Bailey fumbled for the doorknob in the sudden darkness

"The door's locked!" he said incredulously "The key's gone too Where's your revolver, Beresford?"

"I dropped it in the alcove when I caught thathimself for his carelessness

The illuminated dial of Bailey's wrist watch flickered in the darkness as he searched for the revolver--as round, glowing spot of phosphorescence

Lizzie screa eye I saw on the stairs!" she shrieked, pointing at it frenziedly

"Quick--there's a candle on the table--light it somebody Never hto!" called Beresford cheerily in reply He found the candle, lit it-The party blinked at each other for a hts

Bailey rattled the knob of the door into the hall

"This door's locked, too!" he said with increasing puzzleroup They were locked in the roo on in the rest of the house That they knew But what it ht take, they had not the remotest idea They were too distracted to notice the injured man, now alert in his chair, or the Doctor's odd attitude of listening, above the rattle and banging of the storm

But it was not until Miss Cornelia took the candle and proceeded toward the hall door to examine it that the full horror of the situation burst upon theh and hardly more than just dead, was the body of a bat

Of what happened thereafter no one afterward remembered the details To be shut in there at the mercy of one who knew no mercy was intolerable It was left for Miss Cornelia to re unnoticed on the table since the criest its use in shattering the lock Just what they had expected when the door was finally opened they did not know But the house was quiet and in order; no new horror faced theure, their ears heard no unearthly sound

Slowly they began to breathe noran to search the house Since no rooer, thethem And as time went on and charadually the courage of the party began to rise Lizzie, still whi, stuck closely to Miss Cornelia's heels, but that spirited lady began to make small side excursions of her own