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Whereupon Gatton sprang forward and placed an armchair, which he himself had occupied, for Dr. Damar Greefe. The latter inclined his head in acknowledgment and sank down weakly, clutching at both arms of the chair. For my own part, I had not yet recovered power of speech; but: "Dr.
To a town-dweller, such a piece of information must have sounded alarming, but knowing something of the ways of these country communities, it did not greatly surprise me; and bidding the landlord "good night," I set out. The false move made by Dr. Damar Greefe had advanced the inquiry further than any unaided endeavors of mine could well have done.
For five months the work of putting a handle on a parang and fastening it with damar must not be done else both mother and child would die. The name given the child when the umbilical cord is cut remains unchanged. A person must not give his own name nor call by the name of his father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandfather or grandmother, whether they are alive or dead.
I wish it lay in my power to satisfy the curiosity in all quarters expressed respecting the identity of "Nahémah" the cat-woman, or psycho-hybrid, who figured in Dr. Damar Greefe's statement. But it is my duty, as chronicler of the strange and awful occurrences which at this period disturbed the even tenor of my existence, to state that from the moment in which she leaped from the window of Mrs.
Damar Greefe that the ill-health of Lady Burnham rendered it impossible for her to receive visitors, I wondered anew at the complex villainy of this formidable Eurasian. The state of the rooms in Friar's Park clearly demonstrated the fact that neither Lady Coverly nor any other had resided there for many months, perhaps many years. What then did it all mean?
As these are not completely filled by the rattan, they are plugged with fibre and calked with damar to prevent leakage. In order to travel more comfortably we lashed a prahu at either side of mine, while many of the natives who took advantage of the occasion to visit the shops in town, tied theirs at the rear of ours.
The room partially lighted by damar torches; the clang of the noisy instruments; the crowd of wild spectators; their screams of encouragement to the performers; the flowing hair and rapid evolutions of the dancers, formed a scene I wish could have been reduced to painting by such a master as Rembrandt or Caravaggio.
In those remote times when the white brethren from the neighboring Abbey had held absolute sway in that country-side, the life history of one accused, as Dr. Damar Greefe was now accused, of possessing the evil eye, would very probably have terminated upon a pile of faggots, by order of Mother Church.
Little did I dream, in my strange new happiness, how soon I was to return to that house how soon I was to know the deadliest terror of my life. "The case has narrowed down," said Gatton, "from my point of view, into the quest of one man " "Dr. Damar Greefe!" "Precisely. You have asked me what I found at Friar's Park and the Bell House, and I can answer you very briefly. Nothing!
Damar Greefe's mysterious stronghold, I had been borne along the road towards London. That Gatton had hoped for much from a detailed search of the Eurasian's establishment, I knew, for I had not forgotten his anger at the appearance of the flames above the tree tops which had told of the foiling of his plans. Under cover of the conflagration the cunning Eurasian had escaped.
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