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"You come to consult me, Lord Lashmore, in my capacity of occultist rather than in that of physician?" "In both," replied Lord Lashmore; "distinctly, in both." "Sir Elwin Groves is attending you for certain throat wounds " Lord Lashmore touched the high stock which he was wearing. "The scars remain," he said. "Do you wish to see them?" "I am afraid I must trouble you."
At the moment it is enough for me that, unless my information be at fault, Lady Lashmore yesterday left Cairo by the Luxor train at 8.30." Robert Cairn looked in a puzzled way at his father. "What do you suspect, sir?" he said. "I suspect that she went no further than Wasta," replied Dr. Cairn. "Still I do not understand," declared Sime. "You may understand later," was the answer.
Lady Lashmore started wildly, and her eyes opened with a sort of sudden horror. "How can you know?" she whispered. "How can you know! Oh, Dr. Cairn!" She laid her hand upon his arm "if you can prevent those dreams; if you can assure me that I shall never dream them again !" It was a plea and a confession.
"He strove to turn the key, but for a long time without success for the lock was rusty. Finally, however he was a strong man his efforts were successful. The door opened, and an indescribable smell came out into the passage. Never before had I met with anything like it; I have never met with it since." Lord Lashmore wiped his brow with his handkerchief.
Cairn, "I have seen and heard nothing of him; but Lady Lashmore, who was an intimate and an innocent victim, God help her of Ferrara in London, after staying at the Semiramis in Cairo for one day, departed. Where did she go?" "What has Lady Lashmore to do with the matter?" asked Sime. "If what I fear be true " replied Dr. Cairn. "But I anticipate.
Second: Lord Lashmore's idea that something was in the room at the moment of his awakening. Third: the fact that an identical attempt was made upon him last night!" "Last night! Good God! With what result?" "The former wounds, though deep, are very tiny, and had quite healed over. One of them partially reopened, but Lord Lashmore awoke altogether more readily and before any damage had been done.
It contains Paul, fourth Baron Lashmore, son of Mirza, the Polish Jewess!" Lord Lashmore reseated himself in the big armchair, staring at the speaker, aghast. "I thought no other in the world knew that!" he said, hollowly. "Your studies have been extensive indeed. For three years three whole years from the night of my twenty-first birthday the horror hung over me, Dr. Cairn.
"Lord Lashmore, the curse of the house of Dhoon will prevail until the Polish Jewess who originated it has been treated as her son was treated!" "Dr. Cairn, it is not known where her husband had her body concealed. He died without revealing the secret. Do you mean that the taint, the devil's taint, may recur Oh, my God! do you want to drive me mad?"
He says that some soft body rolled off the bed. He uttered a loud cry, leapt out and switched on the electric lights. At the same moment he heard a frightful scream from his wife's room. When I arrived Lashmore himself summoned me on this occasion I had a new patient." "Lady Lashmore?" "Exactly. She had fainted from fright, at hearing her husband's cry, I assume.
"Ah!" replied Cairn, thoughtfully. "I have never met him." "He has only quite recently returned to England you may have heard? and brought a South American Lady Lashmore with him." "I had heard that, yes." "Lord Lashmore is close upon fifty-five, and his wife a passionate Southern type is probably less than twenty. They are an odd couple.
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