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"In the first place, it is obvious that Parsket's intention was to frighten Beaumont away and when he found that he could not do this, I think he grew so desperate that he really intended to kill him. I hate to say this, but the facts force me to think so. "I am quite certain that it was Parsket who broke Beaumont's arm.
Miss Mary, sir! he gasped. 'She's screaming ... out in the Park, sir! And they say they can hear the Horse "The Captain made one dive for a rack of arms and snatched down his old sword and ran out, drawing it as he ran. I dashed out and up the stairs, snatched my camera-flashlight and a heavy revolver, gave one yell at Parsket's door: 'The Horse! and was down and into the grounds.
That is normal enough and leaves us quite in the dark as to whether he died because he stood between the girl and some incredible thing of monstrosity. "The look on Parsket's face and the thing he called out when he heard the great hoof sounds coming down the passage seem to show that he had the sudden realization of what before then may have been nothing more than a horrible suspicion.
"The time when Parsket was with us, when we thought we heard the Horse galloping 'round the house, we must have been deceived. No one was very sure, except, of course, Parsket, who would naturally encourage the belief. "The neighing in the cellar is where I consider there came the first suspicion into Parsket's mind that there was something more at work than his sham haunting.
I shall never forget the look on Parsket's face. And afterward the disgusting sounds of those great hoofs going away through the quiet house." Carnacki stood up. "Out you go!" he said in friendly fashion, using the recognized formula. And we went presently out into the quiet of the Embankment, and so to our homes. No. 5
"The silence lasted several seconds and then, abruptly there came again the clumping of the great hoof, away at the end of the corridor. And immediately afterward the clungk, clunk clungk, clunk of mighty hoofs coming down the passage toward us. "Even then, you know, most of us thought it was some mechanism of Parsket's still at work and we were in the queerest mixture of fright and doubt.
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