Trooper Tales — page 153: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

‘Back to San Anton’. —s4r You will always remember the sound if you have. It is horrible. It is like the sound which the leading man ut- tered when he looked into the last room of the Geldez place that night. The open shutter swayed in the wind and softly creaked. A pallid moonbar came through the orifice and moved backward and forward across the coverlet of the bed. Something lay behind in the shadow—something voice- less, yet possessed of gleaming eyes; and even as the first man looked two awful objects were stretched out toward him. Then the shutter creaked again, and the pale moon- beam included the two dark things in its light and the man screamed. Later, when they had gained their breath and nerves back in the bar-room, the leader said: “TI saw them move out from the shadow where the eyes were, and they looked like arms, but there were no hands to them—only stumps—ugh.” The mgn shuddered and gulped down many more drinks. | When daylight came the mad drinker crept unsteadily from the bar-room. It was not until daylight came that the other men ventured back to the old Geldez place. Still afraid, they entered again, and found that they had fled from nothing but the little dark-eyed maiden. Her. arms were buried beneath a coverlet and when it was raised, they saw how she had suffered. The dark eyes were closed now, and the arms were still. The men won- dered why old Geldez was not there. Yellow Hair was very happy one morning, because Mulgowan had been with him and petted him again and (COMIC exNoOlKS sO)