Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 1956 — page 146: what you’re looking at

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{une 30 My headaches persist; I don’t think I can stand them much long- er. I have fainted repeatedly since the death of Benton. I am now the only human being on the island, just me. If there were only some- one else here ... My scalpel is in my hand almost constantly; the idea has possessed me that the only way to relieve my headaches is to plunge the scalpel under my left ear and draw across to the right. If there were only someone else on the island. But there are only eight others. Seven under seven crosses in back, and Benton who still remains asleep in his cot. I am going to lie down in mine now and try to sleep also. Perhaps I will never get up, the fever is in my eyes now and I can hardly see how to write. There were no more entries. He laid down the diary. His torch was burning low. He must hurry back to his mates, waiting and certainly vexed at his dalliance, to return to the dory and the frigate ship. But he could not resist the temptation. He strode around to the back of the house where a little path led to a clearing. As he advanced the light from his torch began to pick up elon- gated shadows in the clearing. They shortened and the first dis- appeared as he stood over it. It was the first of a row of crosses he could make out in his flickering light. He began to count: three, four, five, six. A chill ran down his spine. There was no seventh. He thought he heard a footstep behind him; he whirled, horrified —too late. Now that you have finished the first issue of Al- Gi fred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, how. did you like it? I should be very pleased to hear from — Write to me at 545 Fifth Avenue, NY 17, NY 144 ( i ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE Gomichooksco