Avon Fantasy Reader No. 13 — page 83: what you’re looking at

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than kept in our files from which it might at some future time be resur- rected by a careless official or an inquiring newspaper man. “As I have already told you, any opinion that I have to offer would be worthless. But,. in closing, I want to point out two things to you. I want to refer you first to the report of Peter Herrick, in charge of the investigation at Stillwater last year, under date of 3 March, 1930. I quote from the report which I have at hand: “’On the Olassie trail, about three miles below Stillwater, we came upon the meandering tracks of three people. An examination of the tracks seemed to indicate that there were two men and one woman. A dog sled had been left behind along the trail, and for some inexplicable reason these three people had started running along the trail toward Nelson, evidently away from Still- water. The tracks halted abruptly, and there was no trace of where they might have gone. Since there had been no snow since the night of the Still- water mystery, this is doubly puzzling; it is as if the three people had been lifted off the earth. es “Another puzzling factor is the appearance, far off to one side of this point in the trail, in a line with the wandering footsteps of the three travelers, of a huge imprint, closely resembling the foot of a man—but certainly a giant— which appears to have been made by an unbelievably large thing, and the foot, though like that of a man, must have been webbed!’ | “To this I want to add some information of my own. I remember that last . night, when I threw that startled glance into the sky and saw that the stars 4 _ had been blotted out, I thought that the ‘cloud’ which had obscured the sky _ 3 looked curiously like the outline of a great man. And I remember, too, that where the top of the ‘cloud’ must have been, where the head of the thing should have been, there were two gleaming stars, visible despite the shadow, two gleaming stars, burning bright—Jlike eyes! ! “One more thing. This afternoon, a half mile behind Dr. Jamison’s house, I came upon a deep depression in the snow. I did not need a second glance to tell me what it was. A half mile on the other side of the house there is another imprint like this; I am only thankful that the sun is rapidly distorting the outlines, for I am only too willing to believe that I have imagined them. For they are the imprints of gigantic feet, and the feet must have been webbed!” : Thus ends Robert Norris’s strange report. Because he had carried it for some time with him, I did not receive the report until after I had learned of his disappearance. The report was posted to me on the. 6th of March. Under date of March 5th, Norris has scrawled a final brief and terrible mes- sage in a hand which is barely legible: my | “5S March—Something is pursuing me! Not a night has passed since the occurrence at Navissa Camp to give me any rest. Always I have felt strange, horrible, yet invisible eyes looking down at me from above. And I remember Wentworth saying that none could live who had seen the thing that walked on the wind, and I cannot forget the sight of it against the sky, and its burning eyes looking down like stars in the haunted night! It is waiting.” It was this brief paragraph which caused our official physician to declare ; oo) ee ~~ Tre » i re ie) Met Ey ¢ KsSiGO [0)(0)(0)