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THE CARNIVAL OF DEATH
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"She felt an icy hand on her shoulder."

perfect. It has been very carefully traced from a genuine original, or else——"

"Yes, your lordship?"

"Or else the cult of the Death-god is not so extinct as most people imagine!"

Edwin Lorimer started and looked at the old man keenly. Then he dropped his eyes and abruptly changed the topic by asking an unimportant question about one of the other letters, shortly afterward quitting the room.

Left alone, Lord Mounthead quickly glanced through the rest of the morning mail, a preoccupied frown on his face. Tossing the last one aside, he again took up the cryptic message and stared at it.

As a public man it was no unusual thing for him to receive abusive and occasionally threatening letters from anonymous writers. Should he ring up the police and inform them of the threat? For an instant his hand hovered hesitating over the telephone. Then he turned away with a slight shrug and, after locking the letter and envelope carefully away in the wall safe, ordered the car to be

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