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o shot in the barrel. At that time he was utterly unable to account for the recoil. The second strange occurrence came to my knowledge through Rabaya. Freeman told him that as he was towing out to sea that afternoon he encountered a heavy fog immediately after turning from the bay into the channel. The tow-boat had to proceed very slowly. When his vessel had arrived at a point opposite Black Point he heard the sunset gun, and immediately afterwards strange particles began to fall upon the barkentine, which was exactly in the vertical plane of the gun's range. He had sailed many waters and had seen many kinds of showers, but this was different from all others. Fragments of a sticky substance fell all over the deck, and clung to the sails and spars where they touched them. They seemed to be finely shredded flesh, mixed with particles of shattered bone, with a strip of cloth here and there; and the particles that looked like flesh were of a blackish red and smelled of powder. The visitation gave the skipper and his crew a "creepy" sensation, and awed them somewhat--in short, they were depressed by the strange circumstance to such an extent that Captain Freeman had to employ stern measures to keep down a mutiny, so fearful were the men of going to sea under that terrible omen. The third circumstance is equally singular. As Freeman was pacing the deck and talking reassuringly to his crew his foot struck a small, grimy, metallic object lying on the deck. He picked it up and discovered that it, too, bore the odor of burned powder. When he had cleaned it he was amazed to discover that it was the amulet which he had bought that very day from Rabaya. He could not believe it was the same until he had made a search and found that it had been stolen from his pocket. It needs only to be added that the Flying Devil was never seen afterwards. * * * * * Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A. End of Project Gutenberg's The Ape, the Idiot & Other People, by W. C. Morrow *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE APE, THE IDIOT & OTHER PEOPLE *** ***** This file should be named 21616.txt or 21616.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/1/21616/ Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images g
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