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CHAPTER IX THE POLISH JEWESS
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There was a silence of some minutes' duration. Lord Lashmore sat staring straight before him, his fists clenched1 upon his knees. Then:
"There were six cases of death in the district within twelve months," replied Lashmore. "The gruesome cry of 'vampire3' ran through the community. The fourth baron—son of Paul Dhoon—turned a deaf ear to these reports, until the mother of a child—a child who had died—traced a man, or the semblance4 of a man, to the gate of the Dhoon family vault5. By night, secretly, the son of Paul Dhoon visited the vault, and found....
"The body, which despite twelve months in the tomb, looked as it had looked in life, was carried to the dungeon—in the Middle Ages a torture-room; no cry uttered there can reach the outer world—and was submitted to the ancient process for slaying6 a vampire. From that hour no supernatural visitant has troubled the district; but—"
"But," said Dr. Cairn quietly, "the strain came from Mirza, the sorceress. What of her?"
Lord Lashmore's eyes shone feverishly7.
"They will remain so," Dr. Cairn answered. "But my studies have gone far, and I know that Mirza, wife of the third Baron Lashmore, practised the Black Art in life, and became after death a ghoul. Her husband surprised her in certain detestable magical operations and struck her head off. He had suspected her for some considerable time, and had not only kept secret
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