The
blackmail letter about the five thousand dollars was only a blind,
to lay on the mythical Black Hand the blame for the desecration.
Brought into light, humidity, and warmth, the body would recover
consciousness and the life-functions resume their normal state
after the anabiotic coma into which Phelps had drugged himself.
"But the very first night the supposed ghouls were discovered.
Dana Phelps, already suspicious regarding the death of his
brother, wondering at the lack of sentiment which Mrs. Phelps
showed, since she felt that her husband was not really dead--Dana
was there. His suspicions were confirmed, he thought. Montague had
been, in reality, murdered, and his murderers were now making away
with the evidence. He fought with the ghouls, yet apparently, in
the darkness, he did not discover their identity. The struggle was
bitter, but they were two to one. Dana was bitten by one of them.
Here are the marks of teeth--teeth--of a woman."
Anginette Phelps was sobbing convulsively. She had risen and was
facing Doctor Forden with outstretched hands.
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