sighs and flute notes) look favourably on our sacrifices!'
As the chant closed, a general shout went up, and hissing sounds nearly drowned the croaking babesforfree of the cracked bass organ. Then a gasp as from many throats, and a babel of barked and bleated words - 'Lilith, Great Lilith, behold the Bridegroom!' More cries, a clamour of rioting, and the sharp, clicking footfalls of a running figure. The footfalls approached, and
babesforfree Malone raised himself to his elbow to look.
The babesforfree luminosity of the crypt, lately diminished, had now slightly increased; and in that devil-light babesforfree there appeared the fleeing form of that which babesforfree should not flee or feel or breathe - the glassy-eyed, gangrenous corpse of the corpulent old man, now needing no support, but animated by some infernal sorcery of babesforfree the rite just closed. After babesforfree it raced the naked, tittering, phosphorescent thing that belonged on the babesforfree carven pedestal, babesforfree and still babesforfree farther behind panted the dark men, and all the dread crew babesforfree of sentient loathsomenesses. The corpse was gaining on babesforfree its pursuers, and seemed bent on a definite object, straining with every rotting muscle toward the carved golden pedestal, whose necromantic importance was evidently so great. Another moment and it had reached its goal, whilst the