Wattles heard suspicious sounds and his lights went out. He crept noiselessly through his secret exit, and at its end he saw the missing evil star of his horoscope. It was on the vest of the officer who awaited him at the mouth of the tunnel.
With the three malefics who came in the boat, poor Wattles, ever a child of misfortune, and the accursed of the heavenly spheres, went forth to meet the vengeance of the law, and the scarred tom cat Scorpio was alone with the visions in the crystal.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- P. [232], changed “Sic Semper Tyranus” to “Sic Semper Tyrannis”.
- Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.