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The Penalty 1 A victim of the city
traffic.
2 It was young Dr. Ferris' first serious case.
...Charles Clary
3 The injured child is still
unconscious of his
fate.
4 "I dared not wait any
longer."
5 "I amputated both legs
above the knee."
6 "There is a contusion at the base of the
skull."
7 "Good God! You should not have amputated!"
8 "You've mangled this poor child for life."
9 "His father and mother -"
10 "My poor boy, I'll do what I can for you."
11 "I shall lie for you, and may God forgive me."
12 "Only immediate ampu- tation could save your
child's life."
13 "I heard them say --"
14 "He imagines he heard us. It's the effect of
the ether."
15 "He lies! He lies!"
16 Twenty-seven years later - San Francisco is the richest city in
the western world.
17 She has one hideous
blemish --
18 The Barbary Coast.
19 Barbary Nell.
...Doris Pawn
20 Frisco Pete.
...James Mason
21 Blizzard -- lord and master of the underworld.
...LON CHANEY
22 Lichtenstein, of the Federal Secret Service.
...Milton Ross
23 Rose, his most daring operative.
...Ethel Grey Terry
24 "Rose, this detail I'm offering you is so dangerous - I hope you'll turn it down."
25 "It's always Blizzard - that cripple from Hell."
26 "Do you remember sweet Barbary Nell who wandered from
our fold?"
27 "She's dead!"
28 "I could get him for theft, arson, murder -- but his criminal machine would still grind on."
29 "Through the Master I must reach his slaves - the underground powers
of the Reds."
30 "He's gathered up his dance hall girls and he's put them to work in his house - making hats - thousands of hats."
31 "I must know why!"
32 "I believe Blizzard is hatching something so big, it endangers
the city."
33 "I must find out what!"
34 "By the way, Barbary Nell, who strayed from us, now sleeps upon
a marble slab --"
35 "-- in the morgue."
36 Blizzard's favorite for the moment.
37 "A woman who enters that den risks worse
than death."
38 "That's all in the day's
work."
39 "-- and I shall walk
as men walk."
40 "I shall be the master
of a city!"
41 "And for my mangled years the city shall
pay me --"
42 "-- with the pleasures of a Nero and the powers
of a Caesar!"
43 "But you won't live to see it -- if you don't
pedal better."
44 "It means living in that devil's house till you find out what he's up to."
45 "Of course. Well, I'm
game."
46 Dr. Ferris, now the most famous surgeon in his line.
...Charles Clary
47 Dr. Wilmot Allen, his assistant.
...Kenneth Harlan
48 Blizzard had agents in strange places.
49 "Barbara asked me to
call for her."
50 The surgeon's daughter, Barbara, had dedicated herself to Art.
...Claire Adams
51 "I'm dreadfully discouraged."
52 "I've done nothing worth
while."
53 "Someday she'll realize that this is all nonsense."
54 "Sorry you have to go."
55 "Haven't I waited long enough? Why don't you
chuck it, Barbara?"
56 "Not until I've done at least one thing that is
worth doing."
57 "And I'm going to do 'Satan - after the fall'."
58 "If I fail --"
59 "-- I'll marry you."
60 "Rose has been there a week - and she's learned nothing."
61 "You're a find!"
62 "You aren't afraid of me - you look me in
the eyes."
63 "How could I be afraid -
when you play like
that?"
64 "You're a find!"
65 "Be in front of that studio tomorrow and see that no applicant but myself
enters it."
66 "Everything comes to
him who waits."
67 "You've mangled this poor child for life."
68 "Do I look like Satan?"
69 "Before I am through with her and her father, they'll think I'm the
devil himself."
70 9 A.M. -- Barbara's Studio at 32 Institute
Place.
71 "Model already engaged."
72 Bubbles, a street waif
whom Barbara has befriended.
73 Whenever Blizzard was absent, Rose hunted
for clues.
74 "Some excellent judges think that I resemble
Satan."
75 "If there is enough
of me."
76 "I seem to please."
77 "I knew about him when
I was bummin' the
streets - cut-throat's his
middle name."
78 "You oughtn't to touch
him with a pole."
79 "Gawd! Look at that
face!"
80 "If I could catch that expression in the clay -
I'd be famous."
81 "How do you happen to know so much
about Art?"
82 "My father, who shall be nameless, was a distinguished man."
83 "But he detested little boys with their legs clipped off. So at fifteen I hobbled out of his life."
84 "I could write a better treatise on sculpture
myself."
85 "Why do you live in
the underworld?"
86 "When Satan fell from Heaven he looked for
power in Hell."
87 Hugely satisfied with his morning's work.
88 "Rose, my dear!"
89 "Under the piano, my darling - we'll have
some music."
90 "I have a feeling I shall waft you into Heaven."
91 "A death song, Rose!"
92 "Rose was my best bet -- so far she's learned nothing."
93 "I couldn't have played that way without your
help."
94 "Go back to your work - I can murder anything
but music."
95 Days passed and the clay grew into the image of the man who was like Satan --
96 Into a face clothed with
evil intent.
97 In time the man would mangle the soul of the daughter, even as her father had mangled the body of the man.
98 "If you say it's good,
I know it's good."
99 But she hesitated, for
this would mean the end of Blizzard.
100 "I know of Dr. Allen - and of his great master,
Dr. Ferris."
101 "I will come tomorrow
at the same time."
102 "What an admirable
pair of legs."
103 "I gave mine to science."
104 "That monster ought to be chloroformed and put out of the way."
105
"He shows me only
courtesy and helpfulness."
106 Doctor Ferris investigates.
107 "May I talk with Mr. Blizzard alone?"
108 "I have followed every step of your career, and you have indeed profited by your early
mistakes."
109 "You were the child whose life I ruined?"
110 "Don't let that trouble
you too deeply."
111 "It's now in your power to repair your error."
112 "Command me in any way ... But don't come
here any more."
113 "Only your daughter's request can keep me away. She is making
a masterpiece."
114 "Barbara, let me tell
you a story."
115 "He lies! He didn't have
to cut them off."
116 "Behind his visits there is some sinister motive. I can read it in his eyes."
117 "If you have made him what he is, it is all the more our duty to help
him."
118 "Blizzard's man, O'Hagan,
is back in town."
119 "He has organized thousands of disgruntled foreign
laborers."
120 "Hats and men - what's
the devil up to?"
121 Blizzard's chief lieu- tenant, O'Hagan.
122 "You have worked in the dark long enough -- this is the plan I have been developing for two
years."
123 "At twelve noon on that day I shall loot the City
of San Francisco."
124 "Your ten thousand foreign malcontents will filter into the city in
small detachments."
125 "The signal will be an
explosion."
126 "By fire and riots I shall draw the police and military into the
suburbs."
127 "The heart of the city will be left defenseless - ours to loot at will."
128 "And then we shall vanish with our
treasure."
129 "You talk as if you had legs! By God! You've gone mad!"
130 "Perhaps - but with the madness that
succeeds!"
131 "Better come out of that closet or I'll begin to
shoot!"
132 "Crying won't help -
talking may."
133 "What's the use -- you're going to kill
me anyhow."
134 "I doubt it - you're the best pedaler I ever had."
135 "You see, you haven't been allowed to do
much damage."
136 "I think I'm glad."
137 "Don't you see?"
138 "Master!"
139 With exultation he felt the power that his mind was gaining over
Barbara.
140 "You are the best critic
in the world."
141 "Live your own life - go where I shall point - to your place among
the stars."
142 "How am I ever going to thank you for the help
you have given me?"
143 "When you have finished that, don't give me up."
144 "I love you, Barbara, with my whole heart
and soul."
145 At her laugh his Hell- born passions broke
loose.
146 But almost instantly he knew that he had blundered --
147 "-- and like a good general tried to retrieve
his mistake."
148 "I am the unhappiest beast in the world."
149 "Forgive me for having dared to lift my thoughts
to you."
150 "Laughter burns a cripple like acid."
151 "I don't know why I laughed. You frightened
me."
152 "Will you forgive me?"
153 "I've come to prescribe a little drive, Barbara."
154 "Call me a cab."
155 "True women need love, a home, children. He has made you forget
that."
156 "I'll marry you, dear,
whenever you wish."
157 After a night of jealous fury, the Beast takes
action.
158 "Hello, Doctor, this is
Bubbles."
159 "It's about Miss Barbara - she's gone to Blizzard's
house."
160 "I don't know why she went. She was cryin'."
161 "He'll run all the way - on those magnificent
legs."
162 "Once before a woman surfeited me with her
caresses."
163 "She's dead!"
164 "Rose just shows herself at the window and nods - and that's all."
165 "Where is Miss Ferris?"
166 "She is probably in
her room."
167 "Shall I search your house, or will you take me to her?"
168 "Listen, my baffled hero -- if you wish the lady to go free -"
169 "- you must hand over to me your superb legs."
170 "Dr. Ferris will cut them
off for you."
171 "Then he will graft
them to me."
172 "They will be very
becoming."
173 "Your daughter is in my house. She has been hurt. Come at once."
174 "That fairy tale about your daughter was merely to make certain
that you'd come."
175 "You've played the trick with apes - now I'm putting human beings
at your service."
176 "Your victim is fulfilling destiny in making you the master surgeon of
the world."
177 "You must make it possible - unless you would have your charming daughter married to these."
178 "Out of my house isn't out of my power --
that's here."
179 "Suppose you and your assistant should disappear - then your daughter and I --"
180 "Give me legs and I will be a model son-in-law."
181 "Then I'll be a tower of strength - I'll be a
Caesar!"
182 "You're right - you'd be a superman. I'll
do it!"
183 Doctor Ferris' sudden decision
to operate brought about startling results.
184 "I've waked from a
terrible dream!"
185 "I was a devil -- I did things that I shudder
to think of!"
186 "What's happened -- you didn't do what he
wanted?"
187 "That was a madman's request -- I operated
on his head."
188 "There is a contusion at the base of the
skull."
189 "That caused pressure on the brain - he has never been wholly responsible for his acts."
190 "This man, let alone, may become as great a power for good as
he was for evil."
191 "He shall have the
chance."
192 The tyrant's hand relaxed - the whirl-
wind breaks.
193 "He's got religion - that means he'll raise Hell!"
194 "How do we know he won't snitch on us?"
195 "If we don't finish him,
he'll finish us."
196 The New Man -- and his wife.
197 "We shall do great things
together."
198 "Fate chained me to Evil - for that I must
pay the Penalty."
199 "That is a great puzzle. Perhaps I am going to
see it solved."
200 "Don't grieve, dear -- death interests me."
201 "All that's left of him - an evil mask of a great
soul."
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