"You shall have a long, very close interview with the Terror of the Moor."
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TheTrail of the Cloven Hoof
By ARLTON EADIE
A startling weird mystery story, of strange deaths on the desolate
Moor of Exham, and the mysterious creature known as
"The Terror of the Moor"
The Story Thus Far
WHAT is the real explanation of the mysterious monster—horned, cloven-footed, yet speaking with a human voice—which haunts the desolate recesses of Exmoor? The problem confronts Hugh Trenchard in a dramatic guise when he stumbles on Silas Marie lying stunned and helpless one misty night, and the subsequent disappearance of the old man's body only serves to deepen the mystery.
With the aid of a former fellow-student, Ronnie Brewster, Hugh determines to solve the mystery, and his resolution is strengthened when he learns that Silas Marie has bequeathed his entire fortune to him on that very condition. Accom-