"The droning voice ringing in his ears issued from this nightmare creature."
The Black Stone Statue
By MARY ELIZABETH COUNSELMAN
An amazing tale of weird sculpture—the story of a weird deception
practised on the world by an obscure artist—by the
author of "The Three Marked Pennies"
DIRECTORS,
Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, Mass.
Gentlemen:
Today I have just received aboard the S. S. Madrigal your most kind cable, praising my work and asking— humbly, acclaim, weariness with poverty and the as one might ask it of a true genius!—if I would do a statue of myself to be placed among the great in your illustrious museum. Ah, gentlemen, that cablegram was to me the last turn of the screw!
I despise myself for what I have done in the name of art. Greed for money and
