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"He had scarcely ceased, ere the huge creature, stricken dead, dropped\nheadlong, turning over and over in space as he fell.",
"Frightened by the report, the condors drew back for a moment, but they\nalmost instantly returned to the charge with extreme fury. Kennedy\nsevered the head of one from its body with his first shot, and Joe broke\nthe wing of another.",
"The herd disappeared in the twinkling of an eye; one male antelope\nonly, that was hit just behind the shoulder-joint, fell headlong to the\nground, and Kennedy leaped toward his booty.",
"Kennedy was completing his stock of fresh meat. Although the neighboring\nmarshes showed traces of the rhinoceros, the lamantine (or manatee),",
"\"We'll try some conical balls behind the shoulder-joint,\" said Kennedy,\nreloading his rifle with care. In another moment he fired.\n\nThe animal gave a terrible cry, but went on faster than ever.",
"At the end of his two hours, Kennedy returned with a string of fat\npartridges and the haunch of an oryx, a sort of gemsbok belonging to the",
"They had made a mile with headlong speed, when another report was heard\nfrom the car. The shot had, evidently, told upon a huge black demon, who",
"Ten shots more were discharged. The elephant made a fearful bound; the\ncar and balloon cracked as though every thing were going to pieces, and\nthe shock made the doctor drop his hatchet on the ground.",
"\"That fish, as you call it, Joe, is really a mammiferous animal of the\npachydermal species. Its flesh is said to be excellent and is an article\nof important trade between the tribes living along the borders of the\nlake.\"",
"Joe, a little cut down at learning that his idea had been used already,\ncudgelled his wits to imagine what animal could have devoured the",
"\"Come!\" said Joe, taking aim with another gun, \"I must help you, or\nwe'll never end it.\" And now two balls penetrated the creature's side.",
"Then he went back to the carcass of the elephant, which had fallen only\nabout a hundred feet from the edge of the forest; he next proceeded",
"\"A serpent!\" repeated Kennedy, handling his rifle.\n\n\"No,\" said the doctor, \"it's an elephant's trunk!\"\n\n\"An elephant, Samuel?\"",
"\"Dead!\" said the doctor, bending over him, \"dead!\" And with one common\naccord, the three friends knelt together in silent prayer.",
"recognized a male of a superb species. He had two whitish tusks,\nbeautifully curved, and about eight feet in length; and in these the",
"\"We can get closer to them, Dick, but we must not land. And what good\nwill it do you to strike down those poor animals when they can be of no",
"It was a blauwbok, a superb animal of a pale-bluish color shading upon\nthe gray, but with the belly and the inside of the legs as white as the\ndriven snow.",
"there not, doctor? So I didn't spend much time thinking about it, but\njumped right on the back of one of those innocent animals and away we",
"At this moment, one of the ferocious birds darted right at the balloon,\nwith outstretched beak and claws, ready to rend it with either or both.\n\n\"Fire! fire at once!\" cried the doctor.",
"matter of course, seeing that they were in Africa. Kennedy descried some\nhares and quails that asked nothing better than to get a good shot from"
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"At this moment, one of the ferocious birds darted right at the balloon,\nwith outstretched beak and claws, ready to rend it with either or both.\n\n\"Fire! fire at once!\" cried the doctor.",
"The condors flew around them in wide circles, their flight growing\ngradually closer and closer to the balloon. They swept through the\nair in rapid, fantastic curves, occasionally precipitating themselves",
"Thereupon the birds changed their tactics, and by common consent soared\nabove the balloon. Kennedy glanced at Ferguson. The latter, in spite",
"\"Don't you see that flock of big birds making for us?\"\n\n\"Birds?\" exclaimed the doctor, snatching his spyglass.",
"\"Oh, they employ these pigeons frequently, to set fire to the thatch\nof hostile villages; but this time the village mounted higher than they\ncould go.\"\n\n\"Why, positively, a balloon need fear no enemies!\"",
"Ten minutes later, the flock had come within gunshot, and were making\nthe air ring with their hoarse cries. They came right toward the\nVictoria, more irritated than frightened by her presence.",
"All at once this agitation, movement and noise stopped as though by\nmagic. The balloon had just come in sight, far aloft in the sky, where",
"to the opposite bank. Immediately, there came a shower of balls from\nboth banks, along with a perfect cloud of arrows, but without doing the\nballoon any damage, where it rested with its anchor snugly secured in",
"In about ten minutes a few jerking motions by the balloon indicated that\nit was disposed to start again. The Talabas were approaching. They were\nhardly five hundred paces away.",
"the fields. It was composed of numberless legions of that species of\ngrasshopper called crickets. About a hundred paces from the balloon,",
"And, in fact, they were swooping nearer, and more than one came within\nfifty feet of them, as if defying the fire-arms.",
"cut by the knives of our aeronauts, and the balloon was rushing headlong\ntoward the wood, when the animal received a ball in the eye just as he",
"When they caught sight of the aeronauts, they uttered savage cries,\nand brandished their weapons. Anger and menace could be read upon",
"\"Well, if they do, we'll defend ourselves. We have a whole arsenal at\nour disposal. I don't think those birds are so very formidable.\"\n\n\"Who can tell?\" was the doctor's only remark.",
"\"And suppose that they were to attack the upper part of the balloon,\nwhat would you do? How would you get at them? Just imagine yourself in",
"As they at last caught sight of the balloon, there was a momentary\npause; but their yells redoubled, and some arrows were shot at the\nVictoria, one of them coming close enough for Joe to catch it with his\nhand.",
"Cries of fury exceeding all description hailed the departure of the\nballoon, which had at once ascended nearly eight hundred feet. A swift",
"A tremendous howl was heard from the Arabs, but, completely engrossed by\nthe pursuit, they had not taken notice of the balloon, which was now",
"Joe, by the aid of his keen sight, which he did not fail to use\ncontinually, noticed some flocks of birds of prey flitting about the\nhorizon.",
"And, sure enough, there was another balloon about two hundred paces\nfrom them, floating in the air with its car and its aeronauts. It was\nfollowing exactly the same route as the Victoria."
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"Thus, at last, our hapless travellers, deprived of water in this torrid\nheat, began to feel symptoms of mental disorder. Their eyes swelled in\ntheir sockets, and their gaze became confused.",
"The doctor began to get uneasy again. If their stay in the desert were\nto be prolonged like this, their provisions would give out. After nearly\nperishing for want of water, they would, at last, have to starve to\ndeath!",
"The Wind dies away.--The Vicinity of the Desert.--The Mistake in\nthe Water Supply.--The Nights of the Equator.--Dr. Ferguson's",
"During the night none of them kept awake; yet none could be precisely\nsaid to have slept. On the morrow there remained only half a pint of\nwater, and this the doctor put away, all three having resolved not to\ntouch it until the last extremity.",
"The Wind dies away.--The Vicinity of the Desert.--The Mistake in\nthe Water-Supply.--The Nights of the Equator.--Dr. Ferguson's",
"or pool, we have but three days and a half of journeying during which we\nmust find water, at all hazards. I have thought it my duty to make you",
"To carry it to his lips, and to half empty it at a draught, was the\nwork of an instant, and the three travellers offered up thanks from the\ndepths of their hearts to that Providence who had so miraculously saved\nthem.",
"\"The cylinder can work only six hours longer; and, if in that time we\nshall not have found either a well or a spring of water, God alone knows\nwhat will become of us!\"",
"The doctor and his friends felt themselves in a very anomalous\ncondition; an atmospheric current of extreme velocity was bearing them\naway beyond arid mountains, upon whose summits vast fields of snow",
"yet they were only a short distance from the coast, but fatigue and\nprivation were beginning to tell upon them severely.\"",
"\"We can see nothing,\" said Kennedy, after two hours of search.\n\n\"Let us wait a little longer, Dick, and not lose heart. We cannot be far\naway from the scene of our accident.\"",
"devoured the few precious drops with his gaze, yet neither of them dared\nto moisten his lips with them. Two pints of water in the midst of the\ndesert!",
"cylinder, and lastly the tank in which the decomposition of the water\nwas effected. The united strength of all three travellers was required\nto detach these reservoirs from the bottom of the car in which they had",
"About midnight this work ended without accident, but at the cost of most\nsevere exertion, and the trio partook of a luncheon of pemmican and cold",
"And these men, intrepid as they were, felt the large tears streaming\ndown their cheeks. They leaned over with the vain hope of seeing some\ntrace of their heroic companion, but they were already far away from\nhim.",
"The doctor saw them come up to the surface of the desert, saturated with\nperspiration, worn out, covered with fine dust, exhausted, discouraged\nand despairing.",
"\"We are right in the open desert,\" said the doctor. \"Look at that vast\nreach of sand! What a strange spectacle! What a singular arrangement of",
"now but impalpable dust. There was not the slightest sign of moisture.\nThe doctor's heart shrank within him, and he was about to communicate\nhis thoughts to his companions, when their exclamations attracted his",
"\"Is it possible that we are to be caught in another dead calm?\" sighed\nthe doctor.\n\n\"Well, we've no lack of water, nor the desert to fear, anyhow, master,\"\nsaid Joe.",
"From the moment of their departure, the travellers moved with great\nvelocity. They longed to leave behind them the desert, which had so\nnearly been fatal to them."
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"the wildest and most ferocious of them all. The chief having died a few\ndays before our travellers appeared, his sudden death was attributed to\nthe missionary, and the tribe resolved to immolate him. His sufferings",
"they had practised to save the missionary, and he would soon be with\nhis friends again; but nothing was seen, not a sound was heard. The case\nseemed desperate.",
"\"What holds us?\" he asked, with an accent of terror.\n\nSome of the savages were running toward them, uttering ferocious cries.",
"So soon as he could get breath and look around him, he saw that he was\nbetween two natives as black as ebony, who held him, with a firm gripe,\nand uttered strange cries.",
"\"He is alive!\" exclaimed Ferguson. \"God be praised! The savages have got\na fine scare, and we shall save him! Are you ready, friends?\"\n\n\"Ready, doctor, at the word.\"",
"murderers. They certainly witnessed our misfortune, and should Joe fall\ninto their hands, what will become of him unless protected by their\nsuperstitions?\"",
"And, in fact, there, two miles from where they were, they saw some\nthirty wild natives close together, yelling, gesticulating, and cutting",
"\"But one thing that has been, unfortunately, proven true, is, the\nferocity of these tribes, who are really very fond of human flesh, and\ndevour it with avidity.\"",
"\"A missionary, perhaps.\"\n\n\"Poor wretch!\" said Kennedy, \"they're assassinating him--making a martyr\nof him!\"",
"part, and he remained a prisoner to one of the cruelest tribes of the\nNyambarra, the object of every species of maltreatment. But still",
"The blacks, who were members of the Makado tribe, were howling lustily,\nand one of them waved his bark hat in the air. Kennedy took aim at",
"With this, the missionary, again yielding to exhaustion, relapsed into\nhis fainting-fit.\n\n\"He is dying!\" said Kennedy.",
"\"That was an attack for you!\" said Joe.\n\n\"We thought you were surrounded by natives.\"\n\n\"Well, fortunately, they were only apes,\" said the doctor.",
"\"How that man has suffered!\" said Joe, with feeling. \"He did bolder\nthings than we've done, in venturing all alone among those savage\ntribes!\"",
"\"Five years! alone! and among these savages!\" exclaimed Kennedy with\namazement.\n\n\"They are souls to redeem! ignorant and barbarous brethren, whom\nreligion alone can instruct and civilize.\"",
"\"The savage wretches!\" exclaimed Joe, trembling with indignation.\n\"Suppose they should kill him to-night!\"",
"The car was approaching the ground; but a few of the savages, more\naudacious than the rest, guessing that their victim was about to escape",
"visited the various tribes residing on its banks, the most of whom are\ncannibals.",
"As some demonstration against the personal safety of the doctor and his\ncompanions was feared, all three slept that night on board the Resolute.\nAt six o'clock in the morning they left their cabin, and landed on the\nisland of Koumbeni.",
"\"It is not at all likely, my friends. These savage tribes kill their\ncaptives in broad daylight; they must have the sunshine.\""
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"north, and we shall, perhaps, discover the sources of the Nile, that\ngrand secret which has so long remained impenetrable. Near as we are to\nthe sources of the renowned river, I could not sleep.\"",
"The various expeditions that had ascended the Nile could never manage to\nreach the mysterious source of that river. According to the narrative",
"\"But we'll find some,\" said Joe. \"It is not to be thought of that we\nshouldn't discover some river, some stream, or pond, in all this vast\nextent of country.\"\n\n\"I hope so.\"",
"\"Perhaps. Our object is to push a point in the direction of the sources\nof the Nile; and we have more than six hundred miles to make before\nwe get to the extreme limit reached by the explorers who came from the\nnorth.\"",
"From this island the latest expedition, sent by way of the great lakes\nto explore the sources of the Nile, had just set out.",
"part of Africa near to the British possessions; and he it was who got\nso far as the sources of the Niger; and, according to his documents, the\nspring in which that immense river takes its rise is not two feet broad.",
"At this point the river sent forth a prolonged roaring; and when\nFerguson reached its bank, he recognized the falls of Gouina. But not",
"\"Long since,\" replied the doctor. \"The exploration of the Niger and\nits tributaries was the object of several expeditions, the principal",
"\"Very well, then, I'll tell you. The Geographical Society regard as very\nimportant the exploration of this lake of which Speke caught a glimpse.",
"advancing with sure steps to the discovery of the sources of the Nile,\nothers are penetrating to the very heart of Africa.\"",
"it, is immediately swallowed up; and whoever tries to draw water from\nit, feels himself repulsed by an invisible hand.\"",
"\"Not any too well, Dick; not any too well! Look at the needle of the\ncompass; we are bearing southward, and ascending the Niger toward its\nsources.\"",
"\"Well from this northern extremity there flows a stream which must\nnecessarily join the Nile, if it be not the Nile itself.\"\n\n\"That is, indeed, curious.\"",
"Thus, at last, our hapless travellers, deprived of water in this torrid\nheat, began to feel symptoms of mental disorder. Their eyes swelled in\ntheir sockets, and their gaze became confused.",
"And these men, intrepid as they were, felt the large tears streaming\ndown their cheeks. They leaned over with the vain hope of seeing some\ntrace of their heroic companion, but they were already far away from\nhim.",
"made up a jumble of notions, and deduced systems from them. Down at the\nbottom of it all there is some appearance of truth; and you see that\nthey were right about the sources of the Nile.\"",
"\"I wanted to talk to you about this river,\" said Dr. Ferguson, \"and it\nis already far from us. Under the names of Dhiouleba, Mayo, Egghirreou,",
"\"Now, take one of the points of these dividers and let it rest upon that\nplace beyond which the most daring explorers have scarcely gone.\"\n\n\"I have done so.\"",
"its waters toward the north, and this river exists, and we are\ndescending it, and it flows with a speed analogous to our own! And this\ndrop of water now gliding away beneath our feet is, beyond all question,",
"\"Here is, indeed, the Nile!\" reiterated the doctor, with the tone of\nprofound conviction. \"The origin of its name, like the origin of its"
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"The country, dry and parched as it was, consisting of a clayey soil that\ncracked open with the heat, seemed, indeed, a desert: here and there",
"\"We are right in the open desert,\" said the doctor. \"Look at that vast\nreach of sand! What a strange spectacle! What a singular arrangement of",
"The appearance of this part of Africa was, moreover, quite calculated\nto inspire alarm: the desert was gradually expanding around them; not",
"and advanced into the desert of sand streaked with the long tracks\nof the many caravans that pass and repass there. The last line of\nvegetation was speedily lost in the dim southern horizon, not far from",
"the desert. In the environs there was almost nothing, hardly even a few\ngrasses, with some dwarf mimosas and stunted bushes.",
"of a hope. The very last inequalities of the soil disappeared with the\nsetting sun, whose horizontal rays stretched in long lines of fire over\nthe flat immensity. It was the Desert!",
"of Sahara--for there whole weeks sometimes pass without the caravans\nmeeting with a single spring of water. Occupied with these thoughts, he\nscrutinized every depression of the soil with the closest attention.",
"\"Ah!\" he cried, \"land of thirst! Well might you be called the land of\ndespair!\"",
"\"It often happens, Dick; these trips across the desert are far more\nperilous than those across the ocean. The desert has all the dangers of",
"the \"desert-sickness.\" The impassible monotony of the arid blue sky,\nand the vast yellow expanse of the desert-sand, at length produced a",
"\"Up to this time we have nothing to complain of, master. The best\ncultivated and most fertile country in the world instead of a desert!\nBelieve the geographers after that!\"",
"The Wind dies away.--The Vicinity of the Desert.--The Mistake in\nthe Water Supply.--The Nights of the Equator.--Dr. Ferguson's",
"desert, which the travellers descried over the tops of palm-trees, bent\nand broken by the storm; and, after having made a run of two hundred",
"This vast region is situated between the fifteenth and tenth degrees\nof north latitude; that is to say, that, in order to approach it, the\nexplorer must penetrate fifteen hundred miles into the interior of\nAfrica.",
"\"The sand scorches me,\" said the hunter, \"as though it had just come out\nof a furnace; and not a cloud in this sky of fire. It's enough to drive\none mad!\"",
"The Wind dies away.--The Vicinity of the Desert.--The Mistake in\nthe Water-Supply.--The Nights of the Equator.--Dr. Ferguson's",
"It was not thirst alone, but the unchanging sight of the desert, that\nfatigued the mind. There was not a variation in the surface of the soil,",
"bones of men and animals. But nothing of the kind was to be seen, and\nthe aeronauts felt that, ere long, an immensity of sand would cover the\nwhole of this desolate region.",
"The direction taken by our aeronauts differed somewhat from that of\nthe morning, and thus about nine o'clock, instead of finding themselves\nagain near the borders of Lake Tchad, they saw the desert still\nstretching away before them.",
"The Victoria thus passed over the country of the Tibbous, crossed the\nBelad el Djerid, a desert of briers that forms the border of the Soudan,"
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"\"Dr. Ferguson!\" exclaimed the lieutenant.\n\n\"The same, sir,\" replied the doctor, quietly, \"and his two friends.\"",
"reception of Dr. Ferguson and his friend Kennedy. The latter, all\nthe while swearing that he would not go, went on board with a regular",
"The doctor kept silent for a few moments; he was thinking. His two\ncompanions looked at him with much emotion, for they were greatly\nexcited by the strangeness of the situation. Ferguson at last resumed:",
"It is needless to say that the topic of conversation with every one on\nboard was Dr. Ferguson's enterprise. Seeing and hearing the doctor soon",
"with intense force at this parting moment. Dr. Ferguson, still cold and\nimpassible, talked of this, that, and the other; but he strove in vain",
"Doctor Ferguson, however, had turned around to look about him on his\njourneyings, and turned to such good purpose that he had seen a great",
"Dr. Ferguson made no reply, but contented himself with a significant\nshrug of the shoulders.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER SIXTH.",
"So Kennedy and Joe, well wrapped in their blankets, stretched themselves\nat full length under the awning, and slept quietly; while Dr. Ferguson\nkept on the lookout.",
"Here ended the astonishing journey of Dr. Ferguson and his brave\ncompanions, as vouched for by undeniable testimony; and they found",
"ocular proof of the accomplishment of the daring project, naturally\nbecame Dr. Ferguson's witnesses. Hence the doctor at once asked them to",
"Dr. Ferguson personally, and guaranteed the intrepidity of his dauntless\nfriend.",
"for several hours, held him like a dead man under the eye of Dr.\nFerguson. The latter could not suppress his emotion, for he felt that",
"The consul, informed of their intentions, conferred with Dr. Ferguson\nand Captain Bennet on the subject. The latter was unwilling to yield\nto threats, but his friend dissuaded him from any idea of violent\nretaliation.",
"\"Now, my friends,\" said Dr. Ferguson, \"we must look out for every thing\nbeforehand; we may be forced to leave this at any moment, unexpectedly,",
"Dr. Ferguson had a friend--not another self, indeed, an alter ego, for\nfriendship could not exist between two beings exactly alike.",
"But the interest of Dr. Ferguson's hearers was excited to the highest\npitch when he made known to them, in detail, the preparations for his",
"\"Suppose that there should turn out to be no such person as Dr.\nFerguson?\" exclaimed another voice, with a malicious twang.",
"\"He is alive!\" exclaimed Ferguson. \"God be praised! The savages have got\na fine scare, and we shall save him! Are you ready, friends?\"\n\n\"Ready, doctor, at the word.\"",
"flesh, when a second detonation resounded in the narrow passage, and Dr.\nFerguson appeared at the opening above with his gun in hand, and still\nsmoking from the discharge.",
"Dr. Ferguson darted his powerful electric jet toward various points of\nspace, and caused it to rest on a spot from which shouts of terror were\nheard. His companions fixed their gaze eagerly on the place."
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"\"Which coast, my boy? How are we to know whither chance will carry us?\nAll that I can say is, that Timbuctoo is still about four hundred miles\nto the westward.",
"drove them eastward about sixty miles. It next floated over a very large\nand populous island, which the doctor took to be Farram, on which the",
"for this surprising journey is to be the island of Zanzibar, upon\nthe eastern coast. As for the point of arrival, it is reserved for\nProvidence alone to designate.",
"Many travellers endeavored to reach the sources of the Nile by taking\ntheir point of departure on the eastern coast of Africa.",
"At the end of about two hours the Victoria, driven along at a speed of\na little more than eight miles, very visibly neared the coast of the",
"and Dr. Oudney. They set out from Tripoli in the month of March, reached\nMourzouk, the capital of Fez, and, following the route which at a later",
"At nightfall, the balloon cast anchor in twenty-seven degrees east\nlongitude, and four degrees twenty minutes north latitude, after a day's\ntrip of one hundred and fifty miles.",
"The aeronauts swept on with the speed of twelve miles per hour, and soon\nwere passing in thirty-eight degrees twenty minutes east longitude, over\nthe village of Tounda.",
"\"Then, you will go--\"\n\n\"Whithersoever Providence wills; but, at all events, from east to west.\"\n\n\"Why so?\"",
"An English frigate was just about to sail, and the three travellers\nprocured passage on board of her. On the 25th of June they arrived at\nPortsmouth, and on the next day at London.",
"Three hours later, the Victoria was right among the mountains. Her exact\nposition was twenty-four degrees fifteen minutes east longitude,\nand four degrees forty-two minutes north latitude, and four degrees",
"crossing. The surface, which was quite flat, offered no impediment\nto their progress. The doctor's sole anxiety arose from the obstinate\nnortheast wind which continued to blow furiously, and bore them away",
"But, let it hold out only for a few hundred miles, and we shall arrive\nwithout fatigue, alarm, or danger, at the western coast.\"",
"\"Not the least in the world.\"\n\n\"Why, that makes scarcely one hundred and twenty miles--in other words,\na nothing.\"\n\n\"Almost nothing, Samuel.\"",
"About nine o'clock they drew nearer to the western coast. It seemed\ndeserted, and covered with woods; the wind freshened a little toward the",
"The next morning, February 21st, at three o'clock, the furnaces began\nto roar; at five, the anchors were weighed, and the Resolute, powerfully",
"The aeronauts found themselves, at about eight in the evening, in\nthirty-two degrees forty minutes east longitude, and four degrees",
"On the morrow, the 13th of May, our travellers, for the first time,\nreconnoitred the part of the coast on which they had landed. It was a",
"\"Then there are twenty-five degrees, or, counting sixty miles to each,\nabout fifteen hundred miles in all.\"\n\n\"A nice little walk,\" said Joe, \"for people who have to go on foot.\"",
"the end of our trip. Where do you expect to strike the African coast,\ndoctor?\""
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"\"We are English travellers,\" replied Ferguson. \"We are trying to cross\nAfrica in a balloon, and, on our way, we have had the good fortune to\nrescue you.\"",
"Dr. Ferguson had long been engaged upon the details of his expedition.\nIt is easy to comprehend that the balloon--that marvellous vehicle\nwhich was to convey him through the air--was the constant object of his\nsolicitude.",
"The doctor, much disquieted, resolved to ascend so as to escape this\ndangerous proximity. He therefore dilated the hydrogen in his balloon,\nand it rapidly rose.",
"At this moment the ascensional force of the balloon increased\nprodigiously, and Ferguson, Kennedy, and Joe, waved a last good-by to\ntheir friends.",
"\"Merciful Heaven!\" he exclaimed, \"the lunatic! the madman! Cross Africa\nin a balloon! Nothing but that was wanted to cap the climax! That's what\nhe's been bothering his wits about these two years past!\"",
"Dr. Ferguson kept his cylinder at full heat, and the balloon dilated and\nwent up, while Kennedy, on his knees, held together the curtains of",
"Therefore, while his companions slept, the doctor raised the hydrogen in\nthe balloon to an elevated temperature, and the huge globe, filling out",
"Ten minutes more, and the balloon was majestically ascending, while Dr.\nFerguson, in token of success, waved the English flag triumphantly from\nhis car.",
"of ballast at the time when he had rescued the missionary. He therefore\nopened the valve of the outside balloon. The hydrogen escaped, and the\nVictoria quietly descended into the ravine.",
"Doctor Ferguson, at a public meeting of the Royal Geographical Society,\ngave a recital of his journey through the air, and obtained for himself",
"Dr. Ferguson darted his powerful electric jet toward various points of\nspace, and caused it to rest on a spot from which shouts of terror were\nheard. His companions fixed their gaze eagerly on the place.",
"While busy managing the balloon, Dr. Ferguson never ceased reconnoitring\nthe country with eager eyes.",
"And with this, the doctor put on a full head of flame from the cylinder,\nand the dilation of the hydrogen, occasioned by such sudden and intense\nheat, sent the balloon rapidly aloft.",
"\"Come, come,\" said he, at last. \"Let us see, Samuel. Then you have\ndiscovered the means of guiding a balloon?\"\n\n\"Not by any means. That is a Utopian idea.\"",
"meanwhile rapidly descending. Dr. Ferguson was in search of a current\nthat would carry him more to the northeast, and he found it about six",
"And, sure enough, there was another balloon about two hundred paces\nfrom them, floating in the air with its car and its aeronauts. It was\nfollowing exactly the same route as the Victoria.",
"\"The balloon is rushing at the rate of at least thirty miles an hour.\nLean over, and see how the country is gliding away beneath us!\" said the\ndoctor.",
"Here ended the astonishing journey of Dr. Ferguson and his brave\ncompanions, as vouched for by undeniable testimony; and they found",
"Dr. Ferguson, forcing the dilation of his aerial craft to the utmost,\nsought for other currents of air at different heights, but in vain; and",
"It is needless to say that the topic of conversation with every one on\nboard was Dr. Ferguson's enterprise. Seeing and hearing the doctor soon"
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"Dr. Ferguson had a servant who answered with alacrity to the name\nof Joe. He was an excellent fellow, who testified the most absolute",
"\"Dr. Ferguson!\" exclaimed the lieutenant.\n\n\"The same, sir,\" replied the doctor, quietly, \"and his two friends.\"",
"with intense force at this parting moment. Dr. Ferguson, still cold and\nimpassible, talked of this, that, and the other; but he strove in vain",
"and a perfect pattern of constant good-humor. Had he been made on\npurpose for the place, it could not have been better done. Ferguson\nput himself entirely in his hands, so far as the ordinary details of",
"The doctor kept silent for a few moments; he was thinking. His two\ncompanions looked at him with much emotion, for they were greatly\nexcited by the strangeness of the situation. Ferguson at last resumed:",
"for several hours, held him like a dead man under the eye of Dr.\nFerguson. The latter could not suppress his emotion, for he felt that",
"reception of Dr. Ferguson and his friend Kennedy. The latter, all\nthe while swearing that he would not go, went on board with a regular",
"Dr. Ferguson made no reply, but contented himself with a significant\nshrug of the shoulders.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER SIXTH.",
"Doctor Ferguson, however, had turned around to look about him on his\njourneyings, and turned to such good purpose that he had seen a great",
"It is needless to say that the topic of conversation with every one on\nboard was Dr. Ferguson's enterprise. Seeing and hearing the doctor soon",
"\"I doubted,\" said he, holding out his hand to Dr. Ferguson, \"but now I\ndoubt no longer.\"",
"Dr. Ferguson here terminated his discourse, and was most heartily\napplauded. There was not an objection to make to it; all had been\nforeseen and decided.",
"But the interest of Dr. Ferguson's hearers was excited to the highest\npitch when he made known to them, in detail, the preparations for his",
"flesh, when a second detonation resounded in the narrow passage, and Dr.\nFerguson appeared at the opening above with his gun in hand, and still\nsmoking from the discharge.",
"Dr. Ferguson, taking in the whole scene at a rapid glance, approached\nthe wooden couch on which the sultan lay reclining. There he saw a man",
"\"He is alive!\" exclaimed Ferguson. \"God be praised! The savages have got\na fine scare, and we shall save him! Are you ready, friends?\"\n\n\"Ready, doctor, at the word.\"",
"\"Hold on fast!\" cried Ferguson.\n\n\"Have no fear, master--have no fear!\"\n\nAnd the doctor, with his foot pushed another heap of grass upon the\nfire.",
"Ferguson, and wasted his breath in pathetic entreaties, by which the\nlatter seemed to be but slightly moved. In fine, Dick felt that the\ndoctor was slipping through his fingers.",
"Dr. Ferguson had a friend--not another self, indeed, an alter ego, for\nfriendship could not exist between two beings exactly alike.",
"\"Suppose that there should turn out to be no such person as Dr.\nFerguson?\" exclaimed another voice, with a malicious twang."
],
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"By giving the balloon these cubic dimensions, and filling it with\nhydrogen gas, instead of common air--the former being fourteen and\na half times lighter and weighing therefore only two hundred and",
"And with this, the doctor put on a full head of flame from the cylinder,\nand the dilation of the hydrogen, occasioned by such sudden and intense\nheat, sent the balloon rapidly aloft.",
"\"My means of ascent and descent consist simply in dilating or\ncontracting the gas that is in the balloon by the application of\ndifferent temperatures, and here is the method of obtaining that result.",
"At the outset, in order not to give the balloon too ponderous\ndimensions, he had decided to fill it with hydrogen gas, which is",
"In a very little while, the gas expanded under the action of the heat,\nand the balloon took a very decided ascensional movement. Besides, the",
"Therefore, while his companions slept, the doctor raised the hydrogen in\nthe balloon to an elevated temperature, and the huge globe, filling out",
"rapidly ascends through the pipe that leads to the upper part of the\nballoon. A vacuum is created below, and it attracts the gas in the lower\nparts; this becomes heated in its turn, and is continually replaced;",
"However, were the forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven\ncubic feet of gas of which we speak, all introduced into the balloon, it",
"of ballast at the time when he had rescued the missionary. He therefore\nopened the valve of the outside balloon. The hydrogen escaped, and the\nVictoria quietly descended into the ravine.",
"surrounding it. A valve opened from one balloon into the other, and thus\nenabled the aeronaut to communicate with both.",
"The doctor, much disquieted, resolved to ascend so as to escape this\ndangerous proximity. He therefore dilated the hydrogen in his balloon,\nand it rapidly rose.",
"The hydrogen expanded, and in less than ten minutes the balloon was\nsoaring at a height of twenty-five hundred feet above the ground.",
"The distance made by the balloon during the preceding day did not exceed\nten miles, and, to keep it afloat, one hundred and sixty-two cubic feet\nof gas had been consumed.",
"exterior one, in such manner as to be lifted up in the same way. To the\nlower end of each balloon were fixed the pipes that served to introduce\nthe hydrogen gas.",
"cylinder. By this excess of heat it obtains a larger distention, and\ninflates the balloon more. The latter, then, ascends in proportion as I\nheat the hydrogen.",
"\"Gas, my boy; the ascending force of the balloon is evidently growing\nweaker, and we shall need all our management to make it carry us to",
"\"The attempt has often been made, gentlemen,\" said the doctor, \"to rise\nand descend at will, without losing ballast or gas from the balloon. A",
"merely of discharging some gas, when he had again to descend. But the\ngas in his balloon was his blood, his very life!",
"pounds. He could then take with him one hundred and seventy pounds of\nballast, for unforeseen emergencies, and the balloon would be in exact\nbalance with the surrounding atmosphere.",
"rapid heat, and the balloon, which had rested on the ground in perfect\nequipoise, began to rise in a few minutes, so that the seamen had to"
],
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"\"Perhaps. Our object is to push a point in the direction of the sources\nof the Nile; and we have more than six hundred miles to make before\nwe get to the extreme limit reached by the explorers who came from the\nnorth.\"",
"\"But,\" said the doctor, \"are you not aware that my journey is to compete\nwith the success of the expeditions now on foot? Don't you know that\nfresh explorers are advancing toward the centre of Africa?\"",
"explorers. But, my balloon will not deceive me, and we need make no such\ncalculations.\"",
"\"Now, take one of the points of these dividers and let it rest upon that\nplace beyond which the most daring explorers have scarcely gone.\"\n\n\"I have done so.\"",
"From the moment of their departure, the travellers moved with great\nvelocity. They longed to leave behind them the desert, which had so\nnearly been fatal to them.",
"\"Very well, then, I'll tell you. The Geographical Society regard as very\nimportant the exploration of this lake of which Speke caught a glimpse.",
"Under their auspices, Lieutenant (now Captain) Speke has associated with\nhim Captain Grant, of the army in India; they have put themselves at\nthe head of a numerous and well-equipped expedition; their mission is to",
"documents concerning the manners, government, religion, fauna, and flora\nof the region. They next made for the first of the great lakes, the",
"His fancy kindled early at the recitals he read of daring enterprise and\nmaritime adventure, and he followed with enthusiasm the discoveries that",
"\"While he was accomplishing this remarkable journey, an Englishman had\nconceived a similar enterprise and was trying to push it through\nwith equal courage, if not with equal good fortune. This was Captain",
"From this island the latest expedition, sent by way of the great lakes\nto explore the sources of the Nile, had just set out.",
"have left the Englishmen behind us, and now have caught up with the\nHamburger. It will not be long, either, before we arrive at the extreme\npoint attained by that daring explorer.\"",
"thought of his discoveries? Were his two companions thinking of their\ntrip through those unknown regions? There were, no doubt, mingled\nwith these reflections, the keenest reminiscences of home and distant",
"Here ended the astonishing journey of Dr. Ferguson and his brave\ncompanions, as vouched for by undeniable testimony; and they found",
"in the month of March in the following year. These two daring explorers\nthen reembarked for England; and the Geographical Society of Paris\ndecreed them its annual prize medal.",
"And there were present, also, those fearless travellers and explorers\nwhose energetic temperaments had borne them through every quarter of the",
"The journals of all Europe were untiring in their praises of the bold\nexplorers, and the Daily Telegraph struck off an edition of three\nhundred and seventy-seven thousand copies on the day when it published a\nsketch of the trip.",
"\"We shall keep our readers informed as to the progress of this\nenterprise, which has no precedent in the annals of exploration.\"",
"\"We are on the right track!\" he exclaimed. \"To-day or never we shall see\nthe Nile! Look, my friends, we are crossing the equator! We are entering\nour own hemisphere!\"",
"The first result of Dr. Ferguson's expedition was to establish, in the\nmost precise manner, the facts and geographical surveys reported by"
],
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"This vast region is situated between the fifteenth and tenth degrees\nof north latitude; that is to say, that, in order to approach it, the\nexplorer must penetrate fifteen hundred miles into the interior of\nAfrica.",
"\"Here, at last, is Africa, such as you pictured it to yourself, Joe! Was\nI not right in saying, 'Wait a little?' eh?\"",
"and the features of the countries the travellers pass over are\ndescribed, it is entirely accurate. It gives, in some particulars, a\nsurvey of nearly the whole field of African discovery, and in this",
"above the level of the sea. This circumstance gave the doctor some hope,\nsince it recalled to his mind the conjectures of geographers concerning\nthe existence of a vast stretch of water in the centre of Africa. But,",
"Only a few scattered huts could be seen through the pestilential mists;\nbut the appearance of the country soon changed, for it often happens in\nAfrica that some of the unhealthiest districts lie close beside others\nthat are perfectly salubrious.",
"far to find scenery just like England? Here's the first time that I\nbelieve in Africa, and I'm not sorry to get a taste of it.\"",
"\"Worse than that, my boy! There are men, and some of the most cruel,\ntoo, in all Africa.\"\n\n\"How is that known?\"",
"heights, sometimes only a hundred feet above the soil, while the map of\nAfrica unrolls itself beneath my gaze in the great atlas of the world.\"",
"The region they were now crossing is very extensive. It borders on the\nMountains of the Moon on one side, and those of Darfur on the other--a\nspace about as broad as Europe.",
"mountains. There were winding valleys, numerous and fertile, with their\ntangled thickets of the most various trees. The African oil-tree rose",
"Africa, is in the sixth degree of south latitude, that is to say, four\nhundred and thirty geographical miles below the equator.",
"advancing with sure steps to the discovery of the sources of the Nile,\nothers are penetrating to the very heart of Africa.\"",
"It was then about one hundred miles from Kazeh, an important\nestablishment in the interior of Africa, where, thanks to a",
"\"Africa is, at length, about to surrender the secret of her vast\nsolitudes; a modern OEdipus is to give us the key to that enigma which",
"\"We are, no doubt, crossing what is supposed to be the kingdom of Usoga.\nGeographers have pretended that there existed, in the centre of Africa,",
"deep-green foliage. Then came crests and ravines, in a sort of desert\nwhich preceded the Ugogo country; and lower down were yellow plains,",
"year, hardly one will be gathered from a soil completely drained of its\nstrength. Then, Africa will be there to offer to new races the treasures\nthat for centuries have been accumulating in her breast. Those climates",
"There it was at last, outstretched before them, that Caspian Sea of\nAfrica, the existence of which was so long consigned to the realms of",
"\"You see, then, that with such speed as that, we could cross Africa in\ntwelve hours. One would rise at Zanzibar, and go to bed at St. Louis!\"",
"The Mountains of the Moon.--An Ocean of Verdure.--They cast Anchor.--The\nTowing Elephant.--A Running Fire.--Death of the Monster.--The"
],
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"The condors flew around them in wide circles, their flight growing\ngradually closer and closer to the balloon. They swept through the\nair in rapid, fantastic curves, occasionally precipitating themselves",
"\"Wait, sir; wait one moment!\" they heard Joe exclaim, and, looking\naround, they saw Joe disappear over the edge of the balloon.\n\n\"Joe! Joe!\" cried Kennedy.",
"And Joe, picking up one more block, desperately tossed it out of the\ncar. The balloon rose a hundred feet or so, and, aided by the cylinder,\nsoon passed above the surrounding summits.",
"Frightened by the report, the condors drew back for a moment, but they\nalmost instantly returned to the charge with extreme fury. Kennedy\nsevered the head of one from its body with his first shot, and Joe broke\nthe wing of another.",
"Then he had to reestablish the equilibrium of the balloon, and Joe\nwas obliged to part with another considerable portion of his precious",
"But the condors mounted with him, apparently determined not to part\ncompany.\n\n\"They seem to mean mischief!\" said the hunter, cocking his rifle.",
"Thereupon the birds changed their tactics, and by common consent soared\nabove the balloon. Kennedy glanced at Ferguson. The latter, in spite",
"\"Yes! but a new idea, and I have dozens of them,\" said Joe; \"if we could\nonly manage to capture a team of live eagles, we could hitch them to the\nballoon, and they'd haul us through the air!\"",
"Joe let himself slide down by the rope; and, in a few moments,\nreappeared at his post; while the balloon, thus liberated, hung almost\nmotionless in the air.",
"With this the balloon, now completely inflated by the increased\ntemperature, moved away, sweeping the branches of the baobab in her\nflight.\n\n\"We're off!\" shouted Joe.",
"Joe no longer hesitated, although he still felt a fleeting pang of\nregret. The balloon at once began to ascend.\n\n\"It was high time!\" said the doctor.",
"\"Ah! by Jove, this balloon is a paradise!\" exclaimed Kennedy, feeling\nmuch better already.\n\n\"It leads to it, anyhow!\" replied Joe, quite gravely.",
"At this moment, one of the ferocious birds darted right at the balloon,\nwith outstretched beak and claws, ready to rend it with either or both.\n\n\"Fire! fire at once!\" cried the doctor.",
"\"Your guns, and your stock of powder and ball might cost us our lives.\"\n\n\"We are close to it!\" cried Joe.\n\nSixty feet! The mountain still overtopped the balloon by sixty feet.",
"In about ten minutes a few jerking motions by the balloon indicated that\nit was disposed to start again. The Talabas were approaching. They were\nhardly five hundred paces away.",
"Joe examined the anchor and found it solidly attached to the unbroken\ntusk. The doctor and Dick leaped out on the ground, while the balloon,\nnow half emptied, hovered over the body of the huge animal.",
"On the other hand, the balloon was visibly wearing out, and the doctor\nfelt it failing him. However, as the weather was clearing up a little,",
"While Joe was telling his experience, the balloon had rapidly passed\nover a long reach of country, and Kennedy soon pointed out on the\nhorizon a collection of structures that looked like a town. The doctor",
"Joe, by the aid of his keen sight, which he did not fail to use\ncontinually, noticed some flocks of birds of prey flitting about the\nhorizon.",
"pounds, he tossed it overboard. The balloon, thus suddenly lightened,\nmade a leap of three hundred feet into the air, amid the howlings of the"
],
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"Dick Kennedy was a Scotchman, in the full acceptation of the word--open,\nresolute, and headstrong. He lived in the town of Leith, which is near",
"And, as Kennedy said this, he drew his rifle to his shoulder.\n\n\"Wait, Dick; wait!\"\n\n\"That's a fact! The animal's towing us!\"",
"\"I have counted positively upon you, my dear Dick, and I have picked you\nout from all the rest.\"\n\nKennedy stood speechless with amazement.",
"What particularly exasperated Dick was, that the doctor seemed\ncompletely to lose sight of his personality--of his--Kennedy's--and to",
"To his own supreme confusion, Dick Kennedy came in for a large share\nin the jovial felicitations of the night. After having drunk to the",
"\"Poor, unfortunate man!\" said Kennedy.\n\n\"We must save him, Dick!\" responded the doctor; \"we must save him!\"",
"\"Dick,\" said the doctor, \"come with Joe; I want to know how much you\nboth weigh.\"\n\n\"But--\"\n\n\"You may keep your hat on. Come!\" And Kennedy went.",
"At this moment Kennedy went right up to the doctor, grasped his hand,\nand said:\n\n\"Samuel, have you absolutely determined to go?\"\n\n\"Solemnly determined, my dear Dick.\"",
"\"We!\" said Dick.\n\n\"Have you still a shadow of an objection to offer? Speak, friend\nKennedy.\"",
"\"What are we to do?\" asked Kennedy.\n\n\"Lay aside your rifle, Dick.\"\n\nAnd the Scot obeyed the request at once.",
"But, if they possessed different qualities, aptitudes, and temperaments,\nDick Kennedy and Samuel Ferguson lived with one and the same heart, and\nthat gave them no great trouble. In fact, quite the reverse.",
"It was Kennedy, who had crawled up close to him, and was begging there,\nupon his knees, and weeping piteously.",
"Ferguson opened, in person.\n\n\"Dick! you here?\" he exclaimed, but with no great expression of\nsurprise, after all.\n\n\"Dick himself!\" was the response.",
"Dick and Joe stretched themselves on their peaceful couch, and were soon\nsound asleep, the doctor keeping the first watch. At twelve o'clock the\nlatter was relieved by Kennedy.",
"The Doctor's Friend.--The Origin of their Friendship.--Dick Kennedy at\nLondon.--An unexpected but not very consoling Proposal.--A Proverb by",
"The Doctor's Friend.--The Origin of their Friendship.--Dick Kennedy at\nLondon.--An unexpected but not very consoling Proposal.--A Proverb by",
"\"An ugly country this!\" sighed Joe; \"and it seems to me that Mr. Kennedy\nis none the better for having passed the night in it.\"\n\n\"To tell the truth, I have quite a high fever,\" said the sportsman.",
"\"Put us on short allowance, then, doctor,\" responded Kennedy, \"but we\nmust not despair. We have three days left, you say?\"\n\n\"Yes, my dear Dick!\"",
"Kennedy, while still rubbing his eyes, which he could scarcely keep\nopen, calmly lit his pipe. He then ensconced himself in a corner, and\nbegan to smoke vigorously by way of keeping awake.",
"\"What course shall we pursue?\" asked Kennedy.\n\n\"Alight as soon as possible, Dick, and then wait.\""
],
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"In 1856, he quitted Bornou, and determined to explore the unknown\ncountry that lies between Lake Tchad and Darfur. Nothing has been seen",
"from him, his intention to reconnoitre the kingdom of Wadai, which no\nEuropean had yet penetrated. It appears that he got as far as Wara, the",
"This vast region is situated between the fifteenth and tenth degrees\nof north latitude; that is to say, that, in order to approach it, the\nexplorer must penetrate fifteen hundred miles into the interior of\nAfrica.",
"\"We are in luck!\" said he; \"every thing works in our favor: we shall\ndiscover Lake Tchad this very day.\"\n\n\"Is it a broad sheet of water?\" asked Kennedy.",
"Clapperton and Dr. Oudney had pushed their way through the Soudan\ncountry as far as Sackatoo, and Oudney died of fatigue and exhaustion in\nthe town of Murmur.\"",
"\"Long since,\" replied the doctor. \"The exploration of the Niger and\nits tributaries was the object of several expeditions, the principal",
"all sides to the investigations of science. On the north, the young\nDuveyrier was exploring Sahara, and bringing the chiefs of the\nTouaregs to Paris. Under the inspiration of the French Government, two",
"\"Dr. Barth, in following out to Soudan the track traced by Denham and\nClapperton; Dr. Livingstone, in multiplying his fearless explorations",
"Lake Tchad.--Tangalia.--The Return.--Lari",
"reconnoitre Lake Tchad, from which he was still three hundred and fifty\nmiles distant. He therefore advanced toward the east, and reached the",
"It was thus, in the midst of rich and verdant landscapes that our\ntravellers passed over the district of Maffatay, and about nine o'clock\nin the morning reached the southern shore of Lake Tchad.",
"We find him again setting forth on the 29th of March, 1851, with\nOverweg, to visit the kingdom of Adamaoua, to the south of the lake, and",
"Lake Tchad.--Tangalia.--The Return.--Lari.",
"several explorations in Bornou, in Mandara, and to the eastern shores\nof the lake. In the mean time, on the 15th of December, 1823, Captain",
"Dr. Barth is a Hamburger, who obtained permission for himself and\nfor his countryman Overweg to join the expedition of the Englishman\nRichardson. The latter was charged with a mission in the Soudan.",
"the Wadai country, where he disappeared. This young man, at the age of\ntwenty-three, had been sent to cooperate with Dr. Barth. They met on the",
"Until then, the country in question had been known only through the\njourneys of Denham, of Clapperton, and of Oudney, made from 1822 to",
"means to make his presence there known. Perhaps he had been dragged to\nthe mainland. The doctor was reasoning thus to himself, when he again\ncame in sight of the northern shore of Lake Tchad.",
"But our travellers had scarcely the time to catch even this glimpse of\nit, for, with the fickleness that characterizes the air-currents of this\nregion, a contrary wind suddenly swept them some forty miles over the\nsurface of Lake Tchad.",
"About half-past two o'clock, the Victoria hove in sight of Tangalia, a\nvillage situated on the eastern shore of Lake Tchad, where it marks the\nextreme point attained by Denham at the period of his exploration."
],
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"and the features of the countries the travellers pass over are\ndescribed, it is entirely accurate. It gives, in some particulars, a\nsurvey of nearly the whole field of African discovery, and in this",
"by African explorers, they can scarcely be considered extravagant; while\nthe ingenuity and invention of the author will be sure to excite the",
"in the month of March in the following year. These two daring explorers\nthen reembarked for England; and the Geographical Society of Paris\ndecreed them its annual prize medal.",
"explorations of African territory. The guests drank to their health or\nto their memory, in alphabetical order, a good old English way of doing",
"brought back precious documents from their expeditions. They have\nexplored these countries formed by the elbow of the Senegal in places\nwhere war and pillage have left nothing but ruins.\"",
"\"Who can tell, Joe? One thing, however, will be undeniable: a thousand\nwitnesses saw us start on one side of the African Continent, and a\nthousand more will see us arrive on the other.\"",
"An English frigate was just about to sail, and the three travellers\nprocured passage on board of her. On the 25th of June they arrived at\nPortsmouth, and on the next day at London.",
"\"But,\" said the doctor, \"are you not aware that my journey is to compete\nwith the success of the expeditions now on foot? Don't you know that\nfresh explorers are advancing toward the centre of Africa?\"",
"Under their auspices, Lieutenant (now Captain) Speke has associated with\nhim Captain Grant, of the army in India; they have put themselves at\nthe head of a numerous and well-equipped expedition; their mission is to",
"From this island the latest expedition, sent by way of the great lakes\nto explore the sources of the Nile, had just set out.",
"\"Here we are at last,\" said the doctor, \"in an unexplored country!\nCaptain Burton pushed very far to the westward, but he could not reach",
"Here ended the astonishing journey of Dr. Ferguson and his brave\ncompanions, as vouched for by undeniable testimony; and they found",
"\"You are daring travellers!\" he said, \"and you will succeed in your bold\nenterprise. You will again behold your relatives, your friends, your\ncountry--you--\"",
"advancing with sure steps to the discovery of the sources of the Nile,\nothers are penetrating to the very heart of Africa.\"",
"\"He succeeded in regaining the coast and returned to London, bringing\nwith him the captain's papers, and an exact narrative of his own\njourney. He then offered his services to the government to complete",
"sailed for Toulon. In nineteen months, notwithstanding one hundred and\neighty days' sickness, he had traversed Africa from west to north. Ah!",
"the end of our trip. Where do you expect to strike the African coast,\ndoctor?\"",
"\"And when we get back from that expedition,\" said the indefatigable\nnarrator, \"they'll decorate us with the Southern Cross that shines up\nthere in the Creator's button-hole.\"",
"\"We are English travellers,\" replied Ferguson. \"We are trying to cross\nAfrica in a balloon, and, on our way, we have had the good fortune to\nrescue you.\"",
"He returned in the month of August to Kouka; from there he successively\ntraversed the Mandara, Barghimi, and Klanem countries, and reached his"
],
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"This vast region is situated between the fifteenth and tenth degrees\nof north latitude; that is to say, that, in order to approach it, the\nexplorer must penetrate fifteen hundred miles into the interior of\nAfrica.",
"\"But,\" said the doctor, \"are you not aware that my journey is to compete\nwith the success of the expeditions now on foot? Don't you know that\nfresh explorers are advancing toward the centre of Africa?\"",
"\"My friends,\" said the doctor, \"here is where OUR passage of the African\nContinent really commences; up to this time we have been following the",
"\"Who can tell, Joe? One thing, however, will be undeniable: a thousand\nwitnesses saw us start on one side of the African Continent, and a\nthousand more will see us arrive on the other.\"",
"From this island the latest expedition, sent by way of the great lakes\nto explore the sources of the Nile, had just set out.",
"\"Perhaps. Our object is to push a point in the direction of the sources\nof the Nile; and we have more than six hundred miles to make before\nwe get to the extreme limit reached by the explorers who came from the\nnorth.\"",
"advancing with sure steps to the discovery of the sources of the Nile,\nothers are penetrating to the very heart of Africa.\"",
"Under their auspices, Lieutenant (now Captain) Speke has associated with\nhim Captain Grant, of the army in India; they have put themselves at\nthe head of a numerous and well-equipped expedition; their mission is to",
"explorations of African territory. The guests drank to their health or\nto their memory, in alphabetical order, a good old English way of doing",
"of departure, which it contended should be Massowah, a small port in\nAbyssinia, whence James Bruce, in 1768, started upon his explorations",
"Europe?--Perhaps!--And then, couldn't one wait a little longer?--The\ntrip across Africa would certainly be accomplished some day, and in a",
"The Mountains of the Moon.--An Ocean of Venture.--They cast Anchor.--The\nTowing Elephant.--A Running Fire.--Death of the Monster.--The Field",
"\"Here, at last, is Africa, such as you pictured it to yourself, Joe! Was\nI not right in saying, 'Wait a little?' eh?\"",
"and the features of the countries the travellers pass over are\ndescribed, it is entirely accurate. It gives, in some particulars, a\nsurvey of nearly the whole field of African discovery, and in this",
"\"We are not ninety miles from Gondokoro,\" said the doctor, measuring\noff the distance on his map, \"and less than five miles from the point\nreached by the explorers from the north. Let us descend with great\ncare.\"",
"\"Long since,\" replied the doctor. \"The exploration of the Niger and\nits tributaries was the object of several expeditions, the principal",
"by African explorers, they can scarcely be considered extravagant; while\nthe ingenuity and invention of the author will be sure to excite the",
"\"Merciful Heaven!\" he exclaimed, \"the lunatic! the madman! Cross Africa\nin a balloon! Nothing but that was wanted to cap the climax! That's what\nhe's been bothering his wits about these two years past!\"",
"We find him again setting forth on the 29th of March, 1851, with\nOverweg, to visit the kingdom of Adamaoua, to the south of the lake, and",
"and Dr. Oudney. They set out from Tripoli in the month of March, reached\nMourzouk, the capital of Fez, and, following the route which at a later"
],
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"they had practised to save the missionary, and he would soon be with\nhis friends again; but nothing was seen, not a sound was heard. The case\nseemed desperate.",
"\"No, Dick, since it was in our power to save that unfortunate missionary\nfrom a horrible death. But, the hundred pounds of water that we threw",
"\"He is alive!\" exclaimed Ferguson. \"God be praised! The savages have got\na fine scare, and we shall save him! Are you ready, friends?\"\n\n\"Ready, doctor, at the word.\"",
"\"Five years! alone! and among these savages!\" exclaimed Kennedy with\namazement.\n\n\"They are souls to redeem! ignorant and barbarous brethren, whom\nreligion alone can instruct and civilize.\"",
"murderers. They certainly witnessed our misfortune, and should Joe fall\ninto their hands, what will become of him unless protected by their\nsuperstitions?\"",
"\"Saved!\" he with a sad smile replied in English, \"saved from a cruel\ndeath! My brethren, I thank you, but my days are numbered, nay, even my\nhours, and I have but little longer to live.\"",
"the wildest and most ferocious of them all. The chief having died a few\ndays before our travellers appeared, his sudden death was attributed to\nthe missionary, and the tribe resolved to immolate him. His sufferings",
"\"A missionary, perhaps.\"\n\n\"Poor wretch!\" said Kennedy, \"they're assassinating him--making a martyr\nof him!\"",
"\"They are murdering him! they are murdering him!\" exclaimed Kennedy.\n\"Our interference will have served no other purpose than to hasten the\nhour of his doom. We must act!\"",
"\"That was an attack for you!\" said Joe.\n\n\"We thought you were surrounded by natives.\"\n\n\"Well, fortunately, they were only apes,\" said the doctor.",
"\"The savage wretches!\" exclaimed Joe, trembling with indignation.\n\"Suppose they should kill him to-night!\"",
"without doing all in our power to save him. When he heard the sound\nof our guns, he recognized an unhoped-for assistance, a providential\ninterposition. We shall not disappoint his last hope. Are such your",
"of ballast at the time when he had rescued the missionary. He therefore\nopened the valve of the outside balloon. The hydrogen escaped, and the\nVictoria quietly descended into the ravine.",
"With this, the missionary, again yielding to exhaustion, relapsed into\nhis fainting-fit.\n\n\"He is dying!\" said Kennedy.",
"\"What holds us?\" he asked, with an accent of terror.\n\nSome of the savages were running toward them, uttering ferocious cries.",
"To carry it to his lips, and to half empty it at a draught, was the\nwork of an instant, and the three travellers offered up thanks from the\ndepths of their hearts to that Providence who had so miraculously saved\nthem.",
"\"How that man has suffered!\" said Joe, with feeling. \"He did bolder\nthings than we've done, in venturing all alone among those savage\ntribes!\"",
"As some demonstration against the personal safety of the doctor and his\ncompanions was feared, all three slept that night on board the Resolute.\nAt six o'clock in the morning they left their cabin, and landed on the\nisland of Koumbeni.",
"Tears came to his eyes, not of grief but of thankfulness; his master was\nthen seeking him; his master had not left him to perish! He would",
"\"Because they think that they are certain to take us,\" replied the\ndoctor; \"and, they will succeed if we descend much farther. We must,\nabsolutely, get higher into the air.\""
],
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"the intrepidity of her explorers in the line of geographical discovery.\"\n(General assent). \"Dr. Samuel Ferguson, one of her most glorious sons,",
"Samuel Ferguson returned to England about 1850, and, more than ever\npossessed by the demon of discovery, he spent the intervening time,",
"reception of Dr. Ferguson and his friend Kennedy. The latter, all\nthe while swearing that he would not go, went on board with a regular",
"Such was the venturesome journey of Dr. Barth.\n\nDr. Ferguson carefully noted the fact, that he had stopped at four\ndegrees north latitude and seventeen degrees west longitude.",
"in search of the sources of the Nile. Apart from that, it mentioned, in\nterms of unreserved admiration, the energetic character of Dr. Ferguson,",
"that had devoured most of the companions of Mungo Park. Ferguson,\ntherefore, was more than ever decided not to set foot in this\ninhospitable region.",
"Here ended the astonishing journey of Dr. Ferguson and his brave\ncompanions, as vouched for by undeniable testimony; and they found",
"As far as Senegal, this part of Africa is marked down as dangerous.\nDr. Ferguson knew it through the recitals of his predecessors. They had",
"\"The labors of these hardy pioneers of science are now about to be\nknit together by the daring project of Dr. Samuel Ferguson, whose\nfine explorations our readers have frequently had the opportunity of\nappreciating.",
"It is needless to say that the topic of conversation with every one on\nboard was Dr. Ferguson's enterprise. Seeing and hearing the doctor soon",
"Doctor Ferguson's first care was to take his bearings by stellar\nobservation, and he discovered that he was scarcely twenty-five miles\nfrom Senegal.",
"The first result of Dr. Ferguson's expedition was to establish, in the\nmost precise manner, the facts and geographical surveys reported by",
"The End of a much-applauded Speech.--The Presentation of Dr. Samuel\nFerguson.--Excelsior.--Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.--A Fatalist",
"Samuel Ferguson felt real emotion: he was almost in contact with one\nof the principal points of his expedition, and, with his spy-glass",
"\"(Signed), \"SAMUEL FERGUSON\n \"RICHARD KENNEDY,\n \"JOSEPH WILSON,",
"Doctor Ferguson, however, had turned around to look about him on his\njourneyings, and turned to such good purpose that he had seen a great",
"\"You mean the Mountains of the Moon, which are not quite so far off.\nBut, never mind, one trip is just as dangerous as the other!\"\n\n\"Dangerous! What! with a man like Dr. Ferguson?\"",
"\"Dr. Ferguson!\" exclaimed the lieutenant.\n\n\"The same, sir,\" replied the doctor, quietly, \"and his two friends.\"",
"We find him again setting forth on the 29th of March, 1851, with\nOverweg, to visit the kingdom of Adamaoua, to the south of the lake, and",
"\"We are English travellers,\" replied Ferguson. \"We are trying to cross\nAfrica in a balloon, and, on our way, we have had the good fortune to\nrescue you.\""
],
[
"\"Dr. Ferguson!\" exclaimed the lieutenant.\n\n\"The same, sir,\" replied the doctor, quietly, \"and his two friends.\"",
"Dr. Ferguson made no reply, but contented himself with a significant\nshrug of the shoulders.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER SIXTH.",
"It is needless to say that the topic of conversation with every one on\nboard was Dr. Ferguson's enterprise. Seeing and hearing the doctor soon",
"Doctor Ferguson, however, had turned around to look about him on his\njourneyings, and turned to such good purpose that he had seen a great",
"with intense force at this parting moment. Dr. Ferguson, still cold and\nimpassible, talked of this, that, and the other; but he strove in vain",
"The doctor kept silent for a few moments; he was thinking. His two\ncompanions looked at him with much emotion, for they were greatly\nexcited by the strangeness of the situation. Ferguson at last resumed:",
"for several hours, held him like a dead man under the eye of Dr.\nFerguson. The latter could not suppress his emotion, for he felt that",
"Dr. Ferguson here terminated his discourse, and was most heartily\napplauded. There was not an objection to make to it; all had been\nforeseen and decided.",
"reception of Dr. Ferguson and his friend Kennedy. The latter, all\nthe while swearing that he would not go, went on board with a regular",
"But the interest of Dr. Ferguson's hearers was excited to the highest\npitch when he made known to them, in detail, the preparations for his",
"\"But the doctor?\" said Joe; \"our friend, Dr. Ferguson?\"",
"\"I doubted,\" said he, holding out his hand to Dr. Ferguson, \"but now I\ndoubt no longer.\"",
"\"Suppose that there should turn out to be no such person as Dr.\nFerguson?\" exclaimed another voice, with a malicious twang.",
"and a perfect pattern of constant good-humor. Had he been made on\npurpose for the place, it could not have been better done. Ferguson\nput himself entirely in his hands, so far as the ordinary details of",
"The consul, informed of their intentions, conferred with Dr. Ferguson\nand Captain Bennet on the subject. The latter was unwilling to yield\nto threats, but his friend dissuaded him from any idea of violent\nretaliation.",
"ocular proof of the accomplishment of the daring project, naturally\nbecame Dr. Ferguson's witnesses. Hence the doctor at once asked them to",
"and fourthly, upon the probabilities of Dr. Ferguson's return. The\nbetting-books were covered with entries of immense sums, as though the\nEpsom races were at stake.",
"Dr. Ferguson personally, and guaranteed the intrepidity of his dauntless\nfriend.",
"Then it was that Dr. Ferguson, buried in meditation, asked himself\nwhether he had acted with prudence. Would he not have done better to",
"Dr. Ferguson, taking in the whole scene at a rapid glance, approached\nthe wooden couch on which the sultan lay reclining. There he saw a man"
],
[
"\"Wait, sir; wait one moment!\" they heard Joe exclaim, and, looking\naround, they saw Joe disappear over the edge of the balloon.\n\n\"Joe! Joe!\" cried Kennedy.",
"And Joe, picking up one more block, desperately tossed it out of the\ncar. The balloon rose a hundred feet or so, and, aided by the cylinder,\nsoon passed above the surrounding summits.",
"Then he had to reestablish the equilibrium of the balloon, and Joe\nwas obliged to part with another considerable portion of his precious",
"Joe let himself slide down by the rope; and, in a few moments,\nreappeared at his post; while the balloon, thus liberated, hung almost\nmotionless in the air.",
"Joe no longer hesitated, although he still felt a fleeting pang of\nregret. The balloon at once began to ascend.\n\n\"It was high time!\" said the doctor.",
"doctor directed, and Joe, holding on by one hand, with the other cut the\ncords that suspended the car; and the latter dropped to the ground just\nas the balloon was sinking for the last time.",
"Joe flung out the barometers and thermometers, but all that amounted\nto little; and the balloon, which had risen for an instant, fell again\ntoward the ground.",
"Kennedy laughed. Joe now threw out some ten pounds, but the balloon\nstood still.\n\nJoe got very pale.",
"The doctor, much disquieted, resolved to ascend so as to escape this\ndangerous proximity. He therefore dilated the hydrogen in his balloon,\nand it rapidly rose.",
"With this the balloon, now completely inflated by the increased\ntemperature, moved away, sweeping the branches of the baobab in her\nflight.\n\n\"We're off!\" shouted Joe.",
"pounds, he tossed it overboard. The balloon, thus suddenly lightened,\nmade a leap of three hundred feet into the air, amid the howlings of the",
"\"Your guns, and your stock of powder and ball might cost us our lives.\"\n\n\"We are close to it!\" cried Joe.\n\nSixty feet! The mountain still overtopped the balloon by sixty feet.",
"\"Ah! by Jove, this balloon is a paradise!\" exclaimed Kennedy, feeling\nmuch better already.\n\n\"It leads to it, anyhow!\" replied Joe, quite gravely.",
"of ballast at the time when he had rescued the missionary. He therefore\nopened the valve of the outside balloon. The hydrogen escaped, and the\nVictoria quietly descended into the ravine.",
"Meanwhile, the flames, leaping up at the balloon, already quivered on\nits illuminated sides; but the Victoria, released from her fastenings,\nspun upward a thousand feet into the air.",
"At this moment the ascensional force of the balloon increased\nprodigiously, and Ferguson, Kennedy, and Joe, waved a last good-by to\ntheir friends.",
"As the doctor shouted, Joe had turned his head, but without checking his\nhorse. The ladder dropped close to him, and at the instant he grasped it\nthe doctor again shouted to Kennedy:\n\n\"Throw ballast!\"",
"force for the balloon. The anchor is solidly fastened, and there is\nnothing to fear in that respect. I shall descend, and Joe will go with\nme, only that he must remain at the foot of the ladder.\"",
"Joe immediately obeyed, and the two anchors dangled below the balloon.",
"Ferguson was in haste to descend; the covering of the balloon gave\nindications of bursting, but in the meanwhile he had time to satisfy"
],
[
"As far as Senegal, this part of Africa is marked down as dangerous.\nDr. Ferguson knew it through the recitals of his predecessors. They had",
"\"You mean the Mountains of the Moon, which are not quite so far off.\nBut, never mind, one trip is just as dangerous as the other!\"\n\n\"Dangerous! What! with a man like Dr. Ferguson?\"",
"Doctor Ferguson, however, had turned around to look about him on his\njourneyings, and turned to such good purpose that he had seen a great",
"It is needless to say that the topic of conversation with every one on\nboard was Dr. Ferguson's enterprise. Seeing and hearing the doctor soon",
"\"Dr. Ferguson!\" exclaimed the lieutenant.\n\n\"The same, sir,\" replied the doctor, quietly, \"and his two friends.\"",
"Dr. Ferguson made no reply, but contented himself with a significant\nshrug of the shoulders.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER SIXTH.",
"that had devoured most of the companions of Mungo Park. Ferguson,\ntherefore, was more than ever decided not to set foot in this\ninhospitable region.",
"\"We are English travellers,\" replied Ferguson. \"We are trying to cross\nAfrica in a balloon, and, on our way, we have had the good fortune to\nrescue you.\"",
"The doctor kept silent for a few moments; he was thinking. His two\ncompanions looked at him with much emotion, for they were greatly\nexcited by the strangeness of the situation. Ferguson at last resumed:",
"But the interest of Dr. Ferguson's hearers was excited to the highest\npitch when he made known to them, in detail, the preparations for his",
"\"Attention!\" said Dr. Ferguson. \"We are approaching Rubeho, the name\nof which signifies, in the language of the country, the 'Passage of the",
"Dr. Ferguson here terminated his discourse, and was most heartily\napplauded. There was not an objection to make to it; all had been\nforeseen and decided.",
"reception of Dr. Ferguson and his friend Kennedy. The latter, all\nthe while swearing that he would not go, went on board with a regular",
"Here ended the astonishing journey of Dr. Ferguson and his brave\ncompanions, as vouched for by undeniable testimony; and they found",
"Samuel Ferguson returned to England about 1850, and, more than ever\npossessed by the demon of discovery, he spent the intervening time,",
"The first result of Dr. Ferguson's expedition was to establish, in the\nmost precise manner, the facts and geographical surveys reported by",
"Such was the venturesome journey of Dr. Barth.\n\nDr. Ferguson carefully noted the fact, that he had stopped at four\ndegrees north latitude and seventeen degrees west longitude.",
"in search of the sources of the Nile. Apart from that, it mentioned, in\nterms of unreserved admiration, the energetic character of Dr. Ferguson,",
"with intense force at this parting moment. Dr. Ferguson, still cold and\nimpassible, talked of this, that, and the other; but he strove in vain",
"But it would be well to indicate what explorations Dr. Ferguson hoped to\nlink together. The two principal ones were those of Dr. Barth in 1849,"
],
[
"After twelve hours of progress, the Victoria found herself on the\nconfines of Nigritia. The first inhabitants of this region, the Chouas",
"As some demonstration against the personal safety of the doctor and his\ncompanions was feared, all three slept that night on board the Resolute.\nAt six o'clock in the morning they left their cabin, and landed on the\nisland of Koumbeni.",
"At length the vessel hove in sight of the town of Zanzibar, upon the\nisland of the same name, and, on the 15th of April, at 11 o'clock in the\nmorning, she anchored in the port.",
"So soon as he could get breath and look around him, he saw that he was\nbetween two natives as black as ebony, who held him, with a firm gripe,\nand uttered strange cries.",
"They had arrived at Senegal on Saturday, the 24th of May, and on the\n27th of the same month they reached the post of Medina, situated a\nlittle farther to the north, but on the river.",
"\"But what are we to do? If we land on the coast of Africa, we shall\nencounter the same difficulties. What are we to do?\"",
"\"The question now is, not to throw ourselves out of the car, but simply\nto reach the coast of Africa on foot. I am a first-rate walker, a good\nsportsman, and--\"",
"Doctor Ferguson's first care was to take his bearings by stellar\nobservation, and he discovered that he was scarcely twenty-five miles\nfrom Senegal.",
"An English frigate was just about to sail, and the three travellers\nprocured passage on board of her. On the 25th of June they arrived at\nPortsmouth, and on the next day at London.",
"sailed for Toulon. In nineteen months, notwithstanding one hundred and\neighty days' sickness, he had traversed Africa from west to north. Ah!",
"The three hapless aeronauts descended to the ground, and the doctor drew\nhis companions toward the Senegal.",
"\"My friends,\" said the doctor, \"here is where OUR passage of the African\nContinent really commences; up to this time we have been following the",
"\"To-morrow,\" resumed the doctor, \"we shall bury him in the African soil\nwhich he has besprinkled with his blood.\"",
"There it was at last, outstretched before them, that Caspian Sea of\nAfrica, the existence of which was so long consigned to the realms of",
"It was decided by the aeronauts that they would alight at the first\nfavorable place. They found that they should have to make a prolonged",
"\"Who can tell, Joe? One thing, however, will be undeniable: a thousand\nwitnesses saw us start on one side of the African Continent, and a\nthousand more will see us arrive on the other.\"",
"Only a few scattered huts could be seen through the pestilential mists;\nbut the appearance of the country soon changed, for it often happens in\nAfrica that some of the unhealthiest districts lie close beside others\nthat are perfectly salubrious.",
"and the features of the countries the travellers pass over are\ndescribed, it is entirely accurate. It gives, in some particulars, a\nsurvey of nearly the whole field of African discovery, and in this",
"the end of our trip. Where do you expect to strike the African coast,\ndoctor?\"",
"\"Here, at last, is Africa, such as you pictured it to yourself, Joe! Was\nI not right in saying, 'Wait a little?' eh?\""
],
[
"Kennedy asked this question only to tease Joe; and he did so the\nmore willingly because he had, for a moment, shared the poor lad's",
"It was Kennedy, who had crawled up close to him, and was begging there,\nupon his knees, and weeping piteously.",
"\"Take care, Mr. Kennedy,\" said Joe at last; \"let us not overdo the\nthing!\" and he panted for breath.",
"\"Indeed!\" said Joe, \"do you think of doing that, Mr. Kennedy?\"\n\n\"Why, certainly I do! Just see what a fine hide it is!\"",
"Kennedy, while still rubbing his eyes, which he could scarcely keep\nopen, calmly lit his pipe. He then ensconced himself in a corner, and\nbegan to smoke vigorously by way of keeping awake.",
"Kennedy was getting over his nervousness and falling into his wandering\nmeditations again, when a sharp whistle pierced his ear.",
"\"Why, no, Mr. Kennedy!\" said Joe; \"and then, you know, I am light to\nmake up for it.\"",
"Dick Kennedy was a Scotchman, in the full acceptation of the word--open,\nresolute, and headstrong. He lived in the town of Leith, which is near",
"\"Come! come, Mr. Kennedy! My master will be sending for us directly.\"\n\n\"I shan't go.\"\n\n\"Oh! now, you won't vex the doctor in that way!\"",
"Kennedy stole around behind some clumps of shrubbery, while Joe remained\nmotionless where he was. The former, at length, got within gunshot and\nfired.",
"\"Poor fellow!\" said the doctor. \"Mr. Kennedy, you and I weigh, unless I\nam mistaken, about four hundred pounds--so that you'll have to get rid\nof at least that weight, since it was put in here to make up for us.\"",
"\"An ugly country this!\" sighed Joe; \"and it seems to me that Mr. Kennedy\nis none the better for having passed the night in it.\"\n\n\"To tell the truth, I have quite a high fever,\" said the sportsman.",
"\"Well, Mr. Kennedy,\" Joe would say.\n\n\"Well, my boy?\"\n\n\"The moment's at hand. It seems that we are to sail for the moon.\"",
"Kennedy remarked the circumstance.",
"\"There's no occasion for all that,\" responded the latter; \"but you can\ntake your revenge some time, Mr. Kennedy, always hoping though that you\nmay never have occasion to do the same for me!\"",
"\"Very well indeed!\" assented Kennedy.\n\n\"Come, now, Mr. Kennedy, are you sorry that you came with us?\"\n\n\"I'd like to see anybody prevent my coming!\"",
"Joe at once rushed like a crazy man among the scattered fragments, and\nKennedy was not long in following his example.\n\n\"Keep cool, Joe,\" said his master.",
"Kennedy was visibly suffering, and the fever was mastering his vigorous\nconstitution.",
"\"Oh! what I did,\" laughed the other, \"was not for you; it was to save\nMr. Kennedy's rifle. I owed him that good turn for the affair with the",
"\"Master! Kennedy!\" ejaculated Joe, and overwhelmed, at last, with\nfatigue and emotion, the poor fellow fainted away, while Kennedy, almost\nbeside himself, kept exclaiming:\n\n\"Saved--saved!\""
],
[
"From the moment of their departure, the travellers moved with great\nvelocity. They longed to leave behind them the desert, which had so\nnearly been fatal to them.",
"During this dull Monday, Dr. Ferguson diverted his thoughts by giving\nhis companions a thousand details concerning the country they were",
"character of the trip by sea was regarded as a good omen of the probable\nissue of the trip through the air. Every one looked forward to the\nhour of arrival, and sought to give the last touch to the doctor's",
"other. But the travellers were not more seen than they saw. They\nsped rapidly and directly to the northwest, and the doctor's anxiety\ngradually subsided.",
"In spite of an intense fever, he quitted that place on the 7th of March,\naccompanied by a single servant. The principal aim of his journey was to",
"Our dazzling narrator persuaded his hearers that, after this trip, many\nothers still more wonderful would be undertaken. In fact, it was to be\nbut the first of a long series of superhuman expeditions.",
"In about ten minutes a few jerking motions by the balloon indicated that\nit was disposed to start again. The Talabas were approaching. They were\nhardly five hundred paces away.",
"Dr. Ferguson had long been engaged upon the details of his expedition.\nIt is easy to comprehend that the balloon--that marvellous vehicle\nwhich was to convey him through the air--was the constant object of his\nsolicitude.",
"crossing. The surface, which was quite flat, offered no impediment\nto their progress. The doctor's sole anxiety arose from the obstinate\nnortheast wind which continued to blow furiously, and bore them away",
"These anxieties, and the incidents recently occurring, had not been\nwithout their effect upon the spirits of our three travellers. They\nconversed less, and were more wrapt in their own thoughts.",
"atmosphere. He therefore resolved to make all his preparations for a\nstart, so as to avail himself of the first opportunity. The feeding-tank\nand the water-tank were both completely filled.",
"secondly, as to the trip itself, which, some contended, would not be\nundertaken at all, and which was really contemplated, according to\nothers; thirdly, upon the success or failure of the enterprise;",
"ever, and thinking of nothing but his expedition. Dick seemed a good\ndeal moved, but was unwilling to betray it; while Joe was fairly dancing\nand breaking out in laughable remarks. The worthy fellow soon became the",
"It is needless to say that the topic of conversation with every one on\nboard was Dr. Ferguson's enterprise. Seeing and hearing the doctor soon",
"\"It was then that a brave young man, with his own feeble resources,\nundertook and accomplished the most astonishing of modern journeys--I",
"\"That was a stupid trip of ours, after all, and I wouldn't advise any\nbody who is greedy for excitement to undertake it. It gets very tiresome",
"The topic of discourse was, naturally, the aerial voyage. Joe had\nexperienced some trouble in getting the rebellious spirits to believe in",
"All at once this agitation, movement and noise stopped as though by\nmagic. The balloon had just come in sight, far aloft in the sky, where",
"Ere long, the crests of a mountain-range assumed a more decided\nprominence. A few peaks rose here and there, and it became necessary\nto keep a sharp lookout for the pointed cones that seemed to spring up\nevery moment.",
"\"The balloon is rushing at the rate of at least thirty miles an hour.\nLean over, and see how the country is gliding away beneath us!\" said the\ndoctor."
],
[
"An English frigate was just about to sail, and the three travellers\nprocured passage on board of her. On the 25th of June they arrived at\nPortsmouth, and on the next day at London.",
"From the moment of their departure, the travellers moved with great\nvelocity. They longed to leave behind them the desert, which had so\nnearly been fatal to them.",
"and Dr. Oudney. They set out from Tripoli in the month of March, reached\nMourzouk, the capital of Fez, and, following the route which at a later",
"\"It was then that a brave young man, with his own feeble resources,\nundertook and accomplished the most astonishing of modern journeys--I",
"In about ten minutes a few jerking motions by the balloon indicated that\nit was disposed to start again. The Talabas were approaching. They were\nhardly five hundred paces away.",
"crossing. The surface, which was quite flat, offered no impediment\nto their progress. The doctor's sole anxiety arose from the obstinate\nnortheast wind which continued to blow furiously, and bore them away",
"atmosphere. He therefore resolved to make all his preparations for a\nstart, so as to avail himself of the first opportunity. The feeding-tank\nand the water-tank were both completely filled.",
"\"Not the least in the world.\"\n\n\"Why, that makes scarcely one hundred and twenty miles--in other words,\na nothing.\"\n\n\"Almost nothing, Samuel.\"",
"other. But the travellers were not more seen than they saw. They\nsped rapidly and directly to the northwest, and the doctor's anxiety\ngradually subsided.",
"But the doctor could do nothing with them, and, therefore, set off\nalone, amid the starry clearness of the night. The first few steps he",
"\"Then,\" said Kennedy, following out on the map the direction of the\nVictoria, \"we are going due north.\"\n\n\"Due north, Dick.\"",
"drove them eastward about sixty miles. It next floated over a very large\nand populous island, which the doctor took to be Farram, on which the",
"At the end of about two hours the Victoria, driven along at a speed of\na little more than eight miles, very visibly neared the coast of the",
"\"We left Zanzibar at nine o'clock in the morning,\" said the doctor,\nconsulting his notes, \"and, after two days' passage, we have, including",
"The aeronauts swept on with the speed of twelve miles per hour, and soon\nwere passing in thirty-eight degrees twenty minutes east longitude, over\nthe village of Tounda.",
"During this dull Monday, Dr. Ferguson diverted his thoughts by giving\nhis companions a thousand details concerning the country they were",
"Our dazzling narrator persuaded his hearers that, after this trip, many\nothers still more wonderful would be undertaken. In fact, it was to be\nbut the first of a long series of superhuman expeditions.",
"\"Then there are twenty-five degrees, or, counting sixty miles to each,\nabout fifteen hundred miles in all.\"\n\n\"A nice little walk,\" said Joe, \"for people who have to go on foot.\"",
"The Victoria thus relieved resumed her ascending motion, mounted\na thousand feet into the air, and the wind, burying itself in the\ndisinflated covering, bore them away toward the northern part of the\nlake.",
"\"No matter; if it only takes us to Timbuctoo, we shall not complain.\nNever was a finer voyage accomplished under better circumstances!\""
],
[
"So soon as he could get breath and look around him, he saw that he was\nbetween two natives as black as ebony, who held him, with a firm gripe,\nand uttered strange cries.",
"\"That was an attack for you!\" said Joe.\n\n\"We thought you were surrounded by natives.\"\n\n\"Well, fortunately, they were only apes,\" said the doctor.",
"And, in fact, there, two miles from where they were, they saw some\nthirty wild natives close together, yelling, gesticulating, and cutting",
"they had practised to save the missionary, and he would soon be with\nhis friends again; but nothing was seen, not a sound was heard. The case\nseemed desperate.",
"\"What holds us?\" he asked, with an accent of terror.\n\nSome of the savages were running toward them, uttering ferocious cries.",
"\"He is alive!\" exclaimed Ferguson. \"God be praised! The savages have got\na fine scare, and we shall save him! Are you ready, friends?\"\n\n\"Ready, doctor, at the word.\"",
"the wildest and most ferocious of them all. The chief having died a few\ndays before our travellers appeared, his sudden death was attributed to\nthe missionary, and the tribe resolved to immolate him. His sufferings",
"As some demonstration against the personal safety of the doctor and his\ncompanions was feared, all three slept that night on board the Resolute.\nAt six o'clock in the morning they left their cabin, and landed on the\nisland of Koumbeni.",
"the river, and he was murdered by the natives.\"",
"part, and he remained a prisoner to one of the cruelest tribes of the\nNyambarra, the object of every species of maltreatment. But still",
"The car was approaching the ground; but a few of the savages, more\naudacious than the rest, guessing that their victim was about to escape",
"he went on teaching, instructing, and praying. The tribe having been\ndispersed and he left for dead, in one of those combats which are\nso frequent between the tribes, instead of retracing his steps, he",
"him, fired, and his hat flew about him in pieces. Thereupon there was a\ngeneral scamper. The natives plunged headlong into the river, and swam",
"By this time the shouts of the natives had swelled to double volume as\nthey vehemently implored the aid of the heavenly powers.",
"\"Unquestionably,\" Ferguson remarked, \"those people take us for\nsupernatural beings. When Europeans came among them for the first time,",
"\"Quickly, then, for I see some of the natives getting ready to recross\nthe river.\"",
"\"How that man has suffered!\" said Joe, with feeling. \"He did bolder\nthings than we've done, in venturing all alone among those savage\ntribes!\"",
"Thus talking to himself and walking on rapidly, Joe came right upon a\nhorde of natives in the very depths of the forest, but he halted in time",
"\"Saved!\" he with a sad smile replied in English, \"saved from a cruel\ndeath! My brethren, I thank you, but my days are numbered, nay, even my\nhours, and I have but little longer to live.\"",
"The blacks, who were members of the Makado tribe, were howling lustily,\nand one of them waved his bark hat in the air. Kennedy took aim at"
]
] |
[
"What species was already extinct but one was killed during the course of the story?",
"What type of birds attack the balloon?",
"Where are the explorers when they run out of water, stranded?",
"What was the tribe going to do to the missionary before he is rescued by the explorers?",
"The initial exploration is to find the source of what?",
"What area is described as a desert but is actually a savanna?",
"What are the names of Dr. Ferguson's companions?",
"Where does the trip begin on the east coast?",
"Where do Dr. Samuel Ferguson and his companions travel across in the hydrogen balloon?",
"Who was Dr. Ferguson's man servant?",
"What type of gas is used in the balloon?",
"What is the primary focus of the explorers at the beginning of their journey?",
"What sort of landscape is used to describe the interior of Africa?",
"When the balloon is over run by condors, what does Joe decide to do?",
"What is Dick Kennedy's profession?",
"Which explorer had previously gone on expeditions in the areas around the regions of the Sahara and Chad?",
"Which country do the explorers return to after their African expedition?",
"Where does the explorers trip in Africa begin?",
"Why did the explorers save the missionary?",
"Who accompanied Dr.Samuel Ferguson on his trip to Africa?",
"What was Dr. Ferguson's profession?",
"Why did Joe jumped out of the balloon?",
"What was the purpose of Dr. Ferguson's trip to Africa?",
"What was the first African place they landed on?",
"What did Mr. Kennedy do for a living?",
"What was the main focus at the beginning of the trip?",
"Where was the starting point of the trip?",
"Who did they rescue from a native tribe?"
] |
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[
"A Bluebuck antelope",
"Bluebuck antelope."
],
[
"Condors",
"Condors attack the balloon."
],
[
"The Sahara desert",
"Over the Sahara Desert."
],
[
"Sacrifice him",
"Sacrifice him"
],
[
"The Nile river",
"The Nile river"
],
[
"The interior of Africa near modern day Central African Republic.",
"Chad"
],
[
"Joe and Richard \"Dick\" Kennedy",
"Joe and Richard \"Dick\" Kennedy"
],
[
"Zanzibar",
"Zanzibar"
],
[
"The African continent ",
"Africa"
],
[
"Joe. ",
"Joe"
],
[
"Hydrogen",
"Hydrogen."
],
[
"They are seeking out the source of the Nile River. ",
"Linking the voyages of Burton and Speke with Barth."
],
[
"Desert ",
"Desert"
],
[
"Joe jumps out of the balloon. ",
"He jumps out of the balloon."
],
[
"He is a professional hunter. ",
"He is a professional hunter."
],
[
"Heinrich Barth ",
"Heinrich Barth."
],
[
"England",
"England"
],
[
"Zanzibar/on the east coast",
"The east coast of Zanzibar."
],
[
"The native tribe was preparing to sacrifice him. ",
"Because he was going to be sacrificed"
],
[
"His friend, Richard \"Dick\" Kennedy and his manservant Joe",
"His manservant Joe and pro hunter Richard \"Dick\" Kennedy"
],
[
"He was a scholar and an explorer",
"He was an explorer."
],
[
"Because it was attacked by condors",
"It was being attacked by condors"
],
[
"To link together the trips of Sir. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke with those of Heinrich Barth",
"To link together multiple other voyages to fully explore Africa."
],
[
"Zanzibar",
"Zanzibar"
],
[
"He was a professional hunter",
"Professional Hunter"
],
[
"They wanted to find the source of the Nile",
"Finding the source of the Nile River."
],
[
"England",
"Zanzibar"
],
[
"A missionary man",
"A missionary"
]
] |
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[
"A mother shields her daughter's eyes from the sight of\n Stephanie, the cursed one, then hurriedly kisses her\n .crucifix. A man spits at her feet then walks off.",
"Ilenka addresses the crowd in Hungarian. She tells them that\n it was this white trash farm girl that threw her grandmother\n t from her home and that she now bears the curse of Lamia.",
"often summoned by the Gypsies for\n their dour deeds. On the third day\n the Lamia comes for the owner of\n the accursed object.",
"RHAM JAS\n Something that the old woman took\n from you, cursed, then gave back.\n Now it dawns on Stephanie. She looks to the threads on her\n coat.",
"STEPHANIE\n Accursed object? What object?",
"but it costs her a clump of hair that Mrs. Ganush rips from\n her head.\n Mrs. Ganush opens her mouth... wide... wider still... she",
"next to her. She grabs a handful of colored push pins and\n jams them into the old woman's arm. Mrs. Ganush releases her",
"SCRATCH... SCRATCH...\n The hand belongs to MRS. SYLVIA GANUSH, the aged woman who",
"This is my home for twenty years.\n And I make every payment until the\n sickness took my eye.\n Mrs. Ganush turns her head to reveal a milky white eye.",
"heart and chants an ancient Gypsy incantation up toward\n Milos.\n Milos SHRIEKS. A white vapor streams from his body as the",
"gnarled hand plucks a thin brass button from the sleeve of\n Stephanie's coat. She waves the button through the air, and\n breathes out a single word:",
"departed to curry favor with the\n deceased soul. Yes. I do believe\n you could give the curse to someone\n who has passed on... for truly, the",
"The old woman bends down, beneath Stephanie's view. Stephanie\n looks about. Where'd she go?\n The old woman pops up into view, raising a chunk of concrete",
"STEPHANIE\n No. No, I didn't.\n\n RHAM JAS\n Then perhaps someone has cursed\n you.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Who? 0",
"The withered hands drop down to wrap around Stephanie's\n throat. Stephanie fights for breath as she frantically\n searches for a weapon. Her hand finds the box on the seat",
"RHAM JAS\n The Lamia comes for the owner of\n the accursed object. Just make a\n gift of it...\n To demonstrate, he hands the envelope to Stephanie.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n You shamed me.\n The Old Woman reaches down. Stephanie flinches. Mrs.'Ganush's",
"A lightning flash illuminates the corpse. Mrs. Ganush's white\n eye is open and staring at Stephanie.\n Stephanie stows her fear and pulls the white envelope from",
"She backs against the wall, trembling.\n Suddenly Stephanie's face is struck by an invisible hand! She\n cries out. Her mouth is bleeding.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Lord Jesus bless this knife and\n allow it to do your holy work.\n She makes the sign of the cross. she pours a .vial of holy\n water over the blade. She turns to Stephanie."
],
[
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n I will force the spirit of the\n Lamia into the goat. Milos, that's\n when you strike.\n Stephanie blanches but remains silent.",
"70.\n\n RHAM JAS\n Shaun San Dena is an experienced 41\n medium. Furthermore, she has a\n personal knowledge of the Lamia.",
"Shaun San Dena's eyes clear for a moment as she struggles to\n regain control.\n Now there are two spirits battling within her. She attempts",
"Lamia leaves him. Milos falls to the floor and all is quiet.\n An ashen faced Shaun San Dena halts her chant.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Once the spirit has entered me,\n place my hand upon the animal. Do\n you understand?\n\n STEPHANIE\n Yes.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n Lamia...\n Rham Jas nods discreetly to Milos who quietly uncovers the\n slaughtering blade.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n It is time for us to begin.\n Shaun San Dena turns out the electric lights, leaving only",
"RHAM JAS.\n Lamia, what is it that you desire?\n Shaun San Dena's chair abruptly spins about to face",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n I first encountered this spirit\n forty years ago in a small village\n outside of Bucharest.\n\n STEPHANIE\n And...?",
"t to force the spirit of the Lamia from her body and into the\n goat. The Goat BLEATS and bucks wildly as the spirit is\n transferred. Milos raises up the slaughtering blade.",
"A MAN'S LOUD LAUGHTER\n echoes about the room.\n\n SHAUN SAN DENA\n It is not the Lamia. It is the\n spirit of some unsettled soul from",
"RHAM JAS\n You must banish the spirit!\n Shaun San Dena places her hands on her ayes, then over her",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Be gone, foolish spirit!\n There is a HOWLING OF WIND and the room is again quiet.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Show yourself Lamia. We invite you\n into our circle.\n Quiet. Stephanie looks about. Nothing seems to be happening.",
"But Shaun San Dena only chants louder. Milos SCREAMS grow\n more intense as-his body spasms in pain. Stephanie grasps at\n Shaun San Dena.",
"vomits out Stephanie's dead cat. It lands atop the table.\n Stephanie screams uncontrollably.\n Shaun San Dena, is trembling as her chanting comes to a",
"71.\n SHAUN SAN DENA (cont'd)\n He knew I would sense his spirit\n in this place as I have sensed",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Lord Jesus bless this knife and\n allow it to do your holy work.\n She makes the sign of the cross. she pours a .vial of holy\n water over the blade. She turns to Stephanie.",
"As Milos raises the blade for another blow, the goat bites\n his hand. In that moment, the spirit of the Lamia is\n transferred to him.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n My heart.\n Shaun San Dena collapses into Stephanie's arms. Rham Jas\n moves to assist her. They lower Shaun San Dana to the floor."
],
[
"STEPHANIE\n I'll take care of it. \n Stephanie returns to her desk.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Mrs. Ganush, another extension on\n the loan is out of the question.",
"MR. JACKS\n Apparently, we've already granted\n her two extensions. And you know\n on this type of foreclosure, the\n bank makes a sizable amount in\n fees.\n He hands her back the file.",
"STEPHANIE\n I've got an elderly woman asking\n for an extension on her mortgage\n payment.. They're in the process of",
"She gasps and stands, her mind racing. She knows what she\n must do. She finds Mrs. Ganush's loan documents. She stuffs",
"STEPHANIE\n Okay! I did it. It was me who\n denied her the loan. I was trying,\n to get ahead at work and I\n shouldn't have done it. It was\n wrong.",
"just the bank's policy. I'm really\n sorry Mrs. Ganush.\n Stephanie takes the loan documents and places them neatly",
"This is my home for twenty years.\n And I make every payment until the\n sickness took my eye.\n Mrs. Ganush turns her head to reveal a milky white eye.",
"STEPHANIE\n Well... do you have the payment\n with you now?\n\n MRS. GANUSH\n I hope to get it soon. I just need\n a little more time.",
"A mother shields her daughter's eyes from the sight of\n Stephanie, the cursed one, then hurriedly kisses her\n .crucifix. A man spits at her feet then walks off.",
"ILENKA\n Wait. I know who you are. Grandma\n told me you'd come. You're the\n woman from the bank. The one who\n took her house.",
"RAY\n Loo]. You said the bank had already\n granted her two extensions.\n\n (MORE)\n\n 4",
"from her, she had nothing left.\n You're not welcome here.\n She starts to close the door. Stephanie halts her. Desperate",
"Ilenka addresses the crowd in Hungarian. She tells them that\n it was this white trash farm girl that threw her grandmother\n t from her home and that she now bears the curse of Lamia.",
"STEPHANIE\n I don't think my manager is going\n to extend you anymore credit. I'd\n like to help but...\n\n MRS. GANUSH\n Please. Won't you try?",
"but it costs her a clump of hair that Mrs. Ganush rips from\n her head.\n Mrs. Ganush opens her mouth... wide... wider still... she",
"Stephanie's car pulls up. she steps out, carrying Mrs.\n Ganush's loan documents.\n She passes the MOVING MEN who load the last of Mrs. Ganush's",
"MRS. GANUSH\n It's yours.\n\n STEPHANIE\n I'm sorry there's nothing I can do.\n Mrs. Ganush begins to sob.",
"The Old Woman reaches for the opened passenger door but\n Stephanie closes it and locks it just in time! Mrs. Ganush\n furiously pulls on the door handle to no,avail.",
"1 MRS. GANUSH \n You know why.\n Terrified, Stephanie runs from the place.\n\n EXT. MRS. GANUSH'S HOUSE - DAY",
"MRS. GANUSH\n Have mercy on me.\n Stephanie stands, tries to pull free, but the old woman will\n not release her leg."
],
[
"have to give that job to Stu.\n Stephanie is devastated.",
"STEPHANIE\n No problem.\n Jacks heads back toward his desk. Stephanie grabs her purse\n and keys and as she heads out, Stu calls after her:",
"STEPHANIE\n You never said that.\n Stu rolls his eyes to Mr. Jacks.\n Stephanie caught Stu's look, but what can she do? She\n exits.",
"Stu is taken aback by Stephanie's outburst. He retreats to\n his desk in confusion.\n Stephanie sits, rattled. A drop of blood falls onto a piece",
"STEPHANIE \n Stu? The trainee?\n Stephanie turns to see Stu, the balding loan officer who sits\n at his desk, watching, trying to figure out what Jacks is\n saying to her.",
"As Stephanie pours herself a cup of coffee, Stu and Mr. Jacks\n take the first bites of their sandwiches. Stu makes a face.\n He inspects the sandwich, shakes his head.",
"39.\n Stu watches Stephanie go and gets up from his desk. She's \n left some files behind. He snoops around his desk. He notices",
"moves to her desk, hoping Mr. Jacks won't notice. She's\n almost there when Stu Rubin \"accidently\" knocks a note book\n off his desk.",
"12.\n\n STEPHANIE\n No I didn't, Stu.\n\n STU\n Steph, I said \"no mayo\".",
"her. Stephanie glances to the vacant office of the Assistant\n Manager. The large oak desk. The thick carpet.\n She sees a calculating Stu Rubin eyeing her from his",
"STU\n (quietly to Mr. Jacks)\n She messed up my order.\n Stephanie heard that.",
"Mr. Jacks glances up and notes Stephanie's tardiness.\n Stu approaches Stephanie's desk.",
"STEPHANIE.\n Fine.\n Ellen exits. Stephanie angrily calls after her:",
"STU RUBIN\n Ha ha! You're funny, Steph.\n\n STEPHANIE\n What do you want?",
"STEPHANIE'S POV - ON THE STREET\n Stu Rubin walking with two well dressed executives.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Stu?\n The men warmly escort into the First National Bank.",
"STEPHANIE\n Stu. I see.\n Mr. Jacks sees tears begin to well up in her eyes.",
"MR. JACKS' VOICE\n Stephanie. It's Jim. Jim Jacks.\n Sorry I'm calling so early-- but\n Last night I found some troubling\n information about our friend Stu\n Rubin...",
"STU RUBIN\n Hi Steph. Just getting here?\n\n STEPHANIE\n What are you, the hall monitor?",
"MR. JACKS\n I'm still deciding. Right now it's\n between Stu and yourself.\n\n 4",
"from the break room. Stu is about to return to his desk when\n he remembers something: he's got two tickets to a Dodger game"
],
[
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n No! I will enjoy watching her skin\n blister and pop in hell's flame. I",
"A Possessed Milos SCREAMS and spins toward Stephanie, glaring\n at her with black goat eyes. He SHOUTS at her in a gibberish",
"STEPHANIE\n Tell me. Please.\n Rham Jas hesitates, then...\n\n RHAM JAS\n A bad spirit has come upon you.",
"Stephanie's face! It is Mrs. Ganush that now floats above\n her! Her long yellowed fingernails scratching at Stephanie's\n skin.",
"Stephanie. The mouth jerks opened and closed as if controlled\n by a bad puppeteer. Then, out of.sync, the demonic voice is",
"door. It SLAMS shut in her face!\n BOOM! Another window is SHATTERED by the angry, unseen thing.\n The force knocks her to the bed. The blankets are torn from",
"GOAT\n (demonic voice)\n --tricked me!\n The possessed goat emits a terrible cry! The bone chilling",
"The withered hands drop down to wrap around Stephanie's\n throat. Stephanie fights for breath as she frantically\n searches for a weapon. Her hand finds the box on the seat",
"She backs against the wall, trembling.\n Suddenly Stephanie's face is struck by an invisible hand! She\n cries out. Her mouth is bleeding.",
"resembles the goat like face of the demon Lamia.\n It VOMITS STEAM as it angrily bares down upon her.",
"RHAM JAS\n What did it sound like.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Like... shrieking. It was awful.\n He nods. Closes the book.",
"becomes silent.\n Stephanie holds her breath.\n A wind whips up in the room sending papers whirling about,.\n yet all the windows are closed.",
"SHRIEK of Lamia! It's oval eye reflects the blade as it\n descends toward it. The possessed Goat jerks aside and the\n blade misses, slicing into the chair.",
"A mother shields her daughter's eyes from the sight of\n Stephanie, the cursed one, then hurriedly kisses her\n .crucifix. A man spits at her feet then walks off.",
"Sensing something, the Kitten arches it's back. Now Stephanie\n feels it. A presence. The light bulb begins to sputter.\n She holds her breath, listens.",
"Stephanie senses a change in the room... Shadows shift and\n grow deeper. The air is suddenly oppressive. Something is\n coming.",
"A MAN'S LOUD LAUGHTER\n echoes about the room.\n\n SHAUN SAN DENA\n It is not the Lamia. It is the\n spirit of some unsettled soul from",
"before. In every door creak... in every cold night wind... a\n haunting, soulless sound... the cry of Lamia.\n Ray races to the edge of the platform. The two lover's eyes",
"A car passes in the street below. It's headlights sweep\n across the house. The headlight beams throw moving shadows on\n the wall. Stephanie notices that one particular shadow is",
"WINDOW:\n In the reflection, as the light bulb flickers, we see a flash\n of ghostly hands that grope at her body. They reach up\n through the floor, and clutch at her legs, buttocks and\n breasts."
],
[
"t to force the spirit of the Lamia from her body and into the\n goat. The Goat BLEATS and bucks wildly as the spirit is\n transferred. Milos raises up the slaughtering blade.",
"small creature would do. You could\n sacrifice a chicken. It's all in\n here...\n Rham Jas produces a modern book on animal sacrifice which he",
"STEPHANIE\n I did what you said- that blood\n offering... I killed that little\n kitty deader than Hogan's goat.\n Lotta good that did me.",
"RHAM JAS\n Yes. There are many ways to appease\n a spirit. The simplest is a blood\n offering. An animal sacrifice. A",
"Sensing something, the Kitten arches it's back. Now Stephanie\n feels it. A presence. The light bulb begins to sputter.\n She holds her breath, listens.",
"45.\n She moves to the front door and puts her ear to it. Quiet.\n 1b But then--\n\n SCRATCH... SCRATCH...\n She runs upstairs into her bedroom and locks the door.",
"burial of the smoking heart. Stephanie's kitten PURRS, as it\n rubs against her leg.\n Stephanie closes the book, shutting out the disturbing",
"She considers his words, looks down to the book.\n CLOSE ON A DIAGRAM OF AN ANIMAL SACRIFICE - A creature's\n heart being cut from it's body.",
"vomits out Stephanie's dead cat. It lands atop the table.\n Stephanie screams uncontrollably.\n Shaun San Dena, is trembling as her chanting comes to a",
"the tables' candlelight for illumination.\n We hear the BLEATING of a goat. Stephanie startles. Milos\n reenters the room pulling a black goat along by a chain. The",
"SHRIEK of Lamia! It's oval eye reflects the blade as it\n descends toward it. The possessed Goat jerks aside and the\n blade misses, slicing into the chair.",
"door. It SLAMS shut in her face!\n BOOM! Another window is SHATTERED by the angry, unseen thing.\n The force knocks her to the bed. The blankets are torn from",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Once the spirit has entered me,\n place my hand upon the animal. Do\n you understand?\n\n STEPHANIE\n Yes.",
"wild and harrowing ride about the room.\n Abruptly all the madness halts: She drops to the floor. The\n bedsheet wafts to the ground beside her. Whatever it was,",
"she sits up suddenly with a SNARL and starts to climb back\n in. Stephanie shifts the car into reverse. The opened\n passenger door knocks Mrs. Ganush back down to the pavement.",
"A mother shields her daughter's eyes from the sight of\n Stephanie, the cursed one, then hurriedly kisses her\n .crucifix. A man spits at her feet then walks off.",
"As Milos raises the blade for another blow, the goat bites\n his hand. In that moment, the spirit of the Lamia is\n transferred to him.",
"goat catches sight of Stephanie. It BLEATS in fear and\n attempts to run. But Milos holds it fast and tethers it to a",
"The withered hands drop down to wrap around Stephanie's\n throat. Stephanie fights for breath as she frantically\n searches for a weapon. Her hand finds the box on the seat",
"RHAM JAS\n We must somehow dissuade the spirit\n from taking your soul.\n\n STEPHANIE\n How?"
],
[
"RHAM JAS\n Because we are speaking of murder.\n Stephanie looks from the envelope containing the button to",
"STEPHANIE\n No longer the owner? I don't\n understand.\n Rham Jas reaches into his coat pocket and removes a blank\n envelope. He places the button within and seals it.",
"STEPHANIE\n I, Stephanie Brown, do hereby make\n a formal gift of this button to\n you, Sylvia Ganush.\n She jams the white envelope down the old woman's throat.",
"this one.\n Stephanie stares at the button, shaking her head in\n disbelief. The RUMBLING of the approaching train builds on\n the sound track.",
"STEPHANIE\n .this?\n She holds the button up for him to inspect. But it's presence\n makes him uneasy..He wags his finger back and forth. She\n lowers it.",
"RAY\n Stephanie. Stop!\n Ray steps forward, still holding out the button. Stephanie",
"44.\n Rham Jas gives her a sad smile and closes the text. She\n knows where. Stymied, she tucks the button back into her coat\n pocket.",
"STEPHANIE\n The button...\n\n \n Stephanie's hand slowly emerges from her coat pocket. The\n thin brass button in her palm.",
"STEPHANIE\n Just take the envelope and I'll\n explain. Please.\n The Old Man considers. He reaches for the envelope when an",
"STEPHANIE\n I didn't tell you the whole story.\n That old woman... after she knocked\n me down, and pulled the button from\n my coat, she told me that...",
"MRS. GANUSH\n You want it?\n Stephanie snatches the button back. Mrs. Ganush smiles\n cryptically as Stephanie stuffs the button into her coat\n pocket.",
"RAY\n What? What is it?\n She backs away in horror, but Ray follows her with the button\n still in his hand.\n The RUMBLING grows louder. She's backing up toward the edge\n of the platform.",
"Stu is taken aback by Stephanie's outburst. He retreats to\n his desk in confusion.\n Stephanie sits, rattled. A drop of blood falls onto a piece",
"STEPHANIE\n I just need you to hang on to this\n envelope for me. Just until\n tomorrow.\n She extends the envelope to him. He hesitates.",
"STEPHANIE\n It's better if we meet at the\n D station. There's something I've got\n to do on the way.\n Stephanie suddenly' clutches at her purse. The envelope is\n gone!",
"STEPHANIE\n Never mind.\n Stephanie returns to her seat, ashamed at what she almost \n did.",
"STEPHANIE\n What--? What are you doing?\n Stephanie sits up, reaching for her button. But the old woman\n 1 moves it out of reach.",
"RAY\n Is it over?\n Stephanie, stares at her envelope, thinks about telling him,\n then...",
"STEPHANIE\n It's got to be here!\n Then, Stephanie comes upon something under the seat. She\n smiles and stands. A white envelope held tightly in her\n hand.",
"STEPHANIE\n You never said that.\n Stu rolls his eyes to Mr. Jacks.\n Stephanie caught Stu's look, but what can she do? She\n exits."
],
[
"STEPHANIE\n I, Stephanie Brown, do hereby make\n a formal gift of this button to\n you, Sylvia Ganush.\n She jams the white envelope down the old woman's throat.",
"STEPHANIE\n No longer the owner? I don't\n understand.\n Rham Jas reaches into his coat pocket and removes a blank\n envelope. He places the button within and seals it.",
"RHAM JAS\n Because we are speaking of murder.\n Stephanie looks from the envelope containing the button to",
"RAY\n What? What is it?\n She backs away in horror, but Ray follows her with the button\n still in his hand.\n The RUMBLING grows louder. She's backing up toward the edge\n of the platform.",
"STEPHANIE\n The button...\n\n \n Stephanie's hand slowly emerges from her coat pocket. The\n thin brass button in her palm.",
"this one.\n Stephanie stares at the button, shaking her head in\n disbelief. The RUMBLING of the approaching train builds on\n the sound track.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n You want it?\n Stephanie snatches the button back. Mrs. Ganush smiles\n cryptically as Stephanie stuffs the button into her coat\n pocket.",
"STEPHANIE\n .this?\n She holds the button up for him to inspect. But it's presence\n makes him uneasy..He wags his finger back and forth. She\n lowers it.",
"RAY\n Stephanie. Stop!\n Ray steps forward, still holding out the button. Stephanie",
"STEPHANIE\n I didn't tell you the whole story.\n That old woman... after she knocked\n me down, and pulled the button from\n my coat, she told me that...",
"STEPHANIE\n What--? What are you doing?\n Stephanie sits up, reaching for her button. But the old woman\n 1 moves it out of reach.",
"STEPHANIE\n Just take the envelope and I'll\n explain. Please.\n The Old Man considers. He reaches for the envelope when an",
"RHAM JAS\n The Lamia comes for the owner of\n the accursed object. Just make a\n gift of it...\n To demonstrate, he hands the envelope to Stephanie.",
"gnarled hand plucks a thin brass button from the sleeve of\n Stephanie's coat. She waves the button through the air, and\n breathes out a single word:",
"CURSED BUTTON!\n CAMERA RACES INTO A HUGE CLOSE UP OF THE BUTTON with a\n terrible CLASHING of symbols!.\n Stephanie can't breathe.",
"RHAM JAS\n No matter what condition the button\n is in, you would still be the\n owner. The Lamia would still come\n to take you.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Take me where?",
"STEPHANIE\n Well, yes! Some Old Woman...\n\n RAY\n Well anyone can see she lost a\n button. So what?",
"STEPHANIE\n No, I-\n Rham Jas grabs her arm and turns it, revealing the threads.\n that once held the button on her coat sleeve.\n\n RHAM JAS\n A button.",
"STEPHANIE\n It's better if we meet at the\n D station. There's something I've got\n to do on the way.\n Stephanie suddenly' clutches at her purse. The envelope is\n gone!",
"envelope and a single, staring white eye.\n Stephanie tries to climb out but the walls are too slick.\n She grabs at a clump of sod at the top of the hole but it"
],
[
"STEPHANIE\n Tell me. Please.\n Rham Jas hesitates, then...\n\n RHAM JAS\n A bad spirit has come upon you.",
"RHAM JAS\n Yes. Now repeat these words... I\n welcome the dead into my soul...\n Rham Jae waits for Stephanie's response. She's shifts in her\n seat uncomfortably.",
"RHAM JAS\n We must somehow dissuade the spirit\n from taking your soul.\n\n STEPHANIE\n How?",
"RHAM JAS\n It is a nasty spirit. A taker of\n souls. A creature of misfortune for\n you and those around you. It is",
"RHAM JAS\n What did it sound like.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Like... shrieking. It was awful.\n He nods. Closes the book.",
"RHAM JAS\n Perhaps on this final evening, you\n should finish up the business of\n this world. For before the night is\n through, the Lamia will come for\n the owner of the accursed object.",
"RHAM JAS\n You must banish the spirit!\n Shaun San Dena places her hands on her ayes, then over her",
"STEPHANIE\n How?\n\n RHAM JAS\n Did you blaspheme the dead while\n visiting a grave site?\n\n STEPHANIE\n No.",
"RHAM JAS\n Your hand, please.\n Stephanie extends her hand to Rham Jas. He closes his eyes\n and concentrates. Stephanie smiles excitedly to Ray, who\n raises a skeptical eyebrow.",
"63.\n\n RHAM JAS\n 1 A seance. And it should be soon. \n For tomorrow will be the third\n night...",
"RHAM JAS\n No. I'm afraid you misunderstand.\n Rham Jas looks at her with pity.\n\n STEPHANIE\n What?",
"RHAM JAS\n Whatever you decide, you have until\n sunrise.'\n She nods goodbye as Ray's car pulls up. Ray opens the door.\n for her and she gets in.",
"RHAM JAS\n Because he wasn't afraid to bring\n God into the equation.\n Rham Jas takes a seat at the table, across from Stephanie.",
"RHAM JAS\n No. You saw her drive the Lamia\n from the seance. That is all. It\n will be back.",
"RHAM JAS\n The Lamia comes for the owner of\n the accursed object. Just make a\n gift of it...\n To demonstrate, he hands the envelope to Stephanie.",
"STEPHANIE\n What do I have to do?\n\n RHAM JAS\n You must allow the darkness in. You\n must invite the dead to co-mingle\n with your spirit..",
"RHAM JAS\n Yes. There are many ways to appease\n a spirit. The simplest is a blood\n offering. An animal sacrifice. A",
"RHAM JAS\n I think that is enough for now.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Wait. You saw something. What?",
"RHAM JAS\n You must not stop!\n A withered pair of hands reach down from above and clutch at",
"STEPHANIE\n For god's sake, stop the chanting,\n it's killing him!\n Rham Jas pushes her aside."
],
[
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n My late husband, Sandor, was also a\n medium. He chose this site to build\n the'house upon because he sensed\n certain energies that intersected\n here...",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n I first encountered this spirit\n forty years ago in a small village\n outside of Bucharest.\n\n STEPHANIE\n And...?",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n It is time for us to begin.\n Shaun San Dena turns out the electric lights, leaving only",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Once the spirit has entered me,\n place my hand upon the animal. Do\n you understand?\n\n STEPHANIE\n Yes.",
"71.\n SHAUN SAN DENA (cont'd)\n He knew I would sense his spirit\n in this place as I have sensed",
"70.\n\n RHAM JAS\n Shaun San Dena is an experienced 41\n medium. Furthermore, she has a\n personal knowledge of the Lamia.",
"But Shaun San Dena only chants louder. Milos SCREAMS grow\n more intense as-his body spasms in pain. Stephanie grasps at\n Shaun San Dena.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n We must all.be receptive.\n Shaun San Dena begins to intone a Romanian Gypsy chant.\n Stephanie leans close to speak quietly with Rham Jae.",
"Shaun San Dena's eyes clear for a moment as she struggles to\n regain control.\n Now there are two spirits battling within her. She attempts",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n My heart.\n Shaun San Dena collapses into Stephanie's arms. Rham Jas\n moves to assist her. They lower Shaun San Dana to the floor.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n I was an. inexperienced seer then.\n I've learned much since that woeful",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n No! You--",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Be gone, foolish spirit!\n There is a HOWLING OF WIND and the room is again quiet.",
"Shaun San Dena's eyes roll up into her head. She emits a low\n and powerful MOAN. Her head slumps onto her shoulders. Then",
"Behind the couple, Stephanie notices a neon sign in a\n storefront window. It reads: PSYCHIC.",
"Lamia leaves him. Milos falls to the floor and all is quiet.\n An ashen faced Shaun San Dena halts her chant.",
"RHAM JAS\n You must banish the spirit!\n Shaun San Dena places her hands on her ayes, then over her",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n I will force the spirit of the\n Lamia into the goat. Milos, that's\n when you strike.\n Stephanie blanches but remains silent.",
"SHUAN SAN DENA\n I lost a young boy's soul to the\n beast.\n\n STEPHANIE\n That's reassuring.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n He's coming..."
],
[
"MRS. GANUSH\n I, Sylvia Ganush, beg. On my\n mother's grave, I beg you.",
"STEPHANIE\n Hi. Yes. I came to see Sylvia\n Ganush. Is she here?",
"reads the name. \"Sylvia Ganush\".\n She's scared now, not sure if she can really go through with",
"MRS. GANUSH\n .and you shame me.\n Mrs. Ganush suddenly grasps Stephanie's arm. Stephanie tries",
"STEPHANIE\n I, Stephanie Brown, do hereby make\n a formal gift of this button to\n you, Sylvia Ganush.\n She jams the white envelope down the old woman's throat.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n It was what I wanted before you\n shamed me. Now I want to see you\n suffer.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Please! I've suffered enough!",
"1 MRS. GANUSH \n You know why.\n Terrified, Stephanie runs from the place.\n\n EXT. MRS. GANUSH'S HOUSE - DAY",
"MRS. GANUSH\n You shamed me.\n The Old Woman reaches down. Stephanie flinches. Mrs.'Ganush's",
"A mother shields her daughter's eyes from the sight of\n Stephanie, the cursed one, then hurriedly kisses her\n .crucifix. A man spits at her feet then walks off.",
"Stephanie's face! It is Mrs. Ganush that now floats above\n her! Her long yellowed fingernails scratching at Stephanie's\n skin.",
"Stephanie SCREAMS as...\n MRS. GANUSH.appears in the headlights, standing on the road\n before them! Ray hits the breaks. The car SCREECHES to a",
"SCRATCH... SCRATCH...\n The hand belongs to MRS. SYLVIA GANUSH, the aged woman who",
"A lightning flash illuminates the corpse. Mrs. Ganush's white\n eye is open and staring at Stephanie.\n Stephanie stows her fear and pulls the white envelope from",
"This is my home for twenty years.\n And I make every payment until the\n sickness took my eye.\n Mrs. Ganush turns her head to reveal a milky white eye.",
"next to her. She grabs a handful of colored push pins and\n jams them into the old woman's arm. Mrs. Ganush releases her",
"MRS. GANUSH\n Soon it will be you, who comes\n begging to me. It begins tonight\n when you hear the cry.\n\n STEPHANIE\n What cry?",
"but it costs her a clump of hair that Mrs. Ganush rips from\n her head.\n Mrs. Ganush opens her mouth... wide... wider still... she",
"Ilenka addresses the crowd in Hungarian. She tells them that\n it was this white trash farm girl that threw her grandmother\n t from her home and that she now bears the curse of Lamia.",
"STEPHANIE\n (into the phone)\n Could you please come over?\n Mrs. Ganush finally releases her grip and bows her head in\n humiliation.",
"STEPHANIE\n I'm giving it back to you.\n She grabs Mrs. Ganush's hand and tries to get her clenched"
],
[
"but it costs her a clump of hair that Mrs. Ganush rips from\n her head.\n Mrs. Ganush opens her mouth... wide... wider still... she",
"This is my home for twenty years.\n And I make every payment until the\n sickness took my eye.\n Mrs. Ganush turns her head to reveal a milky white eye.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n You want it?\n Stephanie snatches the button back. Mrs. Ganush smiles\n cryptically as Stephanie stuffs the button into her coat\n pocket.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n .and you shame me.\n Mrs. Ganush suddenly grasps Stephanie's arm. Stephanie tries",
"MRS. GANUSH\n You shamed me.\n The Old Woman reaches down. Stephanie flinches. Mrs.'Ganush's",
"MRS. GANUSH\n It was what I wanted before you\n shamed me. Now I want to see you\n suffer.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Please! I've suffered enough!",
"A lightning flash illuminates the corpse. Mrs. Ganush's white\n eye is open and staring at Stephanie.\n Stephanie stows her fear and pulls the white envelope from",
"STEPHANIE\n I'm giving it back to you.\n She grabs Mrs. Ganush's hand and tries to get her clenched",
"She gasps and stands, her mind racing. She knows what she\n must do. She finds Mrs. Ganush's loan documents. She stuffs",
"into a manila folder. she glances up but Mrs. Ganush is gone..\n Stephanie turns in her chair and is startled to see the old",
"next to her. She grabs a handful of colored push pins and\n jams them into the old woman's arm. Mrs. Ganush releases her",
"MRS. GANUSH\n Have mercy on me.\n Stephanie stands, tries to pull free, but the old woman will\n not release her leg.",
"STEPHANIE\n Accursed object? What object?",
"MRS. GANUSH\n It's yours.\n\n STEPHANIE\n I'm sorry there's nothing I can do.\n Mrs. Ganush begins to sob.",
"RHAM JAS\n Something that the old woman took\n from you, cursed, then gave back.\n Now it dawns on Stephanie. She looks to the threads on her\n coat.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n Soon it will be you, who comes\n begging to me. It begins tonight\n when you hear the cry.\n\n STEPHANIE\n What cry?",
"1 MRS. GANUSH \n You know why.\n Terrified, Stephanie runs from the place.\n\n EXT. MRS. GANUSH'S HOUSE - DAY",
"SCRATCH... SCRATCH...\n The hand belongs to MRS. SYLVIA GANUSH, the aged woman who",
"MRS. GANUSH\n I knew you'd come.\n Stephanie almost jumps out of her skin. As her eyes adjust",
"lot.\n It's Mrs. Ganush's linen handkerchief.\n It whisks about like a ghost, swirling closer and closer."
],
[
"39.\n Stu watches Stephanie go and gets up from his desk. She's \n left some files behind. He snoops around his desk. He notices",
"her. Stephanie glances to the vacant office of the Assistant\n Manager. The large oak desk. The thick carpet.\n She sees a calculating Stu Rubin eyeing her from his",
"STEPHANIE\n No problem.\n Jacks heads back toward his desk. Stephanie grabs her purse\n and keys and as she heads out, Stu calls after her:",
"moves to her desk, hoping Mr. Jacks won't notice. She's\n almost there when Stu Rubin \"accidently\" knocks a note book\n off his desk.",
"Stu is taken aback by Stephanie's outburst. He retreats to\n his desk in confusion.\n Stephanie sits, rattled. A drop of blood falls onto a piece",
"of the front seat to pull even harder... Stephanie's neck is\n now bent so far back it's about to snap!\n Stephanie's hand finds the stapler, trips the release. It",
"Stephanie sits at her desk, entering data into her computer.\n She glances across the bank to see Stu and Mr. Jacks emerging",
"STEPHANIE \n Stu? The trainee?\n Stephanie turns to see Stu, the balding loan officer who sits\n at his desk, watching, trying to figure out what Jacks is\n saying to her.",
"into a manila folder. she glances up but Mrs. Ganush is gone..\n Stephanie turns in her chair and is startled to see the old",
"Stephanie hands Mr. Jacks the loan file. He puts on his\n bifocals, studies it.\n Stephanie glances over her shoulder.",
"STEPHANIE\n You never said that.\n Stu rolls his eyes to Mr. Jacks.\n Stephanie caught Stu's look, but what can she do? She\n exits.",
"12.\n\n STEPHANIE\n No I didn't, Stu.\n\n STU\n Steph, I said \"no mayo\".",
"Mr. Jacks glances up and notes Stephanie's tardiness.\n Stu approaches Stephanie's desk.",
"STU\n (quietly to Mr. Jacks)\n She messed up my order.\n Stephanie heard that.",
"Hidden from Mr. Jack's view, Ellen quickly scoops up the\n Kitten and places it into her purse.\n As Mr. Jacks arrives at Stephanie's desk, he overhears:",
"She gasps and stands, her mind racing. She knows what she\n must do. She finds Mrs. Ganush's loan documents. She stuffs",
"them into a folder, grabs her purse and bolts for the exit.\n Mr. Jacks engaged with a customer, calls after her:",
"STEPHANIE.\n Fine.\n Ellen exits. Stephanie angrily calls after her:",
"STEPHANIE\n Wait! Where's my envelope?\n\n RAY\n What envelope?\n She opens the car door and frantically rummages around the\n floor, through Ray's papers.",
"Stephanie's car pulls up. she steps out, carrying Mrs.\n Ganush's loan documents.\n She passes the MOVING MEN who load the last of Mrs. Ganush's"
],
[
"t to force the spirit of the Lamia from her body and into the\n goat. The Goat BLEATS and bucks wildly as the spirit is\n transferred. Milos raises up the slaughtering blade.",
"SHRIEK of Lamia! It's oval eye reflects the blade as it\n descends toward it. The possessed Goat jerks aside and the\n blade misses, slicing into the chair.",
"RHAM JAS\n The Lamia comes for the owner of\n the accursed object. Just make a\n gift of it...\n To demonstrate, he hands the envelope to Stephanie.",
"As Milos raises the blade for another blow, the goat bites\n his hand. In that moment, the spirit of the Lamia is\n transferred to him.",
"small creature would do. You could\n sacrifice a chicken. It's all in\n here...\n Rham Jas produces a modern book on animal sacrifice which he",
"Lamia leaves him. Milos falls to the floor and all is quiet.\n An ashen faced Shaun San Dena halts her chant.",
"43.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Lamia. Right. That's the word the \n old woman used.",
"RHAM JAS\n We must somehow dissuade the spirit\n from taking your soul.\n\n STEPHANIE\n How?",
"Ilenka addresses the crowd in Hungarian. She tells them that\n it was this white trash farm girl that threw her grandmother\n t from her home and that she now bears the curse of Lamia.",
"RHAM JAS\n Perhaps on this final evening, you\n should finish up the business of\n this world. For before the night is\n through, the Lamia will come for\n the owner of the accursed object.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n I will force the spirit of the\n Lamia into the goat. Milos, that's\n when you strike.\n Stephanie blanches but remains silent.",
"RHAM JAS\n No. You saw her drive the Lamia\n from the seance. That is all. It\n will be back.",
"before. In every door creak... in every cold night wind... a\n haunting, soulless sound... the cry of Lamia.\n Ray races to the edge of the platform. The two lover's eyes",
"STEPHANIE\n Strange how things work out. She\n waited years for another chance to\n overcome the lamia ..and finally\n she did.",
"pitched static, the sounds of the Lamia buried within.\n She sets the phone down.\n For a moment all is quiet. Should she go back down? Then she",
"RHAM JAS\n Yes. There are many ways to appease\n a spirit. The simplest is a blood\n offering. An animal sacrifice. A",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n Lamia...\n Rham Jas nods discreetly to Milos who quietly uncovers the\n slaughtering blade.",
"Rham Jae kneels at Milos' side. He's starting to come around.\n Milos stands, shaken. The Lamia is gone.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n The Lamia. It's coming for you.\n A large black, BUZZING fly lands on Stephanie's face. She",
"RHAM JAS\n No matter what condition the button\n is in, you would still be the\n owner. The Lamia would still come\n to take you.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Take me where?"
],
[
"Shaun San Dena's eyes clear for a moment as she struggles to\n regain control.\n Now there are two spirits battling within her. She attempts",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n It is time for us to begin.\n Shaun San Dena turns out the electric lights, leaving only",
"But Shaun San Dena only chants louder. Milos SCREAMS grow\n more intense as-his body spasms in pain. Stephanie grasps at\n Shaun San Dena.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n My heart.\n Shaun San Dena collapses into Stephanie's arms. Rham Jas\n moves to assist her. They lower Shaun San Dana to the floor.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Once the spirit has entered me,\n place my hand upon the animal. Do\n you understand?\n\n STEPHANIE\n Yes.",
"STEPHANIE\n I'll do whatever it takes. And the\n sooner the better.\n\n SHAUN SAN DENA\n Our business must wait till\n darkness falls. Enough time for\n tea.",
"Shaun San Dena grabs at her chest, struggles for breath.\n Stephanie rushes over to steady her.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n I first encountered this spirit\n forty years ago in a small village\n outside of Bucharest.\n\n STEPHANIE\n And...?",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Lord Jesus bless this knife and\n allow it to do your holy work.\n She makes the sign of the cross. she pours a .vial of holy\n water over the blade. She turns to Stephanie.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n We must all.be receptive.\n Shaun San Dena begins to intone a Romanian Gypsy chant.\n Stephanie leans close to speak quietly with Rham Jae.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n No! You--",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n No! I will enjoy watching her skin\n blister and pop in hell's flame. I",
"SHUAN SAN DENA\n I lost a young boy's soul to the\n beast.\n\n STEPHANIE\n That's reassuring.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n I will force the spirit of the\n Lamia into the goat. Milos, that's\n when you strike.\n Stephanie blanches but remains silent.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n He's coming...",
"RHAM JAS.\n Lamia, what is it that you desire?\n Shaun San Dena's chair abruptly spins about to face",
"Lamia leaves him. Milos falls to the floor and all is quiet.\n An ashen faced Shaun San Dena halts her chant.",
"71.\n SHAUN SAN DENA (cont'd)\n He knew I would sense his spirit\n in this place as I have sensed",
"vomits out Stephanie's dead cat. It lands atop the table.\n Stephanie screams uncontrollably.\n Shaun San Dena, is trembling as her chanting comes to a",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n My late husband, Sandor, was also a\n medium. He chose this site to build\n the'house upon because he sensed\n certain energies that intersected\n here..."
],
[
"Lamia leaves him. Milos falls to the floor and all is quiet.\n An ashen faced Shaun San Dena halts her chant.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n Lamia...\n Rham Jas nods discreetly to Milos who quietly uncovers the\n slaughtering blade.",
"Shaun San Dena's eyes clear for a moment as she struggles to\n regain control.\n Now there are two spirits battling within her. She attempts",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n I will force the spirit of the\n Lamia into the goat. Milos, that's\n when you strike.\n Stephanie blanches but remains silent.",
"70.\n\n RHAM JAS\n Shaun San Dena is an experienced 41\n medium. Furthermore, she has a\n personal knowledge of the Lamia.",
"RHAM JAS.\n Lamia, what is it that you desire?\n Shaun San Dena's chair abruptly spins about to face",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n It is time for us to begin.\n Shaun San Dena turns out the electric lights, leaving only",
"But Shaun San Dena only chants louder. Milos SCREAMS grow\n more intense as-his body spasms in pain. Stephanie grasps at\n Shaun San Dena.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n My heart.\n Shaun San Dena collapses into Stephanie's arms. Rham Jas\n moves to assist her. They lower Shaun San Dana to the floor.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n We must all.be receptive.\n Shaun San Dena begins to intone a Romanian Gypsy chant.\n Stephanie leans close to speak quietly with Rham Jae.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n No! You--",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Show yourself Lamia. We invite you\n into our circle.\n Quiet. Stephanie looks about. Nothing seems to be happening.",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n No! I will enjoy watching her skin\n blister and pop in hell's flame. I",
"RHAM JAS\n You must banish the spirit!\n Shaun San Dena places her hands on her ayes, then over her",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n Once the spirit has entered me,\n place my hand upon the animal. Do\n you understand?\n\n STEPHANIE\n Yes.",
"Shaun San Dena's eyes roll up into her head. She emits a low\n and powerful MOAN. Her head slumps onto her shoulders. Then",
"vomits out Stephanie's dead cat. It lands atop the table.\n Stephanie screams uncontrollably.\n Shaun San Dena, is trembling as her chanting comes to a",
"A MAN'S LOUD LAUGHTER\n echoes about the room.\n\n SHAUN SAN DENA\n It is not the Lamia. It is the\n spirit of some unsettled soul from",
"Rham Jas rouses a stunned Shaun San Dena.",
"Shaun San Dena grabs at her chest, struggles for breath.\n Stephanie rushes over to steady her."
],
[
"MRS. GANUSH'S CORPSE\n to lurch up and out of the coffin. Her dead arms, thrown",
"A lightning flash illuminates the corpse. Mrs. Ganush's white\n eye is open and staring at Stephanie.\n Stephanie stows her fear and pulls the white envelope from",
"the grave from all sides. The body of Mrs. Ganush is quickly\n being re-buried.",
"DISSOLVE TO:\n LATER - Mud is pouring down the sides of the grave. In the\n bottom of the pit Stephanie has unearthed the simple pine",
"Stephanie's face! It is Mrs. Ganush that now floats above\n her! Her long yellowed fingernails scratching at Stephanie's\n skin.",
"A light drizzle falls as Stephanie'searches the graveyard for\n the burial place of Mrs. Ganush. She carries the shovel",
"1 MRS. GANUSH \n You know why.\n Terrified, Stephanie runs from the place.\n\n EXT. MRS. GANUSH'S HOUSE - DAY",
"DISSOLVE TO:\n LATER - It's raining harder. The hole Stephanie digs is now\n several feet deep.\n CLUNK: The shovel has hit the buried coffin. The rain\n intensifies.",
"envelope between her broken teeth.\n Muddy water cascades down into the grave, flowing over Mrs..\n Ganush's face. It covers everything, except the jutting",
"She gasps and stands, her mind racing. She knows what she\n must do. She finds Mrs. Ganush's loan documents. She stuffs",
"STEPHANIE\n I'm giving it back to you.\n She grabs Mrs. Ganush's hand and tries to get her clenched",
"into a manila folder. she glances up but Mrs. Ganush is gone..\n Stephanie turns in her chair and is startled to see the old",
"she sits up suddenly with a SNARL and starts to climb back\n in. Stephanie shifts the car into reverse. The opened\n passenger door knocks Mrs. Ganush back down to the pavement.",
"next to her. She grabs a handful of colored push pins and\n jams them into the old woman's arm. Mrs. Ganush releases her",
"MRS. GANUSH\n .and you shame me.\n Mrs. Ganush suddenly grasps Stephanie's arm. Stephanie tries",
"it. A church bell TOLLS five times. There's no time to think \n about it. Stephanie looks around to make sure no one is\n watching, then starts to dig.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n I knew you'd come.\n Stephanie almost jumps out of her skin. As her eyes adjust",
"MRS. GANUSH\n You shamed me.\n The Old Woman reaches down. Stephanie flinches. Mrs.'Ganush's",
"but it costs her a clump of hair that Mrs. Ganush rips from\n her head.\n Mrs. Ganush opens her mouth... wide... wider still... she",
"STEPHANIE\n .and I'll take care of the rest.\n Mrs. Ganush's hard eyes find Stephanie's. They bore in.\n\n MRS. GANUSH\n No."
],
[
"MRS. GANUSH\n You want it?\n Stephanie snatches the button back. Mrs. Ganush smiles\n cryptically as Stephanie stuffs the button into her coat\n pocket.",
"STEPHANIE\n The button...\n\n \n Stephanie's hand slowly emerges from her coat pocket. The\n thin brass button in her palm.",
"STEPHANIE\n I, Stephanie Brown, do hereby make\n a formal gift of this button to\n you, Sylvia Ganush.\n She jams the white envelope down the old woman's throat.",
"this one.\n Stephanie stares at the button, shaking her head in\n disbelief. The RUMBLING of the approaching train builds on\n the sound track.",
"RAY\n Stephanie. Stop!\n Ray steps forward, still holding out the button. Stephanie",
"STEPHANIE\n I didn't tell you the whole story.\n That old woman... after she knocked\n me down, and pulled the button from\n my coat, she told me that...",
"STEPHANIE\n .this?\n She holds the button up for him to inspect. But it's presence\n makes him uneasy..He wags his finger back and forth. She\n lowers it.",
"RAY\n What? What is it?\n She backs away in horror, but Ray follows her with the button\n still in his hand.\n The RUMBLING grows louder. She's backing up toward the edge\n of the platform.",
"RHAM JAS\n Because we are speaking of murder.\n Stephanie looks from the envelope containing the button to",
"44.\n Rham Jas gives her a sad smile and closes the text. She\n knows where. Stymied, she tucks the button back into her coat\n pocket.",
"STEPHANIE\n What--? What are you doing?\n Stephanie sits up, reaching for her button. But the old woman\n 1 moves it out of reach.",
"STEPHANIE\n No longer the owner? I don't\n understand.\n Rham Jas reaches into his coat pocket and removes a blank\n envelope. He places the button within and seals it.",
"12.\n\n STEPHANIE\n No I didn't, Stu.\n\n STU\n Steph, I said \"no mayo\".",
"Stu is taken aback by Stephanie's outburst. He retreats to\n his desk in confusion.\n Stephanie sits, rattled. A drop of blood falls onto a piece",
"STEPHANIE\n Never mind.\n Stephanie returns to her seat, ashamed at what she almost \n did.",
"STEPHANIE\n No, I-\n Rham Jas grabs her arm and turns it, revealing the threads.\n that once held the button on her coat sleeve.\n\n RHAM JAS\n A button.",
"STEPHANIE\n You never said that.\n Stu rolls his eyes to Mr. Jacks.\n Stephanie caught Stu's look, but what can she do? She\n exits.",
"STEPHANIE\n No problem.\n Jacks heads back toward his desk. Stephanie grabs her purse\n and keys and as she heads out, Stu calls after her:",
"of the front seat to pull even harder... Stephanie's neck is\n now bent so far back it's about to snap!\n Stephanie's hand finds the stapler, trips the release. It",
"STEPHANIE\n Well, yes! Some Old Woman...\n\n RAY\n Well anyone can see she lost a\n button. So what?"
],
[
"A lightning flash illuminates the corpse. Mrs. Ganush's white\n eye is open and staring at Stephanie.\n Stephanie stows her fear and pulls the white envelope from",
"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n No! I will enjoy watching her skin\n blister and pop in hell's flame. I",
"STEPHANIE\n Just take the envelope and I'll\n explain. Please.\n The Old Man considers. He reaches for the envelope when an",
"envelope and a single, staring white eye.\n Stephanie tries to climb out but the walls are too slick.\n She grabs at a clump of sod at the top of the hole but it",
"STEPHANIE\n It's got to be here!\n Then, Stephanie comes upon something under the seat. She\n smiles and stands. A white envelope held tightly in her\n hand.",
"RHAM JAS\n The Lamia comes for the owner of\n the accursed object. Just make a\n gift of it...\n To demonstrate, he hands the envelope to Stephanie.",
"STEPHANIE\n Wait! Where's my envelope?\n\n RAY\n What envelope?\n She opens the car door and frantically rummages around the\n floor, through Ray's papers.",
"RHAM JAS\n Because we are speaking of murder.\n Stephanie looks from the envelope containing the button to",
"OLD WOMAN, his wife, hobbles toward the table. The Old Man\n helps her sit and puts away her cane. They turn to Stephanie\n who withdraws the envelope.",
"She returns the envelope to the purse pocket, racking her\n brains, trying to think of some way out of this. Her gaze\n lands upon a stack of newspapers on the next table. She",
"The withered hands drop down to wrap around Stephanie's\n throat. Stephanie fights for breath as she frantically\n searches for a weapon. Her hand finds the box on the seat",
"STEPHANIE\n No longer the owner? I don't\n understand.\n Rham Jas reaches into his coat pocket and removes a blank\n envelope. He places the button within and seals it.",
"STEPHANIE\n It's better if we meet at the\n D station. There's something I've got\n to do on the way.\n Stephanie suddenly' clutches at her purse. The envelope is\n gone!",
"envelope between her broken teeth.\n Muddy water cascades down into the grave, flowing over Mrs..\n Ganush's face. It covers everything, except the jutting",
"STEPHANIE\n I, Stephanie Brown, do hereby make\n a formal gift of this button to\n you, Sylvia Ganush.\n She jams the white envelope down the old woman's throat.",
"of the front seat to pull even harder... Stephanie's neck is\n now bent so far back it's about to snap!\n Stephanie's hand finds the stapler, trips the release. It",
"STEPHANIE.\n Fine.\n Ellen exits. Stephanie angrily calls after her:",
"RAY\n Is it over?\n Stephanie, stares at her envelope, thinks about telling him,\n then...",
"from her, she had nothing left.\n You're not welcome here.\n She starts to close the door. Stephanie halts her. Desperate",
"A cleaned up Stephanie, her hair still wet from the shower,\n drives the empty morning streets. A smile slowly comes to her\n face as we hear the rest of Mr. Jack's message:"
],
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"SHAUN SAN DENA\n It is time for us to begin.\n Shaun San Dena turns out the electric lights, leaving only",
"plops back down onto the pillow. After a few seconds of pure\n sleeping bliss, she wills herself up.\n She moves through her Ikea furnished bedroom, past a \"Hang in",
"This is my home for twenty years.\n And I make every payment until the\n sickness took my eye.\n Mrs. Ganush turns her head to reveal a milky white eye.",
"doors behind her. She places the box of contracts on the seat\n next to her. As she starts the engine, she notices a strange\n sight: something moving, skimming along the surface of the",
"The Eastern sky is growing brighter. Stephanie's car pulls\n into the lot. She removes a week end bag from her trunk and\n walks briskly toward the station.\n\n MR JACKS",
"things.\n She arrives at the opened front door, gathers her courage and\n KNOCKS. No answer. She calls out:",
"A cleaned up Stephanie, her hair still wet from the shower,\n drives the empty morning streets. A smile slowly comes to her\n face as we hear the rest of Mr. Jack's message:",
"September, 2007\n\n\n INT. BEDROOM - BEFORE DAWN",
"He hangs up. The line goes dead. She tries to throw the phone\n but it's attached with a short metal cord. She turns to the\n Pawn Broker.",
"wild and harrowing ride about the room.\n Abruptly all the madness halts: She drops to the floor. The\n bedsheet wafts to the ground beside her. Whatever it was,",
"Stephanie to follow. They enter a room filled with young\n Gypsies drinking, smoking and talking loudly in a Slavic\n tongue.",
"Trudy's head. It shatters against the base of the door,\n spraying everyone with bits of broken china and fish. The\n shadow and FOOTSTEPS are gone.",
"their stories told that the place\n was a burial ground of the \"old\n ones\" that inhabited the earth\n before them. Here, there is a",
"Stephanie nods. Waits an appropriate moment, then: places the\n document gently down on the floor next to Mrs. Ganush.",
"the tables' candlelight for illumination.\n We hear the BLEATING of a goat. Stephanie startles. Milos\n reenters the room pulling a black goat along by a chain. The",
"others. It was to be our way of \n being together after he died. In\n earlier times it was a sacred place\n to the Tuanteteck indians. And",
"darker than the others. It becomes the silhouette of Mrs.\n Ganush, but there's no one in the room with her.\n The car passes and the shadows vanish.",
"swats it away. Her vision blurs and she grows dizzy. She\n leans against the car for support. When she finally looks up,\n Mrs. Ganush is gone.",
"STEPHANIE\n I didn't tell you the whole story.\n That old woman... after she knocked\n me down, and pulled the button from\n my coat, she told me that...",
"The old woman bends down, beneath Stephanie's view. Stephanie\n looks about. Where'd she go?\n The old woman pops up into view, raising a chunk of concrete"
],
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"her. Stephanie glances to the vacant office of the Assistant\n Manager. The large oak desk. The thick carpet.\n She sees a calculating Stu Rubin eyeing her from his",
"STEPHANIE steps from the shower, quickly towels her hair. She\n stops for a moment and studies herself in the mirror. She\n has survived. The phone RINGS in the bedroom; the machine\n picks up.",
"THE VACANT OFFICE\n of the former Assistant Manager. The large oak desk. The\n executive chair. Waiting to be filled.\n Stephanie turns back, pushing the thought away.",
"A cleaned up Stephanie, her hair still wet from the shower,\n drives the empty morning streets. A smile slowly comes to her\n face as we hear the rest of Mr. Jack's message:",
"STEPHANIE\n I'd better get back to work.\n She quickly gathers her things. Ray returns to grading his\n student's exams. The telephone RINGS. Ray hits the\n speakerphone.",
"STEPHANIE\n But that's what I want it to say.\n Ellen shakes her head, no. Stephanie takes a last look in the\n mirror, decides to go with the short skirt.",
"37.\n Stephanie enters the bank. She guilty glancep to the clock.\n It's 9:40. She's late. She tries to be discreet as she",
"STEPHANIE.\n Fine.\n Ellen exits. Stephanie angrily calls after her:",
"22 year old Stephanie Browne is jarred from a peaceful sleep\n as the alarm clock BUZZES. She hits the snooze button and",
"STEPHANIE\n --Shhhl I can't let my boss see\n him.\n Stephanie glances to her manager, MR. JACKS, a heavyset man\n sitting behind a large desk.",
"RHAM JAS\n Miss Brown. Allow me the pleasure\n of an introduction...\n A woman rises from the shadows.",
"afternoon and let you know.\n The happy couple shake Stephanie's hand and exit. ELLEN,\n Stephanie's pretty, twenty two year old, roommate, flops down",
"Stephanie sits at her desk, entering data into her computer.\n She glances across the bank to see Stu and Mr. Jacks emerging",
"PULL BACK\n To reveal we are in the employee bathroom at the bank. She\n fixes her hair so it's just right. She. straightens out a tiny",
"into a manila folder. she glances up but Mrs. Ganush is gone..\n Stephanie turns in her chair and is startled to see the old",
"Stephanie waves as the last of her co-workers drive off. It's\n then that she notices the battered Chevy Caviler. It's parked\n in the structure.",
"Stephanie site at the kitchen table in her flannel pajamas,\n entering financial data into her laptop. An episode of",
"plops back down onto the pillow. After a few seconds of pure\n sleeping bliss, she wills herself up.\n She moves through her Ikea furnished bedroom, past a \"Hang in",
"39.\n Stu watches Stephanie go and gets up from his desk. She's \n left some files behind. He snoops around his desk. He notices",
"Stephanie's car pulls up. she steps out, carrying Mrs.\n Ganush's loan documents.\n She passes the MOVING MEN who load the last of Mrs. Ganush's"
],
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"MRS. GANUSH\n I, Sylvia Ganush, beg. On my\n mother's grave, I beg you.",
"STEPHANIE\n Hi. Yes. I came to see Sylvia\n Ganush. Is she here?",
"reads the name. \"Sylvia Ganush\".\n She's scared now, not sure if she can really go through with",
"STEPHANIE\n I, Stephanie Brown, do hereby make\n a formal gift of this button to\n you, Sylvia Ganush.\n She jams the white envelope down the old woman's throat.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n Soon it will be you, who comes\n begging to me. It begins tonight\n when you hear the cry.\n\n STEPHANIE\n What cry?",
"MRS. GANUSH\n .and you shame me.\n Mrs. Ganush suddenly grasps Stephanie's arm. Stephanie tries",
"MRS. GANUSH\n It was what I wanted before you\n shamed me. Now I want to see you\n suffer.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Please! I've suffered enough!",
"STEPHANIE\n I'm giving it back to you.\n She grabs Mrs. Ganush's hand and tries to get her clenched",
"MRS. GANUSH\n It's yours.\n\n STEPHANIE\n I'm sorry there's nothing I can do.\n Mrs. Ganush begins to sob.",
"STEPHANIE\n (into the phone)\n Could you please come over?\n Mrs. Ganush finally releases her grip and bows her head in\n humiliation.",
"STEPHANIE\n Of course. What can I do for you?\n Mrs. Ganush coughs up phlegm and spits it into a linen",
"SCRATCH... SCRATCH...\n The hand belongs to MRS. SYLVIA GANUSH, the aged woman who",
"STEPHANIE\n Mrs. \"Ganush\"?\n The old woman nods.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n You want it?\n Stephanie snatches the button back. Mrs. Ganush smiles\n cryptically as Stephanie stuffs the button into her coat\n pocket.",
"STEPHANIE\n .and I'll take care of the rest.\n Mrs. Ganush's hard eyes find Stephanie's. They bore in.\n\n MRS. GANUSH\n No.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n Have mercy on me.\n Stephanie stands, tries to pull free, but the old woman will\n not release her leg.",
"MRS. GANUSH\n You shamed me.\n The Old Woman reaches down. Stephanie flinches. Mrs.'Ganush's",
"but it costs her a clump of hair that Mrs. Ganush rips from\n her head.\n Mrs. Ganush opens her mouth... wide... wider still... she",
"MRS. GANUSH\n I knew you'd come.\n Stephanie almost jumps out of her skin. As her eyes adjust",
"A lightning flash illuminates the corpse. Mrs. Ganush's white\n eye is open and staring at Stephanie.\n Stephanie stows her fear and pulls the white envelope from"
],
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"Ray and Stephanie step from the car. They open a rusting iron\n gate, and walk up the hilly path to Stephanie's slightly\n funky Silver Lake rental house.",
"RAY\n okay.\n Ray kisses her, opens the front door and exits. He calls back\n to her from his car:",
"RAY\n I was gonna surprise you, but what\n the hell. I've been planning a\n little trip for us this week end.\n Saturday morning we're taking a\n train to Santa Barbara.",
"RAY\n My family owns a cabin up there. In,\n the hills. Overlooking this little\n river. We'll light a fire, drink\n some champagne and screw our brains\n out.",
"She tunes in a rock station and turns it up loud. She smiles\n at Ray and takes his hand.\n She hits the gas and her Ford Focus opens up, accelerating",
"RAY\n Sounds good. Try not to stay up too\n late.\n Ray waves and steps into his car. Stephanie watches him drive\n off.",
"RAY\n t Yeah. \n Stephanie steps from the car. Ray drives off. She turns to\n face the old house.\n\n INT. OLD PASADENA HOUSE - STUDY - DUSK",
"STEPHANIE\n Sounds nice.\n She draws in a deep breath and for the first time that\n evening, she looks at peace. Ray watches, her as she closes\n her eyes and drifts off to sleep.",
"She steps into the car and drives off. Ray watches her tail\n lights, as they vanish into the night.",
"INT. RAY'S BMW - NIGHT\n\n Ray and Stephanie drive through the quiet Pasadena\n neighborhood.",
"plops back down onto the pillow. After a few seconds of pure\n sleeping bliss, she wills herself up.\n She moves through her Ikea furnished bedroom, past a \"Hang in",
"A cleaned up Stephanie, her hair still wet from the shower,\n drives the empty morning streets. A smile slowly comes to her\n face as we hear the rest of Mr. Jack's message:",
"RHAM JAS\n Whatever you decide, you have until\n sunrise.'\n She nods goodbye as Ray's car pulls up. Ray opens the door.\n for her and she gets in.",
"STEPHANIE\n I know how crazy this must seem.\n But it will all be over after this\n I swear to you.\n He nods. She kisses him.",
"STEPHANIE\n No problem.\n Jacks heads back toward his desk. Stephanie grabs her purse\n and keys and as she heads out, Stu calls after her:",
"82.\n\n RAY\n Tomorrow's gonna be a new start for,\n us. Don't be late.\n They kiss and Ray drives off.",
"Ellen's car pulls away. The wind kicks up, whisking leaves\n about, as though something where moving up the path and\n toward the front gate of the house.",
"STEPHANIE\n But that's what I want it to say.\n Ellen shakes her head, no. Stephanie takes a last look in the\n mirror, decides to go with the short skirt.",
"Stu is taken aback by Stephanie's outburst. He retreats to\n his desk in confusion.\n Stephanie sits, rattled. A drop of blood falls onto a piece",
"Trudy's head. It shatters against the base of the door,\n spraying everyone with bits of broken china and fish. The\n shadow and FOOTSTEPS are gone."
],
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"MRS. GANUSH'S CORPSE\n to lurch up and out of the coffin. Her dead arms, thrown",
"A lightning flash illuminates the corpse. Mrs. Ganush's white\n eye is open and staring at Stephanie.\n Stephanie stows her fear and pulls the white envelope from",
"the grave from all sides. The body of Mrs. Ganush is quickly\n being re-buried.",
"DISSOLVE TO:\n LATER - Mud is pouring down the sides of the grave. In the\n bottom of the pit Stephanie has unearthed the simple pine",
"A light drizzle falls as Stephanie'searches the graveyard for\n the burial place of Mrs. Ganush. She carries the shovel",
"Stephanie's face! It is Mrs. Ganush that now floats above\n her! Her long yellowed fingernails scratching at Stephanie's\n skin.",
"DISSOLVE TO:\n LATER - It's raining harder. The hole Stephanie digs is now\n several feet deep.\n CLUNK: The shovel has hit the buried coffin. The rain\n intensifies.",
"1 MRS. GANUSH \n You know why.\n Terrified, Stephanie runs from the place.\n\n EXT. MRS. GANUSH'S HOUSE - DAY",
"She gasps and stands, her mind racing. She knows what she\n must do. She finds Mrs. Ganush's loan documents. She stuffs",
"she sits up suddenly with a SNARL and starts to climb back\n in. Stephanie shifts the car into reverse. The opened\n passenger door knocks Mrs. Ganush back down to the pavement.",
"envelope between her broken teeth.\n Muddy water cascades down into the grave, flowing over Mrs..\n Ganush's face. It covers everything, except the jutting",
"it. A church bell TOLLS five times. There's no time to think \n about it. Stephanie looks around to make sure no one is\n watching, then starts to dig.",
"STEPHANIE\n I'm giving it back to you.\n She grabs Mrs. Ganush's hand and tries to get her clenched",
"next to her. She grabs a handful of colored push pins and\n jams them into the old woman's arm. Mrs. Ganush releases her",
"MRS. GANUSH\n .and you shame me.\n Mrs. Ganush suddenly grasps Stephanie's arm. Stephanie tries",
"into a manila folder. she glances up but Mrs. Ganush is gone..\n Stephanie turns in her chair and is startled to see the old",
"but it costs her a clump of hair that Mrs. Ganush rips from\n her head.\n Mrs. Ganush opens her mouth... wide... wider still... she",
"MRS. GANUSH\n You shamed me.\n The Old Woman reaches down. Stephanie flinches. Mrs.'Ganush's",
"MRS. GANUSH\n I knew you'd come.\n Stephanie almost jumps out of her skin. As her eyes adjust",
"STEPHANIE\n .and I'll take care of the rest.\n Mrs. Ganush's hard eyes find Stephanie's. They bore in.\n\n MRS. GANUSH\n No."
],
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"12.\n\n STEPHANIE\n No I didn't, Stu.\n\n STU\n Steph, I said \"no mayo\".",
"STEPHANIE\n No problem.\n Jacks heads back toward his desk. Stephanie grabs her purse\n and keys and as she heads out, Stu calls after her:",
"STEPHANIE\n You never said that.\n Stu rolls his eyes to Mr. Jacks.\n Stephanie caught Stu's look, but what can she do? She\n exits.",
"39.\n Stu watches Stephanie go and gets up from his desk. She's \n left some files behind. He snoops around his desk. He notices",
"Stu is taken aback by Stephanie's outburst. He retreats to\n his desk in confusion.\n Stephanie sits, rattled. A drop of blood falls onto a piece",
"As Stephanie pours herself a cup of coffee, Stu and Mr. Jacks\n take the first bites of their sandwiches. Stu makes a face.\n He inspects the sandwich, shakes his head.",
"moves to her desk, hoping Mr. Jacks won't notice. She's\n almost there when Stu Rubin \"accidently\" knocks a note book\n off his desk.",
"STEPHANIE \n Stu? The trainee?\n Stephanie turns to see Stu, the balding loan officer who sits\n at his desk, watching, trying to figure out what Jacks is\n saying to her.",
"her. Stephanie glances to the vacant office of the Assistant\n Manager. The large oak desk. The thick carpet.\n She sees a calculating Stu Rubin eyeing her from his",
"STEPHANIE\n Okay! I did it. It was me who\n denied her the loan. I was trying,\n to get ahead at work and I\n shouldn't have done it. It was\n wrong.",
"STEPHANIE\n Stu. I see.\n Mr. Jacks sees tears begin to well up in her eyes.",
"STEPHANIE\n He didn't want the money. He tried\n to give the money back.\n\n RAY\n In the end, he took it, didn't he?",
"STEPHANIE'S POV - ON THE STREET\n Stu Rubin walking with two well dressed executives.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Stu?\n The men warmly escort into the First National Bank.",
"have to give that job to Stu.\n Stephanie is devastated.",
"STU RUBIN\n Ha ha! You're funny, Steph.\n\n STEPHANIE\n What do you want?",
"STU\n (quietly to Mr. Jacks)\n She messed up my order.\n Stephanie heard that.",
"MR. JACKS' VOICE\n Stephanie. It's Jim. Jim Jacks.\n Sorry I'm calling so early-- but\n Last night I found some troubling\n information about our friend Stu\n Rubin...",
"Mr. Jacks glances up and notes Stephanie's tardiness.\n Stu approaches Stephanie's desk.",
"STEPHANIE\n takes a deep breath, stands and walks to his table.\n\n STEPHANIE\n I wonder if you could help me out?\n The Old Man looks up, sees her desperation.",
"from the break room. Stu is about to return to his desk when\n he remembers something: he's got two tickets to a Dodger game"
],
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"She considers his words, looks down to the book.\n CLOSE ON A DIAGRAM OF AN ANIMAL SACRIFICE - A creature's\n heart being cut from it's body.",
"wild and harrowing ride about the room.\n Abruptly all the madness halts: She drops to the floor. The\n bedsheet wafts to the ground beside her. Whatever it was,",
"but it costs her a clump of hair that Mrs. Ganush rips from\n her head.\n Mrs. Ganush opens her mouth... wide... wider still... she",
"STEPHANIE\n I know how crazy this must seem.\n But it will all be over after this\n I swear to you.\n He nods. She kisses him.",
"plops back down onto the pillow. After a few seconds of pure\n sleeping bliss, she wills herself up.\n She moves through her Ikea furnished bedroom, past a \"Hang in",
"STEPHANIE\n Never mind.\n Stephanie returns to her seat, ashamed at what she almost \n did.",
"A mother shields her daughter's eyes from the sight of\n Stephanie, the cursed one, then hurriedly kisses her\n .crucifix. A man spits at her feet then walks off.",
"STEPHANIE\n Sounds nice.\n She draws in a deep breath and for the first time that\n evening, she looks at peace. Ray watches, her as she closes\n her eyes and drifts off to sleep.",
"He hangs up. The line goes dead. She tries to throw the phone\n but it's attached with a short metal cord. She turns to the\n Pawn Broker.",
"as she is thrown against the wall. She falls to the floor.\n Lifting her head, she catches her own reflection in the",
"STEPHANIE\n My God. My God...\n He checks her pulse one last time. The CPR is finally halted.\n Rham Jas closes her eyes, then touches her forehead, praying:",
"The withered hands drop down to wrap around Stephanie's\n throat. Stephanie fights for breath as she frantically\n searches for a weapon. Her hand finds the box on the seat",
"shut.\n The old woman HOWLS, but her grip on Stephanie's hair only\n tightens.\n Stephanie, about to black out, throws the car into gear and",
"STEPHANIE\n I did what you said- that blood\n offering... I killed that little\n kitty deader than Hogan's goat.\n Lotta good that did me.",
"STEPHANIE'S BACKYARD GARDEN AFTERNOON\n She buries the heart in a corner of her garden.\n She turns on the garden hose, washing the cat's blood from\n the knife.",
"She backs against the wall, trembling.\n Suddenly Stephanie's face is struck by an invisible hand! She\n cries out. Her mouth is bleeding.",
"SHRIEKS as she falls backwards, off the platform and onto the\n tracks.\n In her last moment of life, she turns her head to see...",
"it. A church bell TOLLS five times. There's no time to think \n about it. Stephanie looks around to make sure no one is\n watching, then starts to dig.",
"This is my home for twenty years.\n And I make every payment until the\n sickness took my eye.\n Mrs. Ganush turns her head to reveal a milky white eye.",
"She gasps and stands, her mind racing. She knows what she\n must do. She finds Mrs. Ganush's loan documents. She stuffs"
],
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"SHAUN SAN DENA\n (demonic voice)\n No! I will enjoy watching her skin\n blister and pop in hell's flame. I",
"day. I have waited these long years\n for a chance at redeeming myself. A\n chance to destroy the foul thing.\n Tonight my chance will come. But to",
"STEPHANIE\n Tell me. Please.\n Rham Jas hesitates, then...\n\n RHAM JAS\n A bad spirit has come upon you.",
"The withered hands drop down to wrap around Stephanie's\n throat. Stephanie fights for breath as she frantically\n searches for a weapon. Her hand finds the box on the seat",
"t to force the spirit of the Lamia from her body and into the\n goat. The Goat BLEATS and bucks wildly as the spirit is\n transferred. Milos raises up the slaughtering blade.",
"plops back down onto the pillow. After a few seconds of pure\n sleeping bliss, she wills herself up.\n She moves through her Ikea furnished bedroom, past a \"Hang in",
"Stephanie. The mouth jerks opened and closed as if controlled\n by a bad puppeteer. Then, out of.sync, the demonic voice is",
"door. It SLAMS shut in her face!\n BOOM! Another window is SHATTERED by the angry, unseen thing.\n The force knocks her to the bed. The blankets are torn from",
"She runs for the door. She's almost there. Her hand reaches\n for the knob, when something unseen picks her up. She SCREAMS",
"shut.\n The old woman HOWLS, but her grip on Stephanie's hair only\n tightens.\n Stephanie, about to black out, throws the car into gear and",
"Stephanie's face! It is Mrs. Ganush that now floats above\n her! Her long yellowed fingernails scratching at Stephanie's\n skin.",
"wild and harrowing ride about the room.\n Abruptly all the madness halts: She drops to the floor. The\n bedsheet wafts to the ground beside her. Whatever it was,",
"She backs against the wall, trembling.\n Suddenly Stephanie's face is struck by an invisible hand! She\n cries out. Her mouth is bleeding.",
"GOAT\n (demonic voice)\n --tricked me!\n The possessed goat emits a terrible cry! The bone chilling",
"A Possessed Milos SCREAMS and spins toward Stephanie, glaring\n at her with black goat eyes. He SHOUTS at her in a gibberish",
"find each other one last time.\n Stephanie SCREAMS as the Lamia swallows her and pulls her\n down into hell.",
"A mother shields her daughter's eyes from the sight of\n Stephanie, the cursed one, then hurriedly kisses her\n .crucifix. A man spits at her feet then walks off.",
"46.\n She tries to run but they tangle around her legs and yank her\n into the air, suspending her upside down, taking her on a",
"it. A church bell TOLLS five times. There's no time to think \n about it. Stephanie looks around to make sure no one is\n watching, then starts to dig.",
"RHAM JAS\n We must somehow dissuade the spirit\n from taking your soul.\n\n STEPHANIE\n How?"
],
[
"RHAM JAS\n Your hand, please.\n Stephanie extends her hand to Rham Jas. He closes his eyes\n and concentrates. Stephanie smiles excitedly to Ray, who\n raises a skeptical eyebrow.",
"RHAM JAS\n No. I'm afraid you misunderstand.\n Rham Jas looks at her with pity.\n\n STEPHANIE\n What?",
"RHAM JAS\n I am Rham Jas. Seer.\n\n STEPHANIE\n How do you do? I'm Stephanie Brown\n and this is Ray...",
"STEPHANIE\n Just tell me what to do.\n Rham Jas considers. A dark look crosses his face. Stephanie\n tries to read his expression.",
"RHAM JAS\n If you would please, both be quiet.\n Rham Jae concentrates, his eyelids flutter. Stephanie appears",
"RHAM JAS\n Because he wasn't afraid to bring\n God into the equation.\n Rham Jas takes a seat at the table, across from Stephanie.",
"STEPHANIE\n But then, what am I supposed to do?\n Rham Jas shrugs. He fishes in his pocket for his car keys.",
"RHAM JAS\n I think that is enough for now.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Wait. You saw something. What?",
"STEPHANIE\n What would you need from me?\n Rham Jas thinks for a moment, weighing the dangers. He pulls\n out a pipe and packs it with tobacco. He tamps it down and\n lights up.",
"RAY\n But you probably already knew that.\n Just kidding.\n Rham Jas gives Ray a tight smile.",
"RHAM JAS\n That's quite all right. So, you\n wish to know something of your\n destiny. Very good. We shall see",
"STEPHANIE\n Sorry.\n Rham Jas smiles back.",
"STEPHANIE\n Tell me. Please.\n Rham Jas hesitates, then...\n\n RHAM JAS\n A bad spirit has come upon you.",
"RHAM JAS\n What did it sound like.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Like... shrieking. It was awful.\n He nods. Closes the book.",
"RHAM JAS\n Yes. Now repeat these words... I\n welcome the dead into my soul...\n Rham Jae waits for Stephanie's response. She's shifts in her\n seat uncomfortably.",
"A beaded curtain parts, revealing...\n Rham Jas, a small, dark skinned, fifty year old Indian man.\n He wears a plain black suit and a white turban. His",
"RHAM JAS\n She's not breathing.\n Rham Jas attempts to administer CPR to no avail.",
"Stephanie stands before a counter facing Rham Jas. He swipes\n her credit card through the machine.\n She signs the receipt. He motions for her to follow him",
"RHAM JAS\n Whatever you decide, you have until\n sunrise.'\n She nods goodbye as Ray's car pulls up. Ray opens the door.\n for her and she gets in.",
"Rham Jas. She places the envelope carefully into the side\n 'pocket of her purse. Rham Jas tries to conceal the sadness\n and fear he feels for her."
],
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"STEPHANIE\n Dinner with Ray's parents.\n Ellen picks up a desktop photo: A shot of Stephanie and her\n handsome boyfriend, Ray, locked in an embrace, standing in\n the spray of a waterfall.",
"He hangs up. The line goes dead. She tries to throw the phone\n but it's attached with a short metal cord. She turns to the\n Pawn Broker.",
"RAY\n okay.\n Ray kisses her, opens the front door and exits. He calls back\n to her from his car:",
"her. Stephanie glances to the vacant office of the Assistant\n Manager. The large oak desk. The thick carpet.\n She sees a calculating Stu Rubin eyeing her from his",
"STEPHANIE\n My God. My God...\n He checks her pulse one last time. The CPR is finally halted.\n Rham Jas closes her eyes, then touches her forehead, praying:",
"plops back down onto the pillow. After a few seconds of pure\n sleeping bliss, she wills herself up.\n She moves through her Ikea furnished bedroom, past a \"Hang in",
"sweaty face. He looks deeply into her eyes, afraid of what's\n happening to her. The phone in the next room, RINGS.'Ray\n looks over, decides to ignore it. It keeps RINGING.",
"RAY\n So she came to your house? This is\n crazy. I'm calling that police\n officer.\n He begins to dial but Stephanie stops him.",
"STEPHANIE\n --Shhhl I can't let my boss see\n him.\n Stephanie glances to her manager, MR. JACKS, a heavyset man\n sitting behind a large desk.",
"Stu is taken aback by Stephanie's outburst. He retreats to\n his desk in confusion.\n Stephanie sits, rattled. A drop of blood falls onto a piece",
"before. In every door creak... in every cold night wind... a\n haunting, soulless sound... the cry of Lamia.\n Ray races to the edge of the platform. The two lover's eyes",
"STEPHANIE\n Sounds nice.\n She draws in a deep breath and for the first time that\n evening, she looks at peace. Ray watches, her as she closes\n her eyes and drifts off to sleep.",
"RAY\n So this is him. Got a name?\n\n STEPHANIE\n Uh... just \"Kitty\" so far.",
"RAY\n Sounds good. Try not to stay up too\n late.\n Ray waves and steps into his car. Stephanie watches him drive\n off.",
"STEPHANIE\n I know how crazy this must seem.\n But it will all be over after this\n I swear to you.\n He nods. She kisses him.",
"RHAM JAS\n What did it sound like.\n\n STEPHANIE\n Like... shrieking. It was awful.\n He nods. Closes the book.",
"T\n Leave me alone! Just leave me the\n fuck alone!\n Stephanie grabs her dinner plate and hurls it just past",
"STEPHANIE\n Well, now there's this new guy...\n they're considering him too.\n Ray sees how bummed out she is. He moves close, taking her in \n his arms.",
"'Stephanie lays peacefully in bed, almost asleep. A bottle of\n sedatives on the bedside table. Ray pulls up the blanket\n around her exposed shoulder. Stephanie sighs, turns to him.",
"STEPHANIE\n Is that so?\n Ray gives her a reassuring nod.\n The front door opens revealing Ray's parents, GEORGE AND"
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"What item does the gypsy woman use to curse Christine?",
"What animal does Shaun San Dena use to trap the spirit of the Lamia?",
"Why does Christina deny the gypsy woman an extension on her mortgage payment?",
"Why was Stu fired?",
"What kind of demon is haunting Christine?",
"What animal does Christine sacrifice first to try and appease the spirit?",
"Why does Christine decide not to give the envelope with the button in it to Stu?",
"What will happen if Christine gives the envelope with the button in it to someone?",
"According to Rham Jas, how many days will the demon torment Christine before dragging her to hell?",
"Why did the couple visit medium Shaun San Dena in Pasadena in 1969?",
"Why did Sylvia Ganush curse Christine?",
"What item did Ganush take from Christine to curse her?",
"What did Christine do to her boss right before Stu stole Christine's file?",
"Who suggested that Christine sacrifice something to rid of Lamia?",
"How much did Shaun San Dena ask to be paid to help Christine?",
"What was Shaun San Dena's plan to rid of Lamia?",
"Why did Christine dig up Ganush's grave?",
"Why did Christine change her mind about giving the button to Stu?",
"Why was Christine sent to Hell despite getting rid of the envelope?",
"Where does the beginning of this story take place?",
"What is Christine Brown's job?",
"What does Sylvia Ganush ask Christine for?",
"Where are Clay and Christine going for the weekend?",
"Why does Christine dig up Ganush's grave?",
"What did Stu admit to taking credit for?",
"What does Christine sacrifice?",
"How long will the demon torment Christine before it takes her to Hell?",
"What does Rham Jas tell Christine when they first meet?",
"What is Christine's boyfriend's name?"
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"A button off of Christine's coat",
"Button."
],
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"A goat",
"A goat"
],
[
"To show her boss she can make tough decisions",
"To prove herself to her boss."
],
[
"Stu confessed to stealing Christine's work",
"He confessed to stealing Christine's work "
],
[
"The Lamia",
"The Lamia"
],
[
"Her kitten",
"Her kitten."
],
[
"Because he looked pathetic and panicky",
"She takes pity on him"
],
[
"The curse will pass to them",
"The curse will be passed on."
],
[
"3",
"3"
],
[
"Their son has been hearing voices from evil spirits. ",
"Because their son was hearing evil spirits voices "
],
[
"Christine refused to extend Ganush's mortgage. ",
"Christine denied an extension on Ganush's mortgage payment and \"shamed\" Ganush."
],
[
"Her button",
"A button from her coat "
],
[
"Nose bleed",
"Had a projectile nose bleed and covered him in blood "
],
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"Rham Jas",
"Rham Jas."
],
[
"$10,000",
"$10,000.00"
],
[
"Trap Lamia in a goat, kill the goat, and have Lamia inhabit her. ",
"to trap th Lamia inside of a goat's body and then kill it"
],
[
"She wanted to place the cursed button in Ganush's mouth. ",
"To gift her the button"
],
[
"Stu looked like she was breaking down emotionally. ",
"Stu was pathetic and tearful."
],
[
"She got rid of the wrong envelope. ",
"She got rid of the wrong envelope"
],
[
"Pasadena",
"Pasadena, California."
],
[
"bank loan officer",
"bank loan officer"
],
[
"An extension on her mortgage loan",
"an extension on her mortgage"
],
[
"Santa Barbara",
"Santa Barbara."
],
[
"To place the cursed button in her mouth",
"To give Ganush the cursed button."
],
[
"Christine's work",
"Christine's work."
],
[
"Her pet kitten",
"Her kitten"
],
[
"3 days",
"3 days"
],
[
"That she is being haunted by an evil spirit",
"she is being haunted by an evil spirit."
],
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"Clay Dalton"
]
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