![]() ![]() ![]() Professor Stapleton's voice was an incredulous gasp. Now, as the two men stood frozen in their tracks, the statue began to move its arms slowly back and forth. It was a huge golden statue of the four-armed goddess Kali. Suddenly at the far end of the pillared hall something began to glow eerily. Each footstep that the two men took raised endless sinister echoes. With him was Inspector Marcus Quaterly of Scotland Yard, who had traveled all the way from London to help Professor Stapleton unravel the mystery of the savage killings that had plagued Delhi recently. In this episode Sir Philip Stapleton, the renowned archeologist, had entered the forbidden temple of Kali in the jungles of India. This evening he was listening to one of his favorite programs, The House of Mystery. On his lap was a plate of Ritz crackers spread with pink pimiento-flavored cream cheese-Johnny always munched while he listened to the radio. He was staring into the darkness and listening intently to the program. The room was dark except for the faint yellow light that shone from the fan-shaped dial on the front of the big walnut Atwater Kent table-model radio that was next to the easy chair. ![]() Through the bay window you could see the flakes falling. ![]() A short, pale, bespectacled boy named Johnny Dixon was sitting in a big comfy easy chair in the parlor of his grandparents' house. ![]()
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