How “Adventures Into Darkness #05” begins
Every balloon from the first pages, as it is read aloud:
If you dare-take these adventures into darkness
In this issue murder mansion day of reckoning
How many of us have ever passed a boarded-up brownstone mansion without wondering what may be happening inside? Was the owner of such a place really away for the winter-- or was he perhaps looking out at us through a crack in the drawn blinds? Those dusty halls once echoed to violins and laughing voices, but what kind of laughter is heard there now?
Danny nash, blackmailer and confidence man extra-ordinary, with his wife helen, hid out in such a place to avoid a murder investigation. This is what happened to them in…
Murder mansion
Few blocks away from tre old sylvestre mansion, danny nash and his wife close out a long-standing account-
You rotten blackmailers! For years I've paid to save my family's good name and now my money's gone! I'm through! What you do about it is up to you!
Okay, carson! Then you're no use to us, are you?
Stop! Stop it, nash! You can't kill me in cold blood!
Oh, can't i?
That's right, danny! Give it to him good! I'm sick of his whining --
After their hasty action, the two seek a hideout…
Where to now, dan?
Ever heard of the sylvestre place? Nobody will ever think of looking for us there! It's a cinch!
No watchman on the place, is there?
I've already taken care of him! Come on, kid--hop in! Haven't got all night!
Ugh! It's sure spooky in here! -- where's the man who lives here?
Old sylvestre's in florida right now! Nothing to worry about until may--
Well--what do you think of it, kid? This is the upstairs library! Off there is our bedroom, and that door leads to the sitting room!
It'll do! Right now it looks like a cyclone hit it!
But danny's attention is drawn to an open book lying on the floor…
Well--what do you know! An old hand-lettered book! Five or six hundred years old if it's a day!
Okay, bright boy! So you were honor man in college! Now how about rustling up some grub! I'm starved!
Go on--laugh! I happen to know that the sale price of a book like this could keep us eating for years! Listen to this, helen --
Vocare daemonum, teneshad, nessesse est…