Severed Heads Dead Eyes Opened
"By strange coincidence, a thunderstorm had been brewing
when Mahon, doing
his grisly work at the bungalow, was dealing with the
most grisly job of
all--the head, the woman's head. He had severed it from
the trunk, built a
huge fire in the sitting room, placed her head upon it,
then (I owe a debt
here to Edgar Wallace, who edited the transcript of the
Mahon trial), then the
storm broke with a violent flash of lightning and an
appalling crash of
thunder. As the head of Emily Kaye lay upon the coals,
the dead eyes
opened, and Mahon fled out to the deserted shore. When he
nerved himself
to return, the fire had done its work. The head was never
found..."
