August 2023 1 4 Report
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once again dancers and musicians became still and silent,
as the clock slowly rang the twelve long chimes of
midnight. And because the twelve chimes took a long time
to ring, each person had more time to think, and feel
uncomfortable. They also had time, before the last chime
had sounded, to notice a masked figure who had not been
there before. The first person who saw the stranger told the
next person, who told another, and in a few minutes a cry
of fear and horror rose up from the crowd.
Now you will remember that everyone at the ball was
wearing strange cloaks and masks, which belonged more
to the world of dreams and wild imagination than to everyday
life. So why, you may ask, this horror, and this fear? But
even in the cruellest heart there are some fears too terrible
to laugh at. The tall thin figure of the stranger was dressed
from head to foot in the white clothes of the dead. And the
mask over the face was frighteningly real - it was the face
of a dead man. Worse still, the face and the body were covered
with red, horrible blood! Here, in the middle of all that
dancing and happiness was a living picture of the Red Death!
When Prince Prospero saw the masked stranger, his face
became white with fear. Then his fear turned to anger and
he shouted out, 'Who is that? Who is mad enough to play
games with us, and with death, in this way? Take hold of
him, and pull off his mask. I want to see the face of the man
who, tomorrow, will hang from the castle roof.
The Prince was in the blue room as he said these words.
They rang loudly and clearly through the seven rooms. Many
of the Prince's friends started to run towards the masked
figure, but they were all too frightened to touch him. With
slow and silent steps, the stranger walked slowly towards
the Prince, passing very near to him. Then he continued
walking, and went from the blue room into the purple one,


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