9: The Devil's Graveyard
Weird Tales Aug 1926
"YOU don't understand, John! I used to laugh at it, too, but these last months the thought of that old curse has been more and more in my mind."
"Well, dear, why worry yet? It will be time enough if this proves to be a boy; after all, we may have a daughter at last."
"No! I feel convinced it will be another boy, and the words of that old saying go round and round in my head:
"When Radcliffe's heir has brothers six
And seeks to take to wife
The only child of Blackmore's line.
The Curse shall wake to life."
"But, Agnes, you are really inventing worries. Supposing this seventh is a boy! According to the silly jingle you quoted, the worst will only happen about twenty years hence, if our eldest boy should happen to fall in love with Blackm
