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and blew a dart into this man's big old dog. The biggest dog I've ever seen. The dog howled and whirled round on the floor--and died. Then he had a servant--it was a Negro or Indian one--whatever it was--wait on him. Was a great big old big double-giant man. And before he could turn round and look, they blew one in him and he screamed and fell. So the detective said, when he fell then, that these bells chimed. They was the most beautifullest sounding little bells. And-- There was a friend of a lady that lived over here, Mrs. Hamilton, she had a whole lot of little bells when she'd been all over the countries and gathered them up, you know. She said French milkmaid bells, and over in Turkey, you know, and all this kind of--

MR STARR: Camel bells.

MINNIE: That's right. And so she said-- And she had three or four different little camel bells. But they sound just like a whole lot of them together. This detective said--he told this--he said, "Professor, they are the bells of Fu Manchu." That's why I think--that's why I think the name of that picture was-- Because I didn't hear it, I didn't stop to see when I came on-- I didn't look to see what the picture was made of. But I had those little pictures with me, the first ones. 

MR STARR: Yeah. 

MINNIE: On the top of those pictures, I've got made, is the same identical--is the same identical prints, writing of the same, of the same as the ones that is on that tablestone. I got them. Cause I taken them out while sitting there. And the young man was sitting side of me and when I taken them out to look