Weird Tales/Volume 23/Issue 5/Bellowing Bamboo

Bellowing Bamboo
By Anthony Rud
"Inarticulate horror, choked screams burst from his throat."
The story of a weird revenge, and the unhuman bellow that came across the
lake from an eery bamboo forest in the South American jungle
From the moment Lieutenant Natheshire of the British Guiana Provincial Police heard of Selwyn Landrigan's coming, the officer frowned and became moody. Still, as guardian of the peace on the upper Mazaruni and Cuyuni Rivers, Natheshire could do no less than make a pretense of welcoming Landrigan—and then stick close to him.
Landrigan was hated, with sufficient reason. In spite of that fact he had become a personage in the affairs of the trading company. And this company, which handled most of the foreign trade of British Guiana and Venezuela, and also owned more than a hundred stations on the jungle rivers, could make or break men like Natheshire.
​In his secret thoughts, Natheshire feared that the pompous and foppish Landrigan was returning to be murdered. Not that anyone would mourn; but Natheshire sincerely liked the man who had reason to do the murder.
Lake Maza-Cuyuni is formed by the junction of these two swift jungle rivers, with the addition of the

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