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“It is all I have to tell,” was the reply; and it struck me that her tone was as peculiar as his. “Minutes, seconds even, spent under such circumstances, seem like hours; and after a spell of what appeared an interminable waiting, I allowed myself to be overcome by the disquiet and terror of my situation, and dropping from my perch, crept home.”
“You should have stayed another hour,” he dryly observed. “I wonder at an impatience you had never manifested till then.”
“Do you?”
The meaning with which she said this, the gesture with which she gave it weight, struck us both aback.
“Woman!” he thundered, coming near to her with the mingled daring and repugnance with which one advances to crush a snake, “do you mean to say that you are going to publish this much of your story and publish no more? That you will tell the world this and not tell ——”
“What I did not see?” she Nikola Kalinic Drakter interpolated, looking him straight in the eye as might the serpent to which I have compared her.
“Good God!” was his horrified exclamation; “and yet you know ——”
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