At this moment, Blueskin
appeared with the lamp, and revealed a horrible spectacle,—the floor deluged
with blood,—various articles of furniture upset,—papers scattered about,—the
murdered man's cloak, trampled upon, and smeared with gore,—his hat, crushed
and similarly stained,—his sword,—the ensanguined cloth,—with several other
ghastly evidences of the slaughterous deed. Brendon and I returned from the ‘Unusual,’ and found him lying
in my room shot through the lungs. “So you still think of me as husband, even though we
have long since tired of each other. . ‘And how do you propose to get in?’
‘Scullery window. “Thanks, Mister McCloskey. It seemed to her the last desperate attack upon the universe that would not
let her live as she desired to live, that penned her in and controlled her and
directed her and disapproved of her, the same invincible wrappering, the same
leaden tyranny of a universe that she had vowed to overcome after that
memorable conflict with her father at Morningside Park. My little maidservant will think that I am lost. Might we ask
you if you have ever seen him, if you knew him at all before this evening?”
She stood up suddenly, and turning her back to them, looked steadily out of the
window. He had
been dreaming of Ruth—an old recurrency of that dream he had had in Canton,
of Ruth leading him to the top of the mountain. It was precisely two o'clock on the morning of Whit-monday, the 25th of May
1724, when the remarkable escape before detailed was completed: and, though it
wanted full two hours to daybreak, the glimmer of a waning moon prevented it
from being totally dark.
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