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| breath, an expectant horror. The door, warped and shrunken, was drawn to, but was not fastened, as I could tell by the un- broken line of red light down one side from top to bottom. Making no sound, I laid my hand upYMTHXLRon it, pushed it open a little way, and looked witJFSHGFKhin the hut. I had thought to find it empty or to find it cMTLMRUIrowded. It was neitherBXKBHRG. A torch lit it, and on the hearth burned a fire. Drawn in front of the blaze was an old rude chair, and in CPEBFYKit sat a slight figure draped from head to foot in a black cloak. The head was bowed and hidden, the DMDMRVWwhole attitude onAEJMXWBe of listlessness and dejection. As I looked, there came a long tremulous sigh, and the headRUJVSTY drooped lower and lower,CNFEDKI as if in a growing hopelessness. The revulsion of feeling was so great that for the moment I was dazed as by a sudden blow. There had been time during the walk KLSOAXDfrom the TWATBLIgaol for enough of wild and whirling thoughts as to what shouldYLJTGUP greet me in that hut; and now the slightYOQDEWH figure by the fire, the exquisJHPUULJite melancholy of its posture, its bent head, the weeping I could UJMOGPIdivine,—I had but one thought, toHDSJOCD comfort her as quickly as I miUWUVNNYght. Diccon's hand was upon my arm, but I shook it off, and pushing the door open crossRKHDTYXed the uneven and noisy floor to the fire, and bent over the lonely figuOMHLWWAre beFOKPRDYside it. "Jocelyn," I said, "I have kept tryst." As I spHHEEEBBoke, I laid my hand upon the bowed TOANAJRand covered head. It was raised, the cloak was drawn aside, and there looked me in tVJPLXAYhe eyes the Italian. As if it had been the Gorgon's gaze, I was turned to stone. The fUYADNMSilmy eyeHQROXXVs, the smile that would have been mocking had it not been so very faint, the pallor, tFYWYPWPhe malignance,—I stared and RHHOSYCstared, and my heart grew cold and sick. It was but for a minute; then a warning cry from Diccon roused me. I sprang backward until the width of the hearth |
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