"
"How did you escape?" asked Sheppard, who, as he shook off his slumber, began
to recall the events of the previous night. Covering his face with a crape mask, and taking the candle
from his associate, Jack entered the room; and, pistol in hand, stepped up to the
bed, and approached the light to the eyes of the sleepers. But
this revulsion was engulfed by the succeeding waves of pity and understanding. "Damnation!" cried Kneebone. He loved Ann Veronica, he said; he was so mad to have her
that he defeated himself, and did crude and alarming and senseless things. “Where is she?”
He would yell even louder until she was sure that people
in faraway fishing boats could probably hear him. "I can't hold it much longer—it'll
break my wrist. They
used the rope—not that a rope was at all necessary, but because Ann Veronica’s
exalted state of mind made the fact of the rope agreeably symbolical; and,
anyhow, it did insure a joint death in the event of some remotely possibly
mischance.
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