Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... XII A Week later, upon a murky morning with wild gusts vexing the wet trees, Kate came to Herbert. He saw at once that her mission was not an ordinary one. There was a new terror in her face. She held a newspaper, clutched convulsively, in her hand. "Herbert, Dr. Earle has killed himself!" "My God!"he muttered. "Upon both came an intense realisation of the significance of that tragedy to themselves; a gloom fell upon them. They looked at each other with fearful eyes, and saw the same thought leaping up. "We ought to go," Herbert stammered. Kate nodded. "I'll be ready in half an hour." They sat side by side in the subway, but neither spoke a single word. The air between them was charged with vivid terror and remorse. Even Kate felt a sudden revulsion at her life and its sins; even to her obscure soul, this tragedy brought a gleam of light. She glanced sideways at Herbert. He seemed brooding upon many things, but she could not divine the precise thoughts that lurked in his shadowed eyes. Only, she noticed that his shoulder did not press against hers, nor even lightly lean; that he sat beside her with more than the careful aloofness of a stranger. They entered the well-known house, but everything seemed different to them, to-day. The very hall-boy seemed to have a solemn look upon his face. Everywhere, in the slightest detail, they came upon the presages of the tragedy that would meet their eyes upstairs. The door of the apartment was open, and they heard from within soft, subdued movements such as people make in the presence of any happening that causes them fear. They entered, and in the parlour saw the dark coffin standing in the midst of palms. Several men and women were there--relatives of Dr. Earle--whom neither Kate nor Herbert had ever seen before. T...
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