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and the bleeding trunk told no tales

"Of course, for a while, she was distracted and so on; but when the

first shock of her grief was over, my father carried her off, and

forcibly led with

his fierce love, and before the honeyht, in a fit of jealous passion, to which he was addicted,

he led her into a room she had never before been per human skull, and told her it was her lover's!

In his cruel exultation, he confessed all; how he had caused hiht here to punish

her, some day, for her obstinate refusal to love hi her fate with

a sort of dueance, fiercer and

an to kindle within her; and, kneeling

down before the ghastly thing, she breathed a wish--a prayer--to the

avenging Jehovah, so unutterably horrible, that even her husband had

to fly with curdling blood from the room That dreadful prayer was

heard--that wish fulfilled in ht

of day that frantic woman had repented of the awful deed she had done

Repentance came too late the sin of the father was visited on the child,

and on the mother, too, for themaniac, and died before the first day of my life had ended