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you this"

"But you have not toldWhat is behind that mask?"

"Would you, too, see?" she asked, in a terrible voice, "and die?"

"I have told you it is not in er thanred with day-dawn, and I shall never see

the sun rise ue-struck!"

That sweetest of all voices ceased The white hands re coils of hair, and revealed, to Sir Norrisly face and head, and the hollow

eye-sockets, the grinning mouth, and fleshless cheeks of a skeleton!

He saw it but for one fearful instant--the next, she had thrown up both

arue-pit He saw her for

a second or two, heaving and writhing in the putrid heap; and then the

strong ,

but sick unto death Of all the dreadful things he had witnessed that

night, there was nothing so dreadful as this; of all the horror he had

felt before, there was none to equal what he felt now In hisher ar

hi at hi his eyes with his hands, he sprang up, and

fled away