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Audrey listened and was comforted, but the shadow did not quite leave her

eyes "He is waiting for me now," she said fearfully to Haward, who had

not missed the shadow "He followed ate in the wall When I go back he will follow ain, and

at last I will have to cross to his side And then he will go home with

me, and make me listen to him His eyes burn me, and when his hand touches

aze a countenance suddenly changed

into Tragedy's own "I don't knohy," she said, in a stricken voice,

"but of theht I now see only Molly I

suppose she was about as old as I aether I can't remember her face very clearly; only her eyes, and how

red her lips were And her hair: it ca time after you went ahen I could not sleep

because it was dark, or when I was frightened or Mistress Deborah beatthere dead"

There was a silence in the garden, broken presently by Haward "Ay,

Molly," he said absently