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The day happened to be Sunday, and therefore the workmen were absent

Carley had the place to herself How the half-completed house mocked

her! She could not bear to look at it What use could shecomrade of Glenn Kilbourne, the

mistress of his cabin She was his wife and she would be the ave birth to the darkest hour of Carley Burch's life She

became possessed as by a thousand devils She became merely a female

robbed of her mate Reason was not in her, nor charity, nor justice

All that was abnormal in human nature seee, terrible She hated with an incredible and insane

ferocity In the seclusion of her tent, crouched on her bed, silent,

locked, motionless, she yet was the embodiment of all terrible strife

and storm in nature Her heart was a maelstrom and would have whirled

and sucked down to hell all the beings that were ales and the fires of jealousy,

superhuth, and froht the inevitable reaction However long her other

struggles, this monumental and final one would be brief She realized

that, yet was unable to understand how it could be possible, unless

shock or death or ht An eternity of