"No more! no more!" he exclaimed, with an uncontrollable burst

of emotion. "You torture me! I can stand it no longer! There is

nothing in your conjecture! There is no reason for your suspicions!

She is--"

"She? Ah!"

I could not suppress the involuntary exclamation. The truth seemed

to be at hand. I was premature. My utterance brought him to his

senses. He stopped, looked at me wildly for an instant, his eyes

dilated almost to bursting. He seemed suddenly to be conscious that

the secrets of his soul--its dark, uncommissioned secrets--were

about to force themselves into sight and speech; and unable, perhaps,

to arrest them in any other way he darted headlong from my presence.




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