The women were helpless with fear.
In despair, Randall Clayton gazed at the distant hotels; there was shelter and safety.

But now a new fear beset him.

His well-known identity, Irma's marked beauty, the strange attendant duenna, there would be certain discovery and scandal.

And he would be Ferris' easy victim if discovered.
Irma Gluyas shrieked as she clung to her lover and bade him save her as the wild lightning bolts rent the darkness.

It was a horrid elemental tumult! A few hundred yards away a heavy closed carriage was slowly creeping along the drive between the hotels.