How her eyes would seek mine as we stood thus close together, searching, searching for the old love or the fancied love of which the ashes only remained.

Torment, all torment to remember now, as Hexford must have seen, if the keenness of his intelligence equalled that of his eye at this moment.
The window which stood open was a small one,-a mere slit in the wall; but it let in a stream of zero air and I saw Hexford shiver as he stepped towards it and looked out.

But I felt hot rather than cold, and when I instinctively put my hand to my forehead, it came away wet.
V A SCRAP OF PAPER Look to the lady:-- And when we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure, let us meet, And question this most bloody piece of work, To know it further.

Fears and scruples shake us; In the great hand of God I stand; and, thence, Against the undivulg'd pretence I fight Of treasonous malice.
_Macbeth_.
Shortly after this, a fresh relay of police arrived and I could hear the whole house being ransacked.

I had found my shoes, and was sitting in my own private room before a fire which had been lighted for me on the hearth.