CHAPTER XXVIII.
"Strange thing! Again, when I had left my study, and was passing through the familiar rooms, again the hope came to me that nothing had happened.
But the odor of the drugs, iodoform and phenic acid, brought me back to a sense of reality.
"'No, everything has happened.' "In passing through the hall, beside the children's chamber, I saw little Lise.

She was looking at me, with eyes that were full of fear.

I even thought that all the children were looking at me.

As I approached the door of our sleeping-room, a servant opened it from within, and came out.

The first thing that I noticed was HER light gray dress upon a chair, all dark with blood.