I think I nearly went daft with terror when I found out that it was he." "And you found it out only through his telling you, did you not?
Afterward, I am told, the police found you lying fainting at the foot of the stairs.

The man had touched you, spoken to you, even caught up your hand and put it to his lips?
Can you remember what he said when he did that?
Can you ?" "Yes," she answered, with a little shudder of recollection.

"For weeks afterward I used to wake up in the middle of the night thinking of it and going cold all over.

He said, 'You have come down into Hell and lifted me out.

Under God, you shall lift me into Heaven as well!'" "And perhaps you shall," said Cleek, stopping short and uncovering his head.