89/170 It was not necessary for this imaginary person to be in the room. To be within sight of it was enough. But this fear--this horror of impending retribution--did not make me hesitate or delay my advance a single instant. Everything depended upon my being one of the crowd when the first alarm was raised. So with the daring of one who in escaping a present danger hurls himself knowingly into another equally perilous, I pushed open the door and entered the office. |