[The Danger Mark by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Danger Mark CHAPTER VII 37/47
Will you ?" "I don't understand," she repeated in white-lipped distress.
"Why do you look at me so strangely? And you tell me that I--know....
What is it that I know? Couldn't you tell me? I am--" Her voice failed. "Dear--do you remember--once--last April that you were--ill ?...
And awoke to find yourself on your own bed ?" "Duane!" It was a cry of terror. "Dearest! Dearest! Do you think I have not known--since then--what has troubled you--here----" She stared at him in crimsoned horror for an instant, then with a dry sob, bowed her head and covered her face with desperate hands.
For a moment her whole body quivered, then she collapsed.
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