And then I sprang from the bed." "I know you did!" I exclaimed sharply.

All this time I had forgotten that grievance.

"You nearly frightened her out of her wits, St.Croix.
I cannot think what possessed you--why you did it ?" "To save your life, Anne," he answered solemnly, "and her from a crime! an unutterable, an unnatural crime.

She had come back to I can hardly tell it you--to murder her sister.

You start.