15/17 Then she trembled violently, and held out her left hand, the fingers working convulsively, to Rose, who was still singing. At this, Josephine uttered a violent shriek, and sprang to her feet, with her right hand quivering and pointing at that pale face set in the dark. She fell screaming upon her knees, and, almost out of her senses, began to pray wildly and piteously for mercy. She swooned dead away, and fell senseless on the floor ere Raynal could debarrass himself of the screen, and get to her. |