for him to change his position, and he saw me. The cry that rose to his lips but did not escape them, the reel which his figure gave before it stiffened into marble, testified to the shock he had received, and also to the sense of unreality with which my appearance in this wise must have impressed him. His look, his attitude were those of a man gazing upon a spectre,Parajumpers Long Bear Kvinne, and as I met his glance with mine, I was conscious of a feeling of unreality myself, as if the whole occurrence were a dream,Kevin De Bruyne Drakt, and he and I but shadows which another moment would dissolve.
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“By the same chance,” I rejoined, “which appears to have brought you here. The desire to make sure if what I heard about the mill having been used as a secreting place for certain mysterious articles, was true.” And I pointed to the mask and domino lying at my feet.
His eye, which had followed the direction of my finger, grew dark and troubled.
“Then it was your hand —” he impetuously began.
“Which disturbed these garments before you? Yes. And I shall make no apology for the action,” I continued, “since it was done in the hope of proving false certain insinuations which had been made to me in your regard.”
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“Perhaps,” he again returned; but this time with a fierceness that almost made me recoil,Spillerdrakter, though I knew it was directed against some one besides myself.
“Then it may be,” I said, “that you have but to speak to relieve my mind of the heaviest weight which has ever fallen upon it. These articles,” I pursued, “have they, or have they not, any connection with the tragedy which makes the place in which we stand memorable?”
“I cannot answer you, Miss Sterling.”
“Cannot answer me?”
“Cannot answer you,” he reiterated, turning haggard about the eyes and lipslinks:
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