"Did you speak these words aloud?"
"I did, Jane. If any listener had heard me, he would have thought
me mad: I pronounced them with such frantic energy."
"And it was last Monday night, somewhere near midnight?"
"Yes; but the time is of no consequence: what followed is the
strange point. You will think me superstitious, -- some superstition
I have in my blood, and always had: nevertheless, this is true --
true at least it is that I heard what I now relate.
|