Rustle, thump! rustle, thump! rustle, thump!
Raynal was now at the screen, and quietly put his head round it, and his
hand upon it.
Edouard was bursting with expectation.
No result. What is this? Don't they see him? Why does he not speak to
them? He seems transfixed.
Rustle, thump! rustle, thump; accompanied now for a few notes by one
voice only, Rose's.
Suddenly there burst a shriek from Josephine, so loud, so fearful, that
it made even Raynal stagger back a step, the screen in his hand.
Then another scream of terror and anguish from Rose. Then a fainter cry,
and the heavy helpless fall of a human body.
Raynal sprang forward whirling the screen to the earth in terrible
agitation, and Edouard bounded over it as it fell at his feet. He did
not take a second step. The scene that caught his eye stupefied and
paralyzed him in full career, and froze him to the spot with amazement
and strange misgivings.
CHAPTER XIX.
To return for a moment to Rose. She parted from Edouard, and went in at
the front door: but the next moment she opened it softly and watched her
lover unseen.
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