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Updated: May 22, 2025
Again I saw the scene in the alley; again his last cry for help rang in my ears; again I retraced the dreadful experiences of the night, and stood in the dim horror of the morgue with the questioning voice of the detective echoing beside me; and again did that wolf-face rise out of the lantern-flash over the body of the man whose death it had caused.
I thought of the wolf-figure who had come out of the opium-den, and the face framed in the lantern-flash of the alley, and was silent. Perhaps the thought of the scene of the passage had come to her, too, for she shuddered and quickened her step as though to escape. "Do you want to go through the theater?" asked Corson. "No no," whispered Luella, "get me home at once."
Two lives have been sacrificed already, and perhaps it is only the beginning. Yet I believe I am sure I have done right." "I am sure of that," I said, and then was silent as her words called up the image of the Wolf, dark, forbidding, glowing with the fires of hate the Wolf of the lantern-flash in the alley and the dens of Chinatown and the mystery seemed deeper than ever.
You, my son, can come home within a half-hour, or you will find the doors locked." With that the doctor went out; there was a creak of cramping wheels, and a lantern-flash in the window, then a roll, and clatter of hoofs. Elmira showed more decision of spirit than her lover had dreamed was in her. She drove him away, in spite of his protestations.
Then, in answer to the detective's question, I told the story of the scuffle in the alley, and of the events that followed. "Did you see any of the men? To recognize them, I mean?" I described the leader as well as I was able the man with the face of the wolf that I had seen in the lantern-flash. Detective Coogan lost his listless air, and looked at me in astonishment.
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