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Updated: May 8, 2025
A luminous hand a hand in the veins of which fire seemed to run so that the texture of the skin and the shape of the bones within were perceptible in short a hand of glowing, fiery flesh clutching a short knife or dagger which also glowed with the same hellish, internal luminance, was advancing upon us where we stood was not three paces removed!
The pale December sunlight glittered through a stained-glass window above him, and cast deep violet rays about his chair, Gherardi stood where the same luminance touched his pale face with a crimson glow as of fire.
From the window, through which he had come, a broad shaft of tempered luminance fell across the fountain and laid a zone of soft light athwart the low stone benches surrounding it. Then it caught, and faintly edged with its glow, the granite balustrade at the shoulder of the cliff.
The reporter wished to profit at once by the sudden luminance to learn if his movements had been noticed and if the approaches to the villa on that side were guarded. He picked up a small pebble and threw it some distance from him along the path.
The soft luminance which lit the "White Eagle's" interior from end to end showed nothing new or alarming, her dainty, rose-lined cabin held no strange or supernatural visitant, all was as usual. After a pause she rallied strength enough to question the audible but invisible intruder. "Who is it that speaks to me?" she asked, faintly.
In her eyes, perhaps, the secret lay, they were violet- grey in hue, and drowsy-lidded, with long lashes that swept the delicate pale cheeks in a dark golden fringe of shadow, through which the sparkle of vision gleamed, now warningly, now tenderly, and anon, these same half-shut and deep fringed lids would open wide, letting the full brilliance of the soul behind the eyes pour forth its luminance, in flashes of such lightning-like clearness and compelling force, that it was impossible not to recognise something higher than mere woman in the dazzle of that spiritual glory.
On my left, occasional flickering lights broke through the mist, for the most part the lights of taverns; and saving these rents in the veil, the darkness was punctuated with nothing but the faint and yellow luminance of the street lamps. Ahead was a black mouth, which promised to swallow me up as it had swallowed up my friend.
On my left, occasional flickering lights broke through the mist, for the most part the lights of taverns; and saving these rents in the veil, the darkness was punctuated with nothing but the faint and yellow luminance of the street lamps. Ahead was a black mouth, which promised to swallow me up as it had swallowed up my friend.
A luminance deeper than that of the sun seemed to encircle the figures standing together the one so elfin, light and delicate, the other invested with a kind of inward royalty expressing itself outwardly in stateliness of look and bearing. Something mysteriously suggestive of super-humanity environed them; a spirit and personality higher than mortal. After some minutes Aloysius spoke again
"Ssh!" he hissed, and grasped my arm. Silent, intently still, we stood and listened. The sound of a guttural voice was clearly distinguishable from somewhere close at hand! Smith extinguished the lamp. A faint luminance proclaimed itself directly ahead. Still grasping my arm, Smith began slowly to advance toward the light.
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