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Updated: May 25, 2025
"When I part from you again, my dear," said he, with sudden huskiness, "I swear it won't be like this." The girl looked up at him. He raised the hand, palm-upward, with a sort of jerk, kissed it, dropped it abruptly, and was gone. Cally remained standing where he had left her; this time she did not run to the window.
The right hand, the fingers curled but not touching each other, lay palm-upward on the floor at the end of the rigid, outstretched arm. The one visible eye was half open, but on the sallow, thin face, which had been strikingly handsome in an obvious sort of way, was a peace and dignity which Dundee had never seen upon Sprague's face when the man was alive.
She lay on her bed, and Rowcliffe and her sister stood on either side of her. She gazed from one to the other with eyes of terror and entreaty. It was as if she cried out to them the two who were so strong to help her. She stretched out her arms on the counterpane, one arm toward each of them; her little hands, palm-upward, implored them.
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