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Updated: May 19, 2025
The house was brilliantly lighted, and at the table, while Clay was talking, and every one in gala day spirits, the light suddenly went out, and what a strange sensation fell on one guest a feeling of coming evil. There was no re-lighting. The gas had failed, prophetic of the going out of that brilliant career, and its slow ending in the glimmer of a single candle.
"The wire's cut," he exclaimed, dashing down the receiver and seizing the lantern which Japhet had just succeeded in re-lighting; "come on, there's murder being done," and he sprang to the doorway, only to stagger back again from the great stone with which it was blocked. "Good God!" he screamed, "we're shut in. How can we get out?
The lesson was not thrown away, for we coasted round Richmond Gulf instead of attempting to cross it. "And now," continued Frank, stirring the fire and re-lighting his pipe, which invariably went out at the interesting parts of his narrative "now I come to that part of my story which bears on the fate of Maximus.
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