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Stumbling onwards awhile farther, he suddenly came again upon the river-bank, having skirted the whole length of the wall. There was actually no getting in! The castle was impregnable. Helwyse sat down at the foot of a birch-tree which grew a few yards from the wall. "How does my uncle manage about his butcher and baker, I wonder!
Surely no more monstrous delusion than this of Time ever imposed upon mankind! For months and years he jogs on with us, a dull and sober-paced pedestrian. Then comes a sudden eternity! But Time thrusts a clock in our faces, and shows us that the hands have marked a minute only. Shall we put faith in him? Helwyse suffered from a vivid imagination. He went not to his room that night.
Gaining still! Strange, that all through this wild frenzy in which body and soul were rapt, the essential part of Balder Helwyse seemed to be looking on, with a curious, repellent twist of feature, commenting on what was going forward, and noting, with quiet interest and precision, each varying phase of the struggle, noting, as of significance, that the sway of the demon of murder made the idea of other crimes seem beyond words congenial, enticing, delicious!
But Lady Eleanore, with a laugh of scorn, drew the rich folds of the embroidered mantle over her head in such a fashion as to give a completely new aspect to her beautiful face, which, half hidden, half revealed, seemed to belong to some being of mysterious character and purposes. "Farewell, Jervase Helwyse!" said she. "Keep my image in your remembrance as you behold it now."
Experience had taught him that this attitude was better adapted than any other to sustain the crushing weight of Mr. Dyke's sense. To have conversed with him in a sitting position would have been to lose breath and vitality before the end of five minutes. "Mr. Helwyse has thoughts of settling in Boston to practise his profession," began the President, gently.
Stolid, undeniable matter was, peering phlegmatically between its wrinkled eyelids. But admitting that now, at last, we have lighted upon the genuine and authentic Doctor Glyphic, why should the sight of him so oddly affect Balder Helwyse, whose avowed object in pulling off the dial-plate had been to justify a suspicion that Uncle Hiero was behind it?
Gnulemah, withered, stifled, and degraded by some unmentionable curse, might have become a thing not unlike this woman. "Have we met before, madam?" asked Helwyse, impelled to the question by what he took for a bewildered recognition in her eye. She moved her lips, but made no audible answer.
He made way for Jervase Helwyse, who immediately ascended the staircase, but, on the first landing place, was arrested by the firm grasp of a hand upon his shoulder. Looking fiercely up, with a madman's impulse to struggle with and rend asunder his opponent, he found himself powerless beneath a calm, stern eye, which possessed the mysterious property of quelling frenzy at its height.
"I beg your pardon, Mr. Helwyse, sir, of course, of course, it didn't seem possible, so long, you know, but I remembered the voice and the face and the name, I never forget, but, by George, sir, can you really be ?" "I see you have a good memory; you are Dyke, aren't you?" And Mr. Helwyse threw back his head and laughed, perhaps at the clerk's bewildered face.
She replied by throwing a fold of it above her head and smiling as she said, "Farewell. Remember me as you see me now." Helwyse shook his head sadly and submitted to be led away. The weariness in Eleanore's manner increased; a flush was burning on her cheek; her laugh had grown infrequent. Dr. Clarke whispered something in the governor's ear that made that gentleman start and look alarmed.
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