This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...to return to prison. The thought of catching the early train to London was torture. 'But when some one knocked at my bedroom door at half-past six the spell was not broken. It was quite dark: the sea still moaned: I was still alone. Outside in the wet streets I was still alone, for the sleepy servant who emerged from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...to return to prison. The thought of catching the early train to London was torture. 'But when some one knocked at my bedroom door at half-past six the spell was not broken. It was quite dark: the sea still moaned: I was still alone. Outside in the wet streets I was still alone, for the sleepy servant who emerged from the depths of the building to show me the way to the station did not speak. He shuffled by my side in slippers, and as he walked the rain trickled into his slippers and squelched as he put his feet down. Here and there in the top windows of the houses there was a light; but we met nobody, either in the streets or when the houses straggled off one by one, and we plodded up a hill. On the top he pointed to a building in the valley, and left me. That building was dark. The gates were locked. I waited, the spell still unbroken, but dreading the moment when the world would catch me again. A light came swinging out of the darkness; a porter looked sleepily at me, and then unlocked the gate. I was the only passenger in the train. We crawled through the damp mist which rose from the valley, and when we stopped at the first station I heard the moan of the sea. It could not be far distant; but that clinging mist hid everything, even the face of the guard. I heard somebody say to him, "Another miserable Sunday, Joe," and his answer, "It is that"; but those voices coming out of the impenetrable mist did not break the spell. The men were figures in a dream--voices only. 'We moved slowly forward, and the rain grew heavier. I sat quite still, exulting in the last moments of loneliness, for at the next station I would have to change. When the train stopped, a figure loomed before the carriage door, and a voice said: "You can sit in the...
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