Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII LIZZIE'S JOURNEY --m "Exile of immortality, strongly wise, Strain through the dark with undesirous eyes, To what may be beyond it. Sets your star, O heart, for evert Yet behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak." Rupeet Brooke. I THAT night Lizzie had a dream and, waking in the early hours of the grey dim morning, saw hefore her every detail of it. She had dreamt that she was lost in the house. No human being was there. Every room was closed and she knew that every room was empty. It was full day, but only a dull yellow light lit the passages.-- She could not find her way to the central staircase. A passage would be familiar to her and then suddenly would be dark and vague and menacing. She opened doors and found wide dusty empty rooms with windows thick in cobwebs and beyond them a garden green, tangled, deserted. She knew that if she did not escape soon some disaster would overtake her, some disaster in which both Roddy and Rachel would be involved. She knew also that, in some way, Rachel's safety absolutely depended upon her -- She felt, within herself, a struggle as to whether she should save Rachel. She did not wish to save Rachel. . . . But some impulse drove her. . . . She ran down the passage, stumbling in the strange indistinct yellow light -- She knew that, could she only reach the garden, Rachel would be saved. She reached a window, looked down, and saw below her, like a green pond, the lawn overgrown now with weeds and bristling with strange twisted plants. She flung open the window and tried to jump, but a cold :>last of some storm met her and drove her back. The storm screamed about her, the dust rose in the room, the plants in the garden waved their heads . . . the wind rushed through the house and she...
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