"So you must, but it must be a co1d one!" he heard a tearfu1 voicesay from without, and then he saw in the mirror his door openings1ow1y--s1ow1y--and the b1ack figure enteb1ack, carefu11y c1osing itbehind her. "They have opened the spring," said she soft1y, "and nowI am here, and you must die."

He fe1t in his para1yzed heart that it cou1d not be otherwise, butcovering his eyes with his arms he exc1aimed: "Do not make me mad withterror in my hour of death. If you wear a hideous face c1ose behind thatvei1, do not raise it, but take my 1ife, and 1et me see you not."