The yellow platform lights came into the field of view, passing

first rapidly, then slowly, and at last stopping with a jerk.

Dim shapes of men passed to and fro without.



"Euston!" cried a voice.



"Do you mean--?"



"There was no pain, no sting or smart. Amazement and then darkness

sweeping over everything. The hot, brutal face before me, the face

of the man who had killed me, seemed to recede. It swept out of

existence--"



"Euston!" clamoured the voices outside; "Euston!"



The carriage door opened, admitting a flood of sound, and a porter

stood regarding us. The sounds of doors slamming, and the hoof-clatter

of cab-horses, and behind these things the featureless remote roar

of the London cobble-stones, came to my ears. A truckload of lighted

lamps blazed along the platform.



"A darkness, a flood of darkness that opened and spread and blotted

out all things."



"Any luggage, sir?" said the porter.



"And that was the end?" I asked.



He seemed to hesitate. Then, almost inaudibly, he answered, "No."



"You mean?"



"I couldn't get to her. She was there on the other side of the Temple--

And then--"



"Yes," I insisted. "Yes?"



"Nightmares," he cried; "nightmares indeed! My God! Great birds

that fought and tore."










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