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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. 1889. Excerpt: ... we seated than she fainted away, and only recovered a few moments before we stopped at her door. As I helped her out she looked me sadly in the face, and said: "' Come to me to-morrow afternoon--for the last time.' "I conld say nothing against her decision, Drayton; I felt we should be really more united, living apart, than were we to force ourselves to outward association. Our calamity was too strong for us; separation might appease the mysterious malice of the phantom, and cause him to return whither he belonged. The persecution of our long-dead ancestors now recurred to me, as I had read it a few months before in those dusty old documents, and I could not help seeing a strange similarity between their fate and ours. Yet we had an advantage in not being married, and in having the warning of their history before us. You see," observed Calbot, somewhat bitterly, "even I can talk of advantages! "I went to her house to-day and had a short interview. I can not tell you in detail what we said, but it seems to me as though the memory of it would gradually oust all other memories from my mind. I told her that passage of history. We agreed to part--forever in this world. I took back the chain and locket which I had given her but so short a time before. We said good-by, in cold and distant words. We could not gratify the evil spirit, which we knew was watching us, by any embrace or show of grief and passion. We could be proud in our despair." "One moment, Calbot," said I, interrupting him at this point; "you say she gave you back the locket?" "Yes." "Is it in your possession now?" "It is at the bottom of the Thames." "Good! And have you or Miss Burleigh seen anything of your phantom since then?" "You forget that we parted only this afternoon. But I understand you...
