The Face of Rosenfeld — page 236: what you’re looking at

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THH FACH OF ROSENFEL. 229 shadow. ‘That is why I have told no one, not even you. That is why I do not like to bring it back again.” ‘¢ But I don’t see what all this has to do with the por- trait,’ Maxey said, wonderingly. “<T will tell you, Julian. It wasin one of those wak- ing nightmares that I saw that face. Don’t make me tell it, Julian! Don’t make me tell it!” ‘*God knows I would do nothing to cause my little wife a moment’s uneasiness; but, darling, it is so impor- tant to our welfare—for yours and mine—that you should speak! Let it be recalled. once and then for- gotten for all time. In one of those dreams you saw ‘that face?” She answered him in a low voice: ‘©Yes, Julian. I was lying on the bed there, in the alcove-room. Something, I don’t know what to call it, came over me. It was more like a waking dream than anything I could name. My eyes were wide open all the time. JI saw the room and the things in it, just as now.” She clung closer to her husband and went on: «<1 was lying there in the alcove-room, looking toward the fire-place out there. It was just after I had been brought back here, before I had told you my story. I was watching the red coals in the grate. Presently I felt a sinking, dreamy sensation coming over me. I did not understand it. I was too weak to make any resist- ance to it. It was in the middle of the day, and the room was full of light. But though the knowledge of that fact never left me, I felt that it had suddenly be- come very dark. All the light seemed to arise from something bursting up into a great flame in the grate; and then between me and the fire, with the strong glare upon it, I saw that face, just as I have tried to draw it, =) (ele) : : co patie 900 | = —_ % im; ee nN = ot rae ® ae ~ — a : . _* ~~ - ~~ &. “fy. Fe ba for Pe en > uray a - Arte) es é i “a ele <.s ae SF , x a, <a, a Yl Gos Sn Oe ne ate ry hs face Stite> 2 Oe Sa as ee, be ate ee oe a aes re Tone Se © Re ee SS ne PE a Te ake OS we SEN a 8 -