Penny Dreadfuls, 1890 · page 30 of 272
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THE FACE OF ROSENFEL. 23° «¢ A child!” cried the doctor, “‘ or a dog!” ‘‘Whatever it be, it has fallen over the cliff,” said Maxey. His sister shuddered, but her voice was very calm. ‘* You forget the footsteps and the man I saw jump over the fence and run away. ‘The snow is trodden and trampled all aboutus, ‘There has been a struggle here where we are standing. I am afraid for what you will find down there. Stay with me, Julian, and let the doctor go down.” The doctor went down, and in a little while he came back again. ‘‘'There is something caught on a point of rock be- tween here and the beach,” he said hurriedly. - *‘ I could, by looking up, just see it between me and the sky— something which flutters in the wind. Maxey, you had better take Miss Ellen back to the sleigh. We need a rope and a lantern at once. I will run to the house we just passed. I shall return immediately.” No doubt of that, u he maintained the pace at which he set off. Miss Maxey declined to go back to the sleigh. ‘<T am not a coward!” she said. ‘“‘Something is suf- fering. Until it can be poueyed my duty is here. Hark, Julian! I hear it again.” Yes; again and again and again, ere the good doctor er apeated: It rose and fell like the pulsations on the beach below as the wind carried it, sometimes dying away into silence, sometimes welling up into loudness— a strange, forlorn sound to be listening to in a lonely place after dark. There was something unfamiliar— almost unearthly—about it that made its hearers shud- der. It might be the voice of agony, but it made an Paar Gee ee kee CLAY NP ETT Vm PS ea TPL ce Bee ce ai ae TL eee es ge Vere er BBR Pia ete Pa Kad Ste A km cag Se, 210 DAY ee OY Pap aS Fn ed tf Oe Pe ae 4 f - my ‘ hs pS aie a; vee ad) ek, i x, « Pe, oi om yn er et Paes | ¥ aa ao err “| 7 a! Ne SAC —_ Pe) rs om Pathe Z . Ka 8 ¥ bale rh int Oe ; - ins 4 / A ’ f Aen" ee at 4 Sh \ a a aat oe ee Oey Cad § 0 Pm ed 4 Pe ‘ ty vate * ceo" 6 “> te . “ J ar | > , i Coe . _~t 3 4 * 4<~ ~ 7 A A ae S*, - . « TA & tal PF Pay Ae } : : ‘ ene . < : ? a. ? 7 r . - 900 CS + Com = @) co + a p AT . > : 4" ? 4 iADart mh, Se awe tee rt i. vw re