Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 101: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 95 first floor, from which there was no apparent egress except the long passage which I had myself just traversed, and the winding stair- case by which I had descended. I concluded my investigations, in spite of his pertinacity, without finding anything un- usual; and I might perhaps have come in time to believe that what I had seen had really been the result of a dream, if it had not been for a severe fright I got that very night. Jamie’s anguished face haunted me, and I could not get to sleep for some hours; but I was at last dropping into an uneasy doze when I was fully aroused bya noise at my window, which, as I have said, was on the second floor. Sitting up in alarm I saw a dark object outside, which I recognized as the top of a ladder, and I could tell by its peculiar motion that somebody was ascend- ing it. I sat shuddering and incapable of moving, thinking, of a truth, that my last hour had struck, and that, disturbed by my explora- tion of the house, the new attendant had been commissioned to murder me. But even comichbooks.com