“ One year of-comparative calm. I had no remorse for what I had done—l might be cursed for it, but I care not. One year, and then you told me in light words that you had again given your love away—away from me—that another wife would soon lie in your bosom ! I answered with a word as light, and went from you to writhe in a frenzy of jealousy and wrath. I had cursed myself for naught—l was an outcast from your' hcapt for ever. i. ; “ After that a new horror came into my life ; she began to haunt me. By day, by night, at unexpected moments, she would stand before me or creep up behind me— by day a shape of gloom, by night a shape of moonshiny light. "When I-was sittiug alone, or in' company, she was there with a malignant sneer on her face, as if she said, ‘You sen—what have you gained by it?’ or with a malignant scowl. One night after your second wife came home—no weakling, no half-blind fool, but one with eyes that can see—(notlike yours, John; you have only a heart that trusts and a head that thinks) eyes 5 that see, and a mind that notes — she had- gazed at me, and sneered me into frenzy.- I rushed into your wife’s bed-room with* the 'silent rush of- a shadow, and twined :- my fingers round her naked throat. She would sneer no longer—l would toss this other obstruction away, and you would be mine yet. • She .waked and struggled— my nerves' relaxed—l- could hot complete the deed ; I fled, and escaped detection or sus picion. No—Anne is too strong for me—not in body, but in soul. “For some time—-I do not know how long— she has been putting me to a new and devilisbly-contrived torture. Sbe has taken to murdering me.. She comes at night, mostly when the moon is high, and with the wiudow uncovered, and the light streaming.in as it did that night, she mur ders me as I—r-yes, what’s in a word ?: —as I murdered, her ! With strong, cruel hands she; smothers me,, and... in struggling agony I die, suffering all the pangs of death —and come to life again, suffering all the pangs of resuscitation—come to life to sink for hours into a dreamless stupor. 