St George Rathborne

Witch or wife St George Rathborne

... "I can carry her to her room alone - wait for me here, John. " Of course, I fall back - they are one, and no other person should touch her but him; so I walk to the window, while Tom, powerful fellow that he is, easily gathers the form of his wife in his arms and carries, her away. Left alone in that room, with the body of the dead man to keep me company, I fall to ruminating and indulging in speculations. These latter are only vague as yet, but they serve to make me deucedly uncomfortable. What if Tom, in the heat of anger, or when temporarily crazy, has done this unnatural deed, and his wife suspects him? - that would be a situation for the display of emotions intense enough to satisfy the most exacting. At any rate, I feel that the shadow upon the house of Cartaret is bound to grow darker, and that Tom's happiness is ...