Now loud continuous blows were resounding on the outer door. The electric bell rang forth unintermittently.
With swaying steps Evarne crossed the room. Pallister instinctively shrank back as the terrible spectacle advanced in his direction. At this a pair of bloodshot eyes were turned upon him, while a strained voice whispered calmly enough—
"Avoid Sekhet—tell everyone what I said. Never, never love too much. It is always dreadful in some way—always! Sooner or later—always! I must go now and tell Geoff everything myself."
Then, ere they could realise what was next to happen, she had put one knee on the window-sill and flung up her arms wildly. Instinctively both men rushed forward, but, happily, too late!
In another instant a broken mass lay peacefully unconscious forever upon the green bosom of Earth—our Mother.
Transcriber Notes:
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted.
On page 5, a period was added after "rendered it congenial enough".