plot has succeeded. It is all over. And she has planted her suggestion. No need now for any further
contact with Harriet. She lets her go, unaccompanied. Significant symbolism of finality!"
He sat thinking.
"No need to meet Harriet again," he half-whispered, "till after death!"
I said, startled: "What do you mean by that?"
"Never mind," he answered.
He crossed to the charred spot upon the floor and picked up the heat-blasted crystals. They were about
twice the size of olive pits and apparently of some composite. He walked to the table and looked down
upon the grotesque figure with its skeleton ribs.
"Suppose the heat melted it?" he asked, and reached over to lift the skeleton. It held fast, and he gave it a