My eyes were fixed upon that innocent-looking little box in horror and fascination.
Ah! Something moved again within.
I saw it—saw it quite plainly.
I tried to cry out—to protest, to shout for help. But in vain.
Surely this woman's vengeance was indeed a fiendish and relentless one.
My face was not more than a foot away from the mysterious box, and when I fully realised, in my terror, what was intended, I think my brain must have given way.
I became insane!