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Gertrude Atherton. Collected Stories

Collected Stories

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DEATH AND THE WOMAN

THE STRIDING-PLACE

THE SACRIFICIAL ALTAR

THE END

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Gertrude Atherton

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Once more the fancy wantoned above the stunned heart. Death--where was he? What a curious experience: to be sitting alone in a big house--she knew that the cook had stolen out--waiting for Death to come and snatch her husband from her. No; he would not snatch, he would steal upon his prey as noiselessly as the approach of Sin to Innocence--an invisible, unfair, sneaking enemy, with whom no man's strength could grapple. If he would only come like a man, and take his chances like a man! Women had been known to reach the hearts of giants with the dagger's point. But he would creep upon her.

She gave an exclamation of horror. Something was creeping over the window-sill. Her limbs palsied, but she struggled to her feet and looked back, her eyes dragged about against her own volition. Two small green stars glared menacingly at her just above the sill; then the cat possessing them leaped downward, and the stars disappeared.

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