Woman or What
tish loveliness clad in happy white,
defiant and yielding, compliant and
resistant. He could see that her hair
was intensely black, and from the
glimpses now   and  then  of the
classic purity of her delicate cheek,
chin, and throat, he suspicioned mar-
vels of loveliness the darkness kept
unrevealed.
  They had almost reached the end
of the avenue of trees, and the gate
by the sexton's bell-hung, dilapidated,
old brick cottage, and were passing
under the electric light at the en-
trance to the cemetery, when she
stopped, turned facing him, and sud-
denly looked up as if about to put a
direct and abrupt question to him.
II- that moment he got a frill view of
leer face and eyes -a face white as
marble, and eyes, two lucid topazes,
a luminous yellow.



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