Excerpt.....The solitary ray of light that found its way into the dismal room seemed to shrink from entering.
Silence reigned supreme within.
Outside, even the stillness of the night was hardly broken.
It was a ray of moonlight, as feeble through the misty air as “the glowworm’s ineffectual fire.”
It found its way in, nevertheless, under one broken slat of a closed blind, and then it seemed to hesitate, losing life and shrinking from going farther.
Was there a lost life within?
The ray of light came farther and fell upon only one object in the room. All else was gloom and silence.
It stood near the partly open window and the closed blinds. It was as motionless as a block of stone, as white as a figure of marble, as cold as a form of clay.....
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