assumed such a semblance of shifting expression that they trusted to hear the
whole mystery explained by a single word. But it was only the shadow of a
tattered curtain waving betwixt the dead face and the moonlight.
"Both dead!" said the venerable man. "Then who shall divulge the secret?
Methinks it glimmers to and fro in my mind like the light and shadow across the
Old Maid's face. And now 'tis gone!"