nstant, struck
fiercely with a swinging, downward blow.

A hissing metallic report, a low moan and the sound of a falling
body--then silence.

A moment later the hall door burst open for a second time, and in the
flood of electric light that poured in, Julian Paul Goetze saw a gray,
veiled figure, stretched upon the floor, the gloved hand clasping a
jeweled hilt, the blade of which was buried in her bosom. A stream of
crimson was discoloring the fabric of her dress, and spreading in a dark
pool on the rich carpet.

Rushing forward he caught up the prostrate form and tore away the veil.

Then, as if by magic, a revelation swept over him in one mighty wave of
horror. _The strange, piteous look he had once seen on the face of
Evelin March was again before him, and while he gazed he saw it
melting--melting, almost insensibly, like the blending outlines of a
dissolving view--into the saintly loveliness of Eva Delorme._

The mists of doubt, the shadows of suspicion, and the fever of
curiosity that had troubled him during those feverish months, were
suddenly swept away. Eva Delorme--Evelin March--one and the same. One
body, one soul, one heart; by some strange freak of nature--some wild
mental vagary or devilish witchery of which he could not know--made two
in life, but only one in death.

Above her was a heavy French-plate mirror, in an ornamented frame,
cracked entirely across. From its polished surface the self-aimed,
glancing dagger had found its way to the one troubled heart of those two
strange lives, and brought to it silence and restfulness forever.

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