'Now, Enoch Drebber,' I continued, turning to him, and holding the light to my own face, 'who am I ?' "He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eyes for a moment, and then I saw a horror spring up in them, and convulse his whole features, which showed me that he knew me.

He staggered back with a livid face, and I saw the perspiration break out upon his brow, while his teeth chattered in his head.

At the sight, I leaned my back against the door and laughed loud and long.

I had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but I had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me.
"'You dog!' I said; 'I have hunted you from Salt Lake City to St.
Petersburg, and you have always escaped me.

Now, at last your wanderings have come to an end, for either you or I shall never see to-morrow's sun rise.' He shrunk still further away as I spoke, and I could see on his face that he thought I was mad.