[From Out the Vasty Deep by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes]@TWC D-Link bookFrom Out the Vasty Deep CHAPTER XIII 4/10
And yet--oh, Sir Lyon, what was so very, very terrible just now, was that I felt her looking at me with a kind of hatred in her dead face," and, as she uttered these last words, an expression of deep pain came over Helen Brabazon's countenance. Sir Lyon then asked a rather curious question: "How was the apparition clothed ?" "In her shroud.
A woman in Redsands made it.
I saw the woman about it--perhaps that impressed it on my mind," her mouth quivered.
"The figure standing there was exactly like Milly dead, excepting that her eyes seemed alive, and that there was that dreadful look of anger on her face." "How long did the vision last ?" "Oh, not a whole minute altogether! When I first saw it I got up, and without knowing what I was doing, I screamed; and then she, Milly, seemed to fade away--to melt into the air. "Did anyone else see anything ?" asked Sir Lyon eagerly. "No, I don't think so.
In fact, I'm quite sure not.
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