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The Tidal Wave and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
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But he remained square and resolute against the door. "And you'll stay
here--you swear to stay here till I come back?"

"Yes!" she cried again.

He bent to her once more; his gaze possessed her. "And--afterwards?" he
said, his voice deep and very low.

Her eyes had been raised to his; they closed suddenly and sharply, as if
to shut him out. "I will give you--all I have," she said, and shivered,
violently, uncontrollably.

The next instant his hands were gone from hers, and she was free.

Trembling, she sank upon the sofa, hiding her face; and even as she did
so the banging of the cottage door told her he was gone.

Thereafter she sat crouched for a long, long time in the paralysis of a
great fear.




CHAPTER IX

THE VISION


Down on the howling shore the great waves were hurling themselves in
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