She clasped her arms around the dead form, pressing it tightly to her breast. She laid her cheek to Geoff's, and so rose with her white, distorted face besmeared and sullied. Now loud continuous blows were resounding on the outer door. The electric bell rang forth unintermittently. With swaying steps Evarne crossed the room. Pallister instinctively shrank back as the terrible spectacle advanced in his direction. At this a pair of bloodshot eyes were turned upon him, while a strained voice whispered calmly enough-- "Avoid Sekhet--tell everyone what I said. Never, never love too much. It is always dreadful in some way--always! Sooner or later--always! I must go now and tell Geoff everything myself." Then, ere they could realise what was next to happen, she had put one knee on the window-sill and flung up her arms wildly. Instinctively both men rushed forward, but, happily, too late! In another instant a broken mass lay peacefully unconscious forever upon the green bosom of Earth--our Mother. Transcriber Notes: Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_. Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS. Throughout the document, the oe ligature was replaced with "oe". Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is. The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate. Thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations, and the order of illustrations may not be the same in the List of Illustrations and in the book. Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted. On page 5, a period was added after "rendered it congenial enough". On page 13, a period was added after "ingratiate herself into his regard". On page 19, "hiterto" was replaced with "hitherto". On page 26, the single quotation mark before "Cold now" was replaced with a double quotation mark. On page 27, a period was added after "rendered it congenial enough". On page 30, "hiterto" was replaced with "hitherto". On page 96, a period was added after "and entering, ordered something to eat". On page 98, "but he did look as" was replaced with "but she did look as". On page 102, "desplay" was replaced with "display". On page 108, "find" was replaced with "fine". On page 109, "mangeresses" was replaced with "manageresses". On page 114, the quotation mark was removed after "conceal the true state of affairs". On page 121, a period was added after "to my way o' thinking, miss". On page 143, "comgenial" was replaced with "congenial". On page 159, a quotation mark was added after "Caledonia's Bard". On page 173, a single quotation mark was replaced with a double quotation mark. On page 181, a single quotation mark was replaced with a double quotation mark.