Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1860-03-30
| lay perfectly quiet with wide open eyes

In few moments he stopped grinding,
and passing his finger carefully along the
edge of the knife, he nodded and shook
his head knowingly, to intimate to
himself that he had brought the
blade to a proper degree of sharpness
My blood ran cold kind of panic seiz-
ed me when saw that action, and the
cool, calculating smile with which he held
the knife up between him and the moon
light, looking at it with the air of a con-
noisscur. Then he leisurely got p,stepp-
ed over to the table where | left the cam
dlestick, and began looking around for
something's match, | conjectured.
While his back was turned, the idea of
slipping from the bed and boltng out at
the door suggested itself to me; but be-
fore had time to act upon it, the match
was found, and holding the candle in one
hand, the match in the other, and the ham
die of the knife between his long, woltish
teeth, he came over towards the bed
Even then might have attempted to es-
cape BY rushing at him, wrenching the
knife from between his teeth, and 50 get
ting the advantage; but even that | was
M, e,,,bIc n 60 ovrrcomc wa. bv tbo
s,r,r;so and borror If my situotion and
through all, such an Unsuitable curiosity
,osscsocd mo 10 know what he was about
to do, for as yet could only conjecture
that hi, nura3s, wa, to murder me-
He struck the match against the wall
lnl lighted the camille, AMI then took the
,sa;ta from between hi. teeth and took
i,.m hold or the candle in his hand. |
,tlt flint aud sirl warn fpl1v realized
then that nv last chance Of escape wa,
conc H. 1s,t over me, flashed the light
If1II n,an nv cve. and ncrcejyinc that
was awake exclaimed. with a wild kind
ofIsn,I
s." II hat Awa,, cb o-IIa! ha +,
Glad of it sir meant to awake you, it
-, b,l,'t dom. il yonrSclf I consider
!, S,,y,r,jlc oki,l a sIeeoina man"
\aI be I,n,5nl At m. aFain, and peer
Ia into nv r,e. Win Ii, reI.b,t burnin,
NO.
could Sc, at once that he was mad.
,at fs'w - - b,rror of mv sitna.ion
.y,s ;nsrc,sc1 a. dr.t I had thou hi
vas increased ~ r'9' = | n'N '''9' ~ ~ :
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saF, win sfeat care along 'a' ta5e q 'aI
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