James M. Dodd
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
No, he was outside the window.
It was a ground floor room.
I'd left the curtains open.
And there he was, looking at me through the glass.
He was deadly pale.
I'd never seen a man so white.
I reckon ghosts may look like that.
But his eyes met mine.
And they were the eyes of a living man.
Did he give any sign?
When he saw me looking at him, he sprang back into the darkness.
Mr. Holmes, there was something shocking about that man.
It wasn't just that ghastly face.
It was something... something slinking and furtive.
Something guilty.
It left a feeling of... of horror in my mind.
I assume, however, that when a man has been soldiering a year or two with Brother Boers, his playmate, he keeps his nerve and acts quickly.
I got very hardly bashed before I was out of that window.
I ran down the garden path in the way I thought he might have gone.