W. Somerset Maugham
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End of chapter one
Chapter two of the Fiend's Delight By Ambrose Beerce.
This Librevox recording is in the public domain.
Some fiction.
One more unfortunate
It was midnight, a black wet midnight, in a great city by the sea.
The church clocks were booming the hour, in tones half smothered by the marching rain.
When an officer of the watch saw a female figure glide past him like a ghost in the gloom.
and make directly toward a wharf.
The officer felt that some dreadful tragedy was about to be enacted, and started in pursuit.
Through the sleeping city sped those two dark figures, like shadows athwart a tomb.
Out along the deserted wharf to its farther end fled the mysterious fugitive.
The guardian of the night vainly endeavoring to overtake.
and calling to her to stay.
Soon she stood upon the extreme end of the pier, in the scourging rain, which lashed her fragile figure, and blinded her eyes with other tears than those of grief.
The night wind tossed her trusses wildly in the air, and beneath her bare feet the writhing billows struggled blackly upward for their prey.
At this fearful moment the panting officer stumbled and fell.
He was badly bruised.
He felt angry and misanthropic.
Instead of rising to his feet, he sat doggedly up and began chafing his abrated shin.
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