Excerpt from A Life's Remorse: A Novel Last night was Saturday! And here is Sunday, a day well into the evening, and as yet no sure tidings of the real perpetrator Of that fatal act has been gained. The people are growing impatient. They press more and more closely on the door as if drawn to the fatal spot by some horrible fascination. The police have been making inquiries right and left, but nothing coming of them the crowd is losing patience. Detectives, with a hurried, subdued whisper to the police man guarding the door, push their way through the masses and disappear into the by-streets at either side. Suddenly, on the heels of one of these last, a tall man in official uniform steps into the dying sunlight. He is instantly recognized by the onlookers as one of those who last night had been most instrumental in arresting the visitors at the hell. He had had his face cut open in the ed'ray, and now stands blinking in the light, with a huge white plaster drawn across his right cheek. The people watching him grow silent; he is standing on the top step of the flight that leads to the hall door of the ill-omened house, and is looking straight out before him as if lost in puzzled thought, a heavy frown upon his brow. Suddenly this frown lightens, and his whole face springs into eager life. His eyes grow bright, intense, and fasten themselves with all the avidity of a beast of prey upon some Object that stands back of the mass of human beings that are searching his face as though the desired knowledge for which they wait lies in it. He makes a step forward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.