Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...What are you saying?" he demanded slowly, yet with a certain intensity of fierceness that thrilled all my veins. What! was he about to enact a similar part in another tragedy? Was I to go the way of poor Stephen Maymore...
...been pretty intimate with him during this time. I had tried to overcome those horrible thoughts which had taken possession of me; I had tried to blot out from my remembrance the vision of his face as I had seen it four months previous, - the face of Stephen Maymore's murderer. I could not: that unseen presence of guilt was with me night and day. Enough of this: I live over again the horror of that time...
...managed to cry out at last, waving him aside. I could not bear to encounter the touch of Stephen Maymore's murderer...
Already, the unexplained tragedy, in which I had six months before played so large a part, was beginning to look very far off; already that horrible nightmare was passing away in the clearer light of the days that followed. But I could not wholly forget the terrible vision. Stephen May-more had vanished utterly from human knowledge, and I - I had seen the face of his murderer. That was the fact which persistently followed me, the conviction I could not contradict. Often I awoke in the middle of the night, shivering and ghost-haunted, from some second vision of death...
...looked up and saw him! Oh! I saw him! I turned pale, and staggered back against the railing, trembling in every limb. For it was the face I had seen on that never-to-be-forgotten night; the face of Stephen Maymore's murderer...