Read The King in Yellow Page 15

  THE PHANTOM

  The Phantom of the Past would go no further.

  "If it is true," she sighed, "that you find in me a friend, let us turnback together. You will forget, here, under the summer sky."

  I held her close, pleading, caressing; I seized her, white with anger,but she resisted.

  "If it is true," she sighed, "that you find in me a friend, let us turnback together."

  The Phantom of the Past would go no further.