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expression which I was unable to interpret. The cracked lips tried to frame
words which I could not well understand. OnceI caught the name of Charles
LeSorcier , and again I fancied that the words `years' and `curse' issued
from the twisted mouth. Still I was at a lossto gather the purport of
hisdisconnnected speech. At my evident ignorance ofhis meaning , the pitchy
eyes once more flashed malevolently at me, until, helpless as I saw my
opponent to be, I trembled as I watched him.
Suddenly the wretch, animated with his last burst of strength, raisedhis
piteous head from the damp and sunken pavement. Then, as I remained,paralyzed
with fear, he found his voice and in his dying breath screamed forth those
words which have ever afterward haunted my days and nights. `Fool!' he
shrieked, `Can younot guess my secret? Have you no brain whereby you may
recognize thewill which has through six long centuries fulfilled the dreadful
curse upon the house? Have I not told you of the great elixir of eternal
life? Know you nothow the secret of Alchemy was solved? I tell you, it is I!
I! I!that have lived for six hundred years to maintain my revenge, for I am
Charles LeSorcier !'
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