Excerpt from The Shadow of the RopeT is finished, said the woman, speaking very quietly to herself. Not another day, nor a night, if I can be ready before morning!She stood alone in her own room, with none to mark the white-hot pallor of the oval face, the scornful curve of 'quivering nostrils, the dry lustre of ¿ashing eyes. But while she stood a heavy step went blustering down two ¿ights of stairs, and double doors slammed upon the ground ¿oor.It was a little London house, with five ¿oors from basement to attic, and a couple of rooms upon each, like most little houses in London, but this one had latterly been the scene of an equally un distinguished drama of real life, upon which the curtain was even now descending. Although a third was whispered by the world, the persons of this drama were really only two.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.