I was near him, in the darkness. Then the long-delayed next flash of lightning lit the scene -- and I saw him still standing there, but no longer in an attitude of contemplation. He bent over the waters -- and I saw his clenched right hand fall against his breast and heard from his lips one word --
"Guilty!"
Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935), novelist and poet, was author of such novels of mystery and detection as The Leavenworth Case and The Forsaken Inn.
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