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Lashed by fear, hounded by fate, up and down the room he turned, hemmed by walls of disaster. His feet, now impacting on the polished floor, now noiseless over the rugs, kept time to the mechanical repetition of the thought: Ruin, ruin, ruin! that ebbed and flowed in his racked brain. Haggard and wan he paced with rumpled hair and eyes whose bloodshot glance bespoke long vigils. Save for his footfall and the busy impertinence of the clock that would soon toll midnight, the house the house of Walter Haynes Slayton, cashier, was still. A numbing silence gfripped it a silence that could almost be heard, so deep it was. Outside, hardly a sound disturbed the frosty November night, now moonlit, now cloudy, that brooded over the suburban solitude of Oakwood Heights. Stillness without, silence within. The night seemed waiting, big with woe. Yet through all the mans stress and torment passed a flicker of relief that his wife had not yet returned. In view of the approaching disaster, her absence on a visit was a signal blessing. His one wish now was that she might remain away till something could be done to stem the tides of ruin.
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