CHAPTER XVII

THE SHADOWS LOOM NEARER FOR a few minutes after she had been left alone, Molly lay motionless, too full of horror even to think. She felt herself near death, and with all the intensity of her being she longed to live. Never had life seemed so sweet. She wanted to get out of this awful room, to see the sun, the fields, the trees, to feel the fresh air blowing on her cheek, to hear the birds and the sounds of life around her. More than that, she wanted to see her friends and to be once again amid her familiar surroun…