6
I Ride in a Hearse and am Transformed
I LIKE to remember that in that moment I remained astonishingly calm and clear-headed. Though I could see nothing of what was passing under my feet, my head being completely enveloped in the pillow-case, I vividly imagined the scene which confronted the invaders. It was now late in the afternoon and the light was beginning to fail. They would see first the disorder of the room then the chair full in the last ray of the sun, and finally a dim, swaying figure hanging just clear of their heads in the far corner. I prayed for two things : that they would not turn on the light and that they had not closed the door.
It was now or never. I drew my legs up as quietly as possible, placed the soles of my feet against the wall behind me, slipped off the pill
