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Tristram's sinewy fingers tightened upon the slender white throat of the helpless woman until her breath was crushed from her, her face became crimson, and in her wild, starting eyes was a ghastly expression of suffering and despair.
"Mercy! " she managed to gasp with difficulty. "Ah, no! Let me go! let me go!"