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"Beware of the dog at your heels." Who had spoken those words? In that moment, I think, he knew himself trapped and doomed. The sense of dark fatality which had pursued him all day--always in seeming the shadow of something horrible behind him, and always a vague indefinite nothingness when he had turned to look--was interpreted at last in the sinister significance of this ambush. So he read it at once, and, reading it, his heart constricted deathly for an instant, his nerves leapt and vibrated.
But, in the very shock of the surprise, he seised desperate hold of his reason, desperate control of his manner, lest in the demoralisation of either a consciousness of his guilt should seem to betray him. And all the while that his mind was leaping and tearing, like a snared rat, for a way to escape, his eyes were gazing steadily on the two figures, and there was a placid smile on his face.