![]() ![]() The watchman then attacks Scott and seizes the Yellow Sign. They now hear the sounds of an approaching hearse and the watchman, possessed, it seems, by the King In Yellow, enters. ![]() Sitting down to discuss the play, they realise that the clasp is the Yellow Sign. Having injured his hands, Scott finds Tessie reading the King In Yellow, despite not having one in his apartment and having vowed never to read following the tragedy of his friend Castaigne. Tessie gives him a clasp of black onyx with "a curious symbol or letter in gold", which she had found on the day she first dreamed of the hearse. ![]() He is pleased to learn the church next door is being sold, although upon passing the church one evening the watchman asks him "Have you found the Yellow Sign?". His model, Tessie Reardon, recounts a recurring dream of a hearse carrying a coffin in which Scott lies alive. Scott, spots the watchman in the nearby churchyard and feels repelled by him. Opens in Washington Square where the narrator, Mr. The tale is prefaced with a quote from Bliss Carman's 'Let the Red Dawn Surmise' that holds some similarity to Cassilda's Song: "Let the red dawn surmise / What we shall do, / When this blue starlight dies / And all is through." ![]()
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