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What does the phrase "she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye " reveal about Sykes at the end of the story?

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The end of the story indicates what: " ... she waited in the growing heat while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye which must know by now that she knew." That Sykes would be dead soon.

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