And in the eleventh hour, we did go creeping from bush unto
bush, and did be as shadows that went in the mixt greyness and odd
shinings of that Land. And the grim and dreadful House did be now
unto our right, and did loom huge and utter silent above us in the
night. And the lights of the House did shine steadfast and
deathless with a noiseless shining, as that they shone out of the
quiet of some drear and unnatural Eternity. And there did a seeming
of Unholiness to brood in the air, and a sense of all and deathly
Knowledge; so that, surely, our hiding did seem but a futile thing
unto our spirits; for it was to us as that we did be watched quiet
and alway by a Power, as we slipt gentle from bush unto bush.
And when the twelfth hour did be nigh, we to begin to draw clear
of the H
