And so shall you stay with me in your hearts, and take to
ourselves something of the new Gladness that held all my being; for
it did seem truly that my bitter task and adventuring should not in
the end be offered to Uselessness; and that I did truly draw unto
that far place in the Everlasting Night, where mine own Maid did
cry for me, that I should succour her.
And ever as I went, did I hark; but there was no more the low
eating of the Master-Word in the Night; not at that time.
And presently, I spied outward to the West, as it did seem a
good mile off in the night, the shining of a fire-hole; and I began
to plan that I should come unto that place, and have warmth and
dryness, and food and slumber. And, in verity, so set was I to the
need of these matters that if there did be a
