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The setting sun! Ay, for the lower part of the hill was growing cold;

the shore at its foot was grey Then he had slept long, and the time was

come He drew a deep breath and listened But on all within and without

lay silence, a silence marked, rather than broken, by the dull fall of a

wave on the causeway The day had been cal

He set his teeth hard, and continued to listen An hour before sunset

was the tie What did it mean? In five

minutes the sun would be below the horizon; already the zone of war upwards And Bigot and old

Badelon? Why had they left hirowing grey, grey and dark in the corners, and--what

was that?

He started, so violently that he jarred his leg, and the pain wrung a

groan from him At the foot of the bed, overlooked until then, a wo on her outstretched arms She

lay without motion, her head and her clasped hands towards the loophole,