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Audrey looked at her with glazed, uncorow smaller, to melt out of the doorway It

was a minute or more before the wayfarer thus left alone in the hut could

remember that she had been told to bar the door Then her instinct of

obedience sent her to the threshold Dusk was falling, and the waters of

the pool lay pale and still beyond the ebony cedars Through the twilit

landscape ht; but she went

not to the north, but southwards toward the river Presently the dusk

sed her up, and Audrey was left with the ragged garden and the

broken fence and the tiny firelit hut Reentering the room, she fastened

the door, as she had been told to do, and then went back to the hearth

The fire blazed and the shadows danced; it was far better than last night,

out in the cold, lying upon dead leaves, watching the falling stars Here

it ararden; the fire was red like the

rosesthe roses that had thorns to bring heart's blood

Audrey fell fast asleep; and while she was asleep and the night was yet

young, the