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At the further end of the town he turned aside and, riding into the

yard of the Castle Inn, called for ale and, while he drank, stood by

to watch the hissing ostlers as they rubbed down "The Terror" and

gave hi

to the right, off and away for Tonbridge

But now, re the hill country before him, he checked his pace,

and thus, as he went, becaht about hi darkness

Therefore lifting his gaze to the heavens, he saw a great, black

cloud that grew and spread froathering cloud, caers, a shivering dread lest, after all, he be too

late; and, clenching sweating palroaned, and in that

spur

Suddenly, as they topped River Hill, out of the murk ahead there one again, but

far away beyond the distant horizon to his left, the so flash whose

quivering light, for one brief instant, showed hi road, of field and hedgerow and

motionless tree and, beyond, the square tower of a church, very

small with distance yet, above whose battlelittered vividly ere all things vanished, sed up

in the pitchy dark