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So this boy had willed it; yet the dark had remained empty; and no shadow, no faintly outlined face, had even for an instant blotted out the star on which he stared; no touch on his shoulder, no whisper in his ear It had seemed as he strove there, in the silence, that it must be done; that there was no limit to power concentrated and intense Yet it had not happened

Once he had shuddered a little; and the very shudder of fear had had in it a touch of delicious, tre expectation Yet it had not happened

Laurie relaxed his h, and once more remembered the book he had read and Mrs Stapleton's feverish, self-conscious thought

Half an hour later hisin her bed, heard his footsteps pass her room