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Yet as he watched and waited his own horror grew That for which inwithin him, as in every beast that lives by perception rather than reason; and he too by this strange faculty kneell enough that so out fro of an utterly different order fro shoe and furious vituperation--so that affected certain nerves within his body in a new and awful manner Once or twice in his life he had been conscious of it before, once in an empty room, once in a room tenanted by a mere outline beneath a sheet and closed by a locked door

His heart too see linote that sounded once in his ears

And still the horror grew

Presently he withdrew one claw fro his head delicately; and then the other For an instant longer he waited, feeling his back heave uncontrollably Then, dropping noiselessly on to the lead, he fled beneath the sheltering parapet, a noiseless shadow in the gloom; and his mate fled with him