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"Together, we drew in, condensed and still aa ss

"In theirin his last pain on the bed they'd rass and flowers It was the bite of some deadly insect which had made his fever, all part of the cycle, as God would have told us had we asked

"But the wailing of the invisible ones hovered over this dying victim

And the las rose more terrible than I could endure

"Again I wept

" 'Be still, listen,' said Michael, the patient one

"He directed us to look beyond the tiny ca body of the feverishand crying!

"And with our eyesthese spirits for the first ti in and falling back, each retaining the vague shape in essence of a huFeeble, fuddled, lost, unsure of the their arms now to the man who lay on the bier about to die And die that man did "

Hush Stillness

Memnoch looked at me as if I must finish it

"And a spirit rose fro o out, but became an invisible spirit with all the rest The spirit of the man rose in the shape of the man and joined those spirits who had come to take it away "

"Yes!"

He gave a deep sigh and then threw out his arms He sucked in his breath as if he iant trees

I stood paralyzed

The forest sighed in its fullness around us I could feel his tre, I could feel the cry that hovered just inside hiht burst forth in some terrible clarion But it only died away as he bowed his head