As the arrow travels whither it is sent, and there does its appointed work, so do you travel and so do I, and many another thing, seen and unseen; and therefore I told you truly that although we differ in degree, yet we are one.

Yes, even Murgh the Eating Fire, Murgh the Gate, and that bent wand of yours are one in the Hand that shaped and holds us both." Then divesting himself of the long robe which he had borrowed from the lad, he handed it to Hugh, and, taking the oars, rowed away clad in his rich, fantastic garb which now, as at first, could be seen by all.

He rowed away, and for a while the three whom he had left behind heard the soughing of the innumerable wings that went ever with him, after which came silence.
Silence, but not for long, for presently from the borders of the great canal into which his skiff must enter, rose shouts of fear and rage, near by at first, then farther and farther off, till these too were lost in silence.
"Oh! Sir Hugh!" sobbed poor David Day, "who and what is that dreadful man ?" "I think his name is Death," answered Hugh solemnly, while Dick nodded his head but said nothing.
"Then we must die," went on David in his terror, "and I am not fit to die." "I think not," said Hugh again.

"Be comforted.

Death has passed us by.
Only be warned also and, as he bade you, say nothing of all that you have heard and seen." "By Death himself, I'll say nothing for my life's sake," he replied faintly, for he was shaking in every limb.
Then they walked up the street to the yard door.