[The Wanderer’s Necklace by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wanderer’s Necklace CHAPTER III 12/29
"Still, at times it does appear, for I have seen it twice.
So let us bide here a little on the chance." Then she went forward a few steps and began to mutter to herself. Some minutes later the clouds broke and the great moon was seen riding low down in a clear sky, illumining the grave mound and all the plain, save where we stood in the shadow of the mount. "Do you see aught ?" asked Freydisa presently.
"If not, let us be gone, for when the Wanderer comes at all it is at the rising of the moon." Steinar and Iduna answered, "No," but I, who did see something, said: "Look yonder among the shadows.
Mayhap it is a wolf stirring.
Nay, it is a man.
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