And would not this fourth transformation be carefully concealed, until the day when the Master of the World chose to put into execution his insensate menaces?
Toward nine o'clock profound obscurity enwrapped the hollow.

Not a star looked down on us.

Heavy clouds driven by a keen eastern wind covered the entire sky.

The passage of the "Terror" would be invisible, not only in our immediate neighborhood, but probably across all the American territory and even the adjoining seas.
At this moment Turner, approaching the huge stack in the middle of the eyrie, set fire to the grass beneath.
The whole mass flared up at once.

From the midst of a dense smoke, the roaring flames rose to a height which towered above the walls of the Great Eyrie.