Jasper, with a strange and sudden smile upon his face, lays the palm of his hand upon the breast of Durdles, stopping him where he stands.
At that end of Minor Canon Corner the shadow is profound in the existing state of the light: at that end, too, there is a piece of old dwarf wall, breast high, the only remaining boundary of what was once a garden, but is now the thoroughfare.

Jasper and Durdles would have turned this wall in another instant; but, stopping so short, stand behind it.
'Those two are only sauntering,' Jasper whispers; 'they will go out into the moonlight soon.

Let us keep quiet here, or they will detain us, or want to join us, or what not.' Durdles nods assent, and falls to munching some fragments from his bundle.

Jasper folds his arms upon the top of the wall, and, with his chin resting on them, watches.

He takes no note whatever of the Minor Canon, but watches Neville, as though his eye were at the trigger of a loaded rifle, and he had covered him, and were going to fire.