We moved silently and with caution, for some night bird might accost us or the watch come upon us.

In the guest house all was darkness save one room,--the upper room,--from which came a very pale light.

When we had turned with the lane there were no houses to pass; only gaunt pines and copses of sumach.

I took my wife by the hand and hurried her on.

A hundred yards before us ran the river, dark and turbulent, and between us and it rose an old, unsafe, and abandoned landing.