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After that for Joan tiht have consisted ofover her He appeared to

approach her from all sides; he round her wide-eyed, sleepless; his

shadowy glance gloated over her lithe, slender shape; and then he

strode away into the glooer hear his

steps and then she was quiveringly alert, listening, fearful that he

ht creep upon her like a panther At tihtly; at others he let it die down And these dark

intervals were frightful for her The night seeue with her foe It was endless She prayed for dawn--yet with a

blank hopelessness for what the day h more interminable hours? Would she not break from sheer

strain? There were moments when she wavered and shook like a leaf in

the wind, when the beating of her heart was audible, when a child

could have seen her distress There were other s in a nightmare But when Kells

was near or approached to look at her, like a cat returned to watch

a captive e

and cold sense of the nearness of that swinging gun Late in the

night sheshe had no idea She had less

trust in his absence than his presence The nearer he carew and the clearer of purpose At last the black

void of canon lost its blackness and turned to gray Daas at