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He wandered until the moon, larger now and
yellow tinged, was low between the black bars of the tree stems.
And then it sank very suddenly behind a hilly spur and the light
failed swiftly.
He stumbled and went with difficulty. He could go no further among
these rocks and ravines, and he sat down at the foot of a tree to
wait for day.
He sat very still indeed.
A great stillness came over the world, a velvet silence that wrapped
about him, as the velvet shadows wrapped about him. The corncrakes
had ceased, all the sounds and stir of animal life had died away,
the breeze had fallen. A drowsing comfort took possession of him.
He grew more placid and more placid still. He was enormously
content to find that fear had fled before him and was gone. He
drifted into that state of mind when one thinks without ideas, when
one's mind is like a starless sky, serene and empty.

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Some hours later Benham found that the trees and rocks were growing
visible again, and he saw a very bright star that he knew must be
Lucifer rising amidst the black branches.


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