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His eyes, now sharpened by the fight for life which life had begun to be revealed to him in all its protean aspects, searched the dappled, demi-light ahead, fiercely seeking to pierce any disguise that protective colouration might afford his quarry.
She dared not take the chance that friendly ears might hear her call for aid dared not raise her voice in appeal lest she awaken something monstrous, unclean, inconceivable the unseen thing which she could hear at intervals prowling there among dead leaves in the demi-light of the woods.
Through the filtered gloom of the demi-light Orde surveyed with interest the excellent reproductions of the Old World masterpieces framed on the walls "Madonnas" by Raphael, Murillo, and Perugino, the "Mona Lisa," and Botticelli's "Spring" the three oil portraits occupying the large spaces; the spindle-legged chairs and tables, the tea service in the corner, the tall bronze lamp by the piano, the neat little grate-hearth, with its mantel of marble; the ormolu clock, all the decorous and decorated gentility which marked the irreproachable correctness of whoever had furnished the apartment.
For a rod or two she could walk upright as long as she could retain her insecure footing on the glassy, uneven floor of rock; and a vague demi-light reigned there making objects distinct enough for her to see the stalactites and stalagmites like discoloured teeth in a chevaux-de-frise. Between these gaping fangs she crept, listening, striving to set her feet on the rocks without making any noise.
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