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Since then the dear trouble of it had ever been with him, deep, silent, dark like this night on the mountain shot with meteors of brief exultation, and starlighted with recollections of her every motion, glance, and word. At sunrise, looking again, he saw the town's five or six spires, and heard one tell the hour and the college bell confirm it.
And with this he walked quite to the brink of the chasm and laid his hand upon the iron cable from which swung the bridge. "I shall soon be free," he said with a deep sigh; and looked across the starlighted hills. Then the cable under his hand vibrated slightly; at first he thought it the night wind stealing through the vale and swaying the bridge above the sheer depth.
I must go, I should have gone back instantly." "But not across that spider's web. You must go by the long road. I will give you a horse and ride with you into the valley." "It is much nearer by the bridge, and I have my horse over there." "We shall get the horse without trouble," he said, and she walked beside him through the starlighted wood.
He clutched his revolver tight, brought up his elbows for greater ease in running, and sped after Zmai, now a blur on the starlighted sheep pasture. The slope was gradual and a pretty feature of the landscape by day; but it afforded a toilsome path for runners.
"Aim!" he thundered again, and then as he looked through the gray torch made, starlighted night, he quailed in a cold sickening fear, for the old man who led them on was his grandsire, the man whom of all on earth he loved and revered the most.
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