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The cold had moderated somewhat and it had come on to snow. All night a sleety, wind-driven drizzle beat upon them. They rose from an uncomfortable night to a gloomy day. They consulted about what was best to do. Their camp was in a poor place, among a few water-logged trees that made a poor, smoky fire. It had little shelter from the storm, and there was no evidence of fair weather at hand.
The smother of wind-driven snow still enveloped the, town, the very air seemed charged with mystery and horror, and before the little lamplighter's eyes was ever the haunting vision of the murdered man. He drove into the alley back of his house, unhitched Bill and led him into the barn. His torch made the gloom of the place more terrifying than utter darkness would have been.
Some way off an intermittent white light smote up from below, touched the snow eddies with a transient glitter, and made an evanescent spectre in the night; and here and there, low down, some vaguely outlined wind-driven mechanism flickered with livid sparks. All this he appreciated in a fragmentary manner as his rescuers stood about him.
A drenched, bareheaded figure staggered into the hall, wind-driven, and would have fallen had not Jervase clutched at it. The newcomer and the master of the house held on to each other, and Jervase panted hoarsely: 'You? What's the matter? 'The matter? said the new arrival. 'The matter's ruin! The clatter of the tumbling objects in the hall brought out the General and Jack Jervase's son.
Two starboard quarter wires parted; all bights of stern wires frozen in ice; chain taking weight. 2 p.m. Ice opened, leaving ice in bay in line from Cape to landward of glacier. 8 p.m. Fresh wind; ship holding ice in bay; ice in Sound wind-driven to north-west. "April 17, 1 am. Pressure increased and wind shifted to north-west.
At last across the distance, against the wind-driven clouds of that stormy winter sky, John Kirkland saw the lights of the city not many lights or brilliant of their kind, but a glimmer here and there and behind the glimmer the dark bulk of masonry, roofs, steeples, watch-towers, bridges.
In the middle of the open space at the junction, there stood a cross, as could be seen by the moonlight that now came through an interval in the procession of wind-driven clouds.
Right out on the western boundary a line of hills shuts out the sea, and their summits glisten with a strange ruddy and golden light the effect of the sun shining on the wind-driven sand that covers them. To the north the river widens and winds, until, far away, we get a glimpse of the expanding waters of the Kaipara Harbour.
Subliminal theft, so to speak. Better examine the roof." I dozed again. When I wakened Hotchkiss sat alone, and the priest, from a corner, was staring at him dazedly, over his breviary. It was raining when we reached Cresson, a wind-driven rain that had forced the agent at the newsstand to close himself in, and that beat back from the rails in parallel lines of white spray.
'That's been going more than a year, hasn't it? 'Oh for a wind and a fire, say I. We passed over the commonage, which showed very black with recent fires. 'It looks rather knocked out, I said. 'Yet not without hope, he answered. We were driving back about the same time next fore-noon. A great fire was rushing wind-driven over that rolling upland. 'At last, he said. I sighed.
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