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At the inn he found a letter from his law friend, intimating that he would be admitted to Fergus next morning as soon as the Castle gates were opened, and permitted to remain with him till the arrival of the Sheriff gave signal for the fatal procession. A darker departure is near, The death-drum is muffled, and sable the bier.
Suddenly the chief executioner took one of his knives which had a human skull upon the hilt, and holding it up, commanded silence. Then spoke the Ocra Betea, who, rising from his stool, waved his hand across the veritable Golgotha, crying: "Behold! Tremble! The King makes the great yam custom. The death-drum beats, and to the fetish we offer sacrifice.
He told Adam Craig he was a miser. In the dreadful silence the tick of the old clock on the mantel seemed to Kenny's distracted ears a perpetuity of measured taps upon a death-drum. He thought of Poe and the pit and the pendulum. He thought of Joan and told himself fiercely that he did it all for her; for her he was winding around himself a chain foredoomed to clank.
Henry listened to De Lacy's arguments patiently, and combated them with temper, until the death-drum began to beat, and the castle bell to toll. He then led De Lacy to the window; on which, for it was now dark, a strong ruddy light began to gleam from without.
During the time of his greatest distress he received a letter from King George of Tonga, urging him to delay no longer, but to turn to the God of the Christians. This letter seems to have decided him. "On the 30th April, 1854, at nine o'clock the death-drum was beaten the signal for assembling in the great `Strangers' House' for the worshipping of the true God.
As she found her way blindly out of the room a passionate prayer rose insistently through all her being: "Oh, that father would come! That father would come!" "... A darker departure is near, The death-drum is muffled, and sable the bier." Campbell. The beautiful sunset retreat was sounding its inspiring notes as Peggy left the guard-house, and slowly made her way across the parade-ground.
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