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In the night after that you bore him there I prayed until the mid-hours, when all were sleeping fast and then I stole down in my bare feet, that none could hear me and at last I found my way in the black dark feeling the walls until I reached that farthest door in the stone and then I lighted my taper and oped it."
Fortunate that it was so; else that brilliant flame that near the mid-hours of night glared athwart the deck of the Catamaran might not have awakened him; and had it not done so, neither he nor his three companions might ever again have looked upon human face except their own, and that only to see one another expire in the agonies of death.
They had done so, with a sort of despairing hope that it might reappear; but, as the surrounding atmosphere became impregnated with the filmy vapour, this dreary vigilance was gradually relaxed, and at length abandoned altogether. So thick fell the fog during the mid-hours of the night, that nothing could be seen at the distance of over six feet from the eye.
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