CHAPTER XXVIII

WHICH TELLS HOW BELLEW LEFT DAPPLEMERE IN THE DAWN Far in the east a grey streak marked the advent of another day, and upon all things was a solemn hush, a great and awful stillness that was like the stillness of death. The earth was a place of gloom and mist, where spectral shadows writhed and twisted, and flitted under a frowning heaven, and out of the gloom there came a breath, sharp, and damp, and exceeding chill. Therefore, as Bellew gazed down from the frowning heaven to the gloom of earth below, with its ev…