had rendered her progress a noiseless one so far and she made for instant retreat then that her hearing might have deceived her she turned anew to the door and softly tried the handle the was out of order but a piece of furniture had been moved forward on the inside which prevented her opening the more than an inch or two a stream of morning light through the fell upon the faces of the pair wrapped in profound slumber s lips being parted like a half opened flower near his cheek tlie was so struck with their appearance and with the novelty of s gown hanging across a chair her silk stockings beside it the pretty and the other habits in which she had arrived because she had none else that her first indignation at the of and gave way to a momentary over this genteel as it seemed she closed the door and withdrew as softly as she had to go and consult with her neighbours on the odd discovery not more than a minute had elapsed after her when woke and then both had a sense that something had disturbed them though they could not say what and the uneasy feeling whidi it grew stronger as soon as he was dressed he narrowly the lawn through the two or three inches of i think we will leave at once said he it is a fine day and i cannot help somebody is about the house at any rate the woman will be sure to come to day she assented and putting the room in order they took up the few articles that belonged to them and departed noiselessly when they had got into the forest she turned to take a last look at the house by op the d ah happy good bye she said my life can only he a question of a few weeks why should we not have stayed there don t say it we shall soon get out of this district altogether we ll continue our course as we ve begun it and keep t north nobody will think of looking for us there we shall be looked for at the ports if we are sought at all when we are in the north we will get to a port and away having thus persuaded her the plan was pursued and they kept a bee line their long repose at the house lent them walking power now and towards mid day they found that they were approaching the of which lay in their way he decided to rest her in a of trees the afternoon and push onward under cover of ess at dusk food as usual and their night b an the boundary between upper and mid being crossed about eight o dock to walk across country without much r ard to roads was not new to and she showed her old in the performance the they were obliged to pass through in order to take advantage of the town bridge for crossing a large river that them it was about midnight when they went along the deserted streets lighted by the few lamps keeping off the pavement that it might not echo their footsteps the graceful pile of cathedral rose on their left hand but it was lost upon them now once out of the town they followed the road which after a few miles across an open plain though the sky was dense with a diffused light from some fragment of a moon had hitherto them a little but the moon had now sunk the seemed to settle almost on their heads and the night grew as dark as a cave however they found their way along keeping as on the turf as by fulfilment possible that their tread might not which it was easy to do there being no hedge or fence of any kind all was open loneliness and black solitude over which a stiff breeze blew they had proceeded thus two or three miles further when on a sudden became conscious of some vast dose in his front rising sheer from the grass they had almost themselves against it what monstrous place is this said angel it said she he listened the wind playing upon the edifice produced a tune like the note of some gigantic one harp no other sound came from it and lifting his hand and advancing a step or two felt the surface of the structure it seemed to be of solid stone without joint or carrying his fingers onward he found that what he had come in contact with was a colossal pillar by stretching out his left hand he could fed a similar one adjoining at an indefinite overhead something made the black sky which had the semblance of a vast the pillars they carefully entered beneath and between the their soft rustle but they seemed to be still out of doors the place was drew her breath fearfully and perplexed said � what can it be sideways they encountered another pillar square and as the first beyond it another and another the place was all doors and pillars some connected above by continuous a very temple of the winds he said the next pillar was isolated others composed a others were prostrate their forming a wide enough for a carriage and it was soon obvious that they made up a forest of by op the d upon the grassy expanse of the plain the couple advanced further into this of the ta t till they stood in its midst it is said the heathen temple you mean yes older than the centuries older than the d well what shall we do darling we may find shelter on but really tired by this time herself upon an that lay dose at hand and was sheltered from the wind by a pillar owing to the action of the sun during the preceding 