6. FROM MIDNIGHT TO HALF-PAST ONE
A.M.Intentness pervaded everything; Night herself seemed to have
become a watcher.
The four persons proceeded across the glade, and into the park
plantation, at equidistances of about seventy yards. Here the
ground, completely overhung by the foliage, was coated with a thick
moss which was as soft as velvet beneath their feet. The first
watcher, that is, the man walking immediately behind Manston, now
fell back, when Manston's housekeeper, knowing the ground pretty
well, dived circuitously among the trees and got directly behind
the steward, who, encumbered with his load, had proceeded but
slowly. The other woman seemed now to be about opposite to Anne, or
a little in advance, but on Manston's other hand.
He reached a pit, midway between the w
