_Fide et Amore_! By Faith and Love!
There came again to her that curious feeling of revelation.
Looking back, she saw the man on horseback hewing those words while
she waited. The words themselves shone in fiery letters across.
her closed eyelids. She asked herself suddenly, with an awed
wonder if perchance her prayer had been answered after all, and she
had suffered the message to pass her by. . . .
There came a crash of thunder nearer and more menacing than any
that had gone before, startling her almost with a sense of doom,
setting every pulse in her body beating. She uncovered her face
and sat up.
Sullenly the echoes rolled away, yet they left behind a strange
impression that possessed her with an uncanny force from which she
could not shake herself free--a feeling that amounted to actual
conviction that some presence lurked without in the storm, alert
and stealthy, waiting for something.
The window was at the side of her bed. She had but to draw aside
the curtain and look out. It was within reach of her hand. But
for many breathless seconds she dared not.
What it was that stood outside she had no idea, but the thought of
Kieff was in her mind--Kieff the vampire who was dead.
She felt herself grow cold all over. She had only to cross the
narrow room and knock on the main wall of the bungalow to summon
Merston.
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