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of the hall to ascertain nothing else did hide

and might again put the shivers into their hide.



Then, he returned to the hall to meet the others –

wry smiles were stamped on the faces of most elders.



‘It’s one fugitive rattling the roof of the hall,’

Chief Nightit said, gazing at the pall



beyond the lamplight, ‘and a litter

of grown men was all made to shiver



‘and some