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CHAPTEE XVIII.
THE FULFILMENT.
When breakfast was finished, Dick proposed that we
should go now and look in the full daylight at the effect
of the shifting of the bog. I suggested to Norah that
perhaps she had better not come as the sight might
harrow her feelings, and, besides, that she would want
some rest and sleep after her long night of terror and
effort. She point blank refused to stay behind, and
accordingly we all set out, having now had our clothes
dried and changed, leaving only Miss Joyce to take care
of the house.
The morning was beautiful and fresh after the storm.
The deluge of rain had washed everything so clean that
already the ground was beginning to dry, and as the
morning sun shone hotly there was in the air that
murmurous hum that follows rain when the air is still.
And the air was now still—the storm seemed to have
spent itself, and away to the West there was no sign of
its track, except that the great Atlantic rollers were
heavier and the surf on the rocks rose higher than
usual.