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Night! . night on the veld once more -- another luminous night of stars and sweet scents, and the haunting sense of mystery and isolation and intimate companionship, interrupted at intervals of ever greater frequency as the train ran into some wayside station, and hurrying forms moved along the platform, and gazed with faint curiosity into the unlighted carriage, as they passed the open windows and caught a momentary glimpse of the dim faces of a man and woman watching together in the night.
"Ghosts! " Pamela said once, pressing closer against Dare. "Shadows of the night, -- flitting in the darkness, and swallowed up in it again. I wonder what they make of us, those ghosts? -- two live people alone in a shadow world."