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A FAINT cry came stealing through the silence of the place, like the wail of a bird that passes on the night wind and is gone.
Tiphaïne heard it and stood listening, her eyes changing their intensity of purpose for a shadowy and vague unrest. Bertrand was still standing by the torch he had thrust into the iron bracket clamped to the wall. The flare flung darkness and light alternate upon his face.