But again came the voice calling him, and it seemed to come from over his head.

He looked up, but saw only the deep blue sky full of stars--more brilliant, however, than he had seen them before; and both sky and stars looked nearer to the earth.
While he gazed up, again he heard the cry.

At the same moment he saw one of the biggest stars over his head give a kind of twinkle and jump, as if it went out and came in again.

He threw himself on his back, and fixed his eyes upon it.

Nor had he gazed long before it went out, leaving something like a scar in the blue.