His present restlessness and suppressed agitation had been the result.
It was a call he knew well.

It was like a voice from a dead world.

It asked, he knew, for an answering call, yet he had not given it.

It was seven days since he first heard it in the market-place, and in that seven days he had realized that nothing in this world which has ever been, really ceases to be.

Presently, the call was repeated.