He pressed my hand with a grip that nearly crushed it.
"Now," he told me.

"I do not fear.

If I--fail, you will follow with help ?" I promised.
"We talked it over carefully," he went on, "bringing to bear all our power of analysis and habit of calm, scientific thought.

We considered minutely the time element in the phenomena.

Although the deep chanting began at the very moment of moonrise, fully five minutes had passed between its full lifting and the strange sighing sound from the inner terrace.