All the world is quiet, but it is the quiet before the storm.

I strain my ears, and all my senses, for some betrayal of that impending storm.

Oh, that it may not be premature! That it may not be premature!* * The Second Revolt was largely the work of Ernest Everhard, though he cooperated, of course, with the European leaders.
The capture and secret execution of Everhard was the great event of the spring of 1932 A.D.

Yet so thoroughly had he prepared for the revolt, that his fellow-conspirators were able, with little confusion or delay, to carry out his plans.

It was after Everhard's execution that his wife went to Wake Robin Lodge, a small bungalow in the Sonoma Hills of California.
Small wonder that I am restless.