It was then very dark, and the scattered lamps made the darkness greater when we were once outside their individual radius.

The Professor had evidently noted the road we were to go, for he went on unhesitatingly, but, as for me, I was in quite a mixup as to locality.

As we went further, we met fewer and fewer people, till at last we were somewhat surprised when we met even the patrol of horse police going their usual suburban round.

At last we reached the wall of the churchyard, which we climbed over.

With some little difficulty, for it was very dark, and the whole place seemed so strange to us, we found the Westenra tomb.