He insists that I go with him on another expedition.
27 September .-- It was two o'clock before we found a suitable opportunity for our attempt.

The funeral held at noon was all completed, and the last stragglers of the mourners had taken themselves lazily away, when, looking carefully from behind a clump of alder trees, we saw the sexton lock the gate after him.

We knew that we were safe till morning did we desire it, but the Professor told me that we should not want more than an hour at most.

Again I felt that horrid sense of the reality of things, in which any effort of imagination seemed out of place, and I realized distinctly the perils of the law which we were incurring in our unhallowed work.

Besides, I felt it was all so useless.