"Come back!" Again the lightning streaked the darkness.
There came a burst of thunder, and suddenly, through it and above it, he heard the far-distant roar of rain.

He sprang to his feet.

It was coming.
The seconds throbbed away.

Something was moving in the compound, a subtle, awful Something.

The trees and bushes quivered before it, the cluster-roses rattled their dead leaves wildly.