FIFTH OF NOVEMBER 1 That attempt to make Craven speak his mind was Olva's last plunge into the open.

He saw now, with a clarity that was like the sudden lifting of some blind before a lighted window, that he had been beguiled, betrayed.
He had thought that his confession to Bunning would stay the pursuit.

He saw now that it was the Pursuer Himself who had instigated it.

With that confession the grey shadow had drawn nearer, had made one degree more certain the ultimate capitulation.
For Bunning was surely the last person to be told--with every hour that became clearer.

There were now about four weeks before the end of term.
The Dublin match was to be on the first Tuesday of December, two days before every one went down, and between the two dates--this 5th of November and that 2nd of December--the position must be held.