Chapter

 1 1 |       had crowned the height at night.~When the wind blew the
 2 1 |          And finally one stormy night pale flames, reflected from
 3 1 |         glimmerings of light at night. Folk began to realize that
 4 1 |       eruption was at hand.~The night of the fourth of April,
 5 1 |  villages for miles around.~The night was very dark. A weight
 6 1 |       and animal, under darkest night, amid forests, threatened
 7 1 |  mountain, where the shadows of night still lingered, a strange
 8 2 |      having left Washington the night before, I arrived at Raleigh,
 9 2 |     Raleigh. There I passed the night, and in the course of the
10 3 |     comfortably located for the night with the mayor of the town,
11 3 |        farm; and our sleep that night was sound and wholly untroubled
12 3 |     Garden, where we passed the night. While I strove vainly to
13 8 |       Ward; at any hour, day or night, I shall be ready to start
14 8 |         rose. From morning till night, an eager and noisy crowd
15 8 |        letter, no telegram! The night following, there was still
16 10|        vacant during the entire night. From sunset to sunrise,
17 10|      the letter in the box. The night had been so dark, you could
18 11|       Our train sped during the night across West Virginia and
19 11|      are still there! Then when night comes?”~“But,” I asked, “
20 11|      watching in the wood until night?”~“No; I left after an hour’
21 11|         I reached there late at night and sent immediate word
22 11|       to Washington.”~“That was night before last. Did you return
23 11|         we did not succeed this night, the campaign would end
24 11|    Wells suggested and wait for night. The intervening time could
25 11|      ceased. With the coming of night the breeze fell little by
26 12|      still sought to pierce the night. Sometimes a glimmer, due
27 12|       us distinctly through the night. John Hart and Nab Walker
28 12|      was returning to pass this night, like the last, within the
29 12|     stole so softly through the night, it continued to approach
30 13|      knew, having heard him the night before, that he spoke English.
31 13|       even if that had been the night before. And judging by the
32 13|         Was he only waiting for night to throw me overboard? Did
33 14|    captain was only waiting for night to return to the shore of
34 14|         until the hour when, as night closed in, they would be
35 14|       of cannon range, or until night forbade pursuit.~Fate, however,
36 15|      can recall of the previous night is the terrible impression
37 15|         what passed during that night of July thirty-first.~Now,
38 15|       had been on the preceding night which I had passed on board
39 15|        In its flight during the night the airship had covered
40 16| intruder disappeared.~That same night he had by force abducted
41 17|      the falls. At that moment, night was closing in, and what
42 17|        when, amid the shades of night, it rose above the Horseshoe
43 17|        menaces of a madman!~The night of that first day, I slept
44 17|        Terror” awaited only the night in order to begin her flight.
45 17|        was silence and blackest night.~Suddenly I felt myself
46 17|  fastened above me. During that night, as on that of our departure
47 17|        during this interminable night? I recalled the unbelievable
48 17|         been changed during the night this was the Gulf of Mexico
49 17| Venezuela or Colombia. But when night came, perhaps we would again