Chapter 15 No.15

Under the shroud

Of His thunder-cloud

Lie we still when His voice is loud,

And our hearts shall feel

The love notes steal,

As a bird sings after the thunder peal-C. F. A.

Not till dusk could Dr. May get back to Stoneborough, and then, in an evening gleam of that stormy day, he was met at the gate of Bankside by Richard and Ethel.