Chapter 18 THE GREEN STAR

The world was held in a savage gloom-cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet-quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud[10] of falling matter-fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

There was no night-sky, as we know it. Even the fe