Chapter 19 No.19

The hitch in the progress of the harvest came ever a little and a little more into evidence: the smut darkened on the ear; the whisper of a threatened blight grew from vague to articulate-grew clearer, grew bolder-until, lo!-all in a moment it was a definite voice.

This happened on the morning succeeding Bernardo's visit to the Casa Caprona-a vi