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stairs, and, after a slight struggle with the hall window, were out-of-doors. The moonlight was so brilliant that it showed every tree and bush, and every high gray rock on the moor opposite. The shadows it cast were proportionately black and deep; and the more sensitive Willie shivered as he looked. But for arousing Roy's scorn afresh, he would have returned to the Manse and waited for day. As it was, he drew a long breath and went forward. They crossed the white high road and began the ascent of the moor. It sloped upward about two hundred feet, and then dropped somewhat abruptly into a little valley, beyond which it rose again more steeply. The boys began to realize that there was a good deal more of it than they had seen from the Manse. They walked on and on, always getting higher in spite of the little valleys. At last they came to a piece of swampy ground where the hard, heather-grown soil gave place to