Angels and Women (1924)

154 ANGELS AND WOMENThis was my moment for flight, but byreason of fear and astonishment I was renderedpowerless. However, the reflectionthat delay would but increase the danger ofdiscovery gave me supernatural strength.Noislessly I crept from my place of concealmentand safely outside the gate of theTower, flew rather than ran to my retreat inthe Palace. Once only I dared to glancebackward. I had not been discovered.Upon the dizzy height of the dome stoodHesperus alone. His eyes, which blenchednot at what confronted him, earnestlyscanned the vault of heaven. Absorbed,motionless, he strove to forecast the possibilitiesof the morrow.HESPERUS AND SATANASEvening had now fallen upon the earth.The day, sultry and hot, was over, and exhaustedby its extraordinary adventures, Ithrew off the upper wrap with which, since