CHAPTER VII 



FROM PILLAR TO POST 



With its overcast sky and sombre landscape 

 November opened true to Its character of the 

 black month. The clouds seemed to have con- 

 spired to shut out the sun ; only at rare intervals 

 did the patient orb find a rift, but when it did 

 its rays lit up with intense vividness the spot 

 they fell on : Brea farmhouse, a bit of the moor 

 beyond, Sennen Church tower, a patch of ocean, 

 the welter of surf about the Wolf. To all of 

 these, as the shafts of light illuminated them, 

 the eyes of the hare were irresistibly drawn. A 

 week of gloom and gleam was succeeded by 

 a day of startling clearness, with lowland pen- 

 cilled out distinctly as on a map, a day when the 

 sea came so near that far-off sails and even the 

 unobtrusive isles of Scilly made their presence 

 felt. This phenomenon boded rain, and one 

 morning soon after dawn it fell, gently at first, 

 violently on succeeding days, with a gradual, 



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