A NIGHT ALONE ON CHOC OR UA. 79 
power in the east. The white line impercepti¬ 
bly turned to a delicate green, and extended its 
area to left and right and upward. The clouds 
in the high sky took on harder outlines and 
rounder shapes. Shadows were being cast 
among them, and a light was stealing through 
them from something brighter even than the 
yellow moon. The pale green band had changed 
to blue, the blue was deepening to violet, and 
through this violet sky the brightest meteor of 
the night passed slowly down until it met the 
hills. High in the sky the stars were growing 
dim, and the spaces between the clouds, which 
looked for all the world like a badly painted 
picture, were growing blue, deep real blue. The 
line of brightest light above the eastern clouds 
showed a margin of orange. Venus in the violet 
sky was still dazzling, but her glory was no 
longer of the night, but of the twilight. She 
was wonderful, in spite of the stronger light 
which was slowly overpowering her. Mars 
burned like a red coal low down in the west, 
unaffected thus far by the sun’s rays, while 
Jupiter, supreme among the high stars, was 
paling fast as the light of day rolled towards 
him. 
The eastern sky looked strangely flat. Its 
colors were like a pastel drawing. Small, very 
black clouds, with hard outlines, lay unrelieved 
