little
after
dark, when
my master,
from sheer
fatigue,
had been
compelled
to retire
a couple
of hours,
I went and
opened one
of the
windows;
moved by
his
perseverance
to give
him a
chance of
bestowing
on the
faded
image of
his idol
one final
adieu. He
did not
omit to
avail
himself of
the
opportunity,
cautiously
and
briefly;
too
cautiously
to betray
his
presence
by the
slightest
noise.
Indeed, I
shouldn’t
have
discovered
that he
