On before, down nebulous ways, went the whiteness of the floating
veil.
CHAPTER XII
BETWEEN-WORLDS
Down nebulous ways they went, the thin darkness flowing past them.
The sloping avenue ran all the width of the palace grounds, and here
among slim-trunked trees faint fringes of the light touched away the
dimness in the open spaces and expressed the borders of the dusk.
Always the way led down, dipping deeper in the conjecture of shadow,
and always before them glimmered the mist of Olivia's veil, an
eidolon of love, of love's eternal Vanishing Goal.
And St. George was in pursuit. So were Amory and Jarvo, and Rollo of
the oil-skins, but these mattered very little, for it was St. George
whose eyes burned in his pale face and were striving to catch the
faintest motion in that fleeing car ahead.
"Faster, Jarvo," he said, "we're not gaining on them. I think
they're gaining on us. Put ahead, can't you?"
Amory vexed the air with frantic questionings. "How did it happen?"
he said. "Who did it? Was it the guard? What did they do it for?"
"It looks to me," said St.
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