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 than most people. "I looked over my shoulder at the men, and cautioned
them, in a low voice, not to move outside of the Barriers, _whatever
happened_; not even though the house should seem to be rocking and about
to tumble on to them; for well I knew what some of the great Forces are
capable of doing. Yet, unless it should prove to be one of the cases of
the more terrible Saiitii Manifestation, we were almost certain of
safety, so long as we kept to our order within the Pentacle. "Perhaps an
hour and a half passed, quietly, except when, once in a way, the dogs
would whine distressfully. Presently, however, they ceased even from
this, and I could see them lying on the floor with their paws over their
noses, in a most peculiar fashion, and shivering visibly. The sight made
me feel more serious, as you can understand. "Suddenly, the candle in
the corner furthest from the main door, went out. An instant later,
Wentworth jerked my arm, and I saw that the candle before one of the
sealed doors had been put out. I held my camera ready. Then, one after
another, every candle about the hall was put out, and with such speed
and irregularity, that I could never catch one in the actual act of
being extinguished. Yet, for all that, I took a flashlight of the hall
in general. "There was a time in which I sat half-blinded by the great
glare of the flash, and I blamed myself for not having remembered to
bring a pair of smoked goggles, which I have sometimes used at these
times. I had felt the men jump, at the sudden light, and I called out
loud to them to sit quiet, and to keep their feet exactly to their
proper places. My voice, as you can imagine, sounded rather horrid and
frightening in the great room, and altogether it was a beastly moment.
"Then, I was able to see again, and I stared here and there about the
hall; but there was nothing showing unusual; only, of course, it was
dark now over in the corners. "Suddenly, I saw that the great fire was
blackening. It was going out visibly, as I looked. If I said that some
monstrous, invisible, impossible creature sucked the life from it, I
could best explain the way the light and flame went out of it. It was
most extraordinary to watch. In the time that I watched it, every
vestige of fire was gone from it, and there was no light outside of the
ring of candles around the Pentacle. "The deliberateness of the t