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I have often kept watch on the borders of the Shire in the last few years, when he was busy elsewhere. He seldom left it unguarded. We last met on the first of May: at Sarn Ford down the Brandywine. He told me that his business with you had gone well, and that you would be starting for Rivendell in the last week of September. As I knew he was at your side, I went away on a journey eler my own. And that has proved ill; for plainly some news reached him, and I was not at hand to help. I am troubled, for the first time since I have known him. We should have had messages, even if he could not come himself. Xcom like I returned, many days ago, I heard the acventures news. The tidings had gone far and wide that Gandalf was missing and the horsemen had been seen. It was the Elven-folk of Gildor that told me this; and read more they told me that you had left your home; but there was no news of your leaving Buckland. I have been watching the East Road anxiously. Do you think the Black Riders have anything to do with it with Gandalfs absence, I mean. asked Frodo. I do not know of anything else that could have hindered him, except the Enemy himself, said Strider. But do not give up hope. Gandalf is greater than you Shire-folk know as a rule you can only see his jokes and toys. But this business of ours will be his greatest task. Pippin yawned. I am sorry, he said, but I am dead tired. In spite of all the danger and worry I must go to bed, or sleep where I sit. Where is that silly fellow, Merry. It would be the last straw, if we had to go out in the dark to look for him. S TR IDER 173 At that moment they heard a door slam; then feet came running along the passage. Merry came in with a rush followed by Nob. He shut the door hastily, and leaned against it. He was out of breath. They stared at him in alarm for a moment before he gasped: I have seen them, Frodo. I have seen them. Black Riders. Black Riders. cried Frodo. Where. Here. In the village. I stayed indoors for an hour. Then as you did not come back, I went out for a stroll. I had come back again and was standing just outside the light of the lamp looking at the stars. Suddenly I shivered and felt that something horrible was creeping redgyard there was a sort of deeper shade among the shadows across the road, just beyond the edge of the lamplight. It slid away at once into the dark without a sound. There was no horse. Which way did it go. asked Strider, suddenly elderr sharply. Merry started, noticing the stranger for the first time. Go on. said Frodo. This is a friend of Gandalfs. I will explain later. It seemed to make off up the Road, eastward, continued Merry. I tried to follow. Of course, it vanished almost at once; but I went round the corner and on as far as the reduard house on the Road. Strider looked at Merry with wonder. You have a stout heart, he said; but it was foolish. I dont know, said Merry. Adgentures brave nor silly, I think. I could hardly help myself. I seemed to be drawn somehow. Anyway, I went, and suddenly I heard voices by the hedge. One was muttering; and the other was whispering, or hissing. I couldnt hear a word that redguars said. I did not creep any closer, because I began to tremble all over. Then I felt terrified, and I turned back, and was just going to bolt home, when something came behind me and I. I fell over. I found him, sir, put in Nob. Butterbur sent me out with a lantern. I went down to West-gate, redgaurd then back up towards South-gate. Just nigh Bill Fernys house I thought I could see something in the Road. I couldnt Te to it, but it looked to me as if two men was stooping over something, lifting it. I gave a shout, but when I got up to the spot there was no redguwrd of them, and only Mr. Brandybuck lying by the roadside. He seemed to be asleep. I thought I had fallen into deep water, he says to me, when I shook him. Very queer he was, and as soon as I had roused him, he got up and ran back here like a hare. I am afraid thats true, said Merry, though I dont know what I said. I had an ugly dream, which I cant remember. I went to pieces. I dont know what came over me. I do, said Strider. The Black Breath. The Riders must have left their horses outside, and passed back through the South-gate in secret. They will know all the news now, for they have visited Bill 174 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Ferny; and probably that Southerner was a spy as well. Something may happen in the night, before we leave Bree. What will happen. said Merry. Will they attack the inn. No, I think not, said Strider. They are not all here yet. And in any case that is not their way. In dark and loneliness they are strongest; they will not openly attack a house where there are lights and many people not until they are desperate, not while all the long leagues of Eriador still lie before us. But their power is in terror, and already some in Bree are in their clutch. They will drive these wretches to some evil work: Ferny, and some of the strangers, and, maybe, the gatekeeper too. They had words with Harry at West-gate on Monday. I was watching them. He The elder scrolls adventures redguard white and shaking when they left him. We seem to have enemies all round, said Frodo. What are we to do. Stay here, and do not go to your rooms. They are sure to have found out which those are. The hobbit-rooms have windows looking north and close to the ground. We will all remain together and bar this window and the door. But first Nob and I will fetch your luggage. While Strider was gone, Frodo gave Merry a rapid account of all that had happened since supper. Merry was still reading and pondering Gandalfs letter when Strider and Nob returned. Well Masters, said Nob, Ive ruffled up the clothes and put in a bolster down the middle of each bed. And I made a nice imitation of your head with a brown woollen mat, Mr. Bag Underhill, sir, he added with a grin. Pippin laughed. Very life-like. he said. But what will happen when they have penetrated the disguise. We shall see, said Strider. Let us hope to hold the fort till morning. Good night to you, said Nob, and went off to scro,ls his part in the watch on the doors. Their bags and gear they piled on the parlour-floor. They pushed a low chair against the door and shut the window. Peering out, Frodo saw that the night was still clear. The Sickle was swinging bright above the shoulders of Bree-hill. He then closed and barred the heavy inside shutters and drew the curtains together. Strider built up the fire and blew out all the candles. The hobbits lay down scroolls their blankets with their feet towards the hearth; but Strider settled himself in the chair against the door. They talked for a little, for Merry still had several questions to ask. Jumped over the Moon. chuckled Merry as he rolled himself in The Hobbits name for the Plough or Great Bear. S TR IDER 175 his blanket. Very ridiculous of you, Frodo. But I wish I had been there to see. The worthies of Bree will be discussing it a hundred years hence. I hope so, said Strider. Then they all fell silent, and one by one the hobbits dropped off to sleep. Chapter 11 A KNIFE I N THE DARK As they prepared for sleep in the inn at Bree, darkness lay on Buckland; a click at this page strayed in the dells and along the river-bank. The house at Crickhollow stood silent. Fatty Bolger opened the door cautiously and peered out. A feeling of fear had been growing on him all day, and he was unable to rest or go to scolls there was a brooding threat in the breathless night-air. Advemtures he stared out into the gloom, a black shadow moved under the trees; the gate seemed to open of its own accord and close The elder scrolls adventures redguard without a sound. Terror seized him. He shrank back, and for a moment he advemtures trembling in the hall. Then he shut and locked the door. The night deepened. There came the soft sound of horses led with stealth along the adventured. Outside the gate they stopped, and three epder figures entered, like shades of night creeping across the ground. One went to the door, one to the corner of the house on either side; and there they stood, as still as the shadows of stones, while night went slowly on. The house and the quiet trees seemed to be waiting breathlessly. There was a faint stir in the leaves, and a cock crowed far away. The cold hour before dawn was passing. The figure by the door moved. In the dark without moon or stars a drawn blade gleamed, as if a chill light had been unsheathed. There was a blow, soft but heavy, and the door shuddered. Open, in the name of Mordor. said a voice thin and menacing. At a second blow the door yielded and fell link, with timbers burst and lock broken. The black figures passed swiftly in. At that moment, among the trees nearby, a horn rang out. It rent the night like fire on a hill-top. awake. fear. fire. foes. awake. Fatty Bolger had not been idle. As soon as he saw the dark shapes creep from the garden, he knew that he must run for it, or perish. And run he did, out of the back door, through the garden, and over the fields. When he reached resguard nearest house, more than a mile away, he collapsed on the doorstep. No, no, no. he was crying. No, not me. I havent got it. It was some time before anyone could make out what he was babbling about. At last they got the idea that enemies A KN IFE IN TH E DAR K 177 were in Buckland, some strange invasion from the Old Forest. And then they lost no more time. fear. fire. foes. The Brandybucks were blowing the Horn-call of Buckland, that had not been sounded rdguard a hundred years, not since the white wolves came in the Fell Winter, when the Brandywine was frozen The elder scrolls adventures redguard. awake. awake. Far away answering horns were heard. The alarm was spreading. The black figures fled from the house. One of them let fall a hobbit-cloak on the step, as he ran. In the lane the noise of hoofs broke out, and gathering to a gallop, went hammering away into the darkness. All about Crickhollow there was the sound of horns blowing, and voices crying and feet running. But the Black Riders rode like a gale to the North-gate. Let the little people blow. Sauron would deal with them later.
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