Jack Vettriano The First Audition

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Mary looked under the tree. Will was rubbing his eyes.
"I really won't be too long," she said. "Atal will stay with you."
The leader was impatient. Mary swiftly threw her bridle and stirrups over his back, excusing herself for being clumsy, and touched the spyglass in her pocket, but she couldn't use it till they'd stopped moving. And these mulefa were moving urgently, with the air of not wanting to stop for anything. After an hour's hard riding they swung inland, leaving the stone road and moving slowly along a trail of beaten earth that ran between knee-high grass past a stand of wheel trees and up toward a rimounted at once. They wheeled and turned and drove away into the dusk.They set off in a new direction, along the ridge above the coast to the north. Mary had never ridden in the dark before, and she found the speed even more alarming than by day. As they climbed, she could see the glitter of the moon on the sea far off to the left, and its silver-sepia light seemed to envelop her in a cool, skeptical wonder. The wonder was in her, and the skepticism was in the world, and the coolness was in both.She looked up from time to time and dge. The landscape glowed under the moon: wide,