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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: noise in the deep valley behind, and even in the underbrush of
Sentinel Hill itself. It was the piping of unnumbered whippoorwills,
and in their shrill chorus there seemed to lurk a note of tense
and evil expectancy.
Earl Sawyer now took the telescope and
reported the three figures as standing on the topmost ridge, virtually
level with the altar-stone but at a considerable distance from
it. One figure, he said, seemed to be raising its hands above
its head at rhythmic intervals; and as Sawyer mentioned the circumstance
the crowd seemed to hear a faint, half-musical sound from the
distance, as if a loud chant were accompanying the gestures. The
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