About this story
Your grandfather Captain Vye disapproves, the boy Johnny Nunsuch feeds the flames and carries word up from the valley, and talk reaches you that Clym Yeobright is coming home to Egdon from Paris. Wildeve's own wedding has just fallen through, and he comes to find you at midnight the moment carriage wheels sound on the northern road.
How it opens
Night gathered over Egdon Heath until earth and sky seemed made from one darkness.
Wind combed the furze, carrying peat smoke and distant bells across the ridges.
Captain VyeThe parish thinks it honors Guy Fawkes; yours appears to challenge the moon.
Choose
A traveller may need a signal on this heath.
I refuse to let the darkness have every height.