All this time the creature on the other side – whether it was in the shape of man, or beast, he neither knew nor sought to know – was gaining on them. But his greatest terror was when the man with the bloody smear upon his head demanded of him if he knew the creatures name, and said that he would whisper it. At this the dreamer fell upon his knees, his whole blood thrilling with inexplicable fear, and held his ears. But looking at the speaker’s lips, he saw that they formed the utterance of the letter ‘J’; and crying out aloud that the secret was discovered, and they were all lost, he awoke. Awoke to find Jonas standing at his bedside watching him. And that very door wide open.