This text is missing some spaces, please add them: Thesetwosmallgroupsoftravellerswerethevanguardofpartiesoflightandofdarknesswhich,likeamanandhisshadow,havegoneeversincethroughthecenturies,andeverwestward.
These two small groups of travellers were the vanguard of parties of light and of darkness which, like a man and his shadow, have gone ever since through the centuries, and ever westward.