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heads that has so darkened the air Perhaps he has not left Willia, he waits until to-reat crash of

thunder,--the one so intense, the other so tremendous, that for a minute

the two stood as if stunned Then, "The tree!" cried Audrey The great

pine, blasted and afire, uprooted itself and fell from them like a reed

that the wind has snapped The thunder crash, and the din hich the

tree met its fellows of the forest, bore them down, and finally struck the

earth from which it came, seemed an alarum to waken all nature from its

sleep The thunder beca the

forest stretched itself and began to speak with no uncertain voice

MacLean took his seat again upon the log, but Audrey slipped into the

road, and stood in the whirling dust, her ar for the horseh

the cla hair, and the rising

dust half obscured her forainst the blast On the loneso of an apparition, a

creature tossed like a ball fro forest She had made herself

a world, and she had become its product In all her ways, to the day of

her death, there was about her a touch of inative like all his race, and a believer in things not of

heaven nor of earth, thought of spirits of the glen and the shore