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"I never heard it before Mon Chef"

"And ain It lives only in the most doleful and

solitary swamps, and I doubt if there is another place in all the

wide territories save here, where you rown so dark that the horses could only tread their way

by instinct, and at every noise or cry that came from the swamp,

Jeans' blood shivered in his veins He had no idea where hisall along, though the

query hung constantly upon his tongue Then a pair of noiseless wings

brushed his cheek, paused, and hovered about his head; while two red

eyes glared at hi the creature

with the handle of his whip "Where are you leading me Mon Chef?"

"Peace Jean, I did not believe that you were such an arrant coward

You shall soon see where I go It is seldoe creatures ht-hahich so terrified your weak senses Do you see

yonder light?"

From a point which appeared to be the head of the valley, caht, and its reflection fell upon the wide, black,

shining streaolden chain

"Yonder, Jean, is the abode of Mother Jubal--thither am I bound"