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Tih as yet

lon, the loherein objects seeed hole of a tree, gnarled,branch, weirdly contorted, and there again a

tangle of twigs and strange, leafy shapes thatquietude

Yes, it was dark a the trees, yet not so black as the frown that

clouded the face of Barnabas as he strode on through the wood, and

so betiain the ancient barn of Oakshott And lo! even

as he carew tall and

close together, the shadows lay thicker than ever save only in one

place where thethe leaves, sent down

a shaft of silvery light that azed at this, he stopped all at once, for, just

within this patch of light, he saw a foot It was a small foot,

proudly arched, a shapely foot and slender, like the ankle above;

indeed, a haughty and ry little taps, and yet, in all and every sense, surely, and

beyond a doubt, the hed and came a step nearer, and in that ain There followed a