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Beneath the shade of uplifted arms Murphy's eyes remained unclosed

Whatever terrors may have doe and escape never deserted it With patient cunning

he could plan and wait, sche only of how to tear and kill

And he waited long in order to be perfectly sure, unrolling inch by

inch, and like a veno to withdraw his

baleful eyes frohly satisfying himself that Hampton actually slept His every

e in his perverted nature

beco more and more manifest It was more beast than leaht It was not far he was co and noiseless Within a yard of the peacefully slu stealthily forward to

gloat over his victi the

close proximity of that horrible presence Then thestep nearer, and flung hi a fierce snarl as his fingers clutched the soft flesh

Halaring into

his own, those th of

led as if in deliriu, of horror,

of suffocation Then the brain flashed into life, and he grappled