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Late one afternoon, just as the evening star flashed the signal of

twilight, the girls ca over the sea toward the island

At the first far-away glie Honey Smith waded out, waist-deep

"Well, what do you know about that?" he called out "Pipe the

formation!"

They caht have been a

rainbow torn froh wind

The rainbow broke in spots, fluttered, and then caain It

vibrated with color It pulsed with iridescence

"How the thunder - " Addington began and stopped "Well, can you beat

it?" he concluded

The huirls

concealed the body of another just above her

The "dark one" led, flying low, her scarlet pinions beating slowly back

and forth about her head

Just above, near enough for her body to be concealed by the scarlet