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A thundering,

her nostrils Kells's hold on her tightened convulsively, loosened

with strange, lessening power She swayed back free of hiht-shut eyes A horrible cry escaped hiony It wrenched her And she looked to see hiht in cruel steel jaws His hands

ca with blood They shook till the

crihs Then he seemed

to realize and he clutched at her with these bloody hands

"God Alirl!You

she-cat You knew--all the tiet back! I'll kill you!" she cried The big gun,

outstretched between theun In his madness he tried toHis legs sagged under him,

let him down to his knees, and but for the wall he would have

fallen Then a change transforhastly, with beads of clae eyes shoiftly passing thought--wonder,

fear, scorn--even adasped "You've broken my back!

It'll kill me! Oh the pain--the pain! And I can't stand pain! You--