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Here, there, everywhere through the dense e, the watchers could already see a di mass, fitfully illuminated by torches that now burned steady, now flared into red and sht-wind

"Like irl exclairant we sha'n't have to fight!"

"S-h-h-h! Wait and see what's up!"

Now, fro fro ever louder

With quicker beats the insistent tom-toms throbbed their rhythmic melancholy rune, hollow and dissonant Then all at once the druht air drifted a ain, lagging as e voices joined it

And froh-pitched, half-ani the engineer's backbone

"What I need, now," thought he, "is about a hundred pounds of high-grade dynalycerin Better still, a dozen capsules of uess that would settle things ht! Well, why not ot left, couldn't I work up a half-pint? Bottled in glass flasks, I guess it would turn the trick on 'em!"

"Why, they look black!" suddenly interrupted the girl "See there--and there?"

She pointed toward the spring Stern saw ot a blurred i a torch He saw a body, half-huh

"Black--yes, blue-black! They seeer than apes! Good Heaven!"

Involuntarily he shuddered For now, like a dreahth the forest at the base of the Metropolitan

Away fro and even to Fifth Avenue the mob extended, here thick, there thin, without order or coherence--a shifting, eries of dull brutality

Here or there, where the swaying of the trees parted the branches a little, the wavering lights brought so showed anywhere All was dark and vague Indistinctly, waveringly as in a vision, dusky heads could befor a second in the ruddy glohich now diffused itself through the whole wood Here the watchers saw a glistening back; again, an out-thrust leg, small and crooked, apelike and repulsive