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How long it lasted, what its , its details, the watchers could not tell Ilooh the drifting cloud-rack, to judge the fortunes of this primitive war

They knew not the point at issue nor yet the tide of victory or loss Only they knew that back and forth the torches flared, the war-dru, deed in a swirl of bestial rew the druray daent fingering up the sky there caht, a merciless pursuit

Dis that ran and shrieked and were cut down--saw things, there in the forest, that died even as they killed, and asp of dissolution

"Ugh! A beast war!" shuddered the engineer, at length, drawing Beatrice away froain It's too clear, now--co as it were from the horrid fascination that had held her spell-bound Down she sat on her bed of furs, covered her eyes with her hands, and for a while reain his hand sought the revolver-butt

"I ought to have waded into that bunch, long ago," thought he "We both ought to have What it's all about, who could tell? But it's an outrage against the night itself, against the world, even dead though it be If it hadn't been for wasting good auttural whine, down there in the forest, attracted his attention Over to thehe strode, and once again peered down

A change had coe No more the sounds of combat rose; but now a dull, conclahastly rite

Already in the center of the wood, hard by the spring, a little fire had been lighted Even as Stern looked, di droves of sparks spiral upward; he saw dense srouped around this, already solare

Off to one side he could just distinguish what seeht be, he could not determine Yet, all at once a screa cry that ended quickly and did not coain