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The sound, perhaps, was no greater than you would ers; yet on the instant three of the Things raised their bulbous and exaggerated heads in an attitude of intense, suspicious listening Plain to see that their senses, at least, excelled those of the huht

The individual which, alone of the, wheeled suddenly round andBoth watchers saw hi the su contrast

Plain noas the siait, bent back and crooked legs, the long, pendulous ar listened, its hair bristling, it thrust its villainous, apelike head well forward Open fell thegu with horrified fascination, Stern and Beatrice beheld--and heard--the creature sniff the air, as though taking up soht arm; they saw the claw-hand with a spear, poise itself aforce and suddenness a snarling yowl, inarticulate, shrill, horrible beyond all thinking

An instant agitation took place all through the forest The watchers could see only a small, fan-like space of it--and even this, only a few rods froan, they knew the alariven to the whole Horde

Here, there, the cry was repeated A shifting, etting to their handlike feet, standing unsteadily on their loose-skinned, scaly legs, gawping about the sounds

Sudden, nu fear seized Beatrice Now for the first tiretted her insistence on seeing the Horde at close range

She turned, pale and shaken; and her treineer's

He still, for a moment, kept his eye to the crack, fascinated by the very horror of the sight Then all at once another figure sha Too asp, the ether, alh the office, out to the hallway, into the diht of the arcade once more

Here, for a few h the Marble Court and up the stairs was fairly clear There was but one entrance open into the arcade, the one through Pine Tree Gate; and this was blocked so narrowly by the giant bole that Stern knew there could be no general h it--no attack which he could not for a while hold back, so long as his airl's should last