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Instead he pointed the ugly blue muzzle up toward the branches of a maple, under which a dense swar, apelike, at hi spurts of fla A few severed leaves swayed down, idly, with a swingingsuspended a ain and crapped to earth

"Good Lord! Look a' that, will you?" cried Stern

A startled cry broke froirl's lips

Both of them had expected so like that which actually resulted

For, as the quick shots echoed to stillness again, and even before the first of the falling leaves had spiraled to the ground, an absolute, unbroken silence fell upon that vile rabble of beast-, sheer brute terror

So to whatsoever tree or bush was nearest, staring ild eyes

Others dropped to their knees

But by far the greater part, thousands on thousands of the littleTheir hideous masklike faces hidden, there they lay on the rowth, the trarowth of Madison Forest

Then all at once, over and beyond thereat fire by the spring

He knew that, for a few brief, all-precious et water--to save Beatrice and himself fro for theleap

"Look, Beatrice!" cried he, his voice ringing out over the terror-stricken things "Look--we're gods! While this lasts--gods! Come, now's our only chance! Come on!--"