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And for a second silence fell there in the forest Save for the rustling murmur of the Horde, and a faint, woodland trickle of the streaht the place untouched by life

Yet death lurked there, and destiny--the destiny of the whole world, the future, the human race, forever and ever without end; and the cords of Fate were being loosed for a new knitting

And Stern, with Beatrice there at his side, stood harsh and strong and very gri

And slowly, step by step, over the yielding, noiseless hastly obeah-man came nearer, nearer still