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Over all, the sht and darkness Uncanny shadows leaped along the walls Frohoulish shapes see

Suddenly the engineer bent forward, staring

"The chief!" he whispered And as he spoke, Beatrice ais, they saw hilier, more incredibly brutal than ever he looked, now, by that uncanny light

Stern saw--and rejoiced in the sight--that the obeah's jaw hung surely broken, all awry The quick-blinking, narrow-ridded eyes shuttled here, there, as the creature sought to spy out his enemies The nostrils dilated, to catch the spoor of od, but ripped the heft of a stone ax, one blohich would dash to pulp the stoutest skull

This irl's revolver spat

The report roared heavily in that constricted space For a moment the obeah stopped short A look of brute pain, of wonder, then of quintupled rage passed over his face A twitching grin of passion distorted the huge, wounded gash of the ain!" shouted Stern "Give it to hiain!"

She fired on the instant But already, with a chattering howl, the obeah was running forward And after hi till their lips were all a slaver, the pack swept toward the

"Up! Up!" he yelled

Then, turning, he hurled the second bolare dazzled hi hiush of fu the hall and up the stairs, he staggered forward Tightly to his body he clutched the re boomed and echoed in his stunned ears Below there, he heard thunderous crashes as wrecked walls and floors went reeling down And ever, all about hi after he knew not, he found hi for air beside a

"Beatrice!" he shouted with his first breath Everything see now Dead calm Not even the drum-beat in the forest, far below

"Beatrice! Where are you? Beatrice!"

His heart leaped gladly as he heard her answer

"Oh! Are you safe? Thank God! I--I was afraid--I didn't know--"

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