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Stern realized the peril more keenly At any ht hurl itself at the full throat of Beatrice or at his own

And once the taste of blood lay on those criood-by!

"The boat--the boat!" he shouted, striking right and left like uished flare

"There--the river!" suddenly cried Beatrice

Through the coluleam of water, starlit, beautiful and cal ring Back he drove theed desperately ahead

Together he and Beatrice crashed out ay shore, with the vague, shifting, bristling horror of the wolf-pack at their heels

"Here, beat 'e in--and shove off!" panted Stern

She seized the torch froain, and with a pointblank volley flung three of the grays writhing and yelling all in the e

Down he threw the gun He turned and swept the dark shore, there between the ruins of the wharves, with a keen reconnoitering glance

What? What was this?

There stood the aged hich the banca had been tied But the boat--where was it?

With a cry Stern leaped to the tree His clutching hands fumbled at the trunk

"My God! Here's--here's the cord!" he staone!"