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For all at once it see suddenly nearer; it seeh speed

The dark, untrodden forest ainst the di forty miles off, it seemed no farther than twenty, andtoward them with a speed equal to their own

Stern, puzzled and alarht, felt an impulse to slow, to swerve, to test the apparition in soht convinced him it must be deception of soht he, "or perhaps we're approaching a high ridge, on the other side of which lie clouds that cut away the farther view Or else--no, hang it! the world see, only--what?"

He saw the girl pointing in alarm She, too, was clearly stirred by the appearance

What to do? Stern felt indecision for the first ti, adventurous journey Shut off and descend? I about and return? Not to be thought of Keep on and meet perils perhaps undreahtening of the jaw he drove the Pauillac onward, ever onward--toward the eht he "All right, the old oes!"