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Then ca and the clash of arms

Stern, with the atavistic instincts of even the most civilized man, scented the kill And with a roar he whirled into the confused and swelteringht of the cressets on the wall

Beside hilow, nostrils dilated, breath quick, held her revolver ready

And then, quite suddenly, they found themselves at the wall

"Shoot! Shoot!" bellowed Stern, and let drive, pointblank, at an ugly, grinning face that like a nightmare-vision all at once projected over the crest His own revolver-fire was echoed by hers The face vanished

All down there, below hiht a di swarm

Subconsciously he realized that he--he a ain a scene such as e, by force of huuely saw the swift and supple er than the Folk, which crowded the whole beach as far as he could pierce the ht, he knew that here was a battle of huge scope and terrible danger

Up fro, from their dimly seen canoes The place was alive with them

At the base of the wall they were clotted in dense hordes; and siege-ladders were being raised; and now up the ladders the lithelike so un which he puer--while beside hiht, as well--he see these wonderful ie-ladder hurled backward by the Folk, backward and down to the beach Ahtful yells and screaled lare of the cressets

There he saw fire-bales being hurled down from the walls--these, the comet-like apparitions he had seen froht into the brown of the ht was hand to hand--with gruntings, thrustings of spears, slashings of long knives that dripped red and cut again and rose and fell with hideous regularity!

He jacked his pistol full of shells once irl's hand--for she, excited beyond all control, was snapping the hammer of her weapon on empty steel