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He snatched her auto feet; he bore her back, away from the thick press And in the shelter of a massive hut he laid her down

Then, stark-mad, he turned and leaped into the battle-line that swayed and screa the wall

Critical now the ot their ladders planted And, while densefire-balls and boulders rained down upon them--held these ladders fir and crushing i of the spears on both sides

Slippery and red the parapet becaled and fell both outward and inside, and were traers alike, still clawing, tearing, howling even in their death agony

Now one of the ladders was down--another fell, with horrid tumult--a third!

An autolairy summit of the fortification

AWith a screaloo the parapet with a hail of lead, he mowed down the attackers on top of the fourth ladder With a rapples It, too, swayed drunkenly, held below, pushedcrash!

"Hurray, boys! One more down! Give 'em Hell!" he screamed "One ht hand et, and hot, and dripping, but he felt no pain

"Onethe wall he e swarm of the steel-jacketed wasps of death the Lanskaarn writhed and melted doith screams such as Dante in his wildest vision never even dreareat howl of triu to overthrow the fifth ladder

"Hold 'eain--I'll--"

A swift and crashing ih his brain

Everything leaped and whirled

He flung up both hands

Clutching at empty air, then suddenly at the slippery parapet which seemed to have leaped up and struck hie nu pain

And darkness quenched all knowledge and all consciousness