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Men! To see ripped him with a powerful fascination

So it was that when in reality the first faint twinkle of the fishing-boats peeped through thepoints that he knew marked the walls of the town--his heart throbbed hotly and a cry of eager greeting welled from his soul

Quickly the Pauillac swept hireatpractice, he soon beheld the di walls, the dull reflections of the fire-plu slope of beach

And with keen exultation, thrilled with his triu to the Folk he ca slope

To him, even before he had been able to free his cra the people, with loud cries of welco Powerfully the automatics he and Beatrice had used in the Battle of the Walls had impressed their simple minds with almost superstitious reverence More powerfully still his terrible fight with Ka vat And now, acknowledging him their overlord and ruler, whom they had feared to lose forever, they trooped in wild, disordered throngs to do hi flares, the fishing-boats cahtily, driven by e, white-haired ed, and down the causeway, beneath the vast ate, jostled and pushed an ever-growing multitude

Cries of "Kromno h'viat! Tai Kroreat hty roar, close-pent under the heavy mists blued by the naphtha-torches

But Stern noticed, and rejoiced to see it, that none prostrated theroveled in his presence Disorderly and wild the greeting was, but it was the greeting of ot a race of realthrong "Hard they may be to rule, and even turbulent, but they're not servile Rude, brave, bold--what better stock could I have hoped for in this great adventuring?"

For a while even thoughts of Beatrice were crowded back by the excitement of the arrival In all his wonderful experience never before had he sensed a feeling such as this

To be returning, -buried people, his own people, after all--to be acknowledged chieftain--to hold their destinies within his hand for good or evil--the nitude of the situation, the tremendous difficulties and responsibilities, almost overwhelmed him