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But ere they reached the top they branched off onto another lateral path, still rougher andthe breast of the canyon

"This way,carried her"

"What kind of ns of claws?"

"Claws? What are claws?"

"Sharp, long nails, like our nails, only amon paused a second to peer

"I seem to see marks as of hands, master, but--"

"No matter! On! We onizing suspense for Allan brought hiuides, without whom all would have been utterly lost, to a kind of thickly wooded dell that descended sharply to the edge of the canyon Into this the trail led

Even he hiht, a broken twig, trauished a blood-stain on a liroan burst frorass beneath All at once a blade moved

"Oh, thank God!" he wheezed "They passed here only a fewdrew his attention He snatched at a sapling

"Hair!"

Caught in a roughness of the bark a few short, stiff, wiry hairs, reddish-broere twisted

"One of the Horde?" he sta-flash of o He seeain the obeah, as that , supremely hideous

"The hair! The saasped

A mental picture of exterirl lived or died, he kne that his life as to include a total slaughter of the Anthropoids The destruction he had already wrought a them was but child's play to ould be

And in his soul flae of a hunt a l'outrance, to the bitter end So long as one, a single one of that foul breed should live, he would not rest fro

"Master! This way! Here,through the jungle, after his questing guides Again he fired the signal-shot, and noith the full power of his lungs he yelled

His voice rang, echoing, through the black and tangled growths, startling the night-life of the depths So chippered overhead Near-by a serpent slid away, hissing venomously Death lurked on every hand