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The thite barbarians followed, peering with those strange, pinkish eyes of theirs, courageous still, yet utterly at a loss to knohatnear

They burst through a thicket, waded atufts of coarse and knife-edged grasses, the haunt of unknown venomous reptiles

Up a slope they won; and now, all at once the roar burst forth again close at hand, a rending tu, inexpressibly terrible

All three stopped

"Beatrice! Are you there? Answer!" shouted Stern

Silence, save for a peculiarthe deeper shadows of a fern-tree thicket

"Beatrice!"

No answer With a groan Allan shot his light toward the thicket He see To his ears now ca

Absolutely void of fear he pressed forward, and the two colonists with him, their weapons ready Stern held his revolver poised for instant action His heart was haly; but within him his consciousness and soul lay cals were now to happen Either that beast ahead there in the gloom, or he, must die