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"So he enticed us all And ye behold the great disaster and the death! The man Allan has deserted us all to perish here Coward in his heart, he has abandoned you as well! Gone once more to safety and ease, below in the Abyss, there to rule the rest of the Folk, there to take wives according to our lahile we die here!"

Menacingly he advanced toward the dumb-stricken woman, his face ablaze with evil passion

"Gre at heart Great boaster, doer of little deeds! Even you, ould be our mistress, he has abandoned--even his own son he has forsaken A rotten breed, truly! And we die!

"But listen now This shall not be! I, H'yeest of all, will not permit it I will be ruler here, if any live to be ruled! And you shall be hast, struck dumb by this wild tempest of rebellion, Beatrice recoiled His face showed like a white blur in the gloohed a venoh the cave

"Ha! Ye call on the coward?" heon her "On the coho cannot hear, and would not save you if he could? Behold now ye shall kneel to me and call me master! And my words from now ye shall obey!"

She snatched for her pistol It was not there In the exciteotten to buckle it on She was unarrasped for her, to force her down upon the floor, kneeling to hi and hairy fingers had all but seized her robe

But she, lithe and agile, evaded the grip To the fire she sprang She caught up a fla stick that lay upon the hearth With a cry she dashed it full into his glaring eyes

So sudden was the attack that H'yemba had no time even to ward it off with his hands Fair in the face the scorching flaered back; beat the air with vain blows and retreated toward the door

As he went he poured upon her a torrent of the most hideous imprecations known to their speech--and they wereher power and her strength again, followed close And like blows of a flail, the sputtering, flaring flame beat down upon his head, neck, shoulders

His hair was blazing now; a sh the cavern

"Go! Go, dog!" she shouted, e and hate "Coward! Slanderer and liar! Go, ere I kill you now!"