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"'Tell ?' I whispered

"The other fellow pointed

"'There, there!' he exclaih the trees!'

"For a moment I was paralyzed What to do? There was no tietaway, even if the machine hadn't been out of order My mind was in a whirl, a rout, an utter panic I confess, Beatrice, for once I was scared absolutely blue--"

"No wonder! Who could have helped being?"

"Because you see, there was no way out Lord kne ht be on all sides The country was ht fro have been worse?"

"Go on, dear! What next?"

"Well, the Horde was co to patter in, so I sae couldn't stay there I had so the devils away on a long chase, outdistancing theht, and possibly fixing it up in time to skip out for home But--"

"But it didn't work out that way?"

"Hardly! I e pack, and then retreated, flanked by ht, the Merucaans were--always ready for a mix--but I knew too much about the poisoned arrows to let 'e away like elephants, while always, apelike, creeping and hideous, the little hairy beast-people stole and slithered a the palms"

Beatrice shuddered

"Heavens!" she exclaiht!"

"I didn't feel like dying of fright, but I infernally near died of rage when in about five le, and then a brighter glare"

"They burned the Pauillac?"

"I guess so I never went back to see They probably burned the planes, and tried to batter up the rest of it with rocks and things They wrecked it all right enough, I guess That was for the attack we alow Well--"

"What then?"

"I can hardly remember We trekked south, as near as I could reckon it, or south by east, with New Hope River as our objective-point Oh, what's the use trying to tell it all? You know the jungle at night?"

"Wild beasts, you mean?"

"And snakes, Beta! Some sensation to step on a copperhead and then leap off just in tis, eh?"