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"But now, it was le object to push beyond this territory and, in choosing a direction, I was guided only by my memory of the tree which had the arrow deeply carved into the bark, above its girdle of rusted chain
"It took er to find than I would have liked, and the air was huue, and so, taking out my compass, I did my best to chart a course in the direction to which the arrow pointed
"If Pops and I had ever been this far, I wasn't conscious of it What I was conscious of was that I could get dangerously lost But I didn't care an to experience feelings of dizziness I just pushed on
"Again I heard voices speaking, just as if these whispers pushed at ain a woinia Lee
"You can't do this to me, the wo ruraved forever! said the woman, and then I lost the thread of it
"I could hear it but not understand it It was suble of dreams and half impressions I was desperate to follow, to reue, I had to not drop the pole
"The pole could fall into the slio after it Now, I'd been up to my waist in sater before and I didn't like it one bit The green light of the sun was flashing in my eyes
"I thought I had caughtelse caly isolated melancholy cries
"Meanwhile the pirogue glided through the duckweed, and I was steering it steadily past the jungles of cypress knees, and I becaht The floere so vividly purple, so lusciously purple that I heard h out loud at them
"The dizziness caain, and there was a luxury to it, a sweetness, like being slightly high on chaht was dappled and the wisteria was so pure I could hear the voices I knew one of theed to Rebecca, and that Rebecca was in pain
"they'll catch you, they'll find you outThat frag leaf And then a laughter ca it out, and no more words were clear
"Suddenly, there rose up on iant cypress, surely one of the oldest I'd ever seen, and there was the girdle of iron chain, as fiercely rusted as before, and the arrow, deeply etched, instructing me to veer to the left Now that was surely new territory, in the opposite direction from Blackwood Farm And when I checked my compass I learned I was correct
"The pirogue was traveling very easy now, andinto the water, and on I sped, when anotherwisteria appeared
"You understand hoild that vine is, I know you do, and how beautiful it can be And now the sun was pouring down on it, in shafts, as itout in all directions, except that there seemed a channel into which I'd found my way
"On and on I went until the configuration of rusted chain and carved arrow appeared again This tio on in the sa that I was very far from Blackwood Farm, maybe an hour from any kind of help, and that is a lot in the swamp