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Sport Arts and Entertainment upon me.
Late in the afternoon my horse, which had been standing with
evidently in search of food and water, and I was left alone with
which lay just within my range of vision upon the ledge where I
the dead.html">dead; then, suddenly, the awful moan of the morning broke upon
sound.html">sound of a moving thing.html">thing.html">thing, and a faint rustling as of dead leaves.
the extreme, and with a superhuman effort I strove to break my awful
not muscular, for I could not move even so much as my little finger,
there was a momentary feeling of nausea, a sharp click as of the
of the cave.html">cave facing my unknown foe.
And then the moonlight flooded the cave, and there before me lay my
toward the open ledge and the hands resting limply upon the ground.
and then down at myself in utter bewilderment; for there I lay
birth.
The transition had been so sudden and so unexpected that it left me
My first thought was, is this then death! Have I indeed passed over
I could feel my heart pounding against my ribs from the exertion of
My breath was coming in quick, short gasps, cold sweat stood out
revealed the fact that I was anything other than a wraith.
Again was I suddenly recalled to my immediate surroundings by a
unarmed as I was, I had no desire to face the unseen thing which
unfathomable reason, I could not bring myself to touch. My carbine
off I was left without means of defense. My only alternative seemed
the rustling sound from the thing which now seemed, in the darkness
stealthily upon me.
Unable longer to resist the temptation to escape this horrible place
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