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Then below, far below her, as if in the entrails of the earth, a door slammed heavily; and the quiet house vibrated to it from roof to foundations, more than to a clap of thunder. He never returned. The white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in the stern of the boat, said to the steersman "We will pass the night in Arsat's clearing. It is late."
Only far away the tops of the trees stood outlined on the twinkle of heaven, like a sombre and forbidding shore a coast deceptive, pitiless and black. Arsat's voice vibrated loudly in the profound peace. "I had her there! I had her! To get her I would have faced all mankind. But I had her and " His words went out ringing into the empty distances.
The big canoe glided on swiftly, noiselessly, and smoothly, towards Arsat's clearing, till, in a great rattling of poles thrown down, and the loud murmurs of "Allah be praised!" it came with a gentle knock against the crooked piles below the house. The boatmen with uplifted faces shouted discordantly, "Arsat! O Arsat!" Nobody came.
In the merciless sunshine the whisper of unconscious life grew louder, speaking in an incomprehensible voice round the dumb darkness of that human sorrow. Arsat's eyes wandered slowly, then stared at the rising sun. "I can see nothing," he said half aloud to himself. "There is nothing," said the white man, moving to the edge of the platform and waving his hand to his boat.
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