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It was black and ghostly outside, and strange, murmuring sounds rose and fell in the surrounding forests, as though all the dormant life of the North was awakening at the seasonal change. She closed the window and went back to bed. At dawn the eaves had ceased their drip, and the dirt roof laid bare to the cloud-banked sky. From the southwest the wind still blew strong and warm.
The water rushed from the mouth of a gorge in rapids that sent its every drop sparkling and flashing over a great rock into a mass of white foam below. "Oh," cried Claire, "it's beautiful, beautiful!" He put her down and laughed. "It sounds as if it were leaping from points of light into cloud-banked foam." She stared at him in amazement. "It is," she said in a subdued tone. "How did you know?"
The landscape whirled in a circle of trees and sky, while above the dark line of hills hung the boiling cauldron of cloud-banked heavens. "Are you game?" he called above the roar. "Yes," she gasped. "Don't stop " Her soul had risen at last to the ecstasy of the mania for speed that fired the man's spirit and nerved his hand. It was inconceivable until experienced this awful joy!
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