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It was plain that Red-Eye was bent upon murder. I was desperate and angry and fairly cool. Running back and forth along the neighboring ledges, I gathered a heap of rocks at the cave-entrance. Red-Eye was now several yards beneath me, concealed for the moment by an out-jut of the cliff. As he climbed, his head came into view, and I banged a rock down.
"Well I'm " began Tom, but the Fakir put his hand over Tom's mouth and, taking him by the arm, led him to the cave-entrance. "Speak low, Tom," said the Fakir in a low voice. "Marvellous! Is it you, Burton? I should never have known you in that get-up," whispered the surprised Tom. "Seems like it. But quick's the word, my boy.
The worst thing of all that the Man discovered when he crept to the cave-entrance after a wakeful night, was this: with a terrible stealthy silence snow was drifting down so that even the distant shining of the gates of Eden was blotted out. It was frightening; snow had never fallen in the world before. If it had, the Man had not seen it. Within the walls of the garden summer had been perpetual.
Of course we went first to look at the black cave-entrance. Sure enough, a great flat slab had fallen down from it and lay half in the water, we could see scratchy marks and broken places where it had slid. The cave itself was about six feet deep, and very dank and dismal-looking.
Madge held back, but Layson hurried to the thicket, with gun raised ready for a shot. Just then, from the carefully concealed cave-entrance, came Joe Lorey, rifle poised for trouble, eyes gleaming fiercely, evidently keyed to meet a raid by revenuers. It was plain enough that he believed the noise which had disturbed, alarmed him, had been made by this young sportsman.
They are compared by M. Berthelot with the signs engraved upon the cave-entrance of La Piedra Escrita in the Sierra Morena of Andalusia; with those printed by General Faidherbe in his work on the Numidic or Lybian epigraphs; with the 'Thugga inscription, Tunis; and with the rock-gravings of the Sahara, attributed to the ancient Tawarik or Tifinegs. Dr. Dr.
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