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Updated: June 25, 2025
There were still temblors, but the sharper shocks no longer came. There was conflagration in the wood, where the lurching ship had left a long fresh streak of forest-fire. The two castaways stared at the round, empty landing-place. Overhead, the blue sky turned yellow but where the smoke from the eruption rose, the sky early became a brownish red and presently the yellow faded to gold.
She was as one who, fascinated, watches a forest-fire while he waits to be engulfed. Presently, from the shadows behind, the great dog Cork came like a ghost and gave them stately welcome. He licked Olga's quivering hands, standing beside her in earnest solicitude. Nick rose to his feet and moved a little away. His hand was hard clenched against his side. He could not help, it seemed.
Yes; but the alternative was death! There was no other way!" Now none of the attackers remained save a few feebly twitching, writhing bodies caught on some protuberance of rock. Here, there, one of these fell, and like the rest was borne away down stream. Through the heated air already verberated a strange roar as the forest-fire leaped up the opposite hillside in one clear lick of incandescence.
The crowd before the doors grew every moment; the people flocking from all quarters would soon multiply it a hundred fold; for such news as had been carried from the attic by twenty wondering tongues spreads like a forest-fire. It would be through Strelsau in a few minutes, through the kingdom in an hour, through Europe in but little longer.
"What may this not result in?" he wondered as he observed the swift and angry leap of the forest-fire to northward. "It may ravage thousands of square miles before rain puts an end to it. It may devastate the whole country. A change in the wind may even drive it back on us, across the river, sweeping all before it. This may mean ruin!" He paused a moment, then said aloud: "Ruin, perhaps.
But he could not take the sun out of the sky which day by day shone from horizon to horizon as a brazen shield burnished to an intolerable brightness, while the earth parched and cracked and barren fainted beneath it. The nights had begun to be oppressive also. The wind from the desert was as the burning breath from a far-off forest-fire which hourly drew a little nearer.
He that with fixed attention reciteth this hymn at sunrise, obtaineth wife and offspring and riches and the memory of his former existence, and by reciting this hymn a person attaineth patience and memory. Let a man concentrating his mind, recite this hymn. By doing so, he shall be proof against grief and forest-fire and ocean and every object of desire shall be his."
Through the night it echoed, gaily, defiantly; again and again; ringing out above the obscene hiss and crackle and roar of the forest-fire. And at every repetition, it was nearer and nearer the dumfounded listeners at the knoll foot. "It's it's Laddie!" cried the Mistress, in wondering rapture. "Oh, it's LADDIE!" The Master, hearing the glad racket, did a thoroughly asinine thing.
Greene with the desire to do a day's work and kill a forest-fire in its beginning. Lee with the passionate hope of finding Judith. Lee reached his journey's end first. As he came pantingly up the last climb he discharged his rifle again and again, to tell her that he was coming, to put hope into her.
It possessed her like an evil spell. So she stood by, sometimes helping, always watching, while her friend's tragedy leaped from point to point like a spreading forest-fire breeding destruction. "You are not afraid of me, Allegro?" Violet asked her suddenly, as she arranged her black hair with swift, feverish movements. And Olga answered with truth. "No, dear. I should never be that."
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