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Without a word Scylla did as she was told, and in a few seconds was half kneeling, half lying on the ground. Then Martha struck Dan as hard as she could with her flat hand. "Hey up, Dan!" said she, "run! run! You needn't stay here, too!" The horse galloped off into the darkness. Just then another lighting-flash came and showed a cow-boy leaning far over the neck of his pony, riding for his life.
Ah! ... what divine ecstasy, what wild and fiery transport filled him then! ... Her kiss, like a penetrating lighting-flash, pierced to the very centre of his being, the moonbeams swam round him in eddying circles of gold the white field heaved to and fro, ... he caught her waist and clung to her, and in the burning marvel of that moment he forget everything, save that, whether spirit or mortal, she was in woman's witching shape, and that all the glamour of her beauty was his for this one night at least, . . this night which now in the speechless, glorious delirium of love that overwhelmed him, seemed like the Mahometan's night of Al-Kadr, "better than a thousand months!"
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