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He listened, but sound had ceased. His ears seemed ringing and they hurt. All his body felt cold, and he backed up and up, with dead feet. The shadows of the canyon lightened. A river-wide froth, like a curtain, moved down, spreading mushroom-wise before it, a rolling, heaving maelstrom. Bostil ran to escape the great wave that surged into the amphitheater, up and up the rocky trail.
But Loder paled suddenly, and his glance turned to the river-wide, mysterious, secret. Unconsciously Fraide had stripped the illusion. It was not John Loder who walked here; it was Chilcote Chilcote with his position, his constituency his wife. He half extricated his arm, but Fraide held it. "No," he said. "Don't draw away from me. You have always been too ready to do that.
"If ever one's feet touch it !" She thought the road wonderful. It was river-wide, and full of gentle undulations. Where it was smoothest, it reflected the Barn and all the surrounding lights. "Some one's coming!" announced the Piper. Buzz-z-z-z! It was a low, angry droning. The next moment a figure came into sight at a corner of the Barn.
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