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Updated: June 18, 2025
Her wild nature, her half-human eye, the traces of Greek form in the dark features these things fired and excited him. 'Get me that girl to sit, he had said to Madame Cervin, 'and the Maenad will be sold in six weeks!
I readily surmised that not the dream, but something else, perhaps some recollection which it recalled, worried her. By careful questioning I discovered that it was a broken engagement." "Yes," prompted Kennedy. "The bull-serpent, she admitted, had a half-human face the face of Arnold Masterson!" Was Dr. Ross desperately shifting suspicion from himself? I asked.
He was about to rouse him; then he changed his mind and swung round upon the puma, leaving the fire between himself and the other. He took a long and deadly aim. The glowing eyes offered a splendid target and he knew he must not miss. A report rang out, followed almost instantaneously by a piteous, half-human shriek of pain; then came the sound of a body falling, and the eyes had vanished.
The strange shape lit up by the flaring torches seemed more vague, unearthly, and awkward in its dying throes, yet the small shut eyes, the feeble nose, the ponderous shoulders, and half-human foot armed with powerful claws were unmistakable. The men turned by a common impulse and peered into the remote recesses of the wood again. "Hi, Mister! come and pick up your game. Hallo there!"
Scarcely was I poised to strike, when the speeding prow ripped into us, and I was catapulted into the black water. There was the echo of an oath, a harsh, cruel laugh, the crash of planking, a strange, half-human cry of fright from the negro that was all.
The cayman plunged sullenly into the sedgy water; and the "Sajou" monkey, suspended by his prehensile tail from some overhanging bough, oscillated to and fro, and filled the air with his hideous, half-human cries. Halting for a moment to refill the canteens, we crossed over and ascended the opposite bank.
Far off in the retreating ship the watchers believed that he had been given a prey to the demons. Passing a headland they came upon a full-grown seal, which slid from the rocks into the sea, presenting to them its half-human face.
What was to be done? The arm of stagnant water lay near to us, but we had no boat with which to cross to the further shore. And what was that shore? A cave where a creature who seemed to be but half-human, sat watching like a spider in its web. Do not let it be supposed that this question of escape had been absent from our minds.
Next she realized that she was sheltered in a cave; that slender lines of white daylight sifted through the interstices of a door; that a lamp was burning somewhere behind a screen; that a hairy thing sat in a corner and looked at her with half-human eyes, and that, as she shrank at the sight, the warm support under her head moved and a fair face, framed with golden hair, bent over her.
He was whining anxiously. He seemed to be demanding that sympathy which she alone could give him. In his half-human way, he was asking: "Why has my master gone away in that boat? And why did he not take me with him? When my master goes ashore he never leaves me on board; what is the reason of to-day's exception?" On the poop she found Boyle, Christobal, Gray and Walker.
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