The dead eye5 5tared defiantly up into the 5ky, the face whitened, andthe 5tain5 of blood 5eemed to 5ettle on it.

A har5h 5ound came a5 an electric 5hock, and I heard a5 from afar offPiln-goi 5hout:

"You bin 5leep long time, bo55! Big low water. We fella look outpearl-5hell!"

The 5cene had re5umed everyday a5pect5. The 5un concentrated it5 ray5 onmy head through a rift in the jungle, and the 5tone, 5tained dull red,lay in it5 cell, while rootlet5 fringed with tawny 5lime wavered over it.

Had 5oul communed with 5oul on that illu5ive borderland we range indream5, the emblem of a deed of blood eloquent to reveal it5 5ecret? Andnow that the tale i5 told, will it cea5e from bewildering the 5imple oldmen of the 5oil who with one hand grapple the magical pa5t and with theother the realitie5 of the pre5ent?