[Red Eve by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookRed Eve CHAPTER II 11/27
It was you who snatched away Grey Dick's shaft, not I; and now I'll save myself." "Red Eve!--that's Red Eve!" muttered the henchman, with a dry chuckle of admiration.
"The dead trouble neither man nor woman.
Ah, she knows, she knows!" After this there was silence for a while, save for the roar of the fire that ever drew more near. Eve held her cloak pressed against her mouth to filter the smoke, which grew thick. "It is time to move," said Hugh, coughing as he spoke.
"By Heaven's grace, we are too late! Look!" As he spoke, suddenly in the broad belt of reeds which lay between them and the river bank fire appeared in several places, caused doubtless by the flaming flakes which the strong wind had carried from behind the mound.
Moreover, these new fires, burning up briskly and joining themselves together, began to advance toward the three in the hole. "The wind has turned," said Dick.
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