[The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Kathlyn CHAPTER VII 3/26
Fascinated, she could not withdraw her gaze.
How his mighty shoulders heaved and pulled! But down, down, lower and lower, till nothing but the great maned head remained in view.
Then that was drawn down; the sand filled the animal's mouth and stopped his roaring; lower, lower.
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. Quicksands! The spot where he had disappeared stirred and glistened and shuddered, and then the eternal blankness of sand. She was not, then, to die? Should she return to the temple? Would they not demand of her the restoration of the lion? She must go on, whither she knew not.
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