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Lilith

CHAPTER X
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It passed into the distance; but, while yet I stared after it, a single wave rose up, and came slowly toward me.

A yard or two away it burst, and from it, with a scramble and a bound, issued an animal like a tiger.

About his mouth and ears hung clots of mould, and his eyes winked and flamed as he rushed at me, showing his white teeth in a soundless snarl.

I stood fascinated, unconscious of either courage or fear.

He turned his head to the ground, and plunged into it.
"That moon is affecting my brain," I said as I resumed my journey.


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