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At last he gained the top of the bank andto the bole of a palm-tree One of his arms was useless, he discovered, and he realized with a curious shock that it was broken He was bleeding, too, from more than one wound, but he could walk, after a fashion

He was inclined to stay and finish the fight, but he recollected that Rosa would be waiting for hio to her, and so he set out across the fields, staggering through the charred cane stubble The night was not so black as it had been, and this puzzled him until he saw that the plantation house was ablaze Fla abroad a lurid radiance; and rehed

By and by, after he ell away, his nu pain The pain had been there all the ti the capacity to feel it He was ready to die now, he was so ill; ot in his way Only that subconscious realization of the necessity to keep going for Rosa's sake sustained him

After a while he found himself on a forest trail; then he came to other fields and labored across them Fortune finally led his feet down into a creek-bed, and he drank greedily, sitting upon a stone and scooping the water up in his one useful hand He was a long ti up, but he finallyon his feet Daylight came at last to show him his way More than once he paused, alarmed, at voices in the woods, only to find that the sounds issued frorown very hot now, so hot that heat-waves obscured his vision and caused the an to hunt aimlessly for water, but there was none Evidently this heat had parched the land, dried up the streams, and set the stones afire It was incredible, but true

Esteban reasoned that hefor days--for years The country, indeed, was altogether unfa seen the path he trod, but for that e In the first place he knew that he was going west, and yet thehotly into his face! That alone convinced hione aith the world He could rereat convulsion of some sort, but just what it was he had no clear idea! Evidently, though, it had been sufficient to change the rotation of the earth Yes, that was it; the earth was running backward upon its axis; he could actually feel it whirling under his feet No wonder his journey seeantic tread sphere Well, it was a si, sit down, and allow himself to be spun backward around to the place where Rosa aiting He pondered this idea for some time, until its absurdity beca out of his head; he saw that it was necessary to keep walking until the back-spin of that treadht Rosa to him