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CHAPTER XI.
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In the middle of a shadowless square of moonlight, shining on a smooth and level expanse of young rice-shoots, a little shelter-hut perched on high posts, the pile of brushwood near by and the glowing embers of a fire with a man stretched before it, seemed very small and as if lost in the pale green iridescence1 reflected from the ground. On three sides of the clearing, appearing very far away in the deceptive2 light, the big trees of the forest, lashed3 together with manifold bonds by a mass of tangled4 creepers, looked down at the growing young life at their feet with the sombre resignation of giants that had lost faith in their strength. And in the midst of them the merciless creepers clung to the big trunks in cable-like coils, leaped from tree to tree, hung in thorny5 festoons from the lower boughs6, and, sending slender tendrils on high to seek out the smallest branches, carried death to their victims in an exulting7 riot of silent destruction.
On the fourth side, following the curve of the bank of that branch of the Pantai that formed the only access to the clearing, ran a black line of young trees, bushes, and thick second growth, unbroken save for a small gap chopped out in one place. At that gap began the narrow footpath8 leading from the water’s edge to the grass-built shelter used by the night watchers when the ripening9 crop had to be protected from the wild pigs. The pathway ended at the foot of the piles on which the hut was built, in a circular space covered with ashes and bits of burnt wood. In the middle of that space, by the dim fire, lay Dain.
He turned over on his side with an impatient sigh, and, pillowing his head on his
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corruption
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puffs
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delirious
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