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Veranilda

CHAPTER XXI
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It brought him comfort; but the next moment he remembered Sagaris, and mental anguish blended with his fears of the invisible.
Again sleep overcame him.

He dreamt that an evil spirit, with a face he knew but could not name, was pursuing him over trackless mountains.

He fled like the wind; but the spirit was close behind him, and wherever he turned his head, he saw the familiar face grinning a devilish mockery.

A precipice lay before him.

He leapt wildly, and knew at once that he had leapt into fire, into hell.


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