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Two Years Ago, Volume II.

CHAPTER XXI
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After him, or he'll drown himself in Llyn Cwn Fynnon." "No, he's striking to the right.

Can he be going up the Glyder ?" "We'll see that in five minutes.

All in the day's work, my boy.

I could go up Mont Blanc with such a dinner in me." The two gallant men run in, struggle into their wet boots again, and provisioned with meat and bread, whiskey, tobacco, and plaids, are away upon Elsley's tracks, having left Mrs.Owen disconsolate by their announcement, that a sudden fancy to sleep on the Glyder has seized them.

Nothing more will they tell her, or any one; being gentlemen, however much slang they may talk in private.
Elsley left the door of Pen-y-gwryd, careless whither he went, if he went only far enough.
In front of him rose the Glyder Vawr, its head shrouded in soft mist, through which the moonlight gleamed upon the chequered quarries of that enormous desolation, the dead bones of the eldest-born of time.


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