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A BATTLE ROYAL.
I threw myself on the bed, and began to turn over in my mind the tale she had told me.

She had forgotten herself, and, by a single incautious word, removed one perplexity as to the condition in which I found her in the forest! The leopardess BOUNDED over; the princess lay prostrate on the bank: the running stream had dissolved her self-enchantment! Her own account of the object of her journey revealed the danger of the Little Ones then imminent: I had saved the life of their one fearful enemy! I had but reached this conclusion when I fell asleep.

The lovely wine may not have been quite innocent.
When I opened my eyes, it was night.

A lamp, suspended from the ceiling, cast a clear, although soft light through the chamber.