Mine reared, shivering and wild-eyed, went about, and thundered blindly down the dark hall, with the little horses after him.

Lona's stood gazing down at his mistress, and trembling all over.

The boys flung themselves from their horses' backs, and they, not seeing the black wall before them, dashed themselves, with mine, to pieces against it.

The elephants came on to the foot of the dais, and stopped, wildly trumpeting; the Little Ones sprang upon it, and stood horrified; the princess lay back in her seat, her face that of a corpse, her eyes alone alive, wickedly flaming.

She was again withered and wasted to what I found in the wood, and her side was as if a great branding hand had been laid upon it.