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Feeling the pain of the blow the monster snapped
at him, and catching him by the hand began to sink back into deep water,
dragging the lad after it.
Rames said nothing, but Tua, who already was at the head of the stage,
looked round and saw the agony on his face.
"Help me, Amen!" she cried, and flying back, grasped Rames by his left
arm just as he was falling over, then set her heels in a crack of
the rock and held on. For one moment she was dragged forward till she
thought that she must fall upon her face and be drowned or eaten with
Rames, but the next something yielded, and she and the boy tumbled in a
heap upon the stones. They rose and staggered together to the terrace.
As they went Tua saw that Rames was looking at his right hand curiously;
also that it was covered with blood, and that the little finger was torn
off it. Then she remembered nothing further, except a sound of shouts
and of heavy hammering at the copper door.
When she recovered it was to find herself in the house of Mermes with
the lady Asti bending over her and weeping.


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