look at a sentence of the for life the monotony takes the heart out of you � that and the heat the killing heat at last the warming pan of a sun went down and the dark came quick and i on pretty well done and from the top of one of those everlasting bare i saw the white of a couple of showing up about half a mile away it wasn t my camp but it meant something in the way of rest and help at least i thought so at first though there was no smoke and the whole place seemed quiet save for the of a dog looked round at me and spoke as though forcing himself i needn t go into details he said that camp was dead even in the night which decently hides a good deal it was a ghastly place i suppose they d all died of thirst they and the oxen and i had fever on me i shall never know quite all i did see but in one of the i made out a dead woman underneath it a dog was tied a small cur the only thing left alive and it and � and � there had been a child in the a little baby child � and i suppose it had lived longer than the rest and it must have crawled out over the tail of the and fallen close to the dog it lay there a white bundle of a thing in the gloom and the dog with its out across the i the child s chest its eyes showing green straining at the rope which tied it and bending down from the saddle � i was too weak with fever to get off � my horse too would have scared it was half mad at � well � at the death all round it and the � i saw that the brute had torn the child s throat � for � for the blood he paused a moment and when he continued it struck me through all the absorbing terror of his story that was one of those persons who even under stress of adverse circumstance try to be just i know it was starving he said and � which is worse � it was men have done as bad things before now at sea � only i tell you i had to kill that dog i could not afford to but i could spare a couple twice i tried it but my revolver was heavy and i was altogether played out so that my hand shook the bullets only cut the rope and then � then � i was taken with a sort of panic i cleared out of that awful place and the dog came his voice sank and while one hand still held the legs of the stool he sideways and with the other made a slow level motion as of something passing across the floor it kept pace with my horse those dreadful eyes looking up at me � two green the galloping beside me dropping behind for a minute or two coming up with me again mile after mile all through the night and the night seemed years and years long i am afraid it is true even with the most of us that the appetite for horror grows with what it on i am naturally a soft man a in tents of the jacob rather than the order of mind i adventures save of the and five o clock tea sort yet as ceased speaking i was sensible of an craving for more of these horrors and when his silence grew somewhat prolonged i found myself � to my shame � saying � well my dear fellow well that s not the end turned to me with that patient smile of his did i perceive though the faintest of contempt behind it the contempt of the and hunter the dealer in primitive passions for the smooth handed jacob of the club and the pavement and the silver no that s not the end he answered at last that s only the beginning � i need not bother you with the whole set out i was pretty bad for some time though i stumbled across my own people next day and we struck a vein of luck at our place and the it o y rolling in the hand over hand it seemed as if the curse and the gold had come together � as soon as i could move i went down to the coast and got away to sea and i thought it was all right we were a couple of degrees south of the and there had been a bad electric storm which had made us all feel pretty but the rain had come down and the weather was mending else had gone under cover � some music and singing was going on in the saloon � and i was standing forward against the with the doctor he was a nice little keen on travel and on natural history he died of fever a year and a half afterwards i heard exploring somewhere up the ive always been sorry he dropped out there was good stuff in him � but about this affair of mine it must have been about eight and it was very close notwithstanding the rain and very dark but for the glimmer through the of the saloon shutters and right along the length of the deck straight at us came a dog just as hard as it could i only saw its eyes � two glowing green a trifle bigger than a sixpence � but there was no what they were they travelled along about nine inches above the level of the deck sometimes higher sometimes lower as the thing galloped it turned just short of us round the end of the saloon and went 