A. Merritt

“ There are certain pictures, certain sculptures, certain works of art which carry to their be holders conviction that no fantasy, no imagination, went into their making and that they are careful, accurate copies of some thing seer by those who made them. This bit of golden carving carried that conviction. ”

“ The señor had come to the village a week before, with one burro and neither guides nor arrieros. He had been very weak, as though from privations and long journeying. But weaker far from a wound on his neck which had become badly infected. The wound seemed to have been made by either an arrow or a spear. The señor had been taken care of as well as the limited knowledge of the cura and himself permitted. His burro had been looked after and his saddlebags kept scrupulously closed. ”

“ That spare burro of his must be loaded with nothing but that Indian hell-brew. Dancre is moody and sullen. Soames seems to have developed a morbid suspicion of all of us. Strange how the wilderness, the jungle, the desert, bring out the latent man in all of us. ”