Now I gat me to my feet, and had the Diskos ready within my
hand; and behold! I could not see the Humped Men, for they were
gone from that place; yet never did I see them go, though I had
kept my gaze very steadfast upon that part where they did hide.
And, as you shall understand, I was near ready to believe that
there had been nothing there within the border of the wood; yet
truly I knew that the men with the humps had been there, as I had
seen.
Now, I looked presently, and found that I had slept five hours;
and I eat two of the tablets, as I did stand there, watchful; and
afterward drank some of the water; and so was ready to go forward
again; for I was grown very anxious to be gone from that place; and
did have no knowledge but that those strangely humpt Men were but a
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