curtain used at the back of a theatre—hazily a little. It is neither a human figure nor an animal, but gives the strange impression of being as large as several animals grouped together, like horses, two or three, moving slowly. It is rounded at the top, and moves all over upon its surface—coiling upon itself like smoke. And from one angle, it is smoke; smoke and nothing more. From another it is something else—something akin to an enormous shadowy spider, scuttling at them upon a thousand stem-like legs. Something
black-green and brown-red with silvery cilia all upon its surface; which both floats and crawls and is not alone.
SWEDEN tries to scramble away as it settles downwards through the bushes, but is stop-ped by ABE, who holds him like a vise. Their faces are but inches from the oth
