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Excerpt from The One Black Shadow
Days before he had crossed the mountains, which now loomed, dimmed by the quivering blue heat-haze in the background. They were even drier, drearier, and more deserted than this yellow, endless plain, covered with gaunt weather-gnarled skeletons of ring-barked trees, occasionally relieved by scattered clusters of dark green Eucalypti.
Then, his strength as yet unimpaired by fatigue and hardship, he had gone bravely on till his supply of water came to an end, and he could find no friendly creek or waterhole to quench his intolerable thirst. After two weary, feverish, dream-tortured nights, he had awakened each dawn to another cloudless, perfect day, and, in the impotence of his despair, he had cursed the blue vault above him, with never a cloud or promise of rain.
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