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SHORT STORIES FROM THE BALKANS
man, it had been so long the prey of wind and rain. At a little distance lay a flute! Andrew shrieked with terror. He began hastily to beat his companion, and drive him up the steep mountain-side.
Not once did he dare look back, and he made constantly the sign of the cross.
He told the Prior that he had stayed all night at a peasant's house. Whether he ever told what really happened that night I do not know.
