CH. V
THE GIANT LEAGUER
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the searchlights wheeled about, and for a moment fell upon him, standing out gigantic with hand upraised against the sky.
For one instant he shone, looking up fearlessly into the starry deeps, mail-clad, young and strong, resolute and still. Then the light had passed and he was no more than a great black outline against the starry sky,—a great black outline that threatened with one mighty gesture the firmament of heaven and all its multitude of stars.
THE END
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