before adam(亚当之前)-第25章
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intervening generations have failed to obliterate them。
There is one other thing of which I must speak before I close。 It is a
dream that I dream often; and in point of time the real event must have
occurred during the period of my living in the high; inaccessible cave。 I
remember that I wandered far in the forest toward the east。 There I came
upon a tribe of Tree People。 I crouched in a thicket and watched them at
play。 They were holding a laughing council; jumping up and down and
screeching rude choruses。
Suddenly they hushed their noise and ceased their capering。 They
shrank down in fear; and quested anxiously about with their eyes for a way
of retreat。 Then Red…Eye walked in among them。 They cowered away
from him。 All were frightened。 But he made no attempt to hurt them。
He was one of them。 At his heels; on stringy bended legs; supporting
herself with knuckles to the ground on either side; walked an old female of
the Tree People; his latest wife。 He sat down in the midst of the circle。
I can see him now; as I write this; scowling; his eyes inflamed; as he peers
about him at the circle of the Tree People。 And as he peers he crooks one
monstrous leg and with his gnarly toes scratches himself on the stomach。
He is Red…Eye; the atavism。
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