of sense by the strange numbness of head
and dullness of eye. Another of those green
balls fell and burst, as it actually appeared
to him, before his horrified eyes, and the
bellow and blare of the explosion made him
cry out in a madness of fright and physical
pain. In the illumination he had seen a
cabin only a few feet in front of him, and
toward it he made frantically, with an ani-
mal's instinctive desire for shelter.

The door did not yield at once to his
pressure, and in the panic of his fear he
threw his weight against it. There was a
cry from within, a fall, and Henderson flung
himself in the cabin and closed the door.

In the dusk of the storm he saw a woman
half prostrate. It was she whom he had
pushed from the door. He caught the hook
in its staple, and turned to raise her. She
was not trembling as much as he, but, like
himself, she was dizzy with the shock of
the lightning. In the midst of all the
clamor Henderson heard a shrill crying, and
looking toward the side of the room, he
dimly perceived three tiny forms crouched
in one of the bunks. The woman took the
smallest of the children in her arms, and
kissed and soothed it; and Henderson, after