The Eagle's Shadow

by James Branch Cabell

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He came to her--just as he would have scaled Heaven to come to her,

just as he would have come to her in the nethermost pit of Hell if she

had called. Ah, yes, Billy Woods came to her now in her peril, and

I don't think that Mr. Flinks particularly relished the look upon

Billy's face as he ran through the gardens, for Billy was furiously

moved.

Cock-eye Flinks glanced back at the wall behind him. Ten feet high,

and the fellow ain't far off. Cock-eye Flinks caught up his staff, and