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蝇王|Lord of the Flies

第七章 大树和黄昏|Chapter 7 Shadows and Tall Trees

属类: 双语小说 【分类】魔幻小说 -[作者: 威廉-戈尔丁] 阅读:[27634]
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在海边的另一侧,是一片乱七八糟的山岩,靠近着山岩有一条野猪出没的羊肠小道,拉尔夫心满意足地跟着杰克沿小道前进。

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倘若能塞耳不闻大海慢吞吞地吸落声,又翻腾着席卷重来,倘若能视而不见小道两旁羊齿丛生的树丛多么暗无天日,从来没有人来到此处,那么你就有可能不记得野兽,梦想一阵子。骄阳已经摆过了当头,岛上下午的暑气越来越闷热。

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拉尔夫给前面的杰克递了个口信,等到再遇着野果的时候,大家就停下来吃一顿。

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拉尔夫坐下以后,那天他第一次注意到了暑热。

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他讨厌地扯扯灰衬衫,拿不定主意是否该把它洗洗。

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即使是对于这个岛来说,这会儿的暑热似乎也是有别于以往的,坐在这样的暑热之下,拉尔夫捉摸着如何清洗一番。

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拉尔夫希望有一把剪子来剪剪他这头发——乱糟糟的长发被他向后一甩——把这脏透的头发剪到半英寸长。他希望洗个澡,擦上肥皂好好地洗一洗。拉尔夫试用舌头舔舔牙齿,异想着随手要是有把牙刷也很好。还有他的指甲——手被拉尔夫翻过来仔细查看。指甲已被咬到最贴肉的地方,尽管他记不起什么时候又开始了这种恶习,什么时候又沉溺于这种恶习。

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“以后得吮大拇指——”他鬼鬼祟祟地朝四下看了看。明显的没人听见他说话。

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猎手们坐着,正狼吞虎咽地吃着这种来得容易的饭食,他们试图使自己相信:香蕉,还有另一种淡青灰色的浆果,吃起来真是意犹未尽。  拉尔夫想着自己还是很清洁的,用这样的标准,他们被他一个个瞧个仔细。

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猎手们肮脏不堪,不是摔在泥地里浑身是泥浆的脏样,也不是被大雨天淋得象个落汤鸡似的狼狈相。

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在外表他们没有一个十分明显地脏,然而——头发太长,东缠西绕,在里面裹着枯枝残叶。

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因为边吃边流汗,脸倒还算干净,但是从某些特别的角度,就看得出有黑黑的污垢。衣衫褴褛,就象他自己穿的那件一样,被汗水弄得十分僵硬,他们穿上衣服,既不是为了装饰,也不是为了舒适,只是出于习惯而已,孩子们赤裸的身上满是盐屑——

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拉尔夫发现自己现在对这种状况已习惯了,毫不介意,心头微微一沉。

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他叹息着,推开他从上面剥下过野果的那根树梗。

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猎手们有的已经悄悄地跑开到树林子里,有的跑到了山岩下面去干他们的营生了。

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他转身朝大海望去。

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在这儿,在海岛的另一侧,景象截然不同。经受不住冷冰冰的大洋水,海市蜃楼的朦胧魅力不见了,海平面轮廓清晰,蓝得刺眼。

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拉尔夫缓慢走下山岩。在下面这儿,几乎跟大海同一个水平面上,可以放眼追随深海的涌浪凶涌向前。涌浪有好几英里宽,很容易可以看得出不是碎浪,也不是浅水处隆起的浪脊。

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涌浪横跨整个海岛,带着一种满不在乎的气势,又开始了自己的征程;与其说涌浪滚滚向前,不如说整个大洋在惊心动魄地一起一伏。

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这时海潮将要吸落下去,退却的海水白浪滔滔,形成了无数道大小瀑布,海水越过重重礁石而沉落,海藻紧贴着垂荡下去,就象闪闪发亮的头发:片刻之后,积聚起力量后,海潮又怒吼起来,势不可挡地涌上礁石尖儿和地层露头,爬上小岩,以一股拍岸激浪冲上海沟,最后在离拉尔夫一、二码的地方化为飞沫。

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一浪高过一浪,拉尔夫的目光追随着起伏的波涛,直看到海洋的无边无际使他的头脑开始发晕。

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然后,几乎是无边的海水又慢慢地迫使他集中精力。

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大海——就是间隔和障壁。在岛屿的另一侧,正午处在蜃景的包围中,他们被宁静的环礁湖袒护着,谁都可以幻想得救;但是在这儿,面对着这蛮横而愚沌的大洋,面对着这茫无边际的隔绝,谁都会觉得无计可施,谁都会感到无依无助,谁都会绝望,谁都会——

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西蒙几乎就在他耳边说起了话。

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西蒙痛苦地双手紧抓住岩石,这一动作被拉尔夫发现,弓着身体,挺直脖子,张大着嘴巴。

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“你会回到老地方的。”西蒙说着并点着头。

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他单膝下跪,双手抓住一块较高的岩石俯看着,另一条腿向下伸到拉尔夫的身旁。

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拉尔夫百思不得其解,细细察看西蒙的脸,想找出点名堂来。

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“这么大,我是说——”西蒙点点头。“反正一样。你一定能平安地返回。不管怎样,我是这样认为的。”

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拉尔夫的身体稍微轻松一点。

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他朝大海瞥了一眼,之后挖苦地笑着朝西蒙说:“有条船在你的口袋里?”

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西蒙咧嘴摇晃着脑袋。

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“那你怎么会知道呢?”

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西蒙还没吭声,拉尔夫就粗鲁地说道,“你发疯了。”

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西蒙不住地摇头,粗硬的黑发拂过他的脸部,前后乱甩。

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“不是,我不是那个意思。我只是认为你总会回来的,不会出什么事。”

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此刻两个人都一声不吭。

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然后他们俩不期然地互相笑了笑。

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这时候在树丛里罗杰叫喊起来:“来看哪!”

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野猪走过的羊肠小道近旁,地面被翻了起来,还留着冒热气的粪便。

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杰克俯身看得起劲,好象很欣喜的样子。

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“拉尔夫——要是咱们追捕别的东西也需要肉。”

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“要是你走的路对头,咱们就打猎吧。”

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他们再次起程,由于提到了野兽,猎手们有点胆颤心惊,互相紧靠着,杰克在前面开路。

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他们走得比拉尔夫预想的更慢,然而在某种程度上拉尔夫愿意捧着长矛慢慢地走。

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不一会儿,杰克迷失了方向,队伍只好停顿下来。拉尔夫在树上靠着,很快做起了白日梦。

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打猎是杰克负责,到山头还有时间呢——

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拉尔夫以前跟着父亲从查塔姆到德文波特去过,他们在沼地边的一座村舍里住着。

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在拉尔夫所记得的一栋栋房子中,这一座却给他留下了深刻的印象,因为此后就把他送去上学了。那时候妈妈还跟他们住一块儿,爸爸天天回家。野生的小马会跑到花园尽头的石墙前。

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就在这座村舍的后面,还有一间小棚屋,天已在下雪,可以躺在那儿,看着缤纷的雪花飘舞落下。可以看到每片雪花消失后都润湿了一小片泥土,随后又可以看到第一片飘落而未溶化的雪花,观赏到整个大地变成白茫茫的一片。要是觉得冷可以走进屋里,越过铮亮的铜茶壶和带蓝色小人儿的茶盘,透过窗口向外眺望——

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每次睡觉之前总会有一碗带糖和奶油的玉米片。还有不少竖在床旁的书架上,斜靠在一起的书,因为他懒得把书放回原处,所以总有两三本平放在书顶上。

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这几本书折着边角,上面乱涂乱画。

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有一本是关于托普茜和莫普茜的书,这本书色彩鲜明,闪闪发亮,很吸引人,可他从未看过,因为那本书讲的是两个小姑娘,有一本说的是妖道术士,让人看得心惊肉跳,跳翻到二十七页上有一幅狰狞可怕的蜘蛛图;还有本书谈的是发掘旧东西的人,发掘埃及的玩意儿;还有儿童读物《火车》和《轮船》。

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这些书都绘声绘色地跑到了拉尔夫面前,他似乎触手可及,似乎感觉到了那厚厚的少年百科全书挤出来滑下去时的分量和慢慢的移动。

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一切都很好,一切都那么的愉快而又令人向往。

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哗啦一声撞开了队伍前方的矮灌木丛。孩子们发狂地从野猪小道上逃开来,在藤蔓中他们爬呀叫呀。

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拉尔夫看见别人的手肘把杰克推向一边,并倒在地上。

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随即有一个东西沿着野猪的小道径直朝他跳着冲来,它獠牙闪闪,发出恐怖的哼哼声。

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拉尔夫感到自己能冷静地算出距离瞄准目标。

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野公猪到了只有五码开外,手中那根笨拙的尖木棒被拉尔夫掷过去,野猪的大鼻子被尖木棒打中了,还在那上面挂了片刻。

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野公猪的叫声变了,开始尖声地急叫起来,它猛地朝旁边折进了浓密的树丛。

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尖声叫喊的孩子们把野猪出没的小道挤满了,杰克奔了回来,拨弄着矮树丛。

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“穿过这儿——”

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“它可会要咱们的命哩!”

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“我是说穿过这儿——”野公猪挣扎着向远方狂奔去。

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他们还发现有一条野猪通道,同第一条羊肠小道相互平行,杰克忙顺着道跑开了。

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拉尔夫充满吃惊、担心和自豪感。

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“我投中了!长矛扎了进去——”接着他们竟想不到地追到了海边的一块开阔地。

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杰克焦急地在光秃秃的岩石上搜寻着。

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“野猪跑了。”

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“我投中了。”拉尔夫又说,“长矛扎进一点。”他感到需要有人证实一下。

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“你没看到我投吗?”

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莫里斯点点头。“我看到你投的。正扎在猪鼻上——嗖地一声!”

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拉尔夫兴奋地接着讲下去:“我确实投中了。长矛扎了进去。它被我刺伤了!”

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得到孩子们新的尊敬,拉尔夫心里很得意。他感到打猎毕竟是件好事。

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“它被我狠狠地扎了一下。我想那就是野兽!”

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杰克回来了。“那不是野兽,那是头野公猪。”

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“我打中了它。”

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“你为什么不抓住它呢?我尽力——”拉尔夫的话音高起来。“可那是头野公猪呢!”杰克的脸涨得红通通的。

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“你说它会要我们的命。为什么你急急忙忙要投呢?为什么你不等一会呢?”

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杰克伸出手臂。“瞧瞧。”他让大伙儿看他的左前臂。

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手臂的外侧是一道口子,虽然不大,但却是血淋淋的。“这是野公猪用獠牙挑的。我来不及把长矛扎进去。”

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杰克被大家注视着。

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“那是伤口,”西蒙说道,“你要吮吸伤口的血,就象贝伦加利亚那样。”

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杰克吮吸着伤口。

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“它被我打中了,”拉尔夫怒气冲冲地说。“我用长矛扎中的,野公猪被我刺伤了。”他有意再引起他们的注意。

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“踏着小路野公猪奔过来了。我就象这样一掷——”罗伯特朝他吼着。

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拉尔夫跟他玩起来,逗得大家都笑了。一会儿他们都用长矛去刺罗伯特,而罗伯特模仿猪的样子到处乱窜。

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杰克叫喊道:“拉开圈子!”一伙孩子围起圈子,占好位置。

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罗伯特模仿把猪吓得吱喳乱叫的声音,接着果真痛得直叫起来。

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“哦!别打了!我被你们打痛了!”罗伯特在他们当中四处地乱逃,一支长矛柄砸在他背上。

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“逮住他!”他的手臂和腿部被他们抓住不放。

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拉尔夫欣喜若狂,忘乎所以,埃里克的长矛被他一把抢过来,猛戳罗伯特。

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“宰了他!宰了他!”同一时刻,罗伯特尖声地叫,狂蹦乱跳地拼命挣扎。

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他的头发被杰克一把揪住,挥舞着刀子。

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杰克背后是罗杰,正抢上前来。

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孩子们齐声叫喊的声音更加响亮,就象他们在举行什么仪式,就象接近了跳舞和打猎的高潮。

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“杀野猪哟!割喉咙哟!杀野猪哟!狠狠揍哟!”拉尔夫也抢着凑上前去,将没有防卫能力的褐色的肉使劲儿拧去。

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紧拧和加以伤害的欲望主宰了一切。

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杰克的臂膀往下一沉。上下起伏的一圈孩子欢呼着,模仿地喊出野猪临死的惨叫。

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随后欢呼声渐渐消失,躺下来,喘着粗气,倾听着罗伯特惊恐的啜泣。

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用脏手臂擦着他的面孔,竭力爬起来。

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“嗳哟,我的屁股呀!”罗伯特烦恼地揉着臀部,杰克滚了过来。“这样玩真带劲。”

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“开个玩笑的,”拉尔夫不安地说道。“有一次我打橄榄球也痛得很厉害。”

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“咱们该弄一面鼓,”莫里斯说,“那一定更好玩。”

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拉尔夫瞧瞧他。“怎么象样呢?”

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“我不明白。我认为,要火堆,还要有面鼓,可以用鼓打拍子。”

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“要有一头野猪,”罗杰说,“就象真正的打猎一样。”

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“或者有个人来装扮一下,”杰克说。“可以找个人打扮得象头野猪,然后他可以扮演起来——你晓得,我被假装撞倒,如此,等等——”

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有一头真野猪该多好,”罗伯特一面还在摸着臀部说,“因为要把它宰了。”

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“让小家伙试试,”杰克说,笑声又起来了。

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拉尔夫端坐起来。“嘿,如果不加快速度是找不到咱们要找的东西的。”

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他们陆续站起来,以最快的速度穿上破衣烂衫。

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拉尔夫看着杰克。“该上山了。”

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“在天黑以前咱们要不要赶回到猪崽子那儿去呢?”莫里斯问道。

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双胞胎就象一个人似地点着头。

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“对,说得对呀。咱们早上再来爬吧!”拉尔夫向大海远处眺望。

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“咱们得再把火堆点着。”

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“没有猪崽子的眼镜,”杰克说,“所以生不了火。”

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“咱们可以搞清山上有没有能燃着的东西。”

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莫里斯踌躇地开了口,又不想要让人以为他好象是个懦夫。“如果野兽在那山头上呢?”

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杰克挥舞着长矛。“咱们把它宰了。”此时太阳仿佛不那么狠毒了。杰克拿着长矛乱刺乱捅。

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“还等着干吗?”

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“我猜,”拉尔夫说,“要是咱们继续这样沿着海边走,就会走到生火那地点的下方,然后咱们再爬山。”

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他们被杰克再一次领着沿着一退一涨的,令人眼花的大海往前走着。

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拉尔夫再一次做起白日梦来,他脚步灵巧地避开小路上的障碍。

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然而到这儿,他的脚步看来似乎没有以前那样灵巧。因为大部分的路程孩子们被迫直下到海边的光岩石处,他们非得在林木茂盛的黑的森林和岩石边之间侧身慢走。

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要攀登每一座小陡壁,有的简直就当做是前进的道路,在长长的之字形攀爬中,每个人都伸展开四肢攀爬着。

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他们到处都要爬过被海浪打湿的岩石,从海水退后留下的清澈的小水潭跳过。孩子们碰上了一道把狭窄的岸坡隔开,防御工事似的海沟。  海沟深不可测,他们害怕地俯看着海水汩汩的黑幽幽的裂缝。

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随即海浪又冲了回来,海沟里的海水翻腾着,在他们面前,浪花四溅,正好溅到藤蔓里,孩子们身上被弄湿了,口中尖声叫唤。

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他们尝试着穿越森林,可森林严严实实,交织缠绕得就象鸟窝似的。

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最终他们只得等海水退时一个接一个跳过去,即使这样,有些孩子还是又一次淋得湿透。

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之后的山岩似乎更加难以通过,因此他们只好暂时坐下休息一会儿,好让一身破衣烂衫干一干,他们注视着缓缓地越过海岛的一排排清晰轮廓的巨浪。一群欢快的小鸟象昆虫似的飞来飞去,他们在小鸟出入的地方,又找到了野果。

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拉尔夫说他们走得太慢了。他爬上了一棵大树,拨开枝叶茂盛的树冠,看到四四方方的山头似乎还是在远方。

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然后他们就沿着山岩急匆匆地赶起路来,出乎意料的罗伯特的膝盖却被割伤了,伤势还是挺严重的,这才使大家意识到,如果要想不出事,这条小路就必须慢慢地爬。

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此后他们就象是在爬一座险峻的山岭那样艰难地挪着,直爬到山岩形成了一道无法攀登的悬崖绝壁,突出在绝壁之上的是难以对付的丛林,整块山岩则直落到大海之中。

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拉尔夫审视太阳。“现在是傍晚了。至少吃茶点的时间已经过了。”

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“这道绝壁我早已把它忘了,”杰克垂头丧气地说道,“我好像从来没有来过这儿。”

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拉尔夫点点头。“让我猜猜看。”直到今日,拉尔夫对当众思考并不感到有什么不好意思,他只是把白天作决定当做在下棋。

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唯一的麻烦是,他不可能成为一个出色的棋手。

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拉尔夫想到了小家伙们和猪崽子,他生动地想象出猪崽子一个人蜷缩在窝棚里,除了做恶梦的叫声,那周围就再也没其它声音了。

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“咱们不能让小家伙单跟猪崽子在一起,不能让他们整夜独自待着。”

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剩下的孩子全一言不发,只是围成圈站着,注视着他。“要是咱们现在赶回去那就要耽误时间了。”

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杰克清清嗓子,以一种奇怪的、局促的口气说道:“咱们不能让猪崽子再出什么乱子,是不是?”

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长矛拿在拉尔夫手里,用肮脏的矛尖轻敲着自己的牙齿。“要是咱们横穿过——”他四下查看。“得有人穿过岛去告诉猪崽子,咱们要天黑以后才回去。”

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比尔怀疑地问:“在这会儿要一个人穿过森林吗?咱们最多能省出一个人来。”

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西蒙挤过人群,走到拉尔夫身旁。“你如果许可的话,我去。老实说,我不在乎。”

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还没等拉尔夫回答,西蒙紧接着笑了笑,转身就爬进了森林。

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拉尔夫转头看着杰克,第一次狂怒地瞪着眼睛。“杰克——那次到城堡岩去,你走过整个一条路。”

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杰克也怒目而视。“是呀?”

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“你是沿着这部分海岸走的——到了山的下面,再过去一点。”

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“对呀。”

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“后来呢?”

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“我发现一条有几英里长的野猪跑的小道。”

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拉尔夫点点头并指着森林。“那么野猪的小道准在那附近。”

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人人都像有这么回事是的表示同意。

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“那好吧。咱们先穿过森林踏出一条路来,找到那条野猪小道再说。”他走了一步又停下。“再等一等!野猪的小道通向哪儿?”

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“山头,”杰克说,“我曾对你说过。”他讪笑着说道。“你不是要上山吗?”

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拉尔夫叹了口气,感到火药味儿很浓,他明白这是因为杰克感到领不了路而在发火。

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“我在考虑着光线,要不然我们走起来会跌跤的。”

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“我们要去找找野兽——”

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“光线太暗。”

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“我无所谓,”杰克语气激烈地说。“咱们到了那儿我就去。你不去吗?你还是乐意回到窝棚去告诉猪崽子吧?”

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这时可轮到拉尔夫脸红耳赤了,由于猪崽子告诉过他,拉尔夫对杰克有了更深的了解,他只是绝望地问道:“为什么你要恨我?”

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孩子们害怕地动了一下,似乎拉尔夫说了什么不体面的话。

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又是一阵寂静。拉尔夫仍在气头上,感情受到了打击,他先转开身去。

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“跟我来。”拉尔夫走在前面,他朝缠绕着的藤蔓乱劈乱砍。

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杰克在队伍尾部压阵,忽而有一种被人取代的感觉,没精打采地在想些什么。

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野猪时常在这条黑幽幽的通道上出没,夕阳西下,拉开黑色的天幕,树林里总是阴森可怖。

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这条路既宽又坚固,他们沿着小路快步跑着。盖在头顶上密密的树叶豁然开朗,他们收住脚,气喘吁吁地看着环绕山头稀疏闪烁着的星星。

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“瞧,到了。”孩子们心神不定地彼此对看着。

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拉尔夫作了决定。“咱们直穿到平台去,明儿再来爬。”

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他们喃喃地表示同意,可是杰克却正在他肩旁站着。“要是你吓坏了,那当然——”

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拉尔夫转过来与他相对。“谁是第一个上城堡岩的?”

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“我也上了。而且当时是大白天。”

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“好吧。谁想要现在就爬山?”回答他的只是一片沉默。

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“萨姆纳里克?你们怎么样?”

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“咱们该去和猪崽子说一声——”

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“——对,告诉猪崽子——”

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“可西蒙已经去了!”

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“咱们该去告诉猪崽子——万一——”

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“罗伯特?比尔?”他们这时正向平台走去。当然,不是因为害怕——而是累了。

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拉尔夫转身看向杰克。“你瞧?”

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“我打算上山头。”杰克凶狠地说着,就象是在诅咒。

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他绷直了瘦身子瞪着拉尔夫,长矛拿在手里,好象在威胁拉尔夫。“我打算上山去找找野兽——现在就去。”

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随后是火辣辣的刺激,貌似随口说出,实则怀恨在心。

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“你去吗?”

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别的孩子听着这话忘记了马上想走,又折回来瞧着这两个人在黑暗中新一轮的斗法。

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杰克的话太棒了,太恶了,太咄咄逼人了,不必再次重复。

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拉尔夫措手不及,神经已经放松。因为他想着回到窝棚,回到平静而亲切的环礁湖水去。

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“我不在乎。”

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“他被他自己既冷静又随便的声音所吓倒,杰克恶意的嘲笑已经失去了效力。

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“要是你不在乎,那当然。”

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“哼,我根本不在乎。”

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杰克大跨一步。“那好吧——”安静的孩子们看着这两个人开始并肩爬山。

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拉尔夫停了一下。“咱们真傻。为什么就两个人上呢?要是发现什么东西,两个人可不够——”

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孩子们匆匆逃开的脚步声被听到。使人感到吃惊的是,有一个黑乎乎的人影却逆流而动。

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“罗杰吗?”

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“是我。”

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“那就有三个了。”

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他们再一次出发去爬山坡。四周是黑潮流般的夜色。

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杰克一声不吭,呛着一下,咳嗽起来。

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阵风吹过,他们三个全都嘴里呸呸地吐着唾沫。

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拉尔夫泪水直淌,眼前一片模糊。

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“全是灰尘。咱们已经到了烧过的火堆这块地方的边缘了。”还有不时吹拂的微风和他们的脚步,扬起了一小股讨厌的尘灰。

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他们又停下了,拉尔夫边咳嗽边想到他们有多蠢。

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要是并没有野兽——其实根本没有野兽——那当然皆大欢喜;可要是真有东西在山顶上等着——他们三个又管什么用——面前是一片令人恐怖的黑暗,手里只拿着木棒?

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“咱们真是傻瓜。”

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黑暗中有人答话说:“害怕了?”

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拉尔夫恼火地晃动着身体。这全是杰克的过错。

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“我当然怕了。可咱们还是傻瓜。”

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“如果害怕不敢上了,”那声音讥讽地说,“我就一个人上。”

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拉尔夫听着杰克的挖苦,真是恨透了他。眼眶里尘灰扎眼,他又累又怕,因此勃然大怒。“那就去吧!我们在这儿等着。”

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一片鸦雀无声。

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“为什么你就不去呢?吓坏了?”有一团较深的黑影在黑暗中呈现,那是杰克,跟他们分开后就走了。

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“好。回头见。”黑影不见了。

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又出现了另一个黑影。拉尔夫感到自己的膝盖碰着什么硬东西,原来是摇动了一根烧焦的既锋利又难以触摸的树干。

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他感觉到树皮烧成的尖尖的余烬朝他膝盖后部推过来,知道罗杰已坐了下去。

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他用手摸索着,就蹲在了罗杰的身旁,与此同时在无形的灰烬中,树干晃来晃去。

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罗杰天性沉默寡言,他一言不发,既不发表有关野兽的意见,也不告诉拉尔夫他为何要进行这种发疯的探险。

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他只是坐着,轻摇着树干。拉尔夫听到了一阵轻快而又令人恼怒的敲打声,知道这是罗杰用他那根蠢木棒在敲打着什么。

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他们就那样坐着,罗杰摇晃着,轻敲着,无所事事。拉尔夫却正生着气;夜空逼近,他们周围,除了山顶戳破的那块夜色,其余的天空是满天星斗。

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这个时刻,在他们上面发出了一阵溜着地急走的声音,有人冒险地闯过山岩和尘灰,大步走着。

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随后他们被杰克找到,他浑身哆嗦,哭丧着声音说起话来,他们刚听得出是杰克的口音。“在山顶上我看到一样东西。”他们听到一根树干被他撞得摇晃得很厉害的声音。

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他静躺了一会儿,接着咕哝道:“注意。那东西可能跟上来。”

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一阵噼里啪啦的声音在他们四周的灰烬里响起。

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杰克坐了起来。“我看到山上有一个身体会发胀的东西。”

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“这是你想象出来的吧,”拉尔夫颤抖地说,“因为没有什么东西身体会发胀的,不管什么生物都不会发胀。”

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他们被罗杰的声音吓了一跳,因为已把他忘了。“青蛙。”

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杰克全身战栗,格格地笑出声来。

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“有种青蛙。会发出一种‘噗噗’嘈杂响声。那东西的身体还会膨胀呢。”

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拉尔夫吃了一惊,倒不是因为自己说话的声音——他的语调平静——而是因为自己大胆的想法。“咱们上去看看。”

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自从拉尔夫认识杰克以来,他第一次感到杰克踌躇不前。

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“这会儿——?”

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拉尔夫的口气可以想象。“那当然。”拉尔夫跳下树干,领头朝上走着,横穿过发出响声的灰烬,身影淹没在沉沉的夜色之中,其他两人跟在后面。

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拉尔夫有形的话音沉默下去,他内在的理智的话音,还有其他话音,象泉水一样涌现出来。

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猪崽子称他为小孩儿。另一个话音告诉他别做傻瓜了,黑暗和危险的行动使夜晚如牙医的椅子般地变来变去,不可捉摸。

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他们走到最后一段斜坡时,杰克和罗杰靠得更近了——从墨水似的阴影变成了清晰可辨的人影。

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他们不期然地停住了脚,蹲伏在一块儿。在他们背后,海平线之上,一块天空逐渐变亮一点,很快月亮就会升上来。

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阵风又一次呼呼地在林中怒号起来,把他们的破衣烂衫吹得紧贴在身上。

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拉尔夫移动了一下。“跟我来。”他们轻轻地匍匐向前,罗杰落后一点。

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杰克和拉尔夫一起翻过了山脊。

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耀眼的环礁湖平卧在他们之下,环礁湖向前是一长条礁石,白晃晃地模糊一片。罗杰跟了上来。

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杰克低声说道:“咱们用手和膝盖轻轻地往前爬。或许那东西睡着了。”

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罗杰和拉尔夫朝前移动着,杰克跟在后面,尽管他说过好些豪言壮语。

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他们来到平坦的山头,那儿的山岩对手和膝盖而言是很硬的。

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有一个胀鼓鼓的家伙。拉尔夫把手插进了冷冷的、松软的火堆灰烬之中,没让自己惊叫出来。

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由于这不期而遇的触碰:他的手和肩都在颤动。刹那间出现了令人恶心的绿光,在夜色中忽而又消失了。

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罗杰躺在他身后,杰克的嘴巴正在他耳旁轻轻说着:“那边过去,那儿的岩石原来有个裂口,有一堆东西——看到吗?”

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一阵风把熄灭的火堆中的一股灰烬吹到了拉尔夫脸上。

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他既看不见裂口,也看不见有什么别的东西,因为绿色的光又亮起来了,并且更亮了,山顶正在滑向一侧。

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他再次听到了一段距离之外杰克的咕哝声。

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“吓慌了?”就要被吓到瘫痪的程度;就要吓到一动也不动地搁在这似乎在缩小并移动着的山头上。

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杰克再次从他身旁溜开了,什么东西被罗杰撞了一下,发出嘘嘘的呼吸声,又摸索着朝前走。拉尔夫听到他们悄悄地说着话。

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“你看见了什么啦?”

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“瞧——”在离他们只有三四码的地方,在不该有岩石的地方冒出一堆岩石样的东西。

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拉尔夫听到从什么地方传来细小的窃窃私语声——好象是从他嘴巴里出来的。

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他鼓足勇气,将恐惧和厌恶置之度外,站了起来,拖着铅样重的腿往前迈了两步。

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一弯新月在他们背后,高高地升在海平线上面。在他们面前,一只大猿似的东西正坐在那儿打盹儿,头被埋在双膝之中。

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接着林中充满呼啸的风声,沉沉的夜色中一片混乱,那东西抬起了脑袋,一张破烂不堪的怪脸直挺挺地盯着他们。

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拉尔夫大踏步地穿过灰烬,他听到别人大声喊叫、连蹦带跳,他鼓足勇气走在非常困难的黑的山坡上。

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很快地,他们就离开了这座山,三条木棒和那弓着身子的怪物被他们丢弃在山头上。

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The pig-run kept close to the jumble of rocks that lay down by the water on the other side and Ralph was content to follow Jack along it. If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while. The sun had swung over the vertical and the afternoon heat was closing in on the island. Ralph passed a message forward to Jack and when they next came to fruit the whole party stopped and ate.

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Sitting, Ralph was aware of the heat for the first time that day. He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. Sitting under what seemed an unusual heat, even for this island, Ralph planned his toilet. He would like to have a pair of scissors and cut this hair--he flung the mass back--cut this filthy hair right back to half an inch. He would like to have a bath, a proper wallow with soap. He passed his tongue experimentally over his teeth and decided that a toothbrush would come in handy too. Then there were his nails--

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Ralph turned his hand over and examined them. They were bitten down to the quick though he could not remember when he had restarted this habit nor any time when he indulged it.

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"Be sucking my thumb next--"

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He looked round, furtively. Apparently no one had heard. The hunters sat, stuffing themselves with this easy meal, trying to convince themselves that they got sufficient kick out of bananas and that other olive-grey, jelly- like fruit. With the memory of his sometime clean self as a standard, Ralph looked them over. They were dirty, not with the spectacular dirt of boys who have fallen into mud or been brought down hard on a rainy day. Not one of them was an obvious subject for a shower, and yet--hair, much too long, tangled here and there, knotted round a dead leaf or a twig; faces cleaned fairly well by the process of eating and sweating but marked in the less accessible angles with a kind of shadow; clothes, worn away, stiff like his own with sweat, put on, not for decorum or comfort but out of custom; the skin of the body, scurfy with brine--

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He discovered with a little fall of the heart that these were the conditions he took as normal now and that he did not mind. He sighed and pushed away the stalk from which he had stripped the fruit. Already the hunters were stealing away to do their business in the woods or down by the rocks. He turned and looked out to sea.

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Here, on the other side of the island, the view was utterly different. The filmy enchantments of mirage could not endure the cold ocean water and the horizon was hard, clipped blue. Ralph wandered down to the rocks. Down here, almost on a level with the sea, you could follow with your eye the ceaseless, bulging passage of the deep sea waves. They were miles wide, apparently not breakers or the banked ridges of shallow water. They traveled the length of the island with an air of disregarding it and being set on other business; they were less a progress than a momentous rise and fall of the whole ocean. Now the sea would suck down, making cascades and waterfalls of retreating water, would sink past the rocks and plaster down the seaweed like shining hair: then, pausing, gather and rise with a roar, irresistibly swelling over point and outcrop, climbing the little cliff, sending at last an arm of surf up a gully to end a yard or so from him in fingers of spray.

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Wave after wave, Ralph followed the rise and fall until something of the remoteness of the sea numbed his brain. Then gradually the almost infinite size of this water forced itself on his attention. This was the divider, the barrier. On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue; but here, faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned, one was--

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Simon was speaking almost in his ear. Ralph found that he had rock painfully gripped in both hands, found his body arched, the muscles of his neck stiff, his mouth strained open.

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"You'll get back to where you came from."

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Simon nodded as he spoke. He was kneeling on one knee, looking down from a higher rock which he held with both hands; his other leg stretched down to Ralph's level.

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Ralph was puzzled and searched Simon's face for a clue.

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"It's so big, I mean--"

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Simon nodded.

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"All the same. You'll get back all right. I think so, anyway."

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Some of the strain had gone from Ralph's body. He glanced at the sea and then smiled bitterly at Simon.

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"Got a ship in your pocket?"

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Simon grinned and shook his head.

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"How do you know, then?"

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When Simon was still silent Ralph said curtly, "You're batty."

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Simon shook his head violently till the coarse black hair flew backwards and forwards across his face.

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"No, I'm not. I just _think you'll get back all right._"

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For a moment nothing more was said. And then they suddenly smiled at each other.

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Roger called from the coverts.

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"Come and see!"

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The ground was turned over near the pig-run and there were droppings that steamed. Jack bent down to them as though he loved them.

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"Ralph--we need meat even if we are hunting the other thing."

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"If you mean going the right way, we'll hunt."

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They set off again, the hunters bunched a little by fear of the mentioned beast, while Jack quested ahead. They went more slowly than Ralph had bargained for; yet in a way he was glad to loiter, cradling his spear. Jack came up against some emergency of his craft and soon the procession stopped. Ralph leaned against a tree and at once the daydreams came swarming up. Jack was in charge of the hunt and there would be time to get to the mountain--

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Once, following his father from Chatham to Devonport, they had lived in a cottage on the edge of the moors. In the succession of houses that Ralph had known, this one stood out with particular clarity because after that house he had been sent away to school. Mummy had still been with them and Daddy had come home every day. Wild ponies came to the stone wall at the bottom of the garden, and it had snowed. Just behind the cottage there was a sort of shed and you could lie up there, watching the flakes swirl past. You could see the damp spot where each flake died, then you could mark the first flake that lay down without melting and watch, the whole ground turn white. You could go indoors when you were cold and look out of the window, past the bright copper kettle and the plate with the little blue men.

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When you went to bed there was a bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream. And the books--they stood on the shelf by the bed, leaning together with always two or three laid flat on top because he had not bothered to put them back properly. They were dog-eared and scratched. There was the bright, shining one about Topsy and Mopsy that he never read because it was about two girls; there was the one about the magician which you read with a kind of tied-down terror, skipping page twenty-seven with the awful picture of the spider; there was a book about people who had dug things up, Egyptian things; there was _The Boy's Book of Trains_, _The Boy's Book of Ships_. Vividly they came before him; he could have reached up and touched them, could feel the weight and slow slide with which _The Mammoth Book for Boys_ would come out and slither down. . . . Everything was all right; everything was good-humored and friendly.

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The bushes crashed ahead of them. Boys flung themselves wildly from the pig track and scrabbled in the creepers, screaming. Ralph saw Jack nudged aside and fall. Then there was a creature bounding along the pig track toward him, with tusks gleaming and an intimidating grunt. Ralph found he was able to measure the distance coldly and take aim. With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a moment. The boar's note changed to a squeal and it swerved aside into the covert. The pig-run filled with shouting boys again, Jack came running back, and poked about in the undergrowth.

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"Through here--"

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"But he'd do us!"

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"Through here, I said--"

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The boar was floundering away from them. They found another pig-run parallel to the first and Jack raced away. Ralph was full of fright and apprehension and pride.

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"I hit him! The spear stuck in--"

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Now they came, unexpectedly, to an open space by the sea. Jack cast about on the bare rock and looked anxious.

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"He's gone."

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"I hit him," said Ralph again, "and the spear stuck in a bit."

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He felt the need of witnesses.

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"Didn't you see me?"

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Maurice nodded.

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"I saw you. Right bang on his snout--Wheee!"

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Ralph talked on, excitedly.

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"I hit him all right. The spear stuck in. I wounded him!"

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He sunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was good after all.

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"I walloped him properly. That was the beast, I think!" Jack came back.

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"That wasn't the beast. That was a boar."

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"I hit him."

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"Why didn't you grab him? I tried--"

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Ralph's voice ran up.

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"But a boar!"

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Jack flushed suddenly.

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"You said he'd do us. What did you want to throw for? Why didn't you wait?

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He held out his arm.

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"Look."

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He turned his left forearm for them all to see. On the outside was a rip; not much, but bloody.

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"He did that with his tusks. I couldn't get my spear down in time."

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Attention focused on Jack.

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"That's a wound," said Simon, "and you ought to suck it. Like Berengaria."

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Jack sucked.

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"I hit him," said Ralph indignantly. "I hit him with my spear, I wounded him."

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He tried for their attention.

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"He was coming along the path. I threw, like this--"

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Robert snarled at him. Ralph entered into the play and everybody laughed. Presently they were all jabbing at Robert who made mock rushes.

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Jack shouted.

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"Make a ring!"

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The circle moved in and round. Robert squealed in mock terror, then in real pain.

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"Ow! Stop it! You're hurting!"

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The butt end of a spear fell on his back as he blundered among them.

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"Hold him!"

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They got his arms and legs. Ralph, carried away by a sudden thick excitement, grabbed Eric's spear and jabbed at Robert with it.

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"Kill him! Kill him!"

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All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy. Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife. Behind him was Roger, fighting to get close. The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a hunt.

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"_Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!_"

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Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.

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Jack's arm came down; the heaving circle cheered and made pig-dying noises. Then they lay quiet, panting, listening to Robert's frightened snivels. He wiped his face with a dirty arm, and made an effort to retrieve his status.

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"Oh, my bum!"

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He rubbed his rump ruefully. Jack rolled over.

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"That was a good game."

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"Just a game," said Ralph uneasily. "I got jolly badly hurt at rugger once."

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"We ought to have a drum," said Maurice, "then we could do it properly."

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Ralph looked at him.

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"How properly?"

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"I dunno. You want a fire, I think, and a drum, and you keep time to the drum.

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"You want a pig," said Roger, "like a real hunt."

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"Or someone to pretend," said Jack. "You could get someone to dress up as a pig and then he could act--you know, pretend to knock me over and all that."

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"You want a real pig," said Robert, still caressing his rump, "because you've got to kill him."

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"Use a littlun," said Jack, and everybody laughed.

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Ralph sat up.

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"Well. We shan't find what we're looking for at this rate."

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One by one they stood up, twitching rags into place.

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Ralph looked at Jack.

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"Now for the mountain."

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"Shouldn't we go back to Piggy," said Maurice, "before dark?"

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The twins nodded like one boy.

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"Yes, that's right. Let's go up there in the morning."

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Ralph looked out and saw the sea.

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"We've got to start the fire again."

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"You haven't got Piggy's specs," said Jack, "so you can't.''

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"Then we'll find out if the mountain's clear."

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Maurice spoke, hesitating, not wanting to seem a funk.

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"Supposing the beast's up there?"

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Jack brandished his spear.

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"We'll kill it."

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The sun seemed a little cooler. He slashed with the spear.

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"What are we waiting for?"

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"I suppose," said Ralph, "if we keep on by the sea this way, we'll come out below the burnt bit and then we can climb the mountain.

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Once more Jack led them along by the suck and heave of the blinding sea.

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Once more Ralph dreamed, letting his skillful feet deal with the difficulties of the path. Yet here his feet seemed less skillful than before. For most of the way they were forced right down to the bare rock by the water and had to edge along between that and the dark luxuriance of the forest. There were little cliffs to be scaled, some to be used as paths, lengthy traverses where one used hands as well as feet. Here and there they could clamber over wave-wet rock, leaping across clear pools that the tide had left. They came to a gully that split the narrow foreshore like a defense. This seemed to have no bottom and they peered awe-stricken into the gloomy crack where water gurgled. Then the wave came back, the gully boiled before them and spray dashed up to the very creeper so that the boys were wet and shrieking. They tried the forest but it was thick and woven like a bird's nest. In the end they had to jump one by one, waiting till the water sank; and even so, some of them got a second drenching. After that the rocks seemed to be growing impassable so they sat for a time, letting their rags dry and watching the clipped outlines of the rollers that moved so slowly past the island. They found fruit in a haunt of bright little birds that hovered like insects. Then Ralph said they were going too slowly. He himself climbed a tree and parted the canopy, and saw the square head of the mountain seeming still a great way off. Then they tried to hurry along the rocks and Robert cut his knee quite badly and they had to recognize that this path must be taken slowly if they were to be safe. So they proceeded after that as if they were climbing a dangerous mountain, until the rocks became an uncompromising cliff, overhung with impossible jungle and falling sheer into the sea.

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Ralph looked at the sun critically.

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"Early evening. After tea-time, at any rate."

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"I don't remember this cliff," said Jack, crestfallen, "so this must be the bit of the coast I missed."

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Ralph nodded.

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"Let me think."

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By now, Ralph had no self-consciousness in public thinking but would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player. He thought of the littluns and Piggy. Vividly he imagined Piggy by himself, huddled in a shelter that was silent except for the sounds of nightmare.

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"We can't leave the littluns alone with Piggy. Not all night."

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The other boys said nothing but stood round, watching him.

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"If we went back we should take hours."

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Jack cleared his throat and spoke in a queer, tight voice. "We mustn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?" Ralph tapped his teeth with the dirty point of Eric's spear.

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"If we go across--"

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He glanced round him.

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"Someone's got to go across the island and tell Piggy we'll be back after dark."

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Bill spoke, unbelieving.

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"Through the forest by himself? Now?"

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"We can't spare more than one."

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Simon pushed his way to Ralph's elbow.

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"I'll go if you like. I don't mind, honestly."

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Before Ralph had time to reply, he smiled quickly, turned and climbed into the forest.

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Ralph looked back at Jack, seeing him, infuriatingly, for the first time.

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"Jack--that time you went the whole way to the castle rock."

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Jack glowered.

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"Yes?"

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"You came along part of this shore--below the mountain, beyond there."

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"Yes."

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"And then?"

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"I found a pig-run. It went for miles."

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"So the pig-run must be somewhere in there."

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Ralph nodded. He pointed at the forest.

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Everybody agreed, sagely.

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"All right then. We'll smash a way through till we find the pig-run."

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He took a step and halted.

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"Wait a minute though! Where does the pig-run go to?"

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"The mountain," said Jack, "I told you." He sneered. "Don't you want to go to the mountain?"

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Ralph sighed, sensing the rising antagonism, understanding that this was how Jack felt as soon as he ceased to lead.

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"I was thinking of the light. We'll be stumbling about."

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"We were going to look for the beast."

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"There won't be enough light."

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"I don't mind going," said Jack hotly. "I'll go when we get there. Won't you? Would you rather go back to the shelters and tell Piggy?"

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Now it was Ralph's turn to flush but he spoke despairingly, out of the new understanding that Piggy had given him.

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"Why do you hate me?"

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The boys stirred uneasily, as though something indecent had been said. The silence lengthened.

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Ralph, still hot and hurt, turned away first.

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"Come on."

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He led the way and set himself as by right to hack at the tangles. Jack brought up the rear, displaced and brooding.

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The pig-track was a dark tunnel, for the sun was sliding quickly toward the edge of the world and in the forest shadows were never far to seek. The track was broad and beaten and they ran along at a swift trot. Then the roof of leaves broke up and they halted, breathing quickly, looking at the few stars that pricked round the head of the mountain.

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"There you are."

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The boys peered at each other doubtfully. Ralph made a decision.

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"We'll go straight across to the platform and climb tomorrow."

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They murmured agreement; but Jack was standing by his shoulder.

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"If you're frightened of course--"

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Ralph turned on him.

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"Who went first on the castle rock?"

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"I went too. And that was daylight."

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"All right. Who wants to climb the mountain now?" Silence was the only answer.

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"Samneric? What about you?"

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"We ought to go an' tell Piggy--"

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"--yes, tell Piggy that--"

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"But Simon went!"

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"We ought to tell Piggy--in case--"

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"Robert? Bill?"

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They were going straight back to the platform now. Not, of course, that they were afraid--but tired.

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Ralph turned back to Jack.

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"You see?"

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"I'm going up the mountain." The words came from Jack viciously, as though they were a curse. He looked at Ralph, his thin body tensed, his spear held as if he threatened him.

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"I'm going up the mountain to look for the beast--now." Then the supreme sting, the casual, bitter word. "Coming?"

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At that word the other boys forgot their urge to be gone and turned back to sample this fresh rub of two spirits in the dark. The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated. It took Ralph at low water when his nerve was relaxed for the return to the shelter and the still, friendly waters of the lagoon.

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"I don't mind."

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Astonished, he heard his voice come out, cool and casual, so that the bitterness of Jack's taunt fell powerless.

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"If you don't mind, of course."

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"Oh, not at all."

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Jack took a step.

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"Well then--"

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Side by side, watched by silent boys, the two started up the mountain.

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Ralph stopped.

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"We're silly. Why should only two go? If we find anything, two won't be enough."

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There came the sound of boys scuttling away. Astonishingly, a dark figure moved against the tide.

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"Roger?"

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"Yes."

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"That's three, then."

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Once more they set out to climb the slope of the mountain. The darkness seemed to flow round them like a tide. Jack, who had said nothing, began to choke and cough, and a gust of wind set all three spluttering. Ralph's eyes were blinded with tears.

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"Ashes. We're on the edge of the burnt patch."

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Their footsteps and the occasional breeze were stirring up small devils of dust. Now that they stopped again, Ralph had time while he coughed to remember how silly they were. If there was no beast--and almost certainly there was no beast--in that case, well and good; but if there was something waiting on top of the mountain-- what was the use of three of them, handicapped by the darkness and carrying only sticks?

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"We're being fools."

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Out of the darkness came the answer.

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"Windy?"

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Irritably Ralph shook himself. This was all Jack's fault.

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"'Course I am. But we're still being fools."

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"If you don't want to go on," said the voice sarcastically, "I'll go up by myself."

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Ralph heard the mockery and hated Jack. The sting of ashes in his eyes, tiredness, fear, enraged him.

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"Go on then! We'll wait here."

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There was silence.

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"Why don't you go? Are you frightened?" A stain in the darkness, a stain that was Jack, detached itself and began to draw away.

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"All right. So long."

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The stain vanished. Another took its place.

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Ralph felt his knee against something hard and rocked a charred trunk that was edgy to the touch. He felt the sharp cinders that had been bark push against the back of his knee and knew that Roger had sat down. He felt with his hands and lowered himself beside Roger, while the trunk rocked among invisible ashes. Roger,uncommunicative by nature, said nothing. He offered no opinion on the beast nor told Ralph why he had chosen to come on this mad expedition. He simply sat and rocked the trunk gently. Ralph noticed a rapid and infuriating tapping noise and realized that Roger was banging his silly wooden stick against something.

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So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness.

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There was a slithering noise high above them, the sound of someone taking giant and dangerous strides on rock or ash. Then Jack found them, and was shivering and croaking in a voice they could just recognize as his.

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"I saw a thing on top."

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They heard him blunder against the trunk which rocked violently. He lay silent for a moment, then muttered.

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"Keep a good lookout. It may be following."

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A shower of ash pattered round them. Jack sat up.

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"I saw a thing bulge on the mountain."

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"You only imagined it," said Ralph shakily, "because nothing would bulge. Not any sort of creature."

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Roger spoke; they jumped, for they had forgotten him.

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"A frog."

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Jack giggled and shuddered.

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"Some frog. There was a noise too. A kind of 'plop' noise. Then the thing bulged."

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Ralph surprised himself, not so much by the quality of his voice, which was even, but by the bravado of its intention.

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"We'll go and look."

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For the first time since he had first known Jack, Ralph could feel him hesitate.

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"Now--?"

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His voice spoke for him.

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"Of course."

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He got off the trunk and led the way across the clinking cinders up into the dark, and the others followed.

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Now that his physical voice was silent the inner voice of reason, and other voices too, made themselves heard. Piggy was calling him a kid. Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality.

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As they came to the last slope, Jack and Roger drew near, changed from the ink-stains to distinguishable figures. By common consent they stopped and crouched together. Behind them, on the horizon, was a patch of lighter sky where in a moment the moon would rise. The wind roared once in the forest and pushed their rags against them.

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Ralph stirred.

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"Come on."

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They crept forward, Roger lagging a little. Jack and Ralph turned the shoulder of the mountain together. The glittering lengths of the lagoon lay below them and beyond that a long white smudge that was the reef. Roger joined them.

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Jack whispered.

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"Let's creep forward on hands and knees. Maybe it's asleep."

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Roger and Ralph moved on, this time leaving Jack in the rear, for all his brave words. They came to the flat top where the rock was hard to hands and knees.

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A creature that bulged.

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Ralph put his hand in the cold, soft ashes of the fire and smothered a cry. His hand and shoulder were twitching from the unlooked-for contact. Green lights of nausea appeared for a moment and ate into the darkness.Roger lay behind him and Jack's mouth was at his ear.

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"Over there, where there used to be a gap in the rock. A sort of hump--see?"

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Ashes blew into Ralph's face from the dead fire. He could not see the gap or anything else, because the green lights were opening again and growing, and the top of the mountain was sliding sideways.

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Once more, from a distance, he heard Jack's whisper.

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"Scared?"

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Not scared so much as paralyzed; hung up there immovable on the top of a diminishing, moving mountain. Jack slid away from him, Roger bumped, fumbled with a hiss of breath, and passed onwards. He heard them whispering.

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"Can you see anything?"

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"There--"

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In front of them, only three or four yards away, was a rock-like hump where no rock should be. Ralph could hear a tiny chattering noise coming from somewhere-- perhaps from his own mouth. He bound himself together with his will, fused his fear and loathing into a hatred, and stood up. He took two leaden steps forward.

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Behind them the silver of moon had drawn clear of the horizon. Before them, something like a great ape was sitting asleep with its head between its knees. Then the wind roared in the forest, there was confusion in the darkness and the creature lifted its head, holding toward them the ruin of a face.

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Ralph found himself taking giant strides among the ashes, heard other creatures crying out and leaping and dared the impossible on the dark slope; presently the mountain was deserted, save for the three abandoned sticks and the thing that bowed.

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