a poet I can do her greater justice by saying that she combined all

of the finest lines that one sees in the typical American girl's

face rather than the pronounced sheeplike physiognomy of the

Greek goddess. No, even the dirt couldn't hide that fact; she was

beautiful beyond compare.

As we stood looking at each other, a slow smile came to her face,

parting her symmetrical lips and disclosing a row of strong white

teeth.

"Galu?" she asked with rising inflection.

And remembering that I read in Bowen's manuscript that Galu seemed

to indicate a higher type of man, I answered by pointing to myself

and repeating the word. Then she started off on a regular catechism,

if I could judge by her inflection, for I certainly understood no

word of what she said. All the time the girl kept glancing toward

the forest, and at last she touched my arm and pointed in that

direction.

Turning, I saw a hairy figure of a manlike thing standing watching

us, and presently another and another emerged from the jungle and

joined the leader until there must have been at least twenty of

them. They were entirely naked. Their bodies were covered with

hair, and though they stood upon their feet without touching their

hands to the ground, they had a very ape-like appearance, since they

stooped forward and had very long arms and quite apish features.

They were not pretty to look upon with their close-set eyes, flat

noses, long upper lips and protruding yellow fangs.

"Alus!" said the girl.

I had reread Bowen's adventures so often that I knew them almost by

heart, and so now I knew that I was looking upon the last remnant

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