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The Books of Bairnmoor, Volume III
James Daniel Eckblad
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The wide globe of light cast by the lantern returned at once, encircling the girls and fully illuminating the Blackmouths—that yelled and yowled more ferociously, while nevertheless skulking backwards beyond the reach of the lamp’s beam. Within several seconds that felt to the girls like several minutes, Elli and Beatríz had returned to the place by the black water where the lantern had wanted, and still wanted, them to cross—to a large moor that was far too far away to get to by jumping. The Blackmouths continued to follow them, but remained at the edge of darkness.
“The Blackmouths are still close, aren’t they, Elli?” Beatríz asked with a nervous weariness in her voice.
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