Suddenly a qualm of nausea swept over me, my senses
swam, my knees gave beneath me and I pitched headlong to
the ground upon the very verge of the dizzy bluff.
Instantly my brain cleared and there swept back across the
threshold of my memory the vivid picture of the horrors of that
ghostly Arizona cave; again, as on that far-gone night, my
muscles refused to respond to my will and again, as though
even here upon the banks of the placid Hudson, I could hear
the awful moans and rustling of the fearsome thing which had
lurked and threatened me from the dark recesses of the cave, I
made the same mighty and superhuman effort to break the
bonds of the strange anaesthesia which held me, and again
came the sharp click as of the sudden parting of a taut wire,
and I stood naked and free beside the staring, lifeless thing