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Show Ono night isjjH from Bleep, hBH boon tbo vIctfnBH his dreams secmeinSI n great weight had bocn larJil body. Every tlmo ho breathed hH It pressing on his chest, until bit bit ho awakened to discover that ho was lying on his back. Tho conviction that ho had suffered from, n nightmare was still on his mind, nnd ho Idly turned his eyes iround his room, now faintly Illuminated Illumi-nated In tho early morning llgliV Then ills thoughta turned to the thing thr.t I and oppressed him In his d roams. Con-clousncss Con-clousncss had not removed It. At svory breath ho felt that ho was rals-ng rals-ng somo mystorlous and heavy object Ho stretched out his hand and encountered en-countered an Icy coldnosa; at tho tamo tlmo nn nngry hlsa foil on his ars, nnd ho drew his hand back quick-0'. quick-0'. 8carcoly two feet from his eyes oo saw tho hooded, brown and yollow itrlpcd head ot a cobra,. Ho felt ttjo noad-llko oyes plorc him through and .hrough. Ills mind Was clear, but thero was something lu that flcrco gnzo that turnod his body, as it wore, to atono. A inlnuto passed, nnd then, tho cobra slowly (tank down Into colls. With this respite hopo revived In tho mnn. Should ho wait Until tho njptllo had fallen aBleep and thon mako a bold dash to escapo? Half an hour passod, ! at least, bo ho Judgod by tho slowly Increasing daylight In tho room, Tho official moved slightly. A rcsponslvo movement from tho wolght, that now scorned to hnvo Increased a hundredfold, hundred-fold, warned him that tho cobra was yot awako. Thon nn Iden crept Into tho man's mind. Ho began to whlstlo softly. Tho snako stirred slightly, but soon subsldod, soothed, evidently, by tho sound, |