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Bomba saw the malignant fury that came into the snake's eyes. He knew that the reptile had seen him, and over the boy's face, like a pallid cloak, spread the calmness of despair.
This then was the end! He might live perhaps ten, fifteen, possibly twenty minutes after the poison fangs had sunk into his flesh, and they would be minutes of such intolerable agony that death, when it came, would be welcomed as a friend.