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He told how murderers walk the earth / Beneath the curse of Cain, / With crimson clouds before their eyes / And flames about their brain: / For blood has left upon their souls / Its everlasting stain. / -- _Hood_
There are two roads to Torkertown. One, the shorter and more direct route, leads across a barren upland moor, and the other, which is much longer, winds its tortuous way in and out among the hummocks and quagmires of the swamps, skirting the low hills to the east. It was a dangerous and tedious trail; so Solomon Kane halted in amazement when a breathless youth from the village he had just left, overtook him and implored him for God's sake to take the swamp road.