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The countryside looked like a beautiful open park with gentle slopes and soft gray tree-clumps.
Nothing appalling or horrible rushed upon these men.
Only there happened -- nothing.
There might have been a pool of cool water behind any of these tree-clumps: only -- there was not.
It might have rained, any time ; ;
only -- it did not.
There might have been a fence or a house just over the next rise ; ;
only -- there was not.
They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.
No one came ''.
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