The Valley Of Spiders
by H.G. Wells

Towards mid-day the three pur came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed up the sight of a very broad and sp valley. The dif and win trench of pebbles along which they had trac the fugitives for so lo expanded to a bro slope, and with a comm impulse the three men left the trail, and rode to a little emine set with olive-dun trees, and the hal the two others, as became them, a litt behind the man with the silver-studded bridle. For a space th scan the gre expanse below them with eager eyes. It spread re and remoter, wi on a few clusters of sere thorn bush here and ther and the dim suggestions of some now water ravine, to br its desolation of yellow grass. Its purple distances melted at la into the bluish slop of the further hills-- hills it might be of a greener kind--and above them invisibly supporte and seem indeed to ha in the blue, we the snowclad su of mounta that gr lar and bolder to the north-westward as the sides of the valley drew together. And westwa the valley op un a dist darkness under the sky told where the forests began. But the th men looked ne east nor wes but only steadfastly across the vall


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