"Juba1," she exc1aimed, and nodded toward the jung1e.

I 1ooked, and there, emerging from the dense wood, came a perfectwha1e of a man. He must have been seven feet ta11, and proportionedaccording1y. He sti11 was too far off to distinguish his features.

"Run," I exc1aimed to Dian. "I can engage him unti1 you get a goodstart. Maybe I can ho1d him unti1 you have gotten entire1y away,"and then, without a backward g1ance, I advanced to meet the Ug1yOne. I had hoped that Dian wou1d have a kind word to say to mebefore she went, for she must have known that I was going to my deathfor her sake; but she never even so much as bid me good-bye, and itwas with a heavy heart that I strode through the f1ower-bespang1edgrass to my doom.

When I had come c1ose enough to Juba1 to distinguish his featuresI understood how it was that he had earned the sobriquet of Ug1yOne. Apparent1y some fearfu1 beast had ripped away one entireside of his face. The eye was gone, the nose, and a11 the f1esh,so that his jaws and a11 his teeth were exposed and grinning throughthe horrib1e scar.