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with his chin in the other’s shoulder. At last they tumbled
down on the floor, Sti on top. He had knocked his
adversary’s head heavily two or three times against the cold
clay floor, when suddenly he felt his own neck in the grip
of two powerful hands. It was the fair man, who had picked
himself up.
Sti choked, his throat rattled, he turned giddy, and his
limbs relaxed. The dark man wound his legs around him
and pulled him down by the shoulders, the other still clutched
his throat and dug his knees into his sides.
Marie shrieked and would have rushed to his aid, but
Lucie had thrown her arms around her mistress and held
her in such a convulsive grip that she could not stir.
Sti was on the point of fainting, when suddenly, with one
last effort of his strength, he threw himself forward,
knocking the head of the dark man against the floor. The fingers
of the fair man slipped from his throat, opening the way
for a bit of air. Sti bounded up with all his force, hurled
himself at the fair man, threw him down, bent over the
fallen man in a fury, but in the same instant got a kick in
the pit of the stomach that almost felled him. He caught
the ankle of the foot that kicked him; with the other hand
he grasped the boot-top, lifted the leg, and broke it over his
outstretched thigh, until the bones cracked in the boot, and
the fair man sank down in a swoon. The dark man, who
lay staring at the scene, still dizzy from the blows in his
head, gave vent to a yell of agony as if he had himself been
the maltreated one, and crawled under the shelter of the
bench beneath the windows. With that the fight was ended.
The latent savagery which this encounter had called out
in Sti had a strange and potent effect on Marie. That night,
when she laid her head on the pillow, she told herself that
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