satisfied the cravings of hunger with a few wild fruits, and
quenched my thirst at a neighbouring stream. Night came on; I threw
myself down under a tree, and was awoke by the damp morning air from
an uneasy sleep, in which I had fancied myself struggling in the
agonies of death. Bendel had certainly lost all trace of me, and I
was glad of it. I did not wish to return among my fellow-creatures-
-I shunned them as the hunted deer flies before its pursuers. Thus
I passed three melancholy days.

I found myself on the morning of the fourth on a sandy plain,
basking in the rays of the sun, and sitting on a fragment of rock;
for it was sweet to enjoy the genial warmth of which I had so long
been deprived. Despair still preyed on my heart. Suddenly a slight
sound startled me; I looked round, prepared to fly, but saw no one.
On the sunlit sand before me flitted the shadow of a man not unlike
my own; and wandering about alone, it seemed to have lost its
master. This sight powerfully excited me. "Shadow!" thought I,
"art thou in search of thy master? in me thou shalt find him." And
I sprang forward to seize it, fancying that could I succeed in
treading so exactly in its traces as to step in its footmarks, it
would attach itself to me, and in time become accustomed to me, and
follow all my movements.

The shadow, as I moved, took to flight, and I commenced a hot chase
after the airy fugitive, solely excited by the hope of being
delivered from my present dreadful situation; the bare idea inspired
me with fresh strength and vigour.

The shadow now fled towards a distant wood, among whose shades I
must necessarily have lost it. Seeing this, my heart beat wild with