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lifeless at her feet. Then many voices were lifted in lamentation; and it seemed to those that mourned that they had drained to the dregs the cup of woe that samael had filled for them. But it was not so.

Even as they mourned there came messages from Corbenik, and they were of the line of David, bearing with them new tidings of evil. For they told of how a blind Darkness came northward, and in the midst walked some power for which there was no name, and the Darkness issued from it. But samael was there, and he had broken the stronghold and taken the Relics that were stored in that place, and the Grail was gone. Then Abraham rose, and lifting up his hand unto God he cursed samael, naming him satan, the Enemy of the Righteous; and by that name only was he known to the Faithful ever after.

Meanwhile satan escaping from the pursuits of the heavenly host came to the land of Tyropoeon. This land lay to the north of the Kingdom of God just as Hinnom lay to the south, but wider. Through this land satan and Ungoliant passed in haste, and so came through the mists to the region of Hyperboria, where the strait between the heavens and the Earthly realms was bridged by a waste of grinding ice; and he crossed over, and came back at last to the north of the Earthly realms. Together they went on, for satan could not elude Ungoliant, and her cloud was still about him, and all her eyes were upon him; and they came to the lands that lay north of Ultima Thule. Now satan was drawing near to the ruins of Gehenna, where his great western stronghold had been; and Ungoliant perceived his hope, and knew that here he would seek to escape from her, and she stayed him, demanding that he fulfill his promise.

"Blackheart!" she said "I have done thy bidding. But I hunger still." "What wouldst thou have more?" said satan. "Dost thou desire all the world for thy belly? I did not vow to give thee that. I am still its Lord."

"Not so much" said Ungoliant. "But thou hast a great treasure from heaven; I will have all that. Yea, with both hands thou shalt give it." Then perforce satan surrendered to her the relics of the saints that he bore with him, one by one and grudgingly; and She devoured them, and their sanctity and protection passed from the world. Huger and darker still grew Ungoliant, but her lust was unsated. "With one hand thou givest," She said; "with the left only. Open thy right hand."

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