Chapter 15

Rori failed to explain in full, but _something_, a slimy, amorphous something, which glistened in the sunlight, already had engulfed the man to his shoulders! Breath was cut off. Joe’s contorted face writhed with horror and beginning suffocation. One hand--all that was free of the rest of him!--beat feebly upon the rubbery, translucent thing that was engulfing his body! Then Joe sank from sight.... _VII._ Five days of liquored indulgence passed before Rori, alone in his shaky cabin, convinced himself that he had se…