*tiously until her tingling back was pressed
hard against the slab, and thus to lower
herself to a sitting position on the rocky
throne.

For that Devil's Chair was a spacious
one--fairly so! The seat extended outward
at least three feet and was roomy
enough to allow of two people standing
upright on it at the same time.

And what a view old Lucifer must have
from it, was Pem's first thought--provided
he didn't, as an Irishman would
say, reside away from home!

Off to the right and left stretched the
wonderful landscape of the Berkshire Hills,
Massachusetts' Highlands--the Berkshire
mountains in May where, afar, a summit
snow-cap vied with the driven snows of
blossoming fruit trees, lower down; where
the pink-shot pearl of a lake gleamed,
opal-like, from an emerald setting, and
many a silver thread winding, expanding,
showed where some madcap river or brook
had become with spring a wild thing.

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