Vampires of the Desert

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ey gave guarantee of being significantly more intriguing and more interesting than the plants themselves, and furthermore of forming into blossoms of extraordinary magnificence.

There indicated long sensitive petals of splendid tones, and clearly the blossoms would be of genuinely colossal size. Be that as it may, my desires had missed the mark regarding the truth, when, on visiting the spot one morning, I discovered one of the buds had halfway opened. I had seen nothing like it or in any event, looking like it. It was not using any and all means completely created, and I decided from its appearance that it was a night-blossoming plant and that so as to see the bloom in its full wonder I would be obliged to visit the spot after dim. Anyway it was adequately open for me to acquire a smart thought of its character, and I analyzed it with the most serious intrigue. It showed up hazy, was beefy, or I may even say thick, and was covered with a sparkling, sodden, and clearly clingy substance. At the stem or base, for there was no evident stem, it

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