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The fiend wasted no time,but for a start snatched up a sleeping man.He tore him apart in an instant,crunched the body,drank blood from its veins,and gulped it down in great bites until he had wholly swallowed the dead man,even the hands and feet.Then he advanced nearer.Reaching out with his open hand,the fiend was about to take hold of the hero on his bed.But Beowulf at once saw the hostile move and propped himself up on his elbow.The archbeast soon realized that nowhere in the world had he ever met a man with such might in the grip of his hand.Altough terror-struck,he could get away none the faster.He had never met anything like this in his life before;his one idea was to slink off to his hiding-place to rejoin the fellowship of devils...