Summary
A paroxysm of filial fury ignites the pine-dark horizon when a girl’s volcanic brother, whose wrath crackles like resin on a bonfire, propels his sister into the arms of a steadfast suitor; together they bolt across root-ripped logging roads while a spectral patriarch—beard of moss, voice of psalm—intercepts the pursuer, unaware that the blood he strives to restrain is his own progeny. In the tussle a kerosene lamp arcs, shatters, and the forest becomes a cathedral of flame; the old man, mute about their kinship, shepherds the lovers through cataracts of fire, the brother’s silhouette swallowed by ember-geysers, his howl fusing with the crackle of cedar until dawn reveals a smoldering purgatory and a lineage cauterized into myth.
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A girl's brother has an ungovernable temper. After an outburst of great vehemence, the hero persuades the girl to elope with him. They are followed by her brother. A pious man, known as the Mediator, tries to hold him while the pair seek to get away. It develops that he is the girl's father. In the melee a lamp is overturned and a forest fire results. The old man, without disclosing his secret, leads them to safety but the brother perishes in the flames.
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