He had risen rise and paced pace the room as he spoke speak .

He had risen rise out of his drug-created dreams and was hot hot upon the scent of some new problem problem .

A week before , a great meteor had shot shoot through the night , blood-red and bearded , drawing a slow-fading fiery trail trail across the heavens ; and the moon had risen rise that same night blood-red , and upon its disk there was drawn draw in shadow a thing most marvelously like a scalping knife .