horton groveled at the foot of aardoo , a long fleshy wound to his back as he cowered over the slain of his company , he cried as he peered into the ominous and fell face of aardoo , a treacherous mutant of a creature who was most renown for treachery , and how he had come to ally himself to him he could not now tell , and like a mist dispersing in the bright daylight so it now dawned on him how grave his folly was .