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I, too have wept and mourned, though that was very long ago in the Abyss. My man, my Nausaak, a very brave and strong catcher of fish, fought with the Lanskaarn and he died. I understand, Yulcia! You must think no more of this now. The child needs your strength. You must rest. Go!"
"Come!" answered the aged man, his voice high and tremulous above the howling tumult and the roar of the great gas-well. "Come, now! The Lanskaarn they attack! Come! I have spoken of your weapons to my people. Come, fight for us! And verily, if we win " "What kind of a trick are you putting up on us, anyhow?" roared Stern with thrice-heated rage. "None o' that now!
"But before you fell, your raking fire along the wall there you understand " "Cleaned 'em out, eh?" he queried eagerly. "That's about it. It turned the tide against the Lanskaarn. And after that I guess it was just butchery.
Allowing, however, that only two hundred of the Folk and one hundred and sixty of the Lanskaarn had fallen, he readily perceived that the battle had been, for intensity and high percentage of killing, sanguinary beyond all battles of his own time.
The tradition says there was once a place of records, where certain of the wisest men of our Folk placed all their lore to keep it; but even this place is lost. Only one family kept any knowledge of the English as a kind of inheritance and the single book went with that family " "But the Lanskaarn and the other peoples of the Abyss, where did they come from?" asked Stern eagerly.
My reckoning was that Kamrou and his men would stay beyond the Great Vortex, at their labor, until after " "Kamrou?" shouted Stern again. "What the deuce do I care about him? Who is he, anyhow? A Lanskaarn, or " The girl seized Allan's hand. "Oh, listen, listen!" she implored. "Did you know about this? And never told me?" "Allan, he said our work could all be done before they "
Then, stark-mad, he turned and leaped into the battle-line that swayed and screamed along the wall. Critical now the moment. In half a dozen places the besiegers had got their ladders planted. And, while dense masses of the Lanskaarn unminding fire-balls and boulders rained down upon them held these ladders firm, up the attackers came with a rush.
Then, shuddering as with a sudden chill, he thrust it back at Stern. "Alas!" cried he. "What am I against a thousand? A thousand, sunk in ignorance and fear and hate? A thousand who mock at me? Who believe you, verily, to be only some new and stronger kind of Lanskaarn, as we call our ancient enemies on the great islands in the sea. "What can I do?
With the population we now have, and the natural increase, wouldn't civilization reestablish itself in time?" "Undoubtedly. But think how long it would take! Every additional person imported puts us ahead tremendously. I may never be able to bring all the Folk, all the Lanskaarn, and those other mysterious yellow-haired people they talk about from beyond the Great Vortex.
"In addition to the Lanskaarn, a strong and active race known to exist on the Central Island in the Sunken Sea, there remain persistent traditions of a strange, yellow-haired race somewhere on the western coasts of that sea, beyond the Great Vortex. Two parties exist among us. "The minority is anxious for exploration and conquest. The majority votes for peace and quiet growth.
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